Loops: Why?

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I once created a track based on a 2 second loop of a song by Darkthrone. I heard various elements in that loop and so featured these and built them up together. When my piece closed it had built with great energy, from fragments, into a 2-second blast!

Kodanshi, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hope that's going on the comp Kodanshi.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

No. I can't I created it at an old friend's house with his help. He used Pro Tools on a PC. The program crashed prior to our saving that track, so it certainly gave us a Zen-like lesson in something that would have sounded wonderful in public, but got lost, never to come back.

Kodanshi, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four years pass...
Very important question when it was posed.

Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Call me a ludicrous luddite with catfood for brains, or just 'out of the loop', but...whenever some band claims to be making a big advance into brave new musical territory, the stock phrase is "we're getting into using loops." Unless you are in a band with an inept drummer, WHAT is so fantastic about loops? Why is having the same thing repeated over and over seen as such a fantastic advance? Isn't it boring for anyone? Maybe Keith Jarrett was right - why are people seemingly unable to listen to music without 'loops' in it anymore? Why did anybody think this was such a great idea in the first place?

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

L00PS R00L! L00PS R00L! L00PS R00L!

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

That may have worked better had I set its "behavior" to slide instead of alternate.

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

(I'll stop now, it's pretty unfunny)

Anyway, are most of these bands from the Beatles lineage? If so, there's your answer. Tomorrow Never Knows actually does still sound quite futuristic if you look at it from that perspective.

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

imo, the shortest loop is 2 frames
any object in a 2 frame loop appears to vibrate like electricity when viewed from appropriate distance and with sufficient framerate

what is the longest loop?

Karl Malone, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link

life iirc

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link

john jacob jinglheimer schmidt

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link

same vibrating electricity put through paulstretch

Tib, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link

Whenever I go out, the people always shout.

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link

three years pass...

the "why?" part is operative here. this loop makes me sad. it's much "better" than anything i've made. but i look at it and from the perspective of the future and it makes me so fucking sad

Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Monday, 9 August 2021 09:11 (two years ago) link

I love loops.

RRR 100.
RRR 500.
RRR 1000.

I think RRR 1000 exceeded the limit of possible loops, since even Ron admits that his stylus skips on it.

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link

gonna respect the original intention of the thread here

and say that i do think a lot of 90s guitar music was blighted by overuse of fussy little drum loops

lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 10:04 (two years ago) link

and say that i do think a lot of 90s guitar music was blighted by overuse of fussy little drum loops

― lemmy incaution (emsworth)

The kind of guitar music that did that would have been shit whatever so

chap, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link

I know we're goofing on this thread but this was a tiresome rock trope at the time. Nearly EVERYONE did this for at least a cycle before "it was time to get back to basics, just four guys in a room, rocking out."

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link


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