Re: [LAU] Chris McCormick

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:05:33AM -1000, david wrote: I was thinking in regard to the number of variations over time, not the degree of expressiveness of each variation. For example, even a band consisting wholly of keyboard players, a MIDI EWI player, and a drummer playing trigger pads (yes, I have been in one), will nonetheless introduce the kind of random variation and dynamics that would otherwise require many hours of painstaking editing and/or codiing to emulate in a sequencer. Human players, regardless of how expressive or inexpressive their instrument, periodically get bored and/or make mistakes, thus introducing enough intentional or unintentioal variation to keep the music from getting too monotonous. A sequencer or looper will just play the same thing over and over again, exactly the same, if you let it. It takes a lot of work to prevent it from doing that. I'm always impressed by electronic music like Chris's (and Thorsten's-- I love "The Sample") which offers as much "information content" (using Shannon's definition) as that produced by a group of live musicians interacting with each other in real-time. That's why I was so eager to find out how he did it. - -ken