What is live looping?
The musician creates his own background by recording bits of his playing during the music and has them looping as long as he needs them or repeating whenever he calls them back.
One musician can create the sound of a whole orchestra all live.
There is a big range of musical styles being performed this way, but usually loopers interpret in their own way. The music builds and transforms more fluent, since it all comes out of the same brain.
The result is a relaxed feeling of freedom and spontaneity that you hardly could find in any other kind of music.
As opposed to a real orchestra or prerecorded/programmed music, you can follow the way it is created, because all you hear is once the only thing that is played in front of you, all the rest is just the repetition of it.
As opposed to a keyboard type of one man band, usually all sounds come from real instruments, so you get the personal touch, the expression from the heart to the string or skin or mouthpiece rather than a computer that follows some algorithm.
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