Why Loop?

You should please loop for whatever reason you might have.  Loop it like you mean it!

I made this looper because sometimes I need to make something.  Actually, I always need to be making something, which is good because I have a long list of things I want to make.  To get through my list, I like to mash up my projects and “feed two birds with the same worm”. 

In December I saw an excellent presentation of some exploratory sound/shape art recently that reminded me of an idea from thirty years ago.  The presentation was my motivational trigger.  Someday I want to make something interesting like that and share it.  It could trigger you into action as well – check it out:  thinking-with-sand-a-virtual-talk-series-exploring-new-software-interfaces-and-tools-for-augmented-thinking-and-creative-exploration

I still have that original notebook with my vague sketch.  It’s a curvy line, like a sine wave, and an arrow pointing to a sound icon, whose pitch was to follow the shape of the line.  Due to my sketching skills, the concept was more implied than illustrated, but it was enough for me to remember it.  I had imagined a visual sound generator to simulate the looping guitar sounds I had heard at Phish concerts.  The loops overlapped with each other, and with the drummer, in unpredictable ways, creating generative sounds which echo Eno’s ambient creations.  Eno is still looping on this concept, and I can’t stop thinking about it either.  And I’m finally going to do something about it!

As I have a dozen more programming projects on my list, I’ve been testing LLMs for code generation and I really wanted to take a crack at using Cursor AI.  So the ingredients came together: the original fuel, a spark, and an engine.  As usual, the primary output of this project was another list of projects to do.  But now I have an engine, more fuel, plenty of spark, and momentum.

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License

Loop-this music tool by Bruce Crock is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0