Sunday, March 4, 2018

Looper Live


For the size of the population of Kauai, there are many opportunities to listen to live music. There are farmers' markets most days and frequent art fairs. There is nearly always at least one musician present. Many of the bars and restaurants also often have performers.

We became fans of a young violinist we saw several times. Kimberly McDonough plays the electric violin. If I was a musician trying to make performing my career, I probably would not choose to start on Kauai and not with the electric violin. It works for her. There are plenty of opportunities to play, but who would ever see you. I guess with the Internet and YouTube there is always hope.

I see that Kimberly has 10,000+ YouTube subscribers. Most of her content consists of covers, but she has started to put some of her own material on iTunes. Her work is certainly worth a listen - rock violin, classical - pretty much anything.

One of the more interesting things she does when performing is to use a looper in real time. Loops are common in popular music, but watching someone create multiple loops and then build them into a song in real time was impressive. I have embedded an example of what this looks like with the YouTube at the bottom of this post.







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