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At 11:16 PM +0100 4/26/03, Geoff Smith wrote: >Do anyone know what the first looping pieces were to use digital >equipment. The first digital looping pieces would have been done on mainframe computer music systems in the 1970s and early 1980s. I can't think of any specific works at the moment, but I know that I myself was doing some live looping on the VAX 11/780 at CARL (Computer Audio Research Lab) at UC San Diego in 1981-82. There are several loop-based sections in my theater piece "soul murder" (1982). The real hotbeds for this early work were CCRMA at Stanford, IRCAM in Paris, and a few other research centers such as University of Illinois, MIT, and others. I have a few contacts if you want to pursue it. BTW- the first tapeless live looping I heard was an improvisation by the Electric Weasel Ensemble in 1976 at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, using Don Buchla's new analog delay line. Several of the performers had the flu, and Don captured some coughing and mangled it live. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com