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yes, Burroughs (W.S.) is oft. considered an "original punk" and wrote about cut-ups and tape loops (actually did some work wioth looping of spoken word tapes). check his "The Ticket that Exploded" and "The Job" (both books). i consider the work of Peaches to be great contemporary punk looping music/songwriting. At 04:21 PM 3/4/03 -0800, you wrote: >At 5:40 PM +0000 3/4/03, Steve Lawson wrote: > >>any punk bands who are looping? ;o) > >Back in 1978-79 I played bass in an avant-punk band called Klang. >Most of us were graduate students in composition (our drummer was a >surfer and undergraduate recording major). Our music was fast and >odd, blending punk with ideas and techniques from avant garde music: >minimalism, polytonality, phasing, cut-up, quotation and >appropriation, extended vocal techniques, multiple tempo layers, etc. > >Most of the material was original (out sole cover was the Souxie >cover "Nicotine Stain"), though we sometimes appropriated large >chunks from existing songs. A typical example of this was "Robots," >which contained the entire organ solo from "Light My Fire," albeit >over different chord changes. We didn't do any looping per se, but >used some techniques of pattern music such as gradual introduction of >phasing between instruments. We also used fragmentation and >permutation techniques in a song based on the Brion Gysin poem "I Am >That I Am." > > http://www.brainwashed.com/h3o/dreamachine/i_am.html > >Klang was also the only band I know of to have no less than two songs >inspired by Karel Capek. >-- > >______________________________________________________________ >Richard Zvonar, PhD >(818) 788-2202 >http://www.zvonar.com >http://RZCybernetics.com > http://www.madhappy.tv http://www.SoundOptik.com http://www.StreetSyndicate.com http://www.PsychicSpyChick.com http://www.VisitHoboken.com http://www.bar-none.com