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Re: LIST of FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS



JACO PASTORIUS

ADRIAN BELEW

JOY ASKEW


On Apr 21, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Rick Walker wrote:

> To help Darren with his thesis project on live looping I thought it  
> might be really good
> to come up with a current list of well known live looping artists.
>
> People not mentioned in his initial list would have to include
>
> IMOGEN HEAP  (Frou Frou and solo career)
>
> JON BRION
>                (film soundtracks, multi instrumentalist and the
>                famous producer of Fiona Apple who has a weekly live  
> looping gig in Los Angeles)
>
> KID BEYOND)(Andrew Chaikin's beatboxing all acapella live looping  
> show is really attracting attention)
>
> ROB MASSIE (of 808 State just used live looping extensively in his  
> SF show)
>
> ARILD ANDERSEN  (famous Norwegian jazz bassist,  part of the ECM  
> records stable of solo and collaborative artists)
>
> EDDIE VEDDER (front man for Pearl Jam used live looping in his solo  
> concert just last week in Santa Cruz,
>                        parenthetically,  his opening act also used  
> live looping and, point of civic pride here,  he wrote a brand
>                        new composition about how much he loves  
> Santa Cruz and performed it the evening that he wrote it)
>
> MATMOS (the producers who work with BJORK---I"m not sure here, but  
> it sure seemed like they were looping
>                  live in concert with her when I saw her recently)
>
> BILL FRISSEL  (possibly the most important American jazz artist today)
>
> DAVID TORN   (arguably the first high profile live looper and one  
> who's been doing digital looping as long as anyone)
>
> HENRY KAISER  (one of the most influential and famous experimental  
> musicians in the US today.   He was literally
>                   doing live looping in the digital realm earlier  
> than anyone.  I forgot the date that he told me but he
>                   was doing this back in the 70's with the earliest  
> digital delays)
>
> ROBERT FRIPP   (started much of this with his double REVOX tape  
> machine live loops called Frippertronics)
>
> in our own community
>
> MATTHIAS GROB (inventor of the Pardis delay which became the Gibson  
> Echoplex EDP with loop IV)
> KIM FLINT (American guitarist and founder of LOOPERS DELIGHT,  the  
> mecca live looping website on the planet)
> ANDRE LAFOSSE (American guitar)
> CLAUDE VOIT  (Swiss guitar)
> ANDY BUTLER (British guitar)
> BILL WALKER  (American guitarist)
> PER BOYSEN (Swedish multi instrumentalist-popularizer of live  
> looping in his country-founder of the 1st and 2nd SWEDISH LIVE  
> LOOPING FESTIVALs)
> SUNAO INAMI (Japanese keyboardist/composer-popularizer of live  
> looping in his country- founder for the LOOPERS DELIGHT J live  
> looping festivals)
> ERDEM HELVACIOGLU (Turkish composer/guitarist)
> BERNHARD WAGNER (Swiss guitarist - popularizer of live looping in  
> his country and founder of the 1st INTERNATIONAL LOOP FESTIVAL ZURICH)
> ANDREW OSTLER  (British electronic composer - popularizer of live  
> looping in his country-founder of the CAMBRIDGE LIVE LOOPING  
> FESTIVAL series)
> MASSIMO LIVERANI (ITALIAN guitarist - popularizer of live looping  
> in his country-founder of the 1st FIRENZE LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL)
> MICHAEL PETERS (German experimental artist/guitarist - popularizer  
> of live looping in his country)
> LEANDER REININGHAUS (German Guitarist - popularizer of live looping  
> in his country-founder of the BERLIN LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL series)
> MICHAEL KLOBUCHAR (American guitarist and founder of the Chain Tape  
> Collective which was influential to the community
>                    from the early days of Loopers Delight until the  
> present)
> HANS LINDAUER (American electronic music/bassist- who started the  
> influential LOOPSTOCKHAUSEN festivals)
> RAINER STRASCHILL (German guitarist - popularizer of the KKYBERJAM  
> live looping movement)
> KRISPEN HARTUNG  (American avant garde guitarist - popularizer of  
> the live looping and founder of the BOISE EXPERIMENTAL
>                                  MUSIC FESTIVAL)
> and all the loopers who produced small one off live looping  
> festivals in their respective countries:
>
> Okay,  my mind hurts and I know I've missed lots of people (please  
> don't take offense if I"ve made glaring errors,  I really do  
> appreciate you.
>
> WHO ELSE?       FAMOUS and also in our LOOPERS DELIGHT community?
>
>
>
> okay,  I know I"m missing people but I wondered if everyone would  
> pitch in and give credit where credit is due

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