Re: Academic/musicological research on looping technique?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mark Showalter
<folkstone57@operamail.com> wrote:
>
> I studied for over 8 years, never heard a word about looping.


Maybe the particular term "looping" was not used but doesn't the sign
:| mean something like "loop previous part once" ;-)  As far as I
understand composers like Steve Reich may write loops all over the
score. I was talking to Elliott Sharp over one of his recent scores
and he actually used the term "loops" to explain what he had written
for the musicians to play (a bunch of bass clarinetists in this case).

Something we talk a lot about on this board are the sound design
related aspects of looping. However, not all composers - or teachers
in composition - might agree that sound design is an important craft
in composition. I would assume that a lot more is written about
looping in the meaning of repeating patterns in composition compared
to looping as a sound design tool/process. Try searching for partial
synonyms to "looping" as for example "repeating", "cycle", "ostinato"
etc etc.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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