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Re: Happy 15th, Looper's Delight!



> LD

This gang of people is a great recourse! I first heard about the
Loopers Delight on the Logic User's List around the year 2000. I had
been looping since -83 and brought up a discussion on the Logic User's
List about how sad it was that so little product development is going
on in live electronics, and as an example I described what I was doing
with tape delays and pre MIDI analog and digital delay rack units. A
bass player on the Logic List, can't recall his name right now, then
informed me that "there is a new great list for Loopers" and since
then I've been hanging around this forum day and night.

The earl 00's was a fun period as the Electrixpro Repeater was about
to come out and I read the Repeater reviews by Mark Sottilaro, David
Torn and other early users. Myself I already had an EDP and was on the
waiting list for a Repeater here at the Scandinavian rep's. David Torn
advised me on LD to "feed sequenced MIDI into the Repeater" and this
is what I'm still doing today, although I have migrated the very same
technique to scripting in Mobius (passing through a short Ableton Live
phase in 2005).

In 2002 I planned a live looping tour through Sweden for the summer
2003 and turned to Loopers Delight to ask for people that wanted to
come and play with me here as a sort of touring festival for a month
where we should team up with local musicians in each city, play
together, do our own sets and also give clinics and hang out by the
bar... or elsewhere. Although I had a budget for this only two people
accepted the invitation (which might have turned out lucky, because I
might not have been able to organize logistics for a bigger gang). So
my YK3 Sweden (that's where Rick picked up that funny name from to be
used in Santa Cruz ;-)  came to happen together with Matthias Groob
and Rick Walker. We got a lot of good press, a half an hour
documentary in the national television's art & culture channel as well
as coverage in The Music Room at CNN. I managed to organize a similar
tour de force in 2008 where the Swedish tour was expanded to pass by
also Oslo in Norway and a bunch of venues in Finland. Rick Walker
participated even this time. It was great to do this together because
Rick and Matthias could write into their CVs that their tours "took
them all the way to Sweden" while my CV got boosted by "great
international guest artists". I can really recommend doing
international collaborations because it is a typical win-win-win-WIN
setup where everyone involved gets a lot of good PR for his own local
scene.

Without the internet these two tours would have been only me boring
people with "music they should like better" but thanks to LD it got so
much better. I've had great help too from the Bidule forum, the
Ableton Live forum and lately the Stick Forum. Can't believe humanity
have been so stupid for so long time not having The Internetz!!!!

For the archives, here's the original Sweden 2K3 Loop Tour web page:
http://www.looproom.com/looptour2003/index.php

And for those who uses Facebook, here's the page from 2008:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8178437050&v=photos

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub