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Hello, loopers! I wanted to tell you about this back when I signed up for Looper's Delight, but I had to do some mastering and uploading work that I finally got a chance to get done. This is all about Lizzie Kazmierski! Now, as you know by the subject, she is a looping artist based out of West Michigan. She started looping around 2010-2011 (about the same time I did), but she's been good at music composition since at least 2003. I've been working with her since March of 2010, but I would like to focus on her solo work (our collaborations haven't been recorded). Very much like me, some of her favorite looping is the studio-processed stuff found in pop music (such as Britney Spears and Cher), and "semi-pop" loops such as Imogen Heap. Imogen Heap is one of her favorite singers! Lizzie uses a Microkorg (a keyboard made by Korg that has a built-in vocoder). Ever since about June 2011, she has used a Braillenote Apex to do her looping. She released a looping piece in April 2011 where she used a Braillenote Mpower, but the quality is much lower. I'd share her vocoded cover of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek that she did in late 2010," but that isn't really appropriate for a looping site. I'm going to share some of her original work. Here are some recordings of Lizzie and her lovely little looping delights. Summer 2011: Metallic Filament Metallic Filament is a musical piece that starts out with the sound of a lawn mower and the sound of a windchime. This goes for 36 seconds. After a few seconds of silence, the piano music suddenly comes in. A whooshing sound (originally recorded on some unidentified tape, but got sampled digitally) keeps looping throughout the song, making the "simulated tape loop" effect. http://www.fileupyours.com/view/312000/Metallic%20Filament.mp3 Fall 2011: Signals Another great masterpiece from Lizzie, a little piece called Signals. This song starts out with the sound of sirens, which are loops. Multiple audio tracks of the sirens harmonize with each other as they loop, creating musical chords. The sirens eventually stop, and techno-type music (generated by her Microkorg) is heard. Preprogrammed loops of electronic drum-beats and such are heard in the Microkorg section. http://www.fileupyours.com/view/312000/Signals.mp3 March 2012: Glimmers of Calligraphy Visually impaired musicians frequently have their way of representing visual things. Since calligraphy is a visual thing, Lizzie has her form of what you might call "musical calligraphy" or "sound imaging." In Lizzie's library of over 200 sound effects, she has the "stonecutter sound." This sound loops throughout the piece, as her Microkorg tracks play a very well-written musical piece. http://www.fileupyours.com/view/312000/Glimmers%20of%20Calligraphy.mp3 April 2011: Clouds and Dust You may wonder why I went back to 2011 at the end; why I didn't put this one before Metallic Filament. Well, it's because this piece was recorded before Lizzie got her Braillenote Apex; she still had her Braillenote Mpower at that time, which, as you will be able to tell, is much lower quality as far as sound. (For your information, I haven't upgraded yet; I still use Mpower). http://www.fileupyours.com/view/312000/Clouds%20And%20Dust.mp3 I hope you have enjoyed this little write-up and audio experience regarding Lizzie Kazmierski, the looping artist that changed my life, and turned me from a generic music person to a loop person. If the links don't work, blame me; these are my servers. Tyler Z