RE: 50th anniversary of realtime looping?

[Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net>]

So July 9, we celebrate the 50th anniversary. And it's mostly about Terry 
Riley, right? 
I think I'm going to order a copy of Rainbow in Curved Air then.
Tyler Z
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:22:42 +0200, Michael Peters wrote:


>Mati wrote,
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>>certainly they glued tape to loops in the 50ies, so studio looping is 
>>older as 
>>far as I understood, Les Paul brought ready tapes to stage and 
>>lovelooping 
>>started with the two tape machine idea 
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>"lovelooping" yes :)  it started with the two tape machines in 1963.  And 
>yes, 
>as I wrote in that essay, of course loops (static) are much older but 
>they are 
>something completely different - more like a pre-digital way to sample. 
>Les 
>Paul was probably faking his "live" multitracking, there was a discussion 
>about 
>this on LD:
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>http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200211/msg00922.html
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>-Michael
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