Re: Looping Laurie Anderson

["L Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

Before aone else errs in their opinion of when the "little ladies"
will finally get into looping, you might want to pick up a book or
learn how to read.

Pauline Oliveros created looping as we know it today.
A women. (Gasp!) In 1966, at Mills College.

Eno knew this, Terry Riley new this. Geesh.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Looping Laurie Anderson


>I once watched a concert by a woman from Mills College.  She had a velvet
>glove that she wired up herself.  It had sensors for each of her fingers.
>It could also sense the distance from another sensor in her belt buckle 
>and
>yet another sensor attached to one of her shoes.  This glove was driving a
>gigantic Max patch on her Powerbook which in turn was driving a couple of
>samplers and a synth.   She said she built her velvet glove controller
>because she wanted a more feminine alternative to the videogame 
>Powergloves
>(I think by Mattel) that other experimental musicians were using.   She
>would perform by making motions with her gloved hand while reciting poetry
>or prose.
>
>I don't know why I didn't ask her when I had the chance her thoughts on 
>the
>male-female ratio in the avant garde music scene.  Then again, women were
>always in the minority in all the engineering classes I took in college.
>
>Paolo
>
>