Women who loop

["matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>]

Pauline Oliveros has been around musically since the 60's. She teaches at 
Mills College, and a lot of people credit her with being the inventor of 
looped music.

There's also Cosey Fanni Tutti, the former guitarist of the band Throbbing 
Gristle.

Margaret Feidler is in the electronic group Laika. I'm pretty sure that 
she 
does a large part of the instrumentation in addition to the vocals. The 
first 2 albums by this group are really nice. They create really nice 
multilayered rhythms.

And there's Alejandra Salinas from the married experimental duo Alejandra 
& 
Underwood. Usually her role is of coming up with cd ideas and gathering 
source material for Aeron Bergman (Underwood) to loop and alter sonically, 
but I think she takes part in the sound processing in their live shows.

There's also Jane Dowe, who's a sampling musician. I only know her from 
the 
"Deconstructing Beck" CD, but I think she has solo releases out too.

I'm sure there are more. There are lots in the techno and rap worlds. I 
don't know of any female dj's who actually create music, but I'm sure 
they're out there. As for rap, I know that Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott 
takes 
pride in doing her own production. Lots of others too, but I don't know 
the 
names. The last time I heard an Ani Difranco album, she created her own 
loops in 2 of the songs. I think that album was "Dilate".


I know not many of these women loop solo live (well, Pauline does 
occasionally, I think), but there are women who loop. It's pretty amazing 
how few though.

>From: Rick Walker <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers Delight <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: Women in live looping and Producing Live Solo Looping Shows
>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 23:42:17 -0800
>

>
>     Will everybody who knows a woman looper be into posting info about
>them or convincing them to post to the group, assuming that there are
>any.    I've noticed that the electronica world is more of a boys club
>than even the sexist pop musical world.
>It would be very cool if this could change.

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