Re: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES

["Luigi Meloni" <LuigiMeloni74@LIBERO.it>]

Hi all. My first looping machine was my grandfather's stereo dual cassette
recorder (I plugged my old korg a5 pedalboard in a really old eko analog
delay pedal ('round 600 or 800ms of delay) and then all in the mic input on
the recorder), and, while sending on the A deck a cassette of rivers and
forest sounds, recording guitar delays and fx on deck B, then getting the
recorded cassette in deck A recording on a second cassette everything and
adding other guitar fx. A few years later I bought my first 4 tracks
recorder, and being able to turn the cassette and get the backward sounds
opened up a whole new world to me. Then I got a korg A1, and I thought 
'what
the heck can I do with all this delay time?' (2.6 secs in hold delay mode
and 1.3 secs in normal delay). After another few years I got the Headrush,
and 19 secs of delay seemed to me to be a good delay time, then I put my
hands on a friend's EDP with 50.3 secs, and I got him to sell me the
machine... Now I'm searching to 4 mb sims to have even more time... Hell,
loops are addictive, aren't they???:-):-):-)

P.S. I still use all of the above mentioned machines, except for the Eko
delay, which broke after two years of use/abuse, and I gladly loop on all 
of
them...

Peace
Luigi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Walker (loop.pool)" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:51 PM
Subject: FIRST LOOPING MEMORIES


> Some one mentioned this to me the other day and it got me to reminiscing
> about my history of looping.  I said that I had been looping for 9 years
and
> he said, "no way, man, I remember you using a digital delay to make a 
>loop
> in Union Grove Music in the early eighties".  It jogged my memory and I
> started thinking about it:
>
> For a quick historical note, my group TAO ELECTRICAL did a performance at
> the old Art Center in Santa Cruz '81 or '82 with three tube Echoplexes
with
> the record heads removed and, one by one, left the stage at intermission
> with the loops running (slightly out of syn). It was at an avante garde
show
> with Henry Kaiser. We thought we were so clever.........ha ha.
>
>   We weren't nearly the first but I've been looping since then.  Michael
> Haumesser (Not Michael, the brilliant electro/acoustic musician from 
>Rhode
> Island) was my inspiration.  He's the first person I ever saw who made
> cassette loops and altered his echoplex.  He was also the first person I
> ever saw play prepared guitar.  I steal from his creativity to this very
day
> ;-)
>
> I also remember starting a performance when one of the very first digital
> delay machines came out (must have been '82 or '83) where the 'loop' was
> sped up so fast that the phrase I had entered was just an abstract
rhythmic
> sound that I used as the 'bed' of the piece.   I slowed it down (very
> slowly) at the end of the piece to reveal the phrase "It doesn't mean a
> fucking thing".
> I remember I thought I was so clever.........ha ha
>
> How about a FIRST LOOOPING MEMORIES THREAD?   Either your first 
>experience
> or the first time you saw someone looping in a way that changed your 
>life.
> NOT A COMPETITION...............AN HOMAGE............anyone up for it?
>
> yours, Rick Walker (aka, Loop.pooL)
>
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