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Re: Looper flutist?



Weisberg made albums under his own name, but the Fogelberg (two Bergs?) 
collaboration seems to have endured the most. 

Kim Flint, talking about EDP Delay Mode, says:

>(...)We 
>set it this way at the request of a jazz flute player named *Tim 
>Weisberg*. 
>He wanted to be able to improvise a solo freely with the delay output 
>muted 
>and feedback at 0, so the delay always held some amount of his solo 
>trailing behind him. Then when he happened to play something he thought 
>might be interesting to play a counterpart to, he could just unmute it 
>and 
>have the previous phrase repeat while he played along. (...)
>
(http://loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200109/msg01134.html)

Sounds like Weisberg made it to the EDP age--wonder what he's up to now...?

David

Stephen Goodman wrote:

> I can confirm this!  I saw Tim Weisberg at Wake Forest Univ. in 1976 
> on a tour for "Twin Sons of Different Mothers", done with Dan 
> Fogelberg.  In the show Tim did a number of pieces using some sort of 
> tape loop: the first I remember with the spinning and dancing, the 
> second sounded so much like Bach it was incredible.  Wonderful 
> layering, and EXCELLENT timing on Tim's part with the looping.