LIST of FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

["Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

To help Darren with his thesis project on live looping I thought it might 
be 
really good
to come up with a current list of well known live looping artists.

People not mentioned in his initial list would have to include

IMOGEN HEAP  (Frou Frou and solo career)

JON BRION
                (film soundtracks, multi instrumentalist and the
                famous producer of Fiona Apple who has a weekly live 
looping 
gig in Los Angeles)

KID BEYOND)(Andrew Chaikin's beatboxing all acapella live looping show is 
really attracting attention)

ROB MASSIE (of 808 State just used live looping extensively in his SF show)

ARILD ANDERSEN  (famous Norwegian jazz bassist,  part of the ECM records 
stable of solo and collaborative artists)

EDDIE VEDDER (front man for Pearl Jam used live looping in his solo 
concert 
just last week in Santa Cruz,
                        parenthetically,  his opening act also used live 
looping and, point of civic pride here,  he wrote a brand
                        new composition about how much he loves Santa Cruz 
and performed it the evening that he wrote it)

MATMOS (the producers who work with BJORK---I"m not sure here, but it sure 
seemed like they were looping
                  live in concert with her when I saw her recently)

BILL FRISSEL  (possibly the most important American jazz artist today)

DAVID TORN   (arguably the first high profile live looper and one who's 
been 
doing digital looping as long as anyone)

HENRY KAISER  (one of the most influential and famous experimental 
musicians 
in the US today.   He was literally
                   doing live looping in the digital realm earlier than 
anyone.  I forgot the date that he told me but he
                   was doing this back in the 70's with the earliest 
digital 
delays)

ROBERT FRIPP   (started much of this with his double REVOX tape machine 
live 
loops called Frippertronics)

in our own community

MATTHIAS GROB (inventor of the Pardis delay which became the Gibson 
Echoplex 
EDP with loop IV)
KIM FLINT (American guitarist and founder of LOOPERS DELIGHT,  the mecca 
live looping website on the planet)
ANDRE LAFOSSE (American guitar)
CLAUDE VOIT  (Swiss guitar)
ANDY BUTLER (British guitar)
BILL WALKER  (American guitarist)
PER BOYSEN (Swedish multi instrumentalist-popularizer of live looping in 
his 
country-founder of the 1st and 2nd SWEDISH LIVE LOOPING FESTIVALs)
SUNAO INAMI (Japanese keyboardist/composer-popularizer of live looping in 
his country- founder for the LOOPERS DELIGHT J live looping festivals)
ERDEM HELVACIOGLU (Turkish composer/guitarist)
BERNHARD WAGNER (Swiss guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his 
country and founder of the 1st INTERNATIONAL LOOP FESTIVAL ZURICH)
ANDREW OSTLER  (British electronic composer - popularizer of live looping 
in 
his country-founder of the CAMBRIDGE LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL series)
MASSIMO LIVERANI (ITALIAN guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his 
country-founder of the 1st FIRENZE LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL)
MICHAEL PETERS (German experimental artist/guitarist - popularizer of live 
looping in his country)
LEANDER REININGHAUS (German Guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his 
country-founder of the BERLIN LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL series)
MICHAEL KLOBUCHAR (American guitarist and founder of the Chain Tape 
Collective which was influential to the community
                    from the early days of Loopers Delight until the 
present)
HANS LINDAUER (American electronic music/bassist- who started the 
influential LOOPSTOCKHAUSEN festivals)
RAINER STRASCHILL (German guitarist - popularizer of the KKYBERJAM live 
looping movement)
KRISPEN HARTUNG  (American avant garde guitarist - popularizer of the live 
looping and founder of the BOISE EXPERIMENTAL
                                  MUSIC FESTIVAL)
and all the loopers who produced small one off live looping festivals in 
their respective countries:

Okay,  my mind hurts and I know I've missed lots of people (please don't 
take offense if I"ve made glaring errors,  I really do appreciate you.

WHO ELSE?       FAMOUS and also in our LOOPERS DELIGHT community?



okay,  I know I"m missing people but I wondered if everyone would pitch in 
and give credit where credit is due