COLLATED FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

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

I'm trying to collate this list that everyone has suggested.
It is a list , of course, one that will be ongoing, so keep those names 
rolling in.

I'm doing more and more interviews with more prominent music magazines
so I want to be able to hand them such a list to help popularize what we 
all 
love doing.

I wanted to stress that this is a less of fairly famous live looping 
artists
and NOT a list of really excellent ones (who are not as well known).
I think some of the greatest loopers on the planet are right here in our
community at Loopers Delight even though they are not really famous in the 
world.

I was unsure,  as an example, of including Markus Reuter who was mentioned 
by two
people in the thread.    I actually don't know his work.   Is he well 
known 
in Europe?
I certainly don't want to be guilty of being too Ameri-centric in 
collating 
this list.

This is why I didn't list everyone that people recommended in this thread.
If anyone disagrees with this list or thinks that someone should be on it 
or 
not
on it,  please let me know.

respectfully,  Rick Walker



LIST OF FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

TERRY RILEY
ROBERT FRIPP
ADRIAN BELEW
BILL FRISSEL
DAVID TORN
EBERHARD WEBER
ARILD ANDERSEN
KELLAR WILLIAMS
EDDIE VEDDER (Pearl Jam)
IMOGEN HEAP
THOMAS DOLBY
JON BRION
JOHN SCOFIELD
PHIL MANZENARA
KID BEYOND (aka Andrew Chaikin) beatboxing all acapella live looping show 
is 
really attracting attention)
ROB MASSIE (of 808 State)
STEVE ROACH
ROBERT RICH
MATMOS
HENRY KAISER




in our own community (and I include these names as people who seem
to be prominent in the community and/or people who have done a lot of work
promoting live looping by having larger looping festivals.   This is, of 
course,  off the top of
my head.   Have I missed people in this list?   My apologies if I have.


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)
RANDOLF ARRIOLA (who is in the process of creating the first Singapore 
Live 
Looping Festival)

and all the loopers who produced small one off live looping festivals in 
their respective countries: