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Have we missed Brian Eno or is he in a realm of his own? > From: looppool@cruzio.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: COLLATED FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS > Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:02:55 -0700 in a realm > > 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: > Make i'm yours. Create a custom banner to support your cause. |