Re: AMENDED FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

Title: Re: AMENDED FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

Rick,

 I just realize that you are looking for a list of LIVE loopers,  those who use the technology onstage, in live performance.  Certainly this list should include:

Kaki King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaki_King

> oh gosh,  I keep putting my foot in
> my mouth.
> I shouldn't make these posts late at night.
> Also this posted strangely on the digest so I'll repost with
> corrections.
> (note to self..........don't put colons into subjects headers for the
> digest)
>
> Here were my obvious brain farts with apologies (thanks, 
> Rainer).
>
> It's  TODD REYNOLDS not Tim Reynolds.   doh!!!!
> A really idiotic mistake considering I really love his music and have
> been
> corresponding with him offlist all week long.
>
> And leaving out ZOE KEATING?   unforgiveable.  
> She indeed is making such waves that
> she can make both lists.
>
> LOOPSTOCK not loopstockhausen  (I was mixing up two of my
> favorite music festivals
> that I've played at..........sorry Hans).
>
> LUCA FORMENTINI's loopfestivals  in Lago Di Garda also were a
> glaring omission.
> (as well as his original experimental guitar festivals)
> PETER KONIUTO for the Boston Looping Festival of 2003
> BRUNO KLEINEFELD for the Milano Looping Festival of 2003
> PAUL MARHSALL for the Belfast Live Looping Festival of 2003
> GARETH WHITTOCK for the Swansea Loop Festival of 2003 and 2008
>
> and RAINER STRASCHILL plays just about everything and is not soley a
> guitarist.
> Please forgive me, Rainer.
>
> And lastly,  seeing JACO PASTORIUS loop a  second of
> digitally delayed harmonics and then soloing over it
> with Weather Report in the early 80's started me off on my own
> path.....how could I have forgotten him.
>
>
> okay,  this will obviously keep morphing a bit, but here's the
> amended list again.
> Let me have it if I blow anything else.
>
> *************
> *************
> LIST OF FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS
>
> TERRY RILEY
> ROBERT FRIPP
> ADRIAN BELEW
> BILL FRISELL
> DAVID TORN
> JACO PASTORIUS
> 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)
> ROB MASSIE (of 808 State)
> STEVE ROACH
> ROBERT RICH
> MATMOS
> HENRY KAISER
> ZOE KEATING
>
>
> 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 - founder of the Norwich Live Looping
> Festival this summer)
> STEVE LAWSON (British bassist)
> 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)
> MIRO  (Finnish multi-instrumentalist -- founder of FINLOOP this
> coming summer)
> 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 - founder of
> the
> KOLN LIVE LOOPING FESTIVALS of 2003 and 2008
> LEANDER REININGHAUS (German guitarist -founder of the BERLIN LIVE
> LOOPING FESTIVAL series)
> LUIS ANGULO (Mexican/American/German guitarist - 1st Northern
> Mexcio
> loopfestival and loop fests
> in Radolfzell/Konstanz in Southern Germany in 2003 and 2008).
> LUCA FORMENTINI (Italian guitarist -founder of the Loop Festivals in
> Lago Di Garda)
> 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 LOOPSTOCK festivals)
> RAINER STRASCHILL (German composer/multi-instrumentalist - 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
> LiveLooping Festival 2008)
> PETER KONIUTO (for the Boston Looping Festival in 2003)
> BRUNO KLEINEFELD (for the Milano Live Looping Festival of 2003)
> PAUL MARSHALL (Northern Irish percussionist/instrument designer-
> founder of the Belfast Looping Festival in 2003)
> GARETH WHITTOCK (Welsh guitarist, multi-instrumentalist -founder of
> the SWANSEA LOOPING FESTIVAL of 2003 and 2008)
> RICKY GRAHAM (Northern Irish looper,  founder of the LONDONDERRY
> LOOPING FESTIVAL this coming summer-2008)
>
> and all the loopers who produced small one off live looping events
> in
> their respective countries.

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