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At 8:39 PM -0800 1/14/03, Clayton Gary Lehmann wrote: >Thanks Richard, very much what I was looking for. Question, tho--why >don't >you loop vocals live? I have done. A lot of my early tape work used voice as source material. Some of this was looped, some layered and processed in more of a through-composed way. Then in 1980 I got involved with Diamanda Galas and did a lot of work with voice and electronic processing. Most of this was not looped, but there was a lot of delay processing, both live and in the studio. The one piece that did feature prominent looping was Panoptikon (1982). The backing tape is made almost entirely of processed voice, and there are some rhythmic layers constructed from tape loops pitched down one and two octaves. In the period A.D. (after Diamanda) I did some live looping with actors and singers. I first started doing this in a 1990 performance of Stockhausen's "Originale" in San Francisco. There were several actors whose voices I could capture, harmonize, and loop at will. Electro-chanteuse Pamela Z was also in this production and her voice also went into my digital hopper. Ms. Z and I performed together twice more after that, in the joint project that also included David Zicarelli - "The Z Concert" in San Francisco (1991) and in the SonicWorks Festival in Houston (1992). During the late '90s I was part of an electroacoustic band called Cosmic Debris in Los Angeles. We called our performance "bag" Ambient Groove and Spoken Word. I processed the other members through my Eventides, and since the front person was an actor I had plenty of opportunity to disasterize his voice. One of the more successful pieces combined a "bed" of long (10-11") regenerating delays of his voice along with on-the-fly sampling and playback of spoken phrases. Unlike much loop music, this was quite dynamic and interactive. I'd capture phrases of different lengths and I'd bring the recycling delay layers in and out to match the dramatic phrasing of the vocal performance. That group dissolved a few years ago and I haven't found a vocal performer I'd like to work with, though I did do some off-the-cuff sampling of Rick Walker's voice at Woodstockhausen summer before last. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com