Re: LIST of FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

Has anybody mentioned Thomas Dolby yet?

        --m


At 3:41 PM -0700 4/21/08, Rick Walker wrote:
>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