Re: COLLATED FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS

[Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>]

Famous? Some are. I would say, unless you can fill a 2500 seater, you  
ain't famous. :):):)
On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Rick Walker wrote:

> 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: