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Re: LOOPING TRIVIA QUESTION
At 11:16 PM +0100 4/26/03, Geoff Smith wrote:
>Do anyone know what the first looping pieces were to use digital
>equipment.
The first digital looping pieces would have been done on mainframe
computer music systems in the 1970s and early 1980s. I can't think of
any specific works at the moment, but I know that I myself was doing
some live looping on the VAX 11/780 at CARL (Computer Audio Research
Lab) at UC San Diego in 1981-82. There are several loop-based
sections in my theater piece "soul murder" (1982).
The real hotbeds for this early work were CCRMA at Stanford, IRCAM in
Paris, and a few other research centers such as University of
Illinois, MIT, and others. I have a few contacts if you want to
pursue it.
BTW- the first tapeless live looping I heard was an improvisation by
the Electric Weasel Ensemble in 1976 at Cabrillo College in Santa
Cruz, using Don Buchla's new analog delay line. Several of the
performers had the flu, and Don captured some coughing and mangled it
live.
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