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RE: How about a crowdsourced documentary about looping?
> How about we at loopers-delight.com and the ones at livelooping.org work
> together to make a documentary movie about looping?
Tyler, the livelooping.org people are also all on the mailing list :)
I agree, I would very much love to see a looping movie, and crowdsourcing
is probably the best way to finance it (I had thought of proposing such a
project to a culture-based TV station such as BBC but then it might not be
possible to sell it on Amazon). I know that several people have made some
video interviews (such as Bernhard Wagner or Fabio's friend Xavier who
interviewed all of us in Rome a few years ago). Maybe more people could
contribute similar video material. All of this could become part of such a
movie, together with concert footage.
I would love to have such a movie ready by next summer, because as I
pointed out earlier, it is the 50th anniversary of livelooping (the tape
delay/feedback method was invented by Terry Riley's technician for a Paris
show of Music for the Gift in July 1963, and eventually turned into the
Time Lag Accumulator and Frippertronics). Of course, tape music originated
in the 1940s, and with it the use of closed prerecorded loops, and of
course the short tape delays existed before 1963, but the long delays
(several seconds) used in combination with live music that we use in
livelooping actually celebrate their 50ths birthday next year.
I would personally love to see an interview with Terry Riley (and ideally
also Pauline Oliveros) in this video but I don't know how to contact
Terry. Also, I'm in Germany and I have no experience with making movies
anyway. Isn't there someone here on the list who lives in Southern
California and could make a video with Terry, asking him about the origins
of livelooping as he remembers them, and about his all-night flight
concerts during the 1960s with keyboard/saxophone livelooping?
I'm thinking of making a little technical-documentary movie that would
explain how to do livelooping with 2 Revox machines. That could also
become part of the video.
-Michael