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RE: How about a crowdsourced documentary about looping?
Yes. And the whole thing would be backed up by looping videos. And looping
music by one artist or another
playing in the background during nearly the whole film. Oy vey! I got to
go learn Windows
Movie Maker! I already learned Youtube. But Imogen Heap has a new album
coming out either late
2012 or any time in 2013. She has those Musical Gloves, which can control
music, and I
heard looping. And it was part of a live show! What if we got Tim Exile in
this film? He's
all over Youtube and Twitter; he should be easy to contact. Maybe we
should get some
non-liveloopers who use audio editing software for studio-looping, just
for completeness; this is about
all sample repetition. Maybe we should get Asianglow (a studio looper) on
here. Or
Lizzie, the Michigan-based blind looper, who is most likely the only blind
looper besides me. So
it only makes sense Lizzie and I work together. She and Amy X Newberg are
the only female
loopers I've ever heard from, as far as people who actually call
themselves loopers; Imogen just uses it,
Zoe Keating may be closer. (Want to hear Lizzie? Go to the June 2012 issue
of the
Looper's Delight archive and flip to the June 25th page).
Tyler Z
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:02:24 +0200, Michael Peters wrote:
>>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
>