World-Wide Index of Loop Artists

James Bailey

Age	42
Address	51 Ellerbeck St., Toronto, Ont., Canada M4K 2V2
Phone	(416)462-3365
E-mail	jbailey@southam.ca
Primary instruments	Mini-Moog, Roland JX-3P, Casio DM100, Cheap Imitation Telecaster, Teisco Del-Ray guitar, and anything else that will make a noise.
Looping gear	Two Tandberg tape recorders (9200X, 9200XD), and sometimes even a third (3341x)!
Influences	Pauline Oliveros, Ann Southam (no relation to the company I work for as far as I know), Violet Archer, Terry Riley, Fripp and Eno (together and separately), Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and a host of others too numerous to mention.
Style	Hardcore Electronic (i.e. "serious" type electronic, not punk), Ambient, Experimental. All done solo so far.
Available recordings	"Dimensions" independent release (vinyl, 1986)

I am untrained as a "musician", but enjoy exploring manipulation of sound. My first good quality tape deck was the 3341X, in 1974, although I had occasionally played with a cheap Sears machine that my parents had bought to tape messages for relatives in England, and which I actually used with the 3341X for my first loop! Desiring to do something different from the guitar stuff of Fripp (going beyond, as it were :-] ) I decided to try reading something like a poem, reasoning that the structure would be suited to looping, as a line could be read, wait for it to be repeated, then read the next line and so on. What I actually used was a story by D. M. Thomas entitled "Seeking a Suitable Donor", mainly because of the way it was printed on the page (hard to describe here). With the large amount of distortion from the Sears deck, used for playback, each repetition was still audible for several generations, but did not interfere with new input. The result is quite interesting. There wasn't space, unfortunately, to fit it onto the record. After acquiring the second, and then third decks, quality of results improved (although not necessarily more interesting - in trying to redo the story, it became a garbled mess). The rest, as they say, is history.

Trevor Bajus

Age	26
Address:	NYC (for now)
Email:	nyfac2@nyfac.com
phone:	718.243.0139
Primary instruments/gear/junk:	Fender Jaguar, ESP telecaster, several junked/rebuilt/prepared guitars, Mesa Maverick, various MusicMan amps, E-bow, cordless electric screwdriver, computer printers, feedback, Lexicon LXP15+, Alesis Quadraverb, a battery of (now rarely used) pedals (tremolo is a favorite), and like everyone else in New York, the tiny sections of string above my nut and behind my bridge.
Primary looping gear:	Boss pitchshifter delay, JamMan, DigiDesign Session8, tape
Influences:	Jawbox, Fugazi, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, Gang of Four, Eno with Fripp, Fripp with Eno or Sylvian, Sonic Youth, The whole Knitting Factory crowd (Laswell, Zorn, Ribot, etc.) Yo La Tengo, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, etc.
Style:	Art-punk? Noise? Pop?
Available recordings:	A friend of mine has about fourteen hours of the two of us, overdubbed to the nth degree, playing thru opposite sides of my pan pedal. Sounds great if you are not paying attention to it. Plus, I have a bunch of tapes of all my old bands before they self destructed.

I honk, I shronk, I make loud farting noises, AND I play guitar. When I am not slaving away over a hot SGI, editing and compositing really stupid TV ads/industrials, I try to make as much of a racket as possible. The realization is slowly starting to dawn on me that people who remain musicians past the age of twenty-two are mostly unreliable, hapless dorks. Present company excluded, of course.

Despite that (being a dork myself), I'm always looking for like minded NYC based folks for jam/band/ensemble kinds of stuff, so drop me a line.

David Barnes

solo and with the group "Bastard Finders" (in Philadelphia) currently in Boston area Brand new web site with Real Audio Sound Clips: http://web.superb.net/barnz For looping check out releases # Z20, Z22, Z15, Z16 Email is: barnz@javanet.com for looping: Jam Man and Alesis Quadraverb II Main instruments: electric guitar, lots of percussion from around the world (some home-made) and sampler. Often get 2 or 3 loops going at once with all of these instruments. Enjoy doing soundtracks for video, dance and theater.

Looking to buy another used Jam Man for a project at begin of September. Anyone knowing one for sale can email me at above address.

PJ Bishop

EMail	PJBMHB@aol.com
Style	Jazz, Rock, Country, Experimental
Equipment	Lexicon Jamman, Zoom 508 delay pedal, Digitech RDS 3600 delay, Alesis Midiverb and Drummachine, Mackie Mixer, Fender Customized Tele, G&L Asat, Fender Tube Amps, Hughes and Kettener Cream Machine, DOD delay pedal and distortion pedal, Morley volume pedal
Influences	Fripp, Torn, Frisell, Jim Hall, Richard Thompson, Albert Lee, Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West, Hank Garland, Vernon Reid, Ornette Coleman, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Phillip Glass, John Abercrombie, Henry Kaiser, Amos Garret..........

Ryan Blum

Age	16
Address	2425 Calle Andalucia, Santa Barbara, CA, 93109-1123
EMail	lowfrqcy@west.net
Primary Instruments	Upright Bass, Chapman Stick, Electric Bass, Guitar (mostly prepared), Turntables, Voice (not always mine)
Looping Gear	Digitech Echoplus, 32 Second JamMan, Vortex
Other Gear	TC Electronics Sustain/Parametric EQ, DOD Envelope Filter, SWR Amps, Fishman Bass Stuff
Influences	Mingus, Mr. Ornette Coleman, Bill Frisell, Miles (especially ESP and Miles Smiles), Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, Eno, Elliot Sharp, Dave Holland, Scott LaFaro, Terry Riley, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Medeski Martin and Wood, Marc Johnson, the films of David Lynch (and anyone else who can make me laugh in the face of human perversion), Trent Reznor, Bill Laswell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Charlie Haden, the art of folks like Keith Haring, Munch, Picasso and Van Gogh, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Mike Patton, Bill Evans, Monk, the cartoons of James L. Brooks, DJ Shadow, Beck, Eric Dolphy, Tricky and _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Harmolodic jazz, structured free music, incorporating humor in music, film composing, microtonal music.
Ensembles	untitled jazz trio - chordal-instrument-less jazz group exploring harmolodics and modern ideas in standards and original music in the jazz "tradition"; 2.3 Kids - improv/beat poetry duo with a lot of loop content and humor.
Available Recordings	nothing official, i'd like to trade tapes of my stuff with others. email if yer interested.

I'm working towards studying at a place like CalArts or Manhattan School of Music in the future, focusing on jazz bass and composing, but for now, i feel like like I've experienced too much artistic intolerance for my paltry 16 years, and i may be forced to keep true to my self for the rest of my life. I just hope there's a living to be made somewhere in there....

(on a technical note, i love my big ol' acoustic bass and would like some tips on looping the doghouse, techniques and gear and everything else)

Jonathan Brainin

Age	35
Address	South Orange, NJ
Phone	201/761-0905
E-Mail	jbrainin@interactive.net (primary) or jbrainin@easyway.net
Primary Instrument	Parker Fly guitar, 12 string Warr Guitar
Primary Looping Gear	2 Jamman (expanded to 32 seconds), Eventide GTR 4000 (10 seconds mono, 5 seconds stereo), Cakewalk Pro 5.0 with Audiomedia III soundcard and 3.1 gig hard drive (REALLY long loops)
Influences	Fripp, Sylvian, Torn, Brooks, CRI record label, Eno (both B. and R.), Trey Gunn, Esquivel, Muddy Waters
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Obscure rock, ambient, experimental, blues, and perhaps eventually Free ambient blues.
Available Recordings	Writing material now, hope to start recording by January, 1997.

I've been a guitarist for over twenty years, but have only begun to loop within the last year or so.
My looping style is beginning to emerge but varies wildly by the moment and by my mood. I don't think I've broken any new ground yet but I have managed, inadvertently, to replicate to sounds and styles of several of those listed as influences above.
I'm looking for people to collaborate or just improvise with.

Andy Butler

Age	36
Address	Knox Close, Norwich, Norfolk NR1 4LN, U.K.
Phone	UK (01603) 702191
EMail	SoundFNR@aol.com
URL	http://members.aol.com/soundfnr/ab.htm
Primary Loopable Instrument	6 string electric, Hofner SG copy with homemade onboard distortion. +swell pedal
Loop Gear	Live:- guitar > swell > jamMan > vortex(+expression ped) > amp (Watkins british valve 25W) + guitar direct to Washburn 7w battery amp when loops get going on their own. Sennheiser 421 microphone. Studio:- Add ... lexicon Alex, Behringer 2642 mixer , Zoom 1202 studio Subtract ... guitar amps.
Influences	Zappa, Ornette Coleman, Charles Ives, Gentle Giant, Charles Mingus, Oliver Messiaen, Captain Beefheart, Thelonius Monk, Villa-Lobos, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Paul Hindemith, Fred Frith, J.S.Bach, 3 Mustaphas 3, Eno, James Blood Ulmer. Stuff from the 70's prog-rock era, Henry Cow , King Crimson, Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Faust, Grateful Dead. Shostakovich+Bartok string quartets. Tibetan music, indian classical+folk, bulgarian vox+inst.
Style	Unusual timing without going free time. Extended harmony without going atonal. Trying to use loops in a non obviously-looped way. Favourite technique, setting up a loop on the vortex and then morphing it into 'something different'.
Available recordings	None yet, but some of the midi-files on my web site were created with loop related techniques.

As a live performer I try to entice people to listen to stuff they wouldn't normally bother with. It doesn't always work.

Joe Cavaleri

Age	44
Address	Simi Valley, California Republic
Phone	(805) 526-7141
E-Mail	cavaleri@simi-valley.ate.slb.com
Primary Looping Gear	Guitar, Volume Pedal, JamMan, Vortex, Quadraverb, Mixer
Influences	1960's AM Radio - This ranges from early rock & roll through motown etc., I'm sure, on at least a subliminal level, TV and movie music such as Carl Stalling, Bernard Herman, and many others. The minimalist movement - Steve Reich, Philip Glass, etc. Guitar specific: The music of the Doors, King Crimson-Robert Fripp, Allan Holdsworth, Bill Frisell, and of course Mr. Torn. Many others!!
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Hard to tell. Ambient? Experimental? -- No Age?
Available Recordings	None commercially available

Hi all.
First off I would like to thank all the people involved in giving this segment of the musical community the opportunity to participate in such a project. It should be a very interesting experience.

I have been playing guitar for a little over 20yrs. I kind of started late but what the heck! In that time I've had the good fortune to play in several different styles of music. Everything from a wedding type band, a college jazz band, to playing with a Polynesian band.(complete with coconut clad dancers!!)

I am also attempting to become more politically aware. As Daniel Webster said,
Good intentions will be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Chris Chovit

Age	27
Address	1771 Arteique Rd., Topanga, CA 90290
Phone	(310) 455-0987
E-Mail	cho@gomez.jpl.nasa.gov
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon Jam Man, Oberheim Echoplex, MIDI sequencing
Influences	funk (JB's, p-funk, other early 70's); reggae (marley, a. pablo & other dub); jazz (j. smith, m. davis, "soul" jazz, some 70's fusion); rock (floyd, crimson, who, hendrix, zappa, led zep, p. gabriel, d. sylvian, etc.); ambient / minimal (s. reich, t. riley, eno, environments); electronic (70's electronic, some modern techno-ambient); misc. (N. Indian classical, african/blues)
Instruments	Main instrument: guitar (esp. electric) Secondary instruments: electric bass, piano, organ, clav, synths, tabla, drum programming
Ensembles	I have been involved in various "garage" bands and experimental recording efforts. I am currently practicing with a funk/fusion drummer and a multi-instrumentalist with similar influences

I am interested in working (alone and/or with others) to create music, being a fusion of my/our influences, in a recording and/or performance format, and to develop and optimize the instruments and tools for doing this. I am always interested in talking shop, and meeting new people with similar interests -- (If you live in the LA area -- give me a call or drop an e-note!) I just moved and am currently in the process of setting up a new studio space.

Related interests include: live-sound reinforcement, recording/engineering/performance ideas & techniques, IDL & Opcode MAX programming, WWW as a medium for real-time multimedia broadcast, multichannel audio formats, electric guitars and related amps/effects, learning how to use time wisely.

James Coleman

Age	34
Address	7 Sherman St, Third Floor, Charlestown MA USA 02129
Phone	617/ 242 0454
Email	amesj@mit.edu
URL	http://www.cybercom.net/~nebula/netcom/coleman.html
Primary Instrument	Big Briar series 91A Theremin
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon Jamman, Ensoniq DP4 Digital Effects Processor
Influences	Robert Fripp, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Kieth Rowe, L Mazzacane Connors, Zoviet France
Style/Concentration	electronic sound performance/ improvisation
Ensembles	sinewinder theremin music & performances occasional Duo & Trio improvisation performances
Recordings	will record & release in 1997

Rob Cummings

Age	28
Address	Lauterstr. 39, 12159 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail	R_T_Cummings@compuserve.com
URL	coming soon
Primary Instrument	Percussion, drums, tootie things
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon Jamman (32 s), Roland SDE1000 digital delay, Roland TR-505 drum machine (as clock), other drum machines, live organic looper (me)
Influences	Jaki Liebezeit (Can), Zigaboo Modeliste (Meters), Miles Davis (and his drummers: Philly Joe, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Al Foster, etc), Harvey Mason during early Herbie Hancock period, Bill Frisell and Joey Baron, Jim Black (the GREAT New York drummer), Billy Martin (from Medeski, Martin, & Wood), Cyro Baptista, Knitting Factory/ John Zorn stuff in general, Bootsy Collins, Ed Blackwell, Elvin Jones (can't play like that though), Jim Pugliese (Anthony Coleman, Guy Klucevsek), Bobby Previte, Samm Bennett, Airto Moreira, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, the more experimental Drums'n'Bass tracks, electronic ambient music, Bulgarian music and drummers, Klezmer music, West African rhythms, some Steve Reich (Music for 18 Musicians, Drumming)
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Avant-Groove, Loop-Jazz, Funk-a-dub, Break-Brittlebeat, Jungle-jingle
Groups	Rope, String
Recordings	Rope Hotel - due out in January '97 on Geist Records (Alec Empire's new ambient, better *non-hardcore* lable)

I was born and grew up in the pulsating rhythmic Mecca of this world, Canada (you know, BTO, Neil Young, beer and bacon). I've been playing drums since I was 10 or so and its been a constant source of distractment ever since. Being good at Math and Physics, I wisely directed myself into Engineering. Never could get rid of the music bug, though. I ended up jig-jagging my way through studies/countries/music, gathering steam/moss along the way. At this point, I'm involved in a second (slightly altered) course of study (MicroElectroMechanicalSystemsEngineering - wot's that?!) in Germany which just happens to be the current home of my wife and birthplace of my daughter. A rolling stone stops and gathers ....

In the music that I play, I usually combine drumset-based grooves with loops consisting of percussion and drum machines. Sometimes, I also play arhythmic stuff or use texture-based loops to play over. I find it especially challenging (surrogate word for interesting/frustrating) to play with *hard* drum machine grooves - i.e. to try to find counterrhythms and add roundness to them.

ps: it's great to see so many terje rypdal fans!

bobby devito/lvx nova

Ed Drake

Age	42
Telephone	804-755-6421
Address	10601 Hamilton Rd. Glen Allen, VA 23060 USA
Email	ejmd@erols.com
Looping gear	Ibanez AH -10 Elecric Guitar, Ovation 1867 Legend Acousic Electric Guitar, E-Bow, Tablas, Roland GR-1 Guitar Synth, Lexicon Jam Man (32 sec) controlled by Ground Control by Digital Music Corp, Digitech RDS 8000 Time Machine (8 sec), Lexicon Vortex, ART SGE Mach II, Roland DEP-5, 2 Roland SDE-1000's, Mackie 1202 Mixer, Pro Co Patch Bay, Mesa Boogie Mark III 60 Watt combo amp, Fender Twin customized by Paul Rivera, Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine, MIDI Sequencing
Musical and Looping influences	Beatles, Hendrix, XTC, Fripp, Crimson, Eno, Holdsworth, Torn, Metheny, Frisell, McLaughlin/Shakti, Trilok Gurtu, Oregon/Ralph Towner/Colin Walcott, Steve Tibbets, Peter Gabriel, Michael Brook, Jai Uttal, Steve Roach, Indian Classical Music (Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar, L Shankar, Zakir Hussein, Nikhil Bannerjee), Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Bartok, Stravinsky, Bill Laswell, New Ambient, Future Sounds of London, Aphex Twin, Diblo Dibala (Afro-pop guitarist), Jazz and Brazilian guitar, Latin rhythms, African, Indian and Balinese Gamelan rhythms
Recordings	None Available

I've played guitar for over 25 years and play electric and acoustic guitar in Standard tuning, Guitar Craft Tuning and other altered tunings. I've studied jazz and classical guitar and attended several Guitar Craft seminars in the mid 80's at Claymont Court in West Virginia which were incredible musical experiences. Now I play in everything from bar bands to weekend wedding bands to touring Broadway shows and teach 25 students a week. I've been looping in a limited way ever since I got my first digital delay line (Roland SDE-1000) and got the Jam Man when it first came out although now I wish I had the Oberheim Echoplex. I do hope to get a 'Plex soon and I know that my looping will move to a whole new level. In the meantime, I'm just trying to get as much as I can out of the Jam Man and look forward to integrating it with a 'Plex one day.

Musically, I'm exploring the ambient, ethnic, trance connection although I do rock out and get noisy and dissonant. I'm also trying to bring a more compositional approach to my looping incorporating my love for different styles of music (jazz, rock, indian, african, classical, ambient) with improvisation and interesting rhythms, evoking moods from sublime beauty to dark places to toe tapping fun. With my 4 year old son around, I don't have as much time as I like, to practice and loop, but I still try to find time each night to play.

Steven Dubofsky

Age	36
Address	Rockaway, New Jersey
EMail	skullsaw@gti.net
Homepage URL	http://www.gti.net/skullsaw
Primary Instruments	Ensoniq ESQ1, Yamaha CS1x, Roland MKS-50, Paia Fatman, Roland S-220 Sampler, Boss DR660 drum machine, Roland Octapads, Univox Strat.
Looping Gear	Korg SDD-2000, Boss SE-50, Quadraverb GT
Influences	Fripp, Eno, King Crimson, Bill Nelson, Belew, ELP, Nirvana, David Sancious, Various Techno Compilations and most everything I've ever heard.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Electronic musics of all kinds
Available Recordings	Much music in tracker format on my homepage, about 100 hours of tape at home.

I have been making music for near thirty years first with drums, through various percussion and then, in the pre-MIDI days, bought my first keyboard, a lowly casio. It wasn't long before I had synthfever. At some point in the mid 80's I finally decided to setup a crappy pair of reel to reel decks on their side ala Fripp and discovered musical heroin. I would run tape for hours at a time using a Korg MonoPoly, often through a Big Muff, into the loop. I recently, Hell, yesterday, got an SDD-2000 Sampling Delay which provides me with 4.368 seconds of delay, can you say "monkey on your back"? Looping to me is like a good, safe drug, you do it once and you're hooked, wanting more and more. I also use a Roland S-220, Boss SE50, Alesis Quadraverb and an Amiga computer for looping, processing and sequencing. My music is all over the map ranging from ambient to hardcore techno to Bill Nelson inspired dittys and more. To hear some of my music I invite you to my homepage where you will find examples in a compact tracker format with a player.

Both visions are correct.

Benjamin Fargen

Age	25
Address	Sacramento, CA
Phone	(916) 451-2495
E-Mail	(band E-Mail)Nocturne@Inreach.Com
Primary Instrument	Guitar (Strat, Ibanez Artist)
Looping Gear	Digitech 2101LE (Seamless Switching & 5sec. Delay/Sampler), Digitech DHP 33 Harmonizer (the string synth is great), Marshall JMP1 Midi Valve Preamp, DMC Midi Foot Controller, 2 Ernie Ball Volume Pedals, Carvin F150 Stereo Power Amp, 2x12 Cab, E-Bow.
Influences	David Torn, Fripp, The Edge (U2), Michael Brook, Michael Hedges, David Sylvian, Dead Can Dance, B.J.Cole, Andy Summers, Robert Smith, Pete Buck, Beatles, Mike Campbell, SRV, Johnny Marr, Style: "Dreampop With Substance"
Available Recordings	(the band I'm in) "Claire Voyant" self titled first release on Nocturne Records: CD, distributed through Projekt Records (Darkwave Catalog) and Tess Records. (Etherial female vocals, lush keyboard and programming with textured, looped, ambient, chimey guitars.

Eric R. Fischer

Age	34
Address	Silverlake, Ca
EMail	efisch@artnet.net
Primary Instruments	Steinberger GM w/ Roland GR electronics, Steinberger GM 12str., Steinberger GL2T, Jerry Jones 12str elec., mongrel Tele Roland G707, G505, Gibson L6-S
Looping Gear	Oberheim Echoplex (50 sec.), Roland GR300 & 700, Roland SRV 2000, Boogie amps & speaker cabs, Sony Digital Delay, Pearce G1C preamp, tons of old stomp boxes, Passac Unity 8 mixer, hours of wiring!
Influences	Crimson, ECM Records
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Ambient solo guitar
Ensembles	I'm still looking.....
Available Recordings	Did some loops on "Wild Orchid"'s album. My solo album will be out this winter.

Kim Flint

Age	26
Address	PO Box 40240, Berkeley, CA 94704
E-Mail	kflint@annihilist.com
URL	http://www.annihilist.com/
Primary Instrument	guitar
Primary Looping Gear	Echoplex digital pro's Klein custom guitar, Fernandes Sustainer Guitar, the Trusty Old Aria Pro II, E-Bow, assorted pedals Mesa Boogie Triaxis Rocktron Intellifex Mesa Boogie Simulclass 2:90 drum machines, sequencers, hopefully more soundsources soon
Influences	(in chronological order) John Denver, The Beatles, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Exodus, Rush, Steve Vai, Al DiMeola, Queensryche, Michael Hedges, John McLaughlin, Tuck Andress, The Beatles again, The Doors, Hank Garland, Jane's Addiction, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Sonic Youth, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Parliament-Funkadelic, Primus, Voivod, The Limbomaniacs, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Zappa, Prince, Public Enemy, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Bill Laswell, Tom Waits, Music of the Ewe people in West Africa, C.K Ladzekpo, Ravi Shankar/Indian classical music, Mr. Bungle, Pharoh Sanders, Buckethead, Trent Reznor, Terry Date (production for Pantera, White Zombie), The Orb, Future Sound of London, David Torn, Underworld, Dr. Dre
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	heavy-industrial-ambient-jazz-experimental-techno-improv

I started playing guitar when I was seven because I liked John Denver and wanted to play his songs. Things generally went downhill from there.

As an adolescent, the powers that be decided I was too good at science and mathematics to waste my life as a musician; I was to have a Career as a Scientist or Engineer or Doctor or some such Professional, and music was to be a Hobby. So despite my obvious interest in music, I was tracked into engineering. I ultimately overcame boredom, despair, hatred-of-everything, etc. and earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from UC Berkeley. Nevertheless, I managed to add a strong jazz foundation to my rock and fusion vocabulary, and began moving into much more experimental territory. After graduating I went on to work for the Gibson Guitar company, designing new musical instrument technologies at the infamous G-WIZ labs R&D facility. That is where I first encountered Matthias Grob, where we developed the Echoplex Digital Pro, and where I became a full on looping fanatic. I've moved on from there, to the lucrative multimedia frontier in the silly-con valley, but I've maintained my interests in the loop world by creating the Looper's Delight mailing list and web site. I hope to have my hands deep in the next generation of looping instruments as well.

I like creating music with a strong rhythmic foundation. Darkness, anger, tension, aggression, power, moodiness, and chaos are themes I have the most attraction to. I'm currently developing my style and gear collection into a sort of improvised ambient-techno-artrock-jungle-deathmetal-hiphop something or other. I still like to play jazz once in a while, and lately there has been a bluesy/country-ish twang coming from god knows where. Now if I only had some free time.....

Gideon Freudmann

Age	35
Address	Box 297 Hadley, MA 01035
EMail	gfgk@javanet.com
Homepage URL	http://www.moonsite.com/gideon
Primary Instruments	electric cello
Looping Gear	Lexicon JamMan, Digitech Multiplay, Boss Pitch Shifter
Influences	Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Robyn Hitchcock, Mose Allison, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Loudon Wainwright, The Kinks, Bonzo Dog Band, XTC, Vivaldi, King Crimson, Spike Jones, Peter Schickele, The Beatles, Adrian Belew, Debussy, Leo Kottke ...
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Variety is the key word. For the most part i am drawn to music that is rhythmic and tonal, but beyond that almost anything goes - lush soundscape stuff to driving funky blues. The cello is a virtually endless source of sounds and noises, and the looping gear lets me build a wide range of textures and moods.
Available Recordings	Four CDs: Adobe Dog House, Cellobotomy, Banking Left, Fellini's Martini. Also a cassette called "The Waldo Variations"