My name is Frank Gerace, age 45, looping guitarist. I am half of the band Dreamchild. Cheryl Wanner is the other half. She uses a JamMan on her voice, both for sampling and looping in live performance. I also use a JamMan in conjunction with a Roland VG8 and an old RPS-10. Cheryl also plays bass and wire strung harp (as yet, unlooped). She plays the harp through a Trace Elliot acoustic amp, the bass through a Gallien Krueger and 2-10 Genz Benz cab. I play through a Vox AC30. I am adding an Oberheim Echoplex soon (on order, hasn't arrived yet). We affectionately refer to what we do as music from Dreams and Nightmares. We combine elements of ambient, song structure, textural awareness and strong melodic sense to create a book for your ears. Okay, we're more than a little artsy. Our homepage is http://www.channel1.com/users/seahorse. Our influences range from the ubiquitous Mr. Fripp, David Torn, Dead Can Dance, Grainne Yeats, Hendrix, Belew, Pentangle, Hun Huur Tu and lots of other stuff. As we aren't trying to fit any of their particular styles with our stuff, it could be a bit misleading to go on. We also write and perform with a theater group called Behind The Mask. Our current project with BTM is an of the Greek classic called Masks of Odysseus. There is mix of electric and acoustic instruments, looped and non-looped used to enhanced masked pieces by many of the main characters other than Odysseus. Quite the multimedia affair. As Dreamchild, we have finished a nine song cassette called Gates To The Sea. We are currently shopping it in Europe for distribution as a CD. It is available from us for $12.00 (includes shipping and handling) by sending a check to Frank Gerace, 955 Mass. Ave. #252, Cambridge, MA 02138. We start gigging again in the fall as we have just moved into a new house and have packed everything we own and our current area of discovery is trying to find what we packed. |
Age | 38 |
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Address | 3028 Turnberry, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 |
Phone | 313 971 8839 |
PeteGilbert@msn.com | |
Primary Instruments | Stick, Grid, zendrum |
Looping Gear | Jamman (32 seconds), Vortex (2), Art SGX 2k express w/x15 |
Influences | Fripp, Gunn, Eno, Levin |
Style | not really |
Available recordings | The Michigan Stick Trio -- General Chaos and Natural Order (Independent release) |
Age | 40 |
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Address | Alhambra, CA |
Phone | 818/458-7760 |
sgoodman@primenet.com (main) or EarthLight@compuserve.com | |
Primary Instrument | '89 Stratocaster and Oscar Schmidt acoustic, both using E-Bow |
Primary Looping Gear | Digitech 7.6-second "Time Machine" digital loop, Alesis QuadraVerb Plus, Roland Pre-Amp/Compressor pedal, 486dx4-100 PC w/2-1GB Drives, 12MB RAM, Sound Blaster card, ATI Graphics Pro Turbo/2MB, CoolEdit 96 (for recording) |
Influences | Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Phil Manzanera, Pete Townshend, Jean-Michael Jarre, Vangelis, Jon Anderson, Beethoven, Ligeti, Lou Reed, John McLaughlin, Spike Jones. |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | Ambient, experimental, acoustic delta blues, 'progressive'. |
Available Recordings | Currently RealAudio songs are available at the EarthLight Studios web page at http://www.primenet.com/~sgoodman/Studios - Presently completing work on Book Of Days, a CD-ROM, and Songs From A Tunnel, an audio CD, both to be released in 1997. Also, The Loop Of The Week, in aself-executable(Windows) or .WAV file(all else) is available for downloading from http://www.primenet.com/~sgoodman/Studios - a new one is made available each Saturday midnight, PST. |
I've been playing guitar (self-taught, non-standard tuning) since the early 70s, and recording the results since 1976, though most of these exist primarily as archives. For the past two years I've been able to record direct-to-hd, enabling me to dispense with the unfortunate medium of tape until I can afford better equipment. My style varies between ambient or 'atmospheric' music, and delta blues, and currently the project at hand involves providing music for the PC, via the Internet.
Since 1992, I've been working with the Digitech 7.6 Delay, and for the money I love it. Between it and the QuadraVerb, I can setdown layers of sound that provide for a non-listening experience at worst, with enough details to keep interest should you care to listen closely. I'm very interested in the idea put forth by Eno regarding 'semi-organic' ambient processes, and occasionally play with a small group of people known here as Stone Soup Project , which is a performance art-based, ambient process.
I've plans this year to return to the keyboard, a Juno=106, to control and otherwise execute more non-guitar-based ambient loops for playing on the Internet, in MIDI format. The current goal, however,is Book Of Days. Stay tuned!
Age | 1959 |
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Address | Salvador, Brasil |
Phone | 0055 71 235 54 94 |
Matthias@bahianet.com.br | |
Primary Looping Gear | Echoplex |
Primary Instrument | PARADIS guitar |
Influences | Pink Floyd, Vollenweider, Rypdal, Fripp |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | New Age? Ambient? |
Ensembles | Many instant duos |
Available Recordings | "Musica AguArianA para viajar" |
Age | 22 |
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Address | Haslev, Denmark |
fls@earthling.net | |
Homepage URL | http://www.ssj.dtu.dk/users/7302/loop |
Primary Instruments | Guitar, percussion, drumz, syntz, computer and soon homemade stuff |
Looping Gear | BOSS GX-700, Vortex (for now). |
Influences | David Torn (!), Brian Eno, Robert Fripp |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | Free Future Dreams |
Ensembles | I'm a solo artist and a take-me-as-I-am project contributor |
Available Recordings | None yet, but there will be very soon |
The main thing about what I do is freedom and evolution. It's about catching a feeling and responding to that and what's happening now. I don't consider beat, key and structure to be important for music. I do however consider noise, feedback, surprise and interaction as very essential. I mainly use the guitar as my sound generator, but I enjoy to fool around with other instruments also, especially percussion and drumz (even my best friend tells me that I suck behind a drum set, but never the less I enjoy it!).
Besides music and art in general I'm into chaos and electronic engineering. In relation to music I'm working on a new kind of instrument, some new effects, some gizmos for guitar and software for manipulation of sound. I'm at the moment working on a homepage as a tribute to David Torn, I however will not make it available before he says go.
Age | 28 |
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Address | 517-A East 40th Street, Austin, TX 78751 |
Phone | (512) 908-8640 w, (512) 451-5885 h |
hartnett.t@apple.com | |
Webpage | http://members.tripod.com/~technoambient/tiktok.html |
Primary Looping Gear | Echoplex Digital Pro (198 seconds), Digitech GSP 21 Legend, Digitech 3.6 second delay, Digitech 8-second delay pedal, Digitech 7.6 second delay, Lexicon Vortex, Digitech Whammy Pedal, E-bow |
Other Gear | Strats, Ovations (acoustic), Rocktron Intellifex LTD, t.c. phaser XII, t.c. chorus/flanger, Boss RDP-10 Delay/Harmonizer, Soldano purple pre-amp, Mesa V-twin, Mesa Quad Pre-amp, Mesa 20/20 power amp, Mesa 50/50 power amp, Mesa Midi Matrix, Mesa Abacus foot controller, too many pedals to go into. |
Influences | Guitar Craft, Mike Oldfield, the usual suspects. |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | Live improvisation, solo or accompanied. |
Ensembles | Tiktok, a solo improvisational project with occasional guests. |
Available Recordings | Cracked Earth (60 min), The Unbroken Teacup (90 min) available through Studio Seventeen Productions. |
Contact Info |
(512) 451-5885, option 1 or Base Productions 517-A East 40th Austin, TX 78751 |
Age | 38 |
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Address | Longmont, Colorado |
Phone | 303-684-9069 |
sarajane@tmbsbbs.com or ambient@adnc.com | |
web-page | http://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/index.html |
Primary Looping Gear | Electro-Harmonix 16 Second Digital Delay Lexicon Jamman 32 second Delay-Looper Mackie 1202 mixer Alesis Microverb Roland TR-505 drum machine Live Sound: Korg DW-8000 synthesizer AB 200 W Stereo Amp 6 string electric guitar 2 JBL 4311 voice Studio Monitors |
Influences | Brian Eno, Jade Warrior, Robert Fripp, Gentle Giant, Wendy Carlos, Split Enz, Mike Oldfield, XTC, Harry Nillson, Jan Garabek, Peter Gabriel, Stockhausen, Miles Davis, Glenn Gould, Nick Drake, Carl Stalling, Steve Hillage |
Musical Style | An equal amount of layered ambient loops, and textured rhythm oriented loops, with and without solo counterpoint via: |
Primary Instrument(s) | keyboard, guitar, or voice. |
Ensembles | Cloud Silence 79-81 Ample Parking 81-84 Nelson & Helm 84-85 League of Crafty Guitarists 85 Dozey Lumps 88-91 Bindlestiff 91-present |
Available Recordings | Cassette only: "The Weight of The Paper" 100 min. "Musing Moon and Solemn Sun" 100 min. "Coincidences" 60 min. "Out of A Clear Blue Sky" 90 min. The latest. These and Bindlestiff tapes available only through Studio Seventeen Productions On CD: "Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists Live!" available from Possible Productions at: PossProd@aol.com |
Contact Info | To request a current catalog Studio Seventeen Productions, P.O.Box 461363, Escondido, CA 92046 or e-mail to...ambient@adnc.com or look and listen at....http://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/index.html direct comments to me at....sarajane@tmbsbbs.com |
No one in my family played an instrument of any kind but they loved to play records. My dad liked Mississippi Delta blues, and jazz, and rock up to Hendrix. My mom liked Rachmaninoff and American country music. Into this world of influences, and others, in 1968 came Walter Carlos's "Switched on Bach". From the age of ten I wanted to hear any new sound you could make with anything, period. Electronic, acoustic, if it made a noise, I wanted to tweak it till it coughed up the sound. Having dropped out of college( a B+ in choir, an F in theory) I got a guitar/amp, a reel to reel, and effects including a Roland Space-Echo to combat my friend's Echo-Plex. That was 1978 and I've been repeating signals via analog and digital means ever since. True looping started in late 1979 with 2 half tracks at 7 and 1/2 ips. Since then I've enjoyed making some of the most relaxing and annoying "music" that I can manage on a limited budget. My wife of 15 years has some of the more tolerant ears on the planet, and both my boys ages 7 and 12, think I'm crazy. The tapes prove this I'm told. Looping can produce some of the most delicate and powerful textures available in modern music. The frame of mind generated by having to construct live loops in performance (particularly without an "Undo" function) is one of concentrated bliss for me. Looping is a solitary pursuit to a lot of its explorers, so I don't know how interactive many of them will choose to be with this forum. Whatever happens...I'll be looping and glad to talk with anyone else who loops, about... whatever.
Age | 42 |
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Address | 12870 East Daybreak Court, Jacksonville, FL 32246 |
Phone | (904)221-6438 |
windharp@fcol.com | |
Primary Looping Gear | I use a Roland VG-8, which provides a maximum delay of 1023 ms; and a crude audio editor that came bundled with a sound card. I would like to acquire PC-based audio software, and possibly a dedicated looping instrument as well. |
Influences | Too numerous, eclectic, and wide-ranging to list (seriously). |
Musical Style / Concentration | I am working toward an integration of freely flowing improvisation with discretely composed (i.e. sequenced) musical parts. Two different parts of my brain know how to make music in their own separate ways. I'm hoping for interesting results when I get them working well together. If I wanted to find my music in a store, I'd probably look in the "ambient" category. |
Ensembles | Cirrus Susurrus Personnel / primary instruments: George Henry - Chapman Stick and Roland VG-8 Cynthia Henry - Zendrum |
Available Recordings | None; working on a demo. |
I've been interested in looping since hearing "Frippertronics" and some Steve Reich pieces a few years back.
Cindy and I have been avid music fans since childhood. I've played guitar since I was 14, and Cindy used to play the flute. We have lately adopted the notion that we would like to create and publicize our own musical expressions.
A rough translation from Latin of "Cirrus Susurrus" is "Whispering Wisps" ... not intended to give the false impression that our music is always subtle and unobtrusive.
Age | 26 |
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Address | 4910 Lovell Ft. Worth, TX 76107 |
velum@flash.net | |
Homepage | http://www.win.net/~spacerock/mazinga/welcome.html |
Primary instruments | various acoustic and electric guitars, choruses, Thomas organ, Vox ampliphonic stereo multi-voice |
Looping gear | Digitech echo-plus eight second delay, Tascam 4-trk, sounddesign |
Influences | Eno, Fripp, Frisell, Ostertag, Byrds, Kevin Sheilds, Bob Mould, Booker T. |
Musical Style | it has been called psych-rock, ambientdelia, spacerock |
Ensembles | Mazinga Phaser, microcurrent |
Available Recordings | Mazinga Phaser "Cruising in the Neon Glories of
the New American Night" Mazinga Phaser "Abandinallhope" |
I like to try to instill a mantric feel to looping, repetition on the surface but a power-building change as a end result.
Age | 37 |
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Address | Clearwater, Florida, USA |
Phone | 813 669 6702 |
brzrkr@nielsenmedia.com | |
Primary Looping Gear | 1978 B.C.Rich Mockingbird or 1964 Fender Jaguar Art SGX/Nitro Preamp/Effects with X-15 Ultrafoot controller JamMan A-B Systems 75w amp Bullfrog 12in/horn combo cab Just got a vortex, I'll put it in there somewhere. Am unhappy with the lack of control over what does/not go to loop, so want to add a mixer or patcher to setup. I'd really like computer control of effects setups, so I can choose one from a menu. Ditto for sequencing loop segments, so I can concentrate on playing. |
Influences | I'm an old rocker, stuck in "Progressive" era. Interests include jazz, classical, ambient - no rap or country. Robert Fripp a big influence. Saw Frippertronics several times, even bought two Tascam 3340s to do same myself (they are for sale, since the JamMan does this in a half-height rack slot!). Torn a big influence. Many, many, many other influences, from Al DiMeola to Bella Fleck with many side trips (so to speak). |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | Rock/fusion/ambient. |
I'm a EE/CS Unix hacker who would love the opportunity (as mentioned on LoopersDelight) to hack audio toys, should the grassroots get deep enough. I have no audio experience, tho.
If any of you come down Clearwater way, look me up.
Age | 20 years |
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Address | Tucon, Arizona |
howarth@u.arizona.edu | |
URL | http://www.u.arizona.edu/~howarth |
Primary Looping Gear | Chapman Stick, Digitech Studio Quad, Morley PDWs, 4 and 8 second Digitech Time Machines. |
Influences | Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, 311, Jan Garbarek |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | everything the four above influences can make you think of... |
Age | 26 |
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Address | Glasgow, Scotland |
pycraft@rank-serv.elec.gla.ac.uk | |
Musical eqpt | Levinson Blade R4, Washburn EA30, Lex Jamman (8sec), various pedals, Lab Series L9 |
Influences | Renaissance music (secular, instrumental), extending to some Baroque (Bach, Vivaldi). Pre-bop Jazz (eg Benny Goodman). The Minimalist movement. Art-/jazz-/rock. Scottish/Celtic. Pointilism. Art Deco. Japanese graphic art. |
Aims | To combine all the above. To develop loop structures, rather than constantly layering, working towards improvisation within a more limited framework - too much can lead to laziness. To write more. |
Performance | Working solo under title "Art d'Echo". No recording plans. |
Age | 30 |
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Address | 300 Second St. #3, Troy NY 12180 |
Phone | 518-272-8409 |
hyamsl@rpi.edu | |
URL | http://www.nsula.edu/~hyams/ |
Primary Looping Gear | jamdude, effectron II, tape looper(gibson), hyperprism/mac |
Influences | stuart copland and the other cops, yes circa 74ish to 78, j.r.r.tolkien, bruce lee, bauhaus w/ Itten, Klee, Maholy-Nagy, Thai music, West African music, skanky funk and udderriddims, reggae from bob/steel pulse/early black uhuru. |
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration | world music styles (riddimik) atmospheric |
Ensembles | collier hyams groupo uno international dub corps trousers |
Available Recordings | collier hyams' "peer" idc's "wonder where you are" |
use the tools that work. ignore the people that say you can't.