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Frank Gerace

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.


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Pete Gilbert

Age38
Address3028 Turnberry, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Phone313 971 8839
EMailPeteGilbert@msn.com
Primary InstrumentsStick, Grid, zendrum
Looping GearJamman (32 seconds), Vortex (2), Art SGX 2k express w/x15
InfluencesFripp, Gunn, Eno, Levin
Stylenot really
Available recordingsThe Michigan Stick Trio -- General Chaos and Natural Order (Independent release)


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Stephen Goodman

Age40
Address Alhambra, CA
Phone 818/458-7760
E-Mail sgoodman@primenet.com (main) or EarthLight@compuserve.com
Primary Instrument'89 Stratocaster and Oscar Schmidt acoustic, both using E-Bow
Primary Looping GearDigitech 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)
InfluencesBrian 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 RecordingsCurrently 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!


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Matthias Grob

Age1959
AddressSalvador, Brasil
Phone0055 71 235 54 94
E-MailMatthias@bahianet.com.br
Primary Looping GearEchoplex
Primary InstrumentPARADIS guitar
InfluencesPink Floyd, Vollenweider, Rypdal, Fripp
Musical Style or Main Areas of ConcentrationNew Age? Ambient?
EnsemblesMany instant duos
Available Recordings"Musica AguArianA para viajar"

Well, I invented the Echoplex because I needed Multiply, Undo, BrotherSync to play long rhythmical loops, and in duos.


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Stefan Hansen

Age22
AddressHaslev, Denmark
EMailfls@earthling.net
Homepage URLhttp://www.ssj.dtu.dk/users/7302/loop
Primary InstrumentsGuitar, percussion, drumz, syntz, computer and soon homemade stuff
Looping GearBOSS GX-700, Vortex (for now).
InfluencesDavid Torn (!), Brian Eno, Robert Fripp
Musical Style or Main Areas of ConcentrationFree Future Dreams
EnsemblesI'm a solo artist and a take-me-as-I-am project contributor
Available RecordingsNone yet, but there will be very soon

I'm a future thinker, dreamer and artist. I'm into everything that has to do with the future.

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.


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Travis Hartnett

Age28
Address517-A East 40th Street, Austin, TX 78751
Phone(512) 908-8640 w, (512) 451-5885 h
E-Mailhartnett.t@apple.com
Webpagehttp://members.tripod.com/~technoambient/tiktok.html
Primary Looping GearEchoplex 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 GearStrats, 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.
InfluencesGuitar Craft, Mike Oldfield, the usual suspects.
Musical Style or Main Areas of ConcentrationLive improvisation, solo or accompanied.
EnsemblesTiktok, a solo improvisational project with occasional guests.
Available RecordingsCracked 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


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Bryan Helm

Age38
AddressLongmont, Colorado
Phone303-684-9069
e-mailsarajane@tmbsbbs.com or ambient@adnc.com
web-pagehttp://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/index.html
Primary Looping GearElectro-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
InfluencesBrian 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 StyleAn equal amount of layered ambient loops, and textured rhythm oriented loops, with and without solo counterpoint via:
Primary Instrument(s)keyboard, guitar, or voice.
EnsemblesCloud Silence 79-81
Ample Parking 81-84
Nelson & Helm 84-85
League of Crafty Guitarists 85
Dozey Lumps 88-91
Bindlestiff 91-present
Available RecordingsCassette 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 InfoTo 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.


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George Henry

Age42
Address12870 East Daybreak Court, Jacksonville, FL 32246
Phone(904)221-6438
E-Mailwindharp@fcol.com
Primary Looping GearI 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.
InfluencesToo numerous, eclectic, and wide-ranging to list (seriously).
Musical Style / ConcentrationI 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.
EnsemblesCirrus Susurrus
Personnel / primary instruments:
George Henry - Chapman Stick and Roland VG-8
Cynthia Henry - Zendrum
Available RecordingsNone; 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.


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Eric Hermeyer

Age26
Address4910 Lovell Ft. Worth, TX 76107
EMailvelum@flash.net
Homepagehttp://www.win.net/~spacerock/mazinga/welcome.html
Primary instrumentsvarious acoustic and electric guitars, choruses, Thomas organ, Vox ampliphonic stereo multi-voice
Looping gearDigitech echo-plus eight second delay, Tascam 4-trk, sounddesign
InfluencesEno, Fripp, Frisell, Ostertag, Byrds, Kevin Sheilds, Bob Mould, Booker T.
Musical Styleit has been called psych-rock, ambientdelia, spacerock
EnsemblesMazinga Phaser, microcurrent
Available RecordingsMazinga 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.


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Pat Hickey

Age37
AddressClearwater, Florida, USA
Phone813 669 6702
E-Mailbrzrkr@nielsenmedia.com
Primary Looping Gear1978 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.
InfluencesI'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 ConcentrationRock/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.


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Dan Howarth

Age20 years
AddressTucon, Arizona
E-Mailhowarth@u.arizona.edu
URLhttp://www.u.arizona.edu/~howarth
Primary Looping GearChapman Stick, Digitech Studio Quad, Morley PDWs, 4 and 8 second Digitech Time Machines.
InfluencesRobert Fripp, Trey Gunn, 311, Jan Garbarek
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentrationeverything the four above influences can make you think of...


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Michael Pycraft Hughes

Age26
AddressGlasgow, Scotland
Emailpycraft@rank-serv.elec.gla.ac.uk
Musical eqptLevinson Blade R4, Washburn EA30, Lex Jamman (8sec), various pedals, Lab Series L9
InfluencesRenaissance 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.
AimsTo 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.
PerformanceWorking solo under title "Art d'Echo". No recording plans.


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L. Collier Hyams

Age30
Address300 Second St. #3, Troy NY 12180
Phone518-272-8409
E-Mailhyamsl@rpi.edu
URLhttp://www.nsula.edu/~hyams/
Primary Looping Gearjamdude, effectron II, tape looper(gibson), hyperprism/mac
Influencesstuart 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 Concentrationworld music styles (riddimik) atmospheric
Ensemblescollier hyams groupo uno
international dub corps
trousers
Available Recordingscollier hyams' "peer"
idc's "wonder where you are"

use the tools that work. ignore the people that say you can't.


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