World-Wide Index of Loop Artists

Sunao Inami

Age	30
Address	#102,4-4-10,Sugawara,Higashiyodogawa,Osaka City,Japan 533
Phone/Fax	+81 6 370 8562 CAVE Studio
EMail	cave@osk.3web.ne.jp
Homepage URL	http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~cave/
Primary Instruments	GR-300,Big Muff,E-Bow,Prophet-5,Prophet-VS,PS-3200,EML100, PPG WAVE2.2 & 2.3,Microwave & Microwave II,EIIIxs turbo, and some analogs/digitals/samplers.
Looping Gear	JamMan,SDD-1000(x4),Next DD-1100,Boss DE-200(x2),Roland SDE-2000(x2),RE-201,SRE-555, ADA 1280(x2),SV Pro,SDII,Alchemy etc.
Influences	Bowie,Eno,Fripp,Belew,Torn,Bill Nelson,Masami Tsuchiya, Kraftwerk,Conny Plank,Philip Glass,Cabaret Voltaire,HULA. 70's electronic/experimental,80's new wave and some 90's drum'n'bass.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Ambient/Rock/Electronic
Ensembles	Some concert report available. Please visit my live information page
Available Recordings	Some CDs & Tapes and Real Audio available. Visit my web site "cave home"

Jamuud

Age	39
EMail	djm@abc.com
Homepage URL	Will have one within a couple of months (checkout loopguru.com then)
Primary Instruments	Transynthesised Molecular Construction Kit; Excitability
Looping Gear	Various reel-to-reel in states of disrepair, Akai S950, EMU Esi-32, Koan Pro (see SSEYO.COM), Cubase Score
Influences	Indonesia, North & South India, Turkey, Mongolia, Anywhere along the silk road, Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, P.G.Wodehouse, 60s Psychedelia, Arvo Part, Ross Edwards, Eno, Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Can, 23 Skidoo, The Beatles, Pablo Coehlo, Erik Satie, Hazrat Inyat Khan, Krishnamurti, Hermann Hesse, John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, Mediaeval songs of the Troubadours, Rembetika, Soukous, Mandinka music
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	No Barriers or boundaries
Ensembles	Loop Guru, Hoopy Froods, The Large Afternoon, Muud Guru
Available Recordings	Loop Guru - Duniya Loop Guru - Amrita Loop Guru - Catalogue of Desires Loop Guru - Moksha Loop Guru - Loop Bites Dog (Forthcoming) various others

Tom Johnson

Age	24
Address	Scottsdale, Az
EMail	tappy@usa.net
Primary Instruments	12 string Warr Guitar
Looping Gear	Lexicon JamBuddy (32s memory), EBow, noisy children's toys, and whatever else makes noise that I can loop.
Influences	Robert Fripp, David Torn, Trey Gunn, Eno, Michael Brook, David Sylvian, no-man, many, many more.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	"Heavy ambient," Fripp-y loops, drones, Brook-esque passages, pure noise, etc. Still learning, still changing.
Ensembles	Do imaginary 'ensembles' count?
Available Recordings	I wish.

Mark Kata

Address	46268 Winston, Shelby Township, Michigan 48315-5618
Phone	(810) 247-5266
E-mail	Mark@asisoftware.com
Primary Looping Gear	Current Setup: Peavey ProFex or SansAmp PSA-1 preamps Digital Music Ground Control with expression pedal Ernie Ball volume pedal Lexicon JamMan (32 seconds) Two Lexicon Vortexes with expression pedals Marshall Valvestate 8004 stereo power amp Two EV-12L speakers Previous Setup (circa 1987-1990): ProCo Ratt Ernie Ball volume pedal Digitech RDS-3600 Roland DDL-1000 Mesa Boogie Mark IIB Yamaha G50-112II Ancient Setup (circa 1979): MXR Distortion + MXR Flanger Morley volume pedal Ross Stereo Analog Delay (1/2 second) Gallien-Kreuger 112SC (a great transistor amplifier) Processors Occasionally included in my Current Setup: Digitech IPS-33B with expression pedal Alesis QuadraVerb + Boss RPS-10
Instruments	Steinberger GL2 Trans-Trem guitar Sho-Bud Lloyd Green pedal steel guitar
Influences	Derek Bailey, Adrian Belew, Michael Brook, Roy Buchannan, John Cage, Wendy Carlos, Chapman Stick, Les Claypool, Pete Cosey, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Henry Kaiser, Larry LaLonde, live improvised music, Paul McCartney, Tom Morello, Jaco Pastorius, Allen Ravenstein (Pere Ubu), Hans Reichel, Vernon Reid, Sonny Sharrock, Morton Subotnik, Steve Tibbets, David Torn and Warr Guitar.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	I've always played in Top 40 bands in public, and at home I've always played free, improvised music. But I like to bring these sensibilities to any music I play: texture, noise, silence, restraint, abandon, intuition and intellect.
Available Recordings	Just cassette tapes made at home.

Ted R. Killian

Age	43
Address	Goleta, California
Phone	(805) 685-4827
E-Mail	killinfo@aol.com
Primary Looping Gear	A pair of Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pros (with footpedal) expanded to 198 seconds each.
Input Devices	Electric and acoustic guitars, guitar synth (played with fingerpicks, sometimes one or two E-bows, brass slide, hacksaw blades, compressed air, springs, and miscellaneous kitchen utensils), cunbus, kalimba, birimbau, pseudo-siamese midi wind instrument, pitch-to-midi vocal processing, whistling, harmonica, and ukelele.
Processing and Output	Roland GR-1, Emu Proteus 3, Prescription Electronics Experience pedal, Green Ringer, Morley PDW, Maniac Music Sustainiac, Art SGX 2000 with "Express" upgrade, Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyzer (ring modulator), Lexicon Vortex, a pair of old Boss RPS-10 pitch shifter-delays, Alesis Microverb III, Rocktron G612 mixer, a Seymour Duncan 84/50 tube combo amp and a Seymour Duncan KTG-2075 solid state stereo power amp pumping through four Duncan 1x12 guitar cabs.
Computer	Power Macintosh 7100/66 running Deck II and Sound edit 16, JamFactory, Passport Trax, TurboSynth, and Megalomania.
Looping Influences	I was inspired in 1971-2 by a guitar playing friend-of-a-friend who had rigged up a pair of reel-to-reel recorders with a loop of tape between them, and later by the 1973-4 recordings of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno who were doing rather the same thing. Other significant "looping" influences along the way (in addition to Fripp/Eno) are: Paul Dresher, Steve Tibbets, Bill Frissell, David Torn, Adrian Belew, Terje Rypdal, Scott Johnson, Nels Cline, Phil Keaggy, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, Bill Nelson, David Sylvian, Mark Isham and Tangerine Dream, etc.
Guitar Influences	In addition to any names listed above, Gary Lea, Jimi Hendrix, Leo Kottke, Frank Zappa, Merle Travis, Buckethead, Ralph Towner, Sonny Sharock, Ry Cooder, Henry Kaiser, David Gilmour, Johm McLaughlin, Mike Keneally, John Scofield, Robin Trower, Nicky Skopelitis, Andy Summers, Leslie West, John Abercrombie, Roy Buchanan, Larry Coryell, James Blood Ulmer, Michael Hedges, Robert Johnson, Allan Holdsworth, Josef Woodard, Vernon Reid, Preston Reed, Lou Reed and Gene Autry, etc.
Other Musical Influences	In addition to any names listed above, Henryk Gorecki, Pink Floyd, John Adams, Captain Beefheart, Steve Reich, Bill Laswell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Laurie Anderson, Allan Hovhaness, John Cage, the Beatles, Jeff Kaiser, Bela Bartok, Leon Theremin, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, Herb Alpert, Isaac Watts, Dick Dunlap, Giacomo Puccini, King Crimson, Hildegard von Bingen, Miles Davis, J.S.Bach, John Zorn, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, etc.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Ambient? Electro-Acoustic? New Music? Abstract Expressionist Swing? Jazz/folk/noise? Guitar-torture? And when I put my mind to it, I can do a pretty mean Kottke-Cooder-Travis pickin' thing on the side.
Ensembles	Radium (just myself with a variety of instruments, toys, appliances and other musical prosthetics) April Fools (myself with with guitarist/journalist Josef Woodard and sometimes percussionist John Bergamo) Brain Trust (myself with electric bassist Jim Connolly and trumpeters Garren Horgen and Jeff Kaiser) Jim Connolly Group (with acoustic bassist Jim Connolly and rotating cast of Santa Barbara improvisers) Ted Killian Group (myself with a rotating cast of improvisers usually including keyboardist Dick Dunlap and percussionist John Bergamo).
Available Recordings	None

I first took up the guitar in 1964 at age 10. I first seriously took up "looping" on a regular and exclusive basis nearly twenty years later. I have been an active performer/practitioner in the Ventura and Santa Barbara (CA) "new music" scenes for several years. On occasion, I have ventured down to L.A. for gigs at various festivals, Santa Monica's "Alligator Lounge" and on the radio station KPFK.

Mostly, I perform as a self-contained "solo" but have, in recent years, become increasingly involved in doing the "loop thing" in an improvisational ensemble context.

Since what we do is so heavily influenced by one particular technique (looping), it might occasionally seem that we are all merely following a well-worn path that's already been mapped out by a host of other pioneering composers. However, as we all have our own distinct and personal visions, we can each still hope to make our own artistic contributions with whatever new means that present themselves. No matter how many people have travelled the road before us, we will still each see the scenery in a different way.

I am thankful for the odd sense of community I feel developing here.

David Kirkdorffer

Age	33
Address	P.O. Box 990, Allston, MA 02134, USA
E-Mail	sayaaahh@aol.com
URL	http://members.aol.com/sayaaahh/
Primary Looping Gear	Guitar Volume Pedal Various Foot Pedals: RussianHarmonix Big Muff II Mutron Octave Ringer ElectroHarmonix Small Stone DOD FilterWah Oberheim Echoplex Korg SD2000 Delay (where most of my cool sounds come from) ART PROVerb DBX Stereo Compressor (Left=after the floor f/x || Right=just B4 the 'Echoplex) Bandmaster 40watt Tube Amp 15inch Bass Speaker/Enclosure
Influences	Ambient stuff on the FAX label, Techno/Jungle, ProgRock -- Crimson, Genesis, etc., Fripp, Torn, Glass
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Ambient, Noise, Experimental, "UNDOingnesses" -- a term I use for creating with minimal consciousness
Ensembles	Separate from my UNDOings, I play guitar with no effects at all (really, none) in a Guitar/Drums/Voice trio called little a
Available Recordings	little a has a CD out http://members.aol.com/sayaaahh/
Contact Information	Acuvue weekly-wear

Personal Statement: Overdraft

Andre LaFosse

Age	22
Address	California Institute of the Arts, Box CO-17, Valencia, CA 91355
Phone	(805) 253-1780
E-Mail	altruist@shoko.calarts.edu, alafosse@indy1.calarts.edu
Primary Instrument	Electric guitar, also sequencing and occasional guitar synthesizer
Primary Looping Gear	Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro (108 second configuration), Lexicon Vortex, Alesis QuadraVerb GT, Korg O3R/W Synth module (driven via Roland GR-50 guitar interface, utilizing internal delay lines for looping)
Influences	Miroslav Tadic, Allan Holdsworth, Ani Difranco, David Torn, Skinny Puppy, Robert Fripp, Santiago Vazquez, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Wadada Leo Smith, David Gilmour, John McLaughlin, and many others.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	My main focus is to find my own music to play, which I haven't completely found in any one given genre. Towards that end (and in spite of my disdain for segregation of musical "types"), some areas I have studied or worked in could be classified as: Progressive rock, Industrial, Free jazz, Common Practice and Contemporary Classical, Ambient, Funk, European folk, Fusion, Javanese Gamelan, and miscellaneous areas of experimental (and non-experimental) work.
Available Recordings	_The Prodigal Son Comes Clean_ (1996 independent cassette, available for free upon request)

If I were restricted for the rest of my days to playing only a straight guitar direct into an unprocessed amp, I'd probably be fine with that. Nonetheless, my efforts at finding a voice on the instrument have led me through various experiments with effects processing, an uneasy relationship with guitar synthesis, and more recently (and probably most successfully) an exploration of looping as a real-time musical tool.

One of the main thrusts of my work over the last several years has been to isolate my "rig" down to two hands, a guitar, an amp, and a patch cord, and to work with those basic elements to the fullest possible extent. In this way, looping strikes me as perhaps the most powerful means of electronically augmenting the guitar. Unlike MIDI guitar or many elaborate processing signal paths, it allows the finest details of one's own playing, as opposed to a factory preset on a processor or synth module, to enter directly into the musical picture.

I'm currently enrolled in my final year in the Multi-Focus Guitar program at Cal Arts. My hopes for post-graduation life are to try and find other artists with similar interests and ambitions, and to continue to make music that feels real to me.

Matt "The Prod. Man" Lane

Age	21
Address	MTSU Box 6005, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 USA
EMail	fmstereo@broadcast.net
Homepage URL	http://www.mtsu.edu/~m_c_003f/coldcuts.html
Primary Instruments	Keyboards (Kawai Spectra, Fender Rhodes, Alesis S4 Plus)
Looping Gear	Alesis Quadraverb, Sireko Tape Echo, Copycat
Influences	Philip Glass, John Oswald, Negativland
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Free Noise, Techno, Jazz, New Age
Available Recordings	none yet, am considering releasing a CD for radio called 'JinglePhonics' which is a free noise group of recordings I did at a local AM station using a Tascam reel deck, a CD player and turntables, sort of like Negativland with some influence by John Oswald's Plunderphonics

Claude Lassonde

Age	42
Address	2325 keller, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4K 2G2
Phone	(514) 332-0258
E-mail	classonde@psbgm.qc.ca
Web sites	http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/7044
Primary instrument	Guitar synth GR 1, GI-10 + K2000, Jamman, Digitech Whammy II, Gibson Howard Robert Fusion.
Influences	Scriabin, Stravinsky, Messian, Varese, Boulez, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Reich, Vivier, Schaeffer, Thibault, Fripp, McLaughlin, and new or electroacoustic music...
Ensembles	SilËne

Studies at Montreal University faculty of music, master degree in musical composition with Serge Garant, Michel Longtin, AndrÈ PrÈvost; Èlectroacoustic studies with Marcelle DeschÍnes and Francis Dhomont.

Analyst in micro-computing. Beta tester for Steinberg Audio Cubase. Administrative director (1989-91) of the "Association pour la crÈation et la recherche Èlectroacoustiques du QuÈbec", ACREQ, director of production (1988-89). President and founder of the "SociÈtÈ de concerts alternatifs du QuÈbec", SCAQ (1982). Concert master in classical guitar.

The catalog contains pieces for orchestra, different ensembles of chamber music, computerized and electroacoustics music. Often played on the local scene, many reknown artists were associated to his creations (notably : Rina Lasnier of the "AcadÈmie canadienne franÁaise", Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Lorraine and Pauline Vaillancourt). Sentes aux abÓmes des sens was commissioned by ACREQ and created for the opening of the electroacoustics series "Acousmonium" of the festival "MontrÈal musiques actuelles", New Music America.

My compositions and musical interpretations were recorded by "SociÈtÈ Radio Canada", SRC (Alternances, Musique actuelle, Jeunes artistes canadiens) and broadcasted elsewhere in Canada, in United States (ABC), in Germany and in France (France Musique, Radio-France, CommunautÈ des radios publiques de langue franÁaise" CRPLF, guest at the "Festival international de musiques expÈrimentales de Bourges, SynthËse 91").

"My music of poetical nature is based on particular types of instrumentation and sound design to emphasize differences in character. These compositions treat different characteristics of play inherent to the instrument or to the handling of artificial sounds with mysticism. The initial idea is always evocative of the particular world it is creating. The liberty of style tends to try deliberately to go off stream. It rather suggests an intimate relation between the auditor and personal existential feelings evoked in music, hoping to make the listener forget time..."

I wrote, recorded, and engineered my own album using minimal equipment and a CD-R. For more information, check out the "Tech Zone" on my web page.

Todd Madson

Age	33
Address	3953 Bryant Avenue South #1, Minneapolis, MN 55409
Phone	(612) 827-7812 (612) 884-7951 (Images at Twilight BBS)
E-Mail	todd.madson@lasermaster.com -or- crash@waste.org
URL	http://www.waste.org/~crash/index.html
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon Vortex, ART SGE (v1.8), Boss DD-3 delay, Ibanez Swell Flanger. Charvel, Yamaha, and Heartfield guitars, Kawai, Korg and Casio synths, looped Roland human rhythm composer, Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp, Roland JC-120, etc. all hooked up to the mighty (but tiny) MADSOUND studio - the 4-track that could.
Influences	Allan Holdsworth, John Goodsall, John McLaughlin, David Torn, Steve Tibbets, Terje Rypdal, Edgar Froese (as a guitarist), Eric Johnson, Buckethead, Shawn Lane, Wayne Shorter, Percy Jones, Kit Watkins, Cypher7, Steve Hillage, Steve Hackett, Steve Morse, etc. You name it. Music with lots of grandeur and drama.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Heavy aggressive super ambient energy prog with an emphasis on angular arpeggiated chordal structures, high energy solos and eerie ambient pads.
Ensembles	Crash Hydravian Alien Spore Bomb [solo work moniker]
Available Recordings	Contact me for information regarding demos. Also, samples of my work is available on my web page.

My music tends to fill a void for my own listening as I typically like excessive amounts of everything I like - commercial music sometimes doesn't provide this vicarious thrill. It allows me to explore areas that most bands wouldn't bother dealing with. I like exploring the area between consonance, dissonance, energy, melody and duration.

Hopefully my music might inspire someone to want to pick up an instrument of their own and try their hand at writing, or maybe fill them with a good feeling that you can do odd music on your own terms and get away with it without having to compromise to commercial demands.

Olivier Malhomme

Age	29
Address	Unite d'Oncologie Moleculaire/ Institut Pasteur de lille, 1 rue Calmette, B.P. 245, 59 019 Lille cedex, France
Phone	20 87 77 29 or 20 07 26 89
E-Mail	malhomme@infobiogen.fr
Primary Looping Gear	A poor ART sge with 2 incredible seconds (hum!), seconded with a midi delay via Cubase (and a Roland gr-50). Otherwise, organic real loops: no delay, I play everything on a multi-tracker (akai mg14d), and mix then.
Influences	This one is gonna be tough. From time order: Old renaissance music, then Bach Handel, Scarlatti D., then jump to Debussy, Stravinski, Bartok, Ravel, then to Sylvian, King Crimson, K. Bush, P. Gabriel, Nyman and Glass, NIN, T. Heads. But I should add books, films, that are as influencial... Like the maltese falcon, any films from J.Cassavetes, or Trust me from Hal Hartley, or Abel Ferrara.. And Lewis Carroll, and Kundera. OK let's just stop here....
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	My real area of concentration is being able to reach Music (with capital M) and to keep an experimental side in it. That doesn't explain anything, I know....
Ensembles	Panama (sort of rock group, just for the record) The Red Point (this thing got a KC flavour sometime...) Olivier Malhomme (isn't it simple) actually, the ballets I wrote for a contemporary dancing company here Olivier Malhomme (again): songs with more of a meditative feel.
Available Recordings	in progress. Nothing is finished so far.... so, keep tuned..

Matt McCabe

Age	25
Address	2255 E. 8th St., Chico, CA 95928
Phone	916.345.7221
E-Mail	finley@ecst.csuchico.edu
URL	http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~finley/kingnever.html
Primary Instrument	guitar
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon JamMan and Vortex, Digitech GSP-2101, Alesis QuadraVerb, and Rane SM-82.
Influences	Fripp, Torn, Summers, Belew, West-Oram, Bowie, Eno, Sylvian, etc.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	modern rock with progressive/ambient/industrial/experimental textures.
Ensembles	King Never Able Cain
Available Recordings	King Never "Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 1" Able Cain "Able Cain"

Perpetual Nebulous (Raymond Medeiros)

Age	20
Address	Brooksville, Fl
EMail	rmedir@innet.com
Primary Instruments	Pocket Memo Mate with Chipcorder Technology
Looping Gear	IBM Compatible 486sx 8meg with Proaudio 16, Fasttracker
Influences	Aphex Twin, Skinny Puppy, Beatles, Type O Negative, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Dali, Download, Pigface, Einstürzende Neubauten, Moby, John Lennon, Jefferson Airplane, Beck, Prodigy, The Cure, NIN, David Bowie, Orb, Orbital... The list goes on, everything i have ever listened to has made some lasting impression of a musical intuitive response whether good or bad.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Deepspace Machine, Dark Ambient
Current Project	Deepspace Machine: vol 1 Textures of Alien machinescapes

Doug Michael

Age	33
Address	California
E-Mail	dmic27@ccnet.com
URL	http://www.ccnet.com/~dmic27
Primary Looping Gear	I use a Roland DEP-5 which has a maximum delay time at 2000ms. I also have access to the old Electro-Harmonix 16 second delay.
Influences	Torn, Holdsworth, Stockhausen, Davidovsky, Zappa
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Electro-Acoustic music, Computer Music, Jazz/Rock & Improvised music.
Ensembles	Doug Michael & The Outer Darkness (Trio:Guitar,Bass,Drums) Also solo music
Available Recordings	I have three cassette releases; "Doug Michael & The Outer Darkness" "Silent Decay" "Embers" Available at http://www.ccnet.com/~dmic27

My name is Doug Michael and I'm a composer/guitarist. I have three areas of musical interest at the moment - 1. Electro-Acoustic Music
2. Solo Music ala Torn
3. Electric Power Trio Music (with live players)

I am starting my own record company and hope to have a cd release out by next year. I am on a constant quest to compose and create new music. Thanks to the rapid developing technology in music and computers, things are now possible in the music making process that were only dreams a few years ago. It's a great time to be alive.