World-Wide Index of Loop Artists

David Cooper Orton

Age	41
E-Mail	david.orton@bl.uk
URL	http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~or387751/
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon JamMan and Ibanez digital delay footpedal with 'hold' facility
Influences	I'm not sure that after 25 years of playing there's a transparently obvious link between how I sound and other peoples' music, but Peter Green and Pat Metheny are probably central sources of inspiration, and then 'the usual suspects' in no order - Eno/Fripp, Torn, Frisell, Brook, Reich, Barber, Part, Rypdal, Hedges etc plus others less directly related to this area - Zappa, maybe? (or who I forget just now)
Musical Style	Ambient is so obvious, I suppose it should go in. At the moment most of what I'm doing is forming v e r y s l o w e-bow based drones with clean-tone guitar doing ethereal wot-nots over the top. Hey - I don't know, 'I just do it', right?! There's a 20 second .wav file on my Web site which is a general intro. I aim to hook the JamMan to my drum machine and see what introducing a bit more of a pulse sounds like, maybe even this year... I've yet to try looping 'live' (my other activites include a jazz duo, and swing/r'n'b/blues bands of 'selective' performance schedules...)
Available Recordings	Non strictly commercial, although I have an hour's worth of material (more, for those of a strong constitution) titled 'The Comfort of Strange Aires' which I can provide for a modest fee - say 5 pounds sterling or equivalent.

I started playing the guitar at age 13, and immediately wanted to make it sound like something else! It was in college that I heard the wonderful vocal chants written by Hildegard, and started trying to get those wonderful sustaining vocal sounds on my guitar. I tend to use my Jamman as a very long delay with a lot of regeneration, which gives me a chance to create choirs that slowly arrive then fade away.

I think that a site like Looper's Delight is great! There's a lot that we can learn from each other!

Michael Peters

Age	42
Address	Cologne, Germany
E-Mail	mpeters@compuserve.com
URL	http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters
Instruments	Guitars, Keyboards, Computer
Looping Gear	Paradis Loop Delay, Vortex, Arion DDS-4 delay
Influences	Brian Eno, (too much) Robert Fripp & Guitar Craft, Michael Brook, David Sylvian, Jon Hassell, David Torn, Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Frank Zappa, Michel Redolfi, John Cage, FSOL
Musical Style	Experimental Ambient Minimalist
Ensembles	Trio Gitarristik (2 acoustic Ovation guitars, 1 Warr guitar) Camera Obscura (drums, bass, vocals, 2 looping guitarists) solo stuff with looped electric guitar
Available Recordings	Camera Obscura: Camera Obscura (1984) Various cassettes (see homepage), but none commercially available

I don't consider myself as a guitarist who uses loops to create a background for solos (although this does happen in some of my pieces). Guitar happens to be my primary instrument, and I compose Guitar Craft influenced pieces for my acoustic ensemble, but in my solo work, I prefer to use the electric guitar to create improvised soundscapes which sometimes don't sound like guitar music at all. (A couple of years ago I used to play in open improvisation groups which I liked a lot and would like to do again. Anyone in the Cologne area?)

I'm planning to get a MIDI converter and connect my sampler to the guitar. More and more I turn away from traditional guitar sounds, experimenting with unusual sound sources such as environmental and computer generated sounds, and with computer generated algorithmic music, created with a modified version of my fractal program HOP.

I've always been fascinated by unusual sounds and unusual musical structures. I'm dreaming of creating a magical music which is so strange that it could come from another planet. (There are probably thousands of music making civilisations in this galaxy. What does their music sound like?)

Question	"how can i my stop my loops from sounding exactly like other guitarists' loops, or from always sounding the same?"
David Torn	"stop playing like other guitarists."

John Pollock

Age	Born 1945
Address	Houston, TX
E-Mail	johnpollock@delphi.com
Web Sites	http://people.delphi.com/johnpollock/ is my Troubador Tech site, devoted to the art and craft of the one-person band; http://www.hotwired.com/members/profile/troubtech/ is my HotWired member profile.
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon Vortex
Primary Instruments	Voice, MIDI guitar, synthesizers, pedal keyboards, harmonicas; see details, including a wiring diagram, at my Troubador Tech site.
Influences	At my age? Thousands! A few are listed in my HotWired Profile.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Until recently, original songs, which I think of as rock and roll, but which most people who worry about classifications pigeonhole as folk. Lately, I'm trying to develop music which is independent of the English language; i.e., instrumental with or without wordless vocals. It's a slow process, since my lyric writing has always been my strength...
Available Recordings	I wish! But some fragments in WAV format are available at my Troubador Tech Sounds page.

Jim Poppen

Age	26
Address	San Francisco, CA
E-Mail	ibex@ix.netcom.com
Primary Looping Gear	Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro (198 seconds)
Influences	The usual, such as Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, and Steve Reich, and the not so usual, such as The Grateful Dead and The Red House Painters.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	As far as music I play that has room for looping ideas, let's say "Guitar Oriented Ambient Pop", but I am working on throwing in more psychedelia and general weirdness. Thanks to David Torn for that motivation.
Ensembles	I am currently writing/recording in my spare bedroom with a long time friend/bassist, Seth Solomonow.

My first taste of looping was fed care of The Beatles song, "#9", when I was maybe 7 years old. (It freaked me out, but I still listened). I got into drumming first, and progressed onto guitar at age 14 because my Dad was a guitarist, and I figured I could get free stuff from him (wrong). Heard King Crimson's "Discipline" at 15, and was hooked. Since then, I can honestly say that I have listened to, been influenced by, and liked all genres of music, as long as I could hear some sort of "quality". Any talk of looping gets me giddy, perplexed, and thrilled, all at the same time.

Markus Reuter

Age	24
Address	Dammwiese 7, 33613 Bielefeld, Germany
Phone	00 49 521 896248
Email	mreuter@post.uni-bielefeld.de
URL	http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpeters/markus.htm
Primary instruments	Warr Guitar TSG-8, Sansamp GT-2, Digitech TSR-12, Alesis Q2
Looping gear	Oberheim Echoplex 16mb, Alesis Quadraverb 2
Influences	Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Indian Classical Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Paul Hindemith, Alban Berg, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Style	free-tonal trance-ambient-junk
Available recordings	'THROB', 'a chain of frogs', 'gargoyle, no statue' (tapes, 1995-97)

James Reynolds

Age	23
Address	San Francisco, CA
Phone	(415)431-1263
E-mail	tritone@dsp.net
URL	http://www.dsp.net/tritone
Primary instruments	Bass, theremin, AM radio, sampler, etc.
Looping gear	Oberheim Echoplex, Lexicon JamMan, Lexicon Vortex, misc. pedals and knobbed devices
Influences	(in no particular order) D.J. Krush, Miles Davis, Portishead, Underworld, James Brown, D.J. Spooky, Meat Beat Manifesto, Bill Laswell, Tricky, The J.B.'s, Scorn, Gang Starr, Praxis, John Coltrane, Digable Planets, Plastikman, Pink Floyd, Cypress Hill, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Money Mark, Skylab, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Primus, The Meters, Guru, M.C. 900 ft Jesus, Public Enemy, The Art of Noise, Buckethead, Red Snapper, Bootsy Collins
Style	spooky - minimalistic - ambient - abstract - hiphop - broadcast - from - a - smoky - club - on - pluto
Ensemble	Dr. Toast
Available recordings	Soon. Very soon. No kidding.

My band, tentatively named "Dr. Toast" after the advice columnist on my popular toast web page, consists of two human members (me on bass, Drew on guitar) and a disconcerting array of electronic noise producers and manipulators. Our setup is a live interactive system consisting of sounds and multimedia, with a computer running Opcode's MAX software as the interface between humans and machines. It's a work constantly in progress, but one feature of the current setup includes our special patented "Amazing Suits of Light". We don suits of white christmas lights which transform us into constellations of wonderment that pulsate to the beat.

I'm also thinking of having toast be automatically produced during moments of extreme dissonance.

The sound: On a foundation of a slowed-down, tweaked-out, hell of phat (if I may) hiphop beat and a slinky alien-gangsta bass groove, my mentally unstable guitarist and I add layers of dark yet tasty swirling sonic soup that metamorphose, overlap, and fade in and out. Much like if James Brown and Steve Reich got together with D.J. Krush and traveled the galaxy in a rocketship equipped with a high-power speaker system, dispensing music to appreciative alien races. And if they all smoked a lot of crack.

Justin Rice

Age	22
Address	4241 E. 24th PL. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114
EMail	ARICE@taascforce.com
Instruments	Bach ML 43 Stradivarius Bb trumpet with Bobby Shew mouthpiece. My two main guitars are a Steinberger GM4t and a custom frankenstrat with EMGs. I also use several keyboards; 2 Sequential Circuits 6 traks and 1 Drum Trax, Moog Micromoog and Satellite, ELKA 490, Korg Wavestation and Prophecy, and a Roland JP-8000. I run the trumpet, guitars and keyboards through a DOD envelope filter, TC chorus, 2 Lexicon Vortices, ADA microcab, Ernie Ball volume, Rat 2, and finally into a Pearce G2r. I use the 2 Lexicon Vortices for looping as well as fx. Most looping is done with Emagic Logic Audio, and an Akai MPC2000. Loops are mutated with the help of severe digital editing on my computer.
Influences	Torn, Frisell, Eno, Tomita, Holdsworth, Abercrombie, Lifeson, The Edge, Zappa sr, Belew, Fripp, Hassell, Zorn, Aphex Twin, NIN, Skinny Puppy, Neil Norman, Vangelis...like everyone listed around me, I could go on forever...
Style	Techno-industrial-ambient-slam-pop??
Ensembles	Currently in a 2 man group called the Omegamen. My co-conspirator is David John.
Recordings	Demo should be available by October 97.

I've played trumpet for around 15 years and guitar for around 9. I've been working in tandem with my bandmate for sometime, both of us trying to acquire the gear to produce our own CD in house, and to perform that weirdness live. We've finally gotten the gear together and are working steadily to get out a demo. Our music can be described as dance-able dark electronica for lack of any other descriptors. I started processing the trumpet a couple of years ago and then found out about Jon Hassell and was amazed. I'm still working on more effective ways of implementing that into the group I'm in. Inquiries can be sent to me at the address listed above.

Teed Rockwell

Age	45
Address	2419A Tenth St. Berkeley CA 94710
Phone	510 548-8779
E-Mail	74164.3703@compuserve.com
Primary Looping Gear	Oberheim Echoplex digital pro
Influences	Les Paul, Ali Akbar Khan, Latin Harp music
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Original World music
Ensembles	Geist (Harp, Chapman Stick(r), Percussion) Stick and Tabla playing Classical Indian Ragas Solo with Echoplex.
Available Recordings	with Geist: MOODS OF LIGHT, MORE LIGHT with Tablas: MUSIC FROM THE GANGES with Echoplex: coming soon. for Cassettes, send $10 plus $2 handling ($15 for MORE LIGHT CD) to above address.

The stick appealed to me because it enabled me to create rich textures. The Oberheim Echoplex makes those textures richer and more flexible than I ever thought possible. Am most interested in how to create compositional structures using the unique information processing abilities of the Echoplex. I am a stick player first, a looper second, using my own unique tuning that has all ten strings in the Guitar range.

Ken Rosser

Age	34
Address	Eagle Rock, in Los Angeles, CA
Phone	(213) 255-0624
E-Mail	krosser414@aol.com
Primary Instrument	Guitar (electric and acoustic), Chinese Pipa
Primary Looping Gear	Lexicon Vortex, LXP-5 (hoping to purchase JamMan soon)
Influences	Miles Davis, John Abercrombie, David Torn, King Crimson, Egberto Gismonti, too many others to list
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	jazz, world music, funk, experimental
Ensembles	guitar/marimba duo Dual Force sideman with Richard Sinclair Don Preston Brazilian group Axe yet-unnamed improvisational guitar/bass/drum trio many freelance jazz gigs
Available Recordings	available on request, but none commercially yet.

I am a relatively new convert to the world of looping, and I am very excited about adding it to my repetoire of techniques. My main love is in improvising music, not necessarily in conjunction with a specific tradtion, but not necessarily independent of them either.

Another of my fascinations is in unusual combinations of instrumental textures (I have a classical composer friend working on a 'concierto' of sorts for electric guitar and wind quintet), so I definitely see exploring looping as a way of increasing my own textural vocabulary. I look forward to this forum not only as a means of getting information, but also to find some willing collaborators in the Southern California area.