World-Wide Index of Loop Artists

James H. Sidlo

Age	38
Address	7226 Blanco Rd. #4008, San Antonio, Texas 78216
E-mail	jameshsidlo@stic.net
Homepage URL	http://www.stic.net/users/jameshsidlo
Primary instruments	Boomerang (4mg) sampler, Parker Fly, Cello, Alesis Quadraverb, Boss PS-3, E-Bow, Slide, Digitech Whammy-pedal, various distortion pedals: Tube Screamer, Roger Mayer Fuzzface/Octavia, Danelectro, "Daddy-O", and a Roger Mayer modified wah-wah pedal
Looping gear	Boomerang (4mg)
Influences	Robert Fripp, David Torn, Paul Dresher, & Berg.
Music style	Ambient, tribal, minimalistic, and experimental.
Ensembles	DreamLand, Crevice, HoneyBarbara (also have performed with local ensemble: "Pseudo-Buddha")
Available recordings	"Crevice 2" CD. Also recording in-progress on new HoneyBarbara and DreamLand.

Kevin Simonson

Age	28
EMail	simonson@uis.edu
Influences, Inspirations	the sky, Robert Anton Wilson, fungus, being Aware, subtle complexities, evolution, ancient hallowed freaky circuits, things you make by yourself, things you make with others, and the usual host of bleeding edge musicians.
Looping Gear	Jamman
Other Gear	Roland GR505+GR300, EH Bad Stone, the CPM (Cheap Pedal Matrix), Zoom 9150, E-Bow
Style	I have no consolidated style yet, still not having grasped the full potential of everything looping has to offer, or the time to do so!

Dave Stafford

Age	38
Address	p.o. box 461363, escondido, ca 92046, u.s.a.
E-Mail	ambient@adnc.com
URL	general http://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/index.html bindlestiff http://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/bindlest.html dave stafford http://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/davestaf.html the dozey lumps http://www.adnc.com/web/ambient/thedozey.html
Gear	(RACK) oberheim echoplex digital pro (198 second configuration) w/FC pedal digitech TSR-24S (5 second loop) w/CC pedal digitech RDS-8000 (8 second loop) roland GP-16 w/CC pedal realtube preamp A-B power amp ground control midi pedal digitech whammy II pitch pedal (INPUT DEVICES) Ibanez Explorer Electric Guitar, New Standard Tuning Ovation 1867 Acoustic/Electric Guitar, New Standard Tuning (Energy Bow utilized with both above) Yamaha DX11 Synthesizer (studio only: Yamaha DX7S keyboard) Sony Discman
Influences	the beatles, adrian belew, brian eno, kate bush, camel, robert fripp, king crimson, the league of gentlemen, the league of crafty guitarists, early genesis, gentle giant, gryphon, allan holdsworth, johann sebastian bach, peter hammill, van der graaf generator, roy harper, nick harper, the innocence mission, ravi shankar, ali akbar khan, joni mitchell, john dowland, todd rundgren, utopia, split enz, 10cc, godley & creme, tomaso albinoni, neil young, erik satie, xtc, frank zappa
Musical Style	ambient/semi-ambient (solo) ambient/semi-ambient/loud (bindlestiff) active acoustic guitar duo (the dozey lumps)
Ensembles	bindlestiff (ambient electronic group) the dozey lumps (acoustic guitar duo)
Available Recordings:	with the dozey lumps SSC3400 One Lump Or Two? with bindlestiff SSC3401 Christmas In England SSC3402 Quiet SSC3403 Loud SSC3404 The Night Sky SSC3405 Spiral Ginger SSC3406 Sleep It Off SSC3407 The Call Of The Mild SSC3408 Into Blue SSC3409 Then 17 dave stafford (solo) SSC1701 The Passion Of The Seeking SSC1702 Song With No End SSC1703 Alien Landscapes SSC1704 Dreams And Visions SSC1705 Voices SSC1706 Back To The Real SSC1707 Worldview I: The Dissolution Of Structure SSC1708 Worldview II: The Untenable Transition SSC1709 Worldview III: The Land Of Freedom SSC1710 Worldview IV: The Voice Of Music SSC1711 Universeview SSC1712 The Sea, The Sea SSC1713 Semiambient SSC1714 1 SPOOL DNA LOOPS 1 SSC1715 Charm Zone SSC1716 Pay Your Respects SSC1717 Other Memory (Remastered) SSC1718 Sand Island (Original Version) SSC1719 Other Memory/Sand Island (Remastered)
Contact	studio seventeen productions p.o. box 461363 escondido, ca 92046, u.s.a. (619) 739-8346 ambient@adnc.com

as a solo performer, i generally attempt to approach performance with no preconceived ideas of content. in this way, if i am fortunate, music will make itself apparent. most of the music i create is wholly improvised, with perhaps a basic starting point that i've established. this leads to a myriad of possibilities, with musical hazard at one end of the spectrum and musical music at the other...and anything in between might occur. there is nothing quite like beginning a performance with no set list, no parameters...anything goes, and anything can happen. "expectations are a prison..."

the same ideas apply to my work within the electronic group bindlestiff, wherein the pieces have a basic structure but each individual performance is wholly improvised and different. for the most part, i tend to stay within the realms of the ambient, with occasional excursions towards the loud. the use of the energy bow as the primary source of sound really creates a special ambience all it's own, and by working specifically with the e-bow, the sounds and loops i create are distinctive and unique.

in this way music can appear at it's most unexpected...surprising, delightful, frightening, overwhelming, gentle...but all with, hopefully, that quality we call "beauty". "the highest quality of attention we may give is love"...so we relax and allow the music to flow.

David Stagner

Age	31
Address	508 5th St #16, Coralville, IA 52241
Phone	319-337-8269
E-Mail	dstagner@icarus.net
URL	http://www.leepfrog.com/~dstagner
Primary Looping Gear	Instruments Yamaha acoustic guitar with Fishman transducer and Crown internal mic Aria Pro II electric guitar, Rat II distortion, BBE preamp Sony Discman CD player Looping devices: Lexicon JamMan with 8 secs memory Lexicon Vortex with expression pedal DeltaLabs Echotron with 4096ms delay, infinite repeat, feedback control Homemade 4-track mixer Sound sources go into the mixer. The Echotron is in the mixer's mono effects loop. Mixer outs 1 and 2 feed the Vortex. Vortex outputs come back into the mixer. Mixer outs 3 and 4 are split and feed the JamMan and a stereo line mixer. The JamMan's outputs also feed the stereo line mixer. Line mixer output is monitored on headphones, home stereo equipment, or recording equipment (Tascam PortaStudio or Sony stereo VCR for mastering).
Influences	Looping Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, David Torn, Roger Miller (Maximum Electric Piano, not "King of the Road" :), Bill Frisell, Adrian Belew, Henry Kaiser, Terminator X (Public Enemy) Guitar Robert Fripp, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Thompson, Sonic Youth, Michael Hedges, David Torn, John Renbourn, Marc Ribot, Steve Howe, Henry Kaiser, Adrian Belew, Frank Zappa, Sonny Sharrock, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground Non-guitar non-looping music Carl Stalling, Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, Dr Demento, spy music, Ornette Coleman (harmolodic), Cecil Taylor and other free jazz, Celtic folk music, Indian classical, Balinese gamelan music, African pop, "filk" music Non-musical artistic William Burroughs, William Gibson, cartoons (especially Warner Bros), Star Trek, existential theatre
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	Escape the clutches of Western harmony! Use the guitar and looping devices to build dense clusters of notes and tones. Actually, most of my music is unaccompanied acoustic guitar. I prefer free or slightly structured inprovisation to "songs". I want rules and guidelines to restrain the music, not composition, if you see the difference. The acoustic guitar, freed of standard tuning, is remarkably flexible for this. Looping gives me two benefits - first, it increases the potential note density, and second, it helps me set up musical environments that are not completely under my control. It's just another way of setting up rules for improvisational environments.

The best looping music I ever made required no involvement from me beyond the initial setup. I tuned an electric guitar to a highly resonant tuning with octave and fifth relationships. It went into a distortion pedal, then a Digitech 2 Second Delay/Flanger/Chorus with a noticable short delay (about 100-250ms) and slow/wide sweep (for a pitch wobble), then into an Electro-Harmonix 16 Second Delay (which I sold and will regret for the rest of my life) set to about 4 secs delay with high feedback. This all fed into a Fender tube amp turned up rather loud.

I would lean the guitar against the side of the amp and give it a little tap. With the volume and distortion, this was enough to start it feeding back. But the Digitech-induced wobble and echoes and the long loop destabilized the feedback, so it tended to jump around from string to string, harmonic to harmonic. This melody of sorts got looped and fed back. Soon, there was a rich bed of harmonically related notes and noise, hundreds of echoes from the last minute or so of music playing at once. It was like an chaos orchestra.

Of course, it was also really loud, so I'd usually leave the amp in the basement, and go upstairs to listen to it for an hour or so. I really wish I had some tapes now.

i'm not much of a looping artist, although i sometimes use primitive looping techniques. however i've done quite bit of work with david torn, and i am thinking that people interested in his work may be interested in what i do when i don't play with david.

drummer mark nauseef (another long-time torn collaborator) shares the page with me.

Dave Trenkel

Age	33
Address	New & Improv Music, 535 NW 7th, Corvallis, OR, 97330
Phone	541-753-7074
E-Mail	improv@peak.org
URL	http://www.peak.org/~improv/
Gear	6 string electric bass, tabletop prepared bass, Yamaha DX-7 & TX 81-7, Sequential Circuits SixTrak, ARP Axxe & Odyssey, ElectroHarmonix MiniSynthesizer, Roland MC 303, Korg DSM-1 sampler, Lexicon JamMan & LXP-5, Boss SE-50, Alesis MidiVerb III, Mac 7100/66 w/Deck, Studio Vision Pro, Max, Hyperprism, Soundhack.
Musical Styles	free improv, metal, dub, ambient/electronic, jungle drum 'n bass
Influences	Miles Davis, Fela, Bill Laswell, James Brown, Anthony Braxton, Xenakis, Stockhausen, AMM, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips, John Zorn, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrman, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The ORB, The Bomb Squad, The Dust Brothers, The Chemical Brothers, DJ Spooky, Gnawa music, Shona Mbira music, Gamelan, various Korean, Himalayan and Eastern European Folk folk music.
Ensembles	Minus, free improv power trio, Sleep Deprivation, live electro/acoustic improv, Admiral Twinkle Devil, ambient dub/drum 'n bass
Recordings	Minus CD, see information at http://www.peak.org/~improv/music.html

J. Arif Verner

Age	Baby Boomer
Address	Box 571, Ithaca, NY 14851
Phone	607 272-5661
E-mail	verner@infinitesound.com
URL	http://www.infinitesound.com
Gear	2 Echoplexes, a ton of MIDI gear, guitars, synths, samplers, a bunch of signal processors, computers/DAW, ADAT XTs, Soundcraft Ghost, etc.
Influences	Everyone and everything. All the way from Bela Bartok to The Ventures, Bill Monroe to Hildegard Von Bingen to Mississippi John Hurt.
Musical Style	Classical Ambient Atmospheric.
Recordings	Most recent release is A Vision Beyond Light on Spotted Peccary Music. A complete discography is at the Infinite Sound Web Site.

Infinite Sound Studio is my creative outlet for composing my own material, working on outside projects and technical magazine writing. Stop by the Web Site - there is a ton of cool stuff to check out.

Tim Walker

Age	b. 16/11/72
Address	Staines, Middlesex, U.K.
EMail	tawalker@dircon.co.uk
Homepage URL	http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~tawalker/
Primary Instrument(s)	Gordon-Smith GS2 electric guitar, e-bow and assorted effects. I play a few other instruments, but have not tried looping them yet - wonder what my mandolin would sound like?
Looping Gear	At the moment, just a Boss DD2 digital delay (yes, 800ms max). I'm aiming for a Boomerang, unless something else emerges (e.g. secondhand JamMan, or a successor).
Influences	(in this musical field) Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Mike Oldfield, Bill Nelson, Harold Budd, Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Durutti Column, Phil Keaggy, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Daniel Lanois, Cocteau Twins, Can, and a few others I can't recall right now.
Musical Style or Main Areas of Concentration	I call my style Suburban Ambient Progressive Folk-rock, with my tongue practically puncturing my cheek.
Ensembles	Ahahahahaha. I wish. I don't think I know **anyone** with musical interests in the same field as me, much less any musicians. Of course, I'm always hoping to be proved wrong...
Available Recordings	None available to date - I've got about fifteen C90 cassettes of instrumentals and songs recorded on my portastudio over the last five years, but it's all stayed in my archives. I'd like to record something for limited release, maybe once I've improved my looping setup, and if I do, you'll hear about it first.

After doing the usual piano and recorder lessons at junior school, I took up guitar at age 14, partly as an escape route from the world. Ten years later I'm still trying to make the strings sing, with the main difference being that I don't feel I need to hide so much. Although I've written and demo-d songs over the years, much of my material has been instrumental, and I think this side is almost entirely taking over my musical activities now. I feel I can play rather better than I can sing, at any rate.

A few years ago, inspired by some of the artists above, I began to use my old Boss delay pedal to create basic loops and cycles as part of my compositions. More recently, I discovered this Web site and the community of musicians it serves, and finally feel I've found the musical direction I've been casting around for. Now I just need to build up the gear a bit more (especially, to get hold of a decent digital looper), and jump right in. I'm very new to the whole looping thing, and hope that I can learn a lot from your vast collective experience...

(BTW, nice to know there are U.K.-based looping musicians on the list - by the time you read this I may have dropped a couple of you a line.)

Greg West

Age	37
Address	(Please e-mail for business contact info)
E-Mail	SixStrArts@aol.com (business) GregWest01@aol.com (personal)
URL	http://users.aol.com/SixStrArts/index.html http://users.aol.com/GregWest01/index.html My web site has music education articles for beginning guitarists, WAV files from my album "Orion Ascending" (on Six-String Arts), album reviews, etc.
Looping Gear	Digitech RDS-4000, 32 sec. JamMan. Guitars include 6 and 12 string acoustics, Ibanez RT-650, Roland G-707/GR-700 guitar synth. My website has a graphic of the layout of my live performance setup.
Influences	Fripp, David Gilmour, Fahey, Bukka White, Sonny Sharrock, Ralph Towner, various ECM artists and anyone else I've ever listened to.
Musical Style	Live performances range from unadorned fingerstyle acoustic to fully processed guitar synth loops. No sequences or pre-recorded elements. My shows encompass the full range of the guitar's capabilities from classical pieces, acoustic slide blues, to space music. The challenge is to integrate it all into something coherent.
Recordings	See web site

Drew Wheeler

Age	28
email	tritonedw@aol.com
Primary instrument	guitar
Looping gear	JamMan w/32 sec memory
Influences	Hip-hop, avant-garde classical and jazz, ambient, industrial, Indian classical and middle eastern musics. I've actually avoided listening to other looping guitarists (Torn, Fripp, Sharp, etc.) until I've explored the medium further. I'm currently completing my undergraduate music studies at U.C. Berkeley.
Main areas of musical concentration	Avant-garde classical composition, ambient/hip-hop electronic music.
Ensembles	Autocyclic Sound Collective, and an as-yet-unnamed project with James Reynolds.
Available recordings	Absolutely NONE. Yet.