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Re: 50th anniversary of realtime looping? (BBC Radiophonic Workshop)



As far as being widely heard and recognized by the public, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Daphne Oram, et al...) pioneered the use of tape loops back in the 1950's and they may(?) have even preceded Les Paul. (and....?) Not sure how much they ever did that was "live" looping, a la 2 tape machines, if any at all, but it would not be a surprise if this group of early geniuses had done at least some of that as well.

Also, Riley's 'Rainbow in Curved Air' utilized a lot of overdubbing, along with looping.

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On Aug 19, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Tyler wrote:

So July 9, we celebrate the 50th anniversary. And it's mostly about Terry Riley, right?
I think I'm going to order a copy of Rainbow in Curved Air then.
Tyler Z
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:22:42 +0200, Michael Peters wrote:


Mati wrote,

certainly they glued tape to loops in the 50ies, so studio looping is older as far as I understood, Les Paul brought ready tapes to stage and lovelooping
started with the two tape machine idea


"lovelooping" yes :) it started with the two tape machines in 1963. And yes, as I wrote in that essay, of course loops (static) are much older but they are something completely different - more like a pre-digital way to sample. Les Paul was probably faking his "live" multitracking, there was a discussion about
this on LD:

http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200211/msg00922.html

-Michael