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This should be good for a laugh. My earliest recollection of looping would be when I was only a few years old, and I discovered how to work my parents record player. Sometimes the record would skip on an interesting part of the record and form an almost seamless loop. Sometimes I would manually shift the needle to acheive this effect. After my childhood I remained quite seperated from music until I was sixteen, when I discovered late night music television. That was the end of my days as an early riser, but the start of a love of music. My first favourite band was Aerosmith, and I quickly turned onto bands like Living Colour, Faith No More, Janes Addiction and Fishbone. I was a happy metalhead for a while too, and absorbed many "classic" influences such as Led Zeppelin and Santana. Soon I started wanting more complexity and colour than the new music of the (by then) early nineties was providing. It must have been some sort of reaction to the domination of grunge music, because I headed straight for King Crimson. (Much thanks to Vernon Reid for mentioning his influences in a guitar mag) Then it was all over. Crimson => Robert Fripp => Looping Crimson => Tony Levin => Stick And for the last three years I have been listening to the inevitable music to come from looping and stick sources. Parallel to this I have discovered the beauty of Miles Davis' 70's era music, much classical and non-western music, and have been playing a bit of my own music. However, my biggest influence is not from a musical source as such, but from the world around me. I think it stems from watching too much of the Muppet show as a kid, but i observe that a lot of the activity of everday life has qualities that I can best express in musical or audio\visual terms. Hence my occupation\pastime as an animator. I have only tentatively ventured into the realm of looping music and visual terms, but i intend through the use of computers to create some connections between audio and visual loops. I have thought that there are two approaches here. Since looping is often spontaneous, it would be good to be able to loop images spontaneously too. At the same time, I don't know that the technology is there yet, and so I may approach it from a more structured and planned stance, more like writing a visual score to accompany music :) End of story JL > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Jeff & Vonda McLeod [mailto:subversive@mindspring.com] > >Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 2:55 PM > >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > >Subject: What got ya to where you are... > > > > > >Hi, folks, > > I am curious about everyone involved in looping and > >their influences. What > >brought you to where you are now? And, what keeps you here? > >Looking forward to everyone's answers, > >Jeff McLeod > >__________________________________________ > >This is not here-- > >And now is almost over... > >http://members.xoom.com/Gezoleen/ > >