Re: kingcrimson in sf-no loop content...

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

OK, let's get some things straight.  Fripp did invent looping, Elvis did 
invent rock and roll, and Columbus did discover America.  OK?  OK!

Mark Sottilaro

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 11:26 AM, Chris Muir wrote:

> At 9:28 AM -0500 11/17/01, Hedewa7@aol.com wrote:
>> what exactly is a 'soundscape'?;
>> i know that neither eno nor fripp coined that term.
>
> It was used in the academic electronic music community for years before 
> Fripp co-opted it.
>
>
>> what exactly is 'frippertronics', but a description of robert's 
>> version of
>> techniques that were already in existence when he learnt them?
>
> This is one of my pet peeves, as well. The first use of the classic two 
> Revox tape recorder technique that I know of is by Terry Riley. He 
> called it his "Time Lag Accumulator". People who think that Fripp 
> innovated much tech here should check out "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom 
> Band", from the 1969 release "A Rainbow in Curved Air". All the 
> techniques of "Frippertronics" are there. Naming something does not 
> grant ownership. Eno has been more forthcoming than Fripp on his debt 
> to Terry Riley for this technique.
>
> I'm not a Crimson/Fripp/Eno basher, in fact rather a fan of sorts. It 
> does bother me though, that they are perceived as creating this ambient 
> and tape delay stuff out of thin air.
>
> Chris
>
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