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Has anybody mentioned Thomas Dolby yet?
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At 3:41 PM -0700 4/21/08, Rick Walker wrote:
>To help Darren with his thesis project on live looping I thought it
>might be really good
>to come up with a current list of well known live looping artists.
>
>People not mentioned in his initial list would have to include
>
>IMOGEN HEAP (Frou Frou and solo career)
>
>JON BRION
> (film soundtracks, multi instrumentalist and the
> famous producer of Fiona Apple who has a weekly live
>looping gig in Los Angeles)
>
>KID BEYOND)(Andrew Chaikin's beatboxing all acapella live looping
>show is really attracting attention)
>
>ROB MASSIE (of 808 State just used live looping extensively in his SF
>show)
>
>ARILD ANDERSEN (famous Norwegian jazz bassist, part of the ECM
>records stable of solo and collaborative artists)
>
>EDDIE VEDDER (front man for Pearl Jam used live looping in his solo
>concert just last week in Santa Cruz,
> parenthetically, his opening act also used
>live looping and, point of civic pride here, he wrote a brand
> new composition about how much he loves Santa
>Cruz and performed it the evening that he wrote it)
>
>MATMOS (the producers who work with BJORK---I"m not sure here, but
>it sure seemed like they were looping
> live in concert with her when I saw her recently)
>
>BILL FRISSEL (possibly the most important American jazz artist today)
>
>DAVID TORN (arguably the first high profile live looper and one
>who's been doing digital looping as long as anyone)
>
>HENRY KAISER (one of the most influential and famous experimental
>musicians in the US today. He was literally
> doing live looping in the digital realm earlier
>than anyone. I forgot the date that he told me but he
> was doing this back in the 70's with the earliest
>digital delays)
>
>ROBERT FRIPP (started much of this with his double REVOX tape
>machine live loops called Frippertronics)
>
>in our own community
>
>MATTHIAS GROB (inventor of the Pardis delay which became the Gibson
>Echoplex EDP with loop IV)
>KIM FLINT (American guitarist and founder of LOOPERS DELIGHT, the
>mecca live looping website on the planet)
>ANDRE LAFOSSE (American guitar)
>CLAUDE VOIT (Swiss guitar)
>ANDY BUTLER (British guitar)
>BILL WALKER (American guitarist)
>PER BOYSEN (Swedish multi instrumentalist-popularizer of live
>looping in his country-founder of the 1st and 2nd SWEDISH LIVE
>LOOPING FESTIVALs)
>SUNAO INAMI (Japanese keyboardist/composer-popularizer of live
>looping in his country- founder for the LOOPERS DELIGHT J live
>looping festivals)
>ERDEM HELVACIOGLU (Turkish composer/guitarist)
>BERNHARD WAGNER (Swiss guitarist - popularizer of live looping in
>his country and founder of the 1st INTERNATIONAL LOOP FESTIVAL
>ZURICH)
>ANDREW OSTLER (British electronic composer - popularizer of live
>looping in his country-founder of the CAMBRIDGE LIVE LOOPING
>FESTIVAL series)
>MASSIMO LIVERANI (ITALIAN guitarist - popularizer of live looping in
>his country-founder of the 1st FIRENZE LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL)
>MICHAEL PETERS (German experimental artist/guitarist - popularizer
>of live looping in his country)
>LEANDER REININGHAUS (German Guitarist - popularizer of live looping
>in his country-founder of the BERLIN LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL series)
>MICHAEL KLOBUCHAR (American guitarist and founder of the Chain Tape
>Collective which was influential to the community
> from the early days of Loopers Delight until the
>present)
>HANS LINDAUER (American electronic music/bassist- who started the
>influential LOOPSTOCKHAUSEN festivals)
>RAINER STRASCHILL (German guitarist - popularizer of the KKYBERJAM
>live looping movement)
>KRISPEN HARTUNG (American avant garde guitarist - popularizer of
>the live looping and founder of the BOISE EXPERIMENTAL
> MUSIC FESTIVAL)
>and all the loopers who produced small one off live looping
>festivals in their respective countries:
>
>Okay, my mind hurts and I know I've missed lots of people (please
>don't take offense if I"ve made glaring errors, I really do
>appreciate you.
>
>WHO ELSE? FAMOUS and also in our LOOPERS DELIGHT community?
>
>
>
>okay, I know I"m missing people but I wondered if everyone would
>pitch in and give credit where credit is due