Re: Fripp and Eno

[Art Simon <simart@gmail.com>]

History can be tedious. I'm pretty sure that Vladimir Ussachevsky
performed a piano piece by Otto Luening in the fifties that clearly
used the sound on sound tape recording technique that would later be
used by Terry Riley and even later by Fripp & Eno. I don't have the
title, but I'm pretty confident on this. The Ussachevsky recording
that I heard wasn't very interesting and I don't think it's really
that important who was first. Riley really explored looping as an
instrument, and I think he's really the first looping composer and
performer.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Toby G <carpet8@mac.com> wrote:
> I wonder if the first record player, tin can recording device or 
>whatever,
> carved one groove at the same radius the first time it was tested.  Like,
> they didn't think to make it a spiral?
>
> t
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gareth Whittock
> To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:10 PM
> Subject: RE: Fripp and Eno
> Not many people know this but I invented looping by placing a piece of
> cardboard over the erase head of a WEM copicat tape delay unit.
> It was only much later that I discovered that other people had also
> discovered it using other means ;-)
>
> Peace
>
> G
>
> ________________________________
> From: mark@markfrancombe.com
> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:40:05 +0200
> Subject: Re: Fripp and Eno
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> thats right actually...
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:10 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
>wrote:
>
>
> mark francombe wrote:
>
>
> Stockhausen is known to have used the technique
>
> afaik Stockhausen had a completely different technique
> using just one tape deck with an actual loop of tape.
>
> The tape heads were reordered, so instead of going
> Erase>Rec>Playback like in a regular deck
> they were changed to
> Playback>Erase>Record.
>
> andy
>
>
>
>
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