Academic/musicological research on looping technique?

[Scott Hansen <evanpeewee@gmail.com>]

have you looked at all the stuff on the looper's delight page? there are lots of resources, articles, musings.
whether it's "academic" i don't know.

a few yrs ago (ok, it might be 7 or 8 yrs ago), there was a student (was he british? can't remember) who wrote an undergrad thesis on looping.
i thought it was linked on the site, but i didn't see it. it was sort of a general overview of looping.

there was also a paper on cassette looping...i thought it was linked, but i was looking fast....

there have been a few articles in guitar player over the last few yrs, again overviews...

i guess the problem i see is: is it really a technique? i think of it more as a tool used for composing.

the other problem, is since it's a tool (my definition), there isn't really a style. i mean you have the whole range of ambient folks to dance, glitch stuff, etc.(i mean most people probably don't know what a loop is, but they've heard drum loops in pop/dance stuff)

you could look up all the old articles on: fripp, torn for guitar looping, but there is also terry riley from the 60s (tape loops, coming out of 60s minimalism)

there was a really good interview w/ an early producer of hiphop/rap stuff in tape op a few yrs ago. he talked about the production using 1st samplers.
and how it developed from manipulating tape cassettes. but the interesting thing is how he talked about how wonderful the 1st 1 sec sampler was and what they could do.
and then he said at some pt, the next generation sampler came out and it had 3 sec, and how THAT changed everything....it was interesting, from a music pt of view.
don't remember the name or what issue, it was a few yrs ago....(old brain and all)...

this was probably no help. good luck.
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