RE: How about a crowdsourced documentary about looping?

["Michael Peters" <mp@mpeters.de>]

> How about we at loopers-delight.com and the ones at livelooping.org work 
> together to make a documentary movie about looping?


Tyler, the livelooping.org people are also all on the mailing list  :)

I agree, I would very much love to see a looping movie, and crowdsourcing 
is probably the best way to finance it (I had thought of proposing such a 
project to a culture-based TV station such as BBC but then it might not be 
possible to sell it on Amazon).  I know that several people have made some 
video interviews (such as Bernhard Wagner or Fabio's friend Xavier who 
interviewed all of us in Rome a few years ago). Maybe more people could 
contribute similar video material. All of this could become part of such a 
movie, together with concert footage.

I would love to have such a movie ready by next summer, because as I 
pointed out earlier, it is the 50th anniversary of livelooping (the tape 
delay/feedback method was invented by Terry Riley's technician for a Paris 
show of Music for the Gift in July 1963, and eventually turned into the 
Time Lag Accumulator and Frippertronics). Of course, tape music originated 
in the 1940s, and with it the use of closed prerecorded loops, and of 
course the short tape delays existed before 1963, but the long delays 
(several seconds) used in combination with live music that we use in 
livelooping actually celebrate their 50ths birthday next year.

I would personally love to see an interview with Terry Riley (and ideally 
also Pauline Oliveros) in this video but I don't know how to contact 
Terry. Also, I'm in Germany and I have no experience with making movies 
anyway. Isn't there someone here on the list who lives in Southern 
California and could make a video with Terry, asking him about the origins 
of livelooping as he remembers them, and about his all-night flight 
concerts during the 1960s with keyboard/saxophone livelooping?

I'm thinking of making a little technical-documentary movie that would 
explain how to do livelooping with 2 Revox machines. That could also 
become part of the video.


-Michael