RE: 50th anniversary of realtime looping?

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

hi Tyler, 

you will find everything about it in that history essay that I posted 
about yesterday:
http://www.livelooping.org/history/theory/the-birth-of-loop/

The first livelooping was done on July 9, 1963 by Terry Riley in Paris for 
a performance of "Music for the Gift". He used two tape recorders, a setup 
he later called Time Lag Accumulator (the same kind of setup that Eno and 
Fripp used in 1973). He did many concerts with it during the 1960s. Some 
of his early livelooping music can be heard on his 1967 album "A Rainbow 
in Curved Air". 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_riley

-Michael