Re: 50th anniversary of realtime looping? (Landry / Cluster / Ostertag)

[Revfever <revfever@ubergadget.com>]

Don't forget Richard "Dickie" Landry from the USA. He may not have  
been the first, or did his live looping as far back as Terry Riley  
(or Les Paul?) did,
but he was still an early pioneer with live looping performances and  
solo saxophone in the mid 70's. He also worked with Philip Glass all  
thru the 70's.

His previously very rare and many years out of print album "15  
Saxophones" has been out on CD for a small few years now. Definitely  
a piece of very
significant musical history, loopage and otherwise, and has been  
compared a bit to the early works of Riley. Apparently, Landry is  
still active today,
but there's not a whole lot to be found out about him on the Web.  
Here is one good link I found:
http://incessantnoise.blogspot.com/2009/08/dickie-landry-fifteen- 
saxophones.html

This blog also has a lot of other great info!  I've definitely  
bookmarked it. :-)

Also, the wonderful and groundbreaking group Cluster were also early  
users of loops in the 70's, as did also Hans-Joachim Roedelius
( who was one half of Cluster) on some of his early solo albums in  
the late 70's to early 80's. Cluster's history is *long* and both  
members
are still active today, but currently not together as Cluster. Dieter  
Moebius is the other former member of Cluster. He is also very worthy of
checking out to hear his own many solo works.

And then, there is also Bob Ostertag, another early user of loops,  
who himself is another whole and *long* story entirely... :-)

Cheers-
Rev.Fever
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On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Michael Peters wrote:

> 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