Re: 50th anniversary of realtime looping? (BBC Radiophonic Workshop)

[Tim Mungenast <tmungenast@verizon.net>]

Yes, the Radiophonic crew did some very nice work indeed! Thanks for 
bringing them up.

Tim Mungenast
www.reverbnation.com/timmungenast


--- On Sun, 8/19/12, Revfever <revfever@ubergadget.com> wrote:

> From: Revfever <revfever@ubergadget.com>
> Subject: Re: 50th anniversary of realtime looping?  (BBC Radiophonic 
> Workshop)
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Sunday, August 19, 2012, 1:36 PM
> As far as being widely heard and
> recognized by the public, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
> (Daphne Oram, et al...) pioneered the use of tape loops back
> in the 1950's
> and they may(?) have even preceded Les Paul. (and....?) Not
> sure how much they ever did that was "live" looping, a la 2
> tape machines, if any at all, but it would
> not be a surprise if this group of early geniuses had done
> at least some of that as well.
> 
> Also, Riley's 'Rainbow in Curved Air' utilized a lot of
> overdubbing, along with looping.
> 
> Cheers-
> Rev.Fever
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> 
> On Aug 19, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Tyler wrote:
> 
> > So July 9, we celebrate the 50th anniversary. And it's
> mostly about Terry Riley, right?
> > I think I'm going to order a copy of Rainbow in Curved
> Air then.
> > Tyler Z
> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:22:42 +0200, Michael Peters
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> Mati wrote,
> >> 
> >>> certainly they glued tape to loops in the
> 50ies, so studio looping is older as
> >>> far as I understood, Les Paul brought ready
> tapes to stage and lovelooping
> >>> started with the two tape machine idea
> >> 
> >> 
> >> "lovelooping" yes :)  it started with the two
> tape machines in 1963.  And yes,
> >> as I wrote in that essay, of course loops (static)
> are much older but they are
> >> something completely different - more like a
> pre-digital way to sample. Les
> >> Paul was probably faking his "live" multitracking,
> there was a discussion about
> >> this on LD:
> >> 
> >> http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200211/msg00922.html
> >> 
> >> -Michael
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> 
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