Re: WHAT WERE WE DOING, MUSICALLY BEFORE WE LOOPED?

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

Late 70´s: Started right out with experimental music, first instrument.. the tape recorder. Band - Uncle Ian

Early 80's: Got Acoustic guitar, stuck a pickup on it, bought synths... learned a guitar scale, Big into electronic music Tang dream / Hawkwind / Caberet Voltaire /Throbbing Gristle - Band - Uncle Ian, got into Eno 2 tape machine looping.

Late 80´s: Industrial /Indie. Band - Cranes / Eardrum

Early 90's: Toured the world and beyond, spent years in studios, famous for 15 mins. Getting into Computers for techno Bands Cranes /Eardrum

Late 90´s: The Noise scene, Black metal influences (had moved to Norway) pure electronics + digital looping using multiple hold pedals, later Vortex. Band - God.com

Early 00's: The Looping obsession. Got Repeater then EDP. Band, solo music only.

Late 00's: More looping, More EDP's, now with  more improv with other musicians, more noise, more post effects. Solo, + many many Improv units

To present: Back to interest in Synths, Improv Synth Duo, Pairing back looping rig to pure looping, no post effects. Band - Electricity (w/synths) + Solo Looping guitar and beginning to sing a bit... 

Future? I would like to learn to sight read music and play classical piano.

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

Pop, rock, industrial and jazz in the Albert Ayler vein. All in
different ensembles... talking 70s-83 something. Then digital delays
and harmonisers came along and I picked up a few to patch for weird
sounds with a duo and solo gigs. But starting to loop -83 did not mean
I stopped making many kinds of music with different ensembles. Live
looping was just another new exciting thing I picked up (and still
love)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:03 AM, kay'lon rushing <k3zz21@gmail.com> wrote:
> (continued from last email) ...now starting again with a fresh mind and more
> humble attitude towards it.
>
> On Feb 4, 2014 2:01 AM, "kay'lon rushing" <k3zz21@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was mainly in my beginning stages of producing electronic music while
>> also taking piano lessons with an amazingly inspiring teacher. I actually
>> stumbled upon looping by accident. I was desperate to find a way to perform
>> electronic music and didnt have anything like ableton.Once I found a
>> possible way to loop in FL Studio I was super motivated to discover what
>> kind of stuff i could do with it. I also wanted to make good (and fun) use
>> of my piano skills from lessons so i decided incorporate a keyboard as the
>> main tool of my setup. I believe my perspective  and approach to live
>> looping has drastically matured in the past few months since i've been away
>> from it for a while and am
>>
>> On Feb 4, 2014 1:30 AM, "Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I was perusing some older live videos that Daniel Thomas has posted of
>>> past bands
>>> we've been in  and suddenly thought:   it might be a cool thread to have
>>> people posting
>>> the music they made BEFORE they began to loop.
>>>
>>>  Where did we all come from to shape us into the musicians we are today?
>>> I think a trip down memory lane would be fun.  What do you all think?
>>>
>>> This is Worlds Collide performing a song we wrote called HAIDUK about the
>>> Bulgarian
>>> Freedom Fighters.    This performance was two years before I formed THIRD
>>> WAVE
>>> with Gary Regina and Bill Walker,  our first foray into live looping in
>>> public in 1995.
>>>
>>> Check out Bill's incendiary guitar solo in this one. He just burns!
>>> Also, please note that
>>> guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, Daniel Thomas was our headline artist at
>>> this past years'
>>> Y2K13 International Live Looping Festival.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkree6nyJno
>>>
>>> Rick Walker
>>>
>

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