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Apart from anything else, the Paradis logo (the word loop made as a tape thread) is to me the perfection of the aesthetic
> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:52:05 -0700 > From: looppool@cruzio.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: The Historic and Aesthetic Origins of Live Looping > > Maybe it's cutting to fine a distinction, but because of our own > involvement with live looping, > Terry Riley's work with the Time Lag Accumulator technique is a lot more > interesting to me as an > historic origin of our movement than Stockhausen's use of tape delay in > the formation of Musique Concrete. > > Because tape delays' extension to the dedicated creation of long tape > loops with the Time Lag Accumlator > is analagous to digital delays extension to create the first dedicated > digital loopers, we can say that > Terry Riley (with the assistance of his mysterious french audio > engineer) is the Birth of our Movement. > > Anyway, I find the early tape history and all of Stockhausens' work > very interesting but it's Riley's work > that I relate to and resonate with aesthetically, as a starting point. > > The creation of Matthias Grob's Paradis Loop Delay (1993? 1994?) is also > a spiritual starting point for me, personally and aesthetically because > it was > the first piece of 'kit' that was invented specifically to create > looping music in a contolled (and for me, rhythmic way) > as opposed to jerry-rigging a couple of tape decks to achieve a recorded > loop as Riley and the French mystery engineer did. > > Does anyone else resonate with these distinctions about our aesthetic > and historical origins? > > Rick Walker > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > |