gotta see this performance. (off topic/music video)

[blue moon]

'not real big on posting stuff like this, but this is pretty spectacular!

Angela Sheik - Grand Prize - BOSS Loop Station 2011 U.S. National Finals

pierre

[sweetts]

Pretty neat


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[tonypep]

Well Done! Reminds me a little of Regina Spektor.

[blue moon]

for anybody not following, this is a live performance by one person. She is recording and looping the tracks to create the sound. There is no band or prerecorded background!

pierre

[IntegrityShirts]

Yeah that is mind-blowing. The talent it takes to create, then recreate LIVE, a complete performance like that without error is nothing short of amazing. And the amazing voice as well.

[3Deep]

If she don't make it singing, she will be one hell of a sound tech or a music producer

Darryl

[Frog]

That chick is great.

Here's the song and woman who really impressed and got me diggin' the loopy thing a few years back.

And Pierre, there is no 'off topic" in this section, at least not when you're the thread starter.

KT Tunstall "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" on Jools

[blue moon]

That chick is great.

Here's the song and woman who really impressed and got me diggin' the loopy thing a few years back.

And Pierre, there is no 'off topic" in this section, at least not when you're the thread starter.

same here! 'gotta chance to see her live and the looping part was the highlight of the show!

pierre

[Gilligan]

Howie Day was the first guy I saw doing a one man show with loops and an acoustic guitar.  Using a pitch shifter he simulated a drum line and bass line.

At the end of his show he had a massive chorus going on with him harmonizing to himself in a dense loop, he muted his guitar, unplugged it and walked off while the song continued to loop the chorus with all the parts still playing.

[Sbrem]

Looping was originally called "sound on sound"; Les Paul was doing it on a Gibson/Maestro Echoplex in the 50's and 60's. Of course, it's all digital now, much more controllable, and a field unto itself. Some pretty cool stuff.

Steve

[Frog]

In the '60's, we played with actual loops of tape in our reel-to-reels. The "avant garde" composers and performers and in later years, the Eno crowd often added loops of found sounds or even clips of spoken word and the like to their music.
The Fender Echo device (I thought that it was called the Echoplex as well), moved the recording/playback heads to different distances apart to establish the delay.

As Steve pointed out, the new digital stuff makes this much more manageable and accessible. Kinda' like the difference for us between cameras and Rubylith film compared to computers and ink jets!

[Gilligan]

Yep, Echoplex's were such a cool concept.

Pink Floyd's Money loop was done with mic stands and everything else and it wrapped around the control room to make such a long loop.

Definitely something to be said for the genius of working with what you had back in the day.  I'm still impressed by the mixes by some of these bands... some on only 8 tracks (yeah, I know some of the Beatles was done on 4 but they just rocked it out, nothing intricate).

[Northland]

This is the local fave.... he doesn't stop 'til he's got about a dozen loops and he is able separate the verse and chorus loops.

HEATBOX "That's The Way I Like It" KC & The Sunshine Band

[Sbrem]

In the '60's, we played with actual loops of tape in our reel-to-reels. The "avant garde" composers and performers and in later years, the Eno crowd often added loops of found sounds or even clips of spoken word and the like to their music.
The Fender Echo device (I thought that it was called the Echoplex as well), moved the recording/playback heads to different distances apart to establish the delay.

As Steve pointed out, the new digital stuff makes this much more manageable and accessible. Kinda' like the difference for us between cameras and Rubylith film compared to computers and ink jets!

We used to lay down chords, then play melodies and harmonies on top. But after a while, I preferred the interaction of other musicians. Andy, I have to look up Fender's echo; I don't remember it, and I was working in a music store from '67 to  early '72 (September '72 is when I started screening) The Echoplex was the big one, and Roland had the Space Echo (my current echo emulates both pretty well, even puts in a little warble from the tape). I'll let you know. This is a great off topic...

Steve

[dirkdiggler]

Well Done! Reminds me a little of Regina Spektor.

Except Regina is WAY BETTER!  Shes cool too, hung out with her and The Strokes at a private show in ATL for the fan club.  Good times.