veloopity
Michael Peters is a guitarist and livelooper from Germany (near Cologne)
David Torn’s looping letter
In 2015, David Torn wrote “Looping for Guitarists: An Open Letter to FX Manufacturers“, asking them to develop more creative machines. “dear folks who make looping-devices, esp. those which are marketed to guitarists: your products are decades behind the times; … Continue reading →
Mexico 2023
Y2K “Pandemic Edition”
The mother of all livelooping festivals has survived the pandemic. A 2022 festival was just announced. Rick Walker writes, “I am happy to announce that we are going to have a limited Pandemic edition of the Y2K22 International Live Looping … Continue reading →
Join Andre on Patreon
Andre LaFosse is doing heroic work creating dozens of in-depth tutorial videos about the use of looping devices, going boldly where no one has gone before, all for the love of looping. After many videos about the Echoplex EDP, he … Continue reading →
Bill Frisell Talks Looping
“If you’re eight years old and you discover something for the first time, it’s like, “wow, this is the most amazing thing!” I’m trying to be in that space with the music all the time” Bill Frisell Talks Looping & … Continue reading →
Frippertronics-Cover
Using contemporary technology and the original set-up of reel-to-reel tape-recorders, guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe presents No [More] Pussyfooting, a unique live arrangement of music by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. No [More] Pussyfooting is a unique, live arrangement of the … Continue reading →
Looperlative LP2 Mini Looper
Swiss loop wizard Joel Gilardini introduces us to the new Looperlative LP2 Mini Looper which is available from LP inventor Bob Amstadt’s Looperlative.com. This device is “the fourth generation of this lineage” and full of amazing features. Click the ‘watch … Continue reading →
Mexico 2021
I could have written “International Livelooping Festival Mexico 2021”, but “Mexico 2021” sounds as if it was the Olympics or something. Good that it is not!
Continue reading →2020 compilation album
Here is the 2020 (and early 2021) compilation album – 44 tracks, 4 hours of livelooping music. What a treasure of creativity and talent! Some of the tracks have videos: Sylvain Poitras Soaring Tortoise Orchestra Matthias Ebbing Fabio Anile Michael … Continue reading →