Michael Peters is a guitarist and livelooper from Germany (near Cologne)
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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →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 →
Lyon based pedal maker Glou-Glou announce their first looper pedal (available late April 2021): “An innovative looper that covers a lot of familiar ground and opens up some new spaces as well” This amazing new pedal is clearly influenced by … Continue reading →
Andre LaFosse has created the 100th (!) tutorial video for the Echoplex Digital Pro. What a hero, what a deep loop box! “Part milestone celebratory jam, part annotated index of videos and playlists: My 100th live looping tutorial looks back … Continue reading →
German loopers Yannick Ritter and Christoph Byza have started a new webpage about loop pedals – they are planning to translate it to other languages. So far, it features a short introduction and comparison charts for beginner and professional level … Continue reading →
Another great Andre LaFosse lesson: Structural techniques in live looping can lead to unique performances that combine elaborately-composed material with spontaneous, unrepeatable sonic events. This video examines “The Proposition” in two forms: a laid-back, bare bones version, with very basic … Continue reading →