The History of Live Looping Music

by Geoff Smith

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Contents
  1. Introduction: Live Looping
  2. The Pre-History Of Live-Looping and
    The Figures That Would Inspire Its Creation.
  3. The Invention of Live Looping
  4. The Compositional Language Of Early Live-Looping Music, and
    How It Departed From Music Of That Time.
  5. Steve Reich – A Revolution in Repetition and Structure
  6. The Music of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp
  7. Digital Playground
  8. Digital Loopers
  9. Contemporary Live-Looping
  10. Concluding Thoughts
  11. Bibliography


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