Sights and Sounds of Loop 2018
Loop 2018
Live From Loop
Loop 2018 Schedule
Venues:
Locations
Practical Information
Apogee Electronics
Montalban Theater
EastWest Studios
IO Music Academy / Ivar Theater
People:
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Loop Participant Page
Ableton Blog Post
Recommended Listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c
Recommended Tools:
Waves LowAir
Richard Devine
Loop Participant Page
Recommended Listening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EelvKqhu1M4&list=RDEMPBgX5_27Rhk8bGGtBQUW3w&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8NU2n66S1Q&start_radio=1&list=PLiQoha8vKch5r4kE6QPcoDyHAyR8P6JGu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zaSzHqVrLA&start_radio=1&list=RDEMvKoz3SPBdDwhxEZxjzcQJg
Recommended Tools:
Composers Desktop Project
MetaSynth
CSound
Timewarp 2600 VST
Binkbeats
Loop Participant Page
Binkbeats
Kytopia Studios
Dustin Ragland
Loop Participant Page
Reimagining Percussion with Pedals (Workshop)
Loop Workshop Page
Using guitar pedals with percussion (live drums or drum machines) and reamping.
Recommended Tools:
Hog2
Marine Layer Reverb
Favorite Pedals
Naming Sounds and Noises (Workshop)
Loop Workshop Page
Discussing ideas about language and music.
Recommended Reading:
Tara Rogers Article – “‘What, for me, constitutes life in a sound?’: Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated Individuals”
David Zicarelli
Loop Participant Page
Max 8’s MC (Workshop)
Loop Workshop Page
Founder and CEO of Cycling ’74 demoed a brand new development with MAX performing multi-channel audio (up to 1024 channels)
Laura Escudé
Loop Participant Page
The Art of Designing a Live Show (Performance/Demo)
Loop Performance Page
Laura runs a company called Electronic Creatives that designs and implements live shows.
* Also demoed Apogee’s unreleased Hype Mic, a mic with an integrated 3-position compressor.
Juana Molina
Loop Participant Page
Something to think about:
“Language is such an arbitrary thing. You do something and then someone tells you what it’s called.”
Bob Clearmountain (Apogee Electronics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwLfCVZLv38
Computer as Collaborator Workshop
Loop Workshop Page
Lucky Dragons
Loop Participant Page
Recommending Reading:
Gertrude Stein – Portraits and Repetition
Something To Think About:
“Score as compression”
Recommended Listening:
Maryanne Amacher – Aftersound (composing listeners)
NY Times Article
Google Magenta
Adam Roberts
Loop Participant Page
Jesse Engel
Loop Participant Page
Making Music and Art Using Machine Learning
Magenta Studio (and Ableton plugins if you have a free-standing Max 8 install)
MAESTRO and Wave2MIDI2Wave
MusicVAE (variational autoencoder)
Piano Genie
Something To Think About:
“How much of a performance comes from habit?”
Another Great Tool:
CLyphX Pro
Control Ableton by naming dummy clips.