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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:

Loop Participants

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)

Max 8 MC
Max 8 MC Blog Post

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

YACHT
Loop Participant Page

Something To Think About:
“How much of a performance comes from habit?”

Another Great Tool:
CLyphX Pro
Control Ableton by naming dummy clips.