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	Frippertronics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frippertronics is a system of tape loops developed by composer Brian Eno with guitarist Robert Fripp.
		Frippertronics (a term coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s) is an analog delay system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders separated by a distance of several feet.
		Frippertronics was also used by Fripp in more conventional rock recordings, replacing what could be viewed as musical parts normally served by orchestral backing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frippertronics (465 words)

	Frippertronics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Frippertronics is a system of (additional info and facts about tape loops) tape loops developed by composer (additional info and facts about Brian Eno) Brian Eno with guitarist (additional info and facts about Robert Fripp) Robert Fripp.
		Frippertronics (a term coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s) is an analog delay system consisting of two (additional info and facts about reel-to-reel) reel-to-reel tape recorders separated by a distance of several feet.
		Actually, the term was created later to label a simplified version of the system, that Fripp felt he could operate by himself, as a (A musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment)) solo performer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fr/Frippertronics.htm (549 words)

	Robert Fripp - Chapter 8
		The musical uses to which Frippertronics were put will be noted and elaborated on in due course, but for the moment the image to dwell upon is that of Robert Fripp experimenting with and fine-tuning the Frippertronics process in the summer of 1977, in his New York loft and occasionally in actual studios.
		Frippertronics was first and foremost a live experience; it is thus perhaps not difficult to understand the bafflement of rock reviewers who, confronted with the mere sound of the music out of its natural habitat, heaped upon it such characterizations as "muzak/ambient/mood music...
		If Frippertronics was primarily a music of the mind, with the League of Gentlemen Fripp was interested in a music of the body, music of sexual energy, "energy from the waist down," as he called it.
	www.progressiveears.com /frippbook/ch08.htm (9266 words)

	Frippertronics
		Fripp's comments in the 1979 Gaskin interview go on to describe the unorthodox nature of the music, and the atypical expectations it placed on the audience; from a modern perspective, these are highly interesting and valuable insights, as they provide firsthand evidence of some of the first public performances of "ambient" music.
		Frippertronics was employed throughout Fripp's public work in the early '80s, after which he left the performance scene and formed the Guitar Craft network of clinics.
		Upon his return to the music industry in the early '90s, his use of looping became considerably more complex in both mechanics and result; a pair of T.C. Electronics digital delays replaced the Revox tape decks, and the use of MIDI guitar was far more prominent than it had been in the '80s.
	www.loopers-delight.com /tools/frippertronics/frippertronics.html (845 words)

	Robert Fripp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The system was so characteristic of Fripp's work that sounds produced using it came to be known collectively as "Frippertronics".
		Fripp spent some time away from the music industry in the later 1970s, during which he cultivated an interest in the teachings of Gurdjieff (studies which would later be influential in his work with Guitar Craft).
		The members of the California Guitar Trio are former members of The League of Crafty Guitarists, and Gitbox Rebellion includes several former Guitar Craft students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Fripp (1356 words)

	Elephant Talk: Interviews - Robert Fripp by Dick Tooley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		RF: Well since Frippertronics has been developing so remarkably since it's been on the road since the end of April I'm in fact going to update my notions and listen to all the tapes from the tour and probably choose music from that.
		There was one exquisite moment, exquisite moment where a Frippertronics loop in E minor and a Frippertronics loop in G minor collided beautifully.
		At any rate, the Frippertronics in its most developed sense is not yet released other than if one comes along tonight of course or sees Frippertronics live then the latest state of the art will be there.
	www.elephant-talk.com /intervws/fripp-dt.htm (3493 words)

	Frippertronics-era Robert Fripp: Let's Discuss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Modern version of Frippertronics - plug your guitar into a Roland guitar synth, play chords that automatically come out as swelling synth washes, release 20 records of it.
		To be fair he's not calling it Frippertronics anymore, the 90's records are adorned with the phrase 'Soundscapes'.
		'Frippertronics is defined as that musical experience which results at the (intersection) of Robert Fripp and a small and appropriate level of technology which is my Les Paul, the Fripple board, the Fripp pedal board of fuzz, wah-wah and volume pedals and two Revoxes.'
	ilx.p3r.net /thread.php?msgid=4890050 (1592 words)

	Fripped to death in the future head (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The recording we hear is a somewhat unusual collaboration: Jeffrey Fayman was given several hours of Frippertronics loops in the early '90s, and eight years later he finally mixed and overdubbed them into this CD.
		Frippertronics' basic approach - dense, flowing layers of slow-moving loops - remains audible.
		While some effective textures are used, notably on the thirty-one minute "A Temple in the Clouds," too often Fayman - or Fripp - relies on sounds that swirl in the manner of late '70s synths, an annoying affectation that, far from being trance-inducing, instead makes me wish more organic-sounding textures had been chosen.
	www.uwm.edu /~jenor/fayfripp.html (121 words)

	Elephant Talk: Interviews - Robert Fripp in Guitar Player (sidebar article) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guitar Player enclosed a floppy-vinyl disk (Soundpage) of some Frippertronics, called "Easter Sunday." Along with the interview and the Soundpage was a sidebar on the equipment Fripp was using at that time.
		The accompanying Soundpage features Robert Fripp using Frippertronics, a system hat recirculates improvised guitar lines using a pair of tape recorders, and also employs electronic effects to manipulate the timbre.
		Frippertronics as such went public for the first time in February 1978 at The Kitchen [a New York arts and performance gallery], where I was giving a solo concert.
	www.elephant-talk.com /intervws/fripp-g2.htm (1978 words)

	Signs & Symptoms \|3\| How it sounds
		At the time of recording we were hardly interested in 'ambient' types of music, even less keen on producing them.
		And whereas an 'ambient' use of 'Frippertronics' aims at less, by minimizing the performer's interference with 'the system', we rather turned to the machines in order to get more, using the feedback mechanism to, say, 'maximize' our output, and approach that of a 'full blown instant band'...
		I used to have the two decks as far apart as possible, and also swapped the stereo on the feedbacklink, so that each repeat swapped channels.
	www.harsmedia.com /Amphibious/Projects/sigsym3.html (419 words)

	Sign & Symptoms \|1\| Frippertronics
		The first known applications in music of the two machine 'Frippertronics' set up originate in the San Francisco Tape Music Center, founded in 1960 by Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnik, and during its first seven years of existence directed by Pauline Oliveros.
		One of the many 'avant garde' musicians who early on frequented the SFTMC was Terry Riley, who used the 'Frippertronics' system - which he called 'Time Lag Accumulator' - in his music for Ken Dewey's play 'The Gift' (1963).
		Pauline Oliveros used the 'Frippertronics' technique for her 'I of IV' (1966) (available on the CD 'Oliveros: Electronic Works').
	www.harsmedia.com /Amphibious/Projects/sigsym.html (433 words)

	Frippertronics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Frippertronics" is a delay/feedback system by means of two connected reel-to-reel audio tape machines.
		Of course today this is done with electronic equipment rather than reel to reel.
		"Frippertronics" became more widely known through the use of it by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp in the early 1970's.
	www.theguitarists.galaxyhit.com /Frippertronics.html (48 words)

	The world's top frippertronics websites
		Frippertronics is a system of tape loops created by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.
		This allows a performer to record on one of the two recorders and play it back on the second, after which the recorded piece of tape makes its way to the first recorder and is recorded onto again.
		Using Frippertronics, Fripp was able to play many sounds layered on top of each other on the single loop of tape.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/frippertronics (206 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Robert Fripp
		Let the Power Fall continues the Frippertronics methodology of God Save the Queen; although both were recorded during the same 1979 tour, this album's loops provide a far greater wealth of sounds, moods and ideas Fripp's editing skills evidently having improved with time.
		However, several bootlegs documenting Frippertronics with the leads intact remain definitive, as much as Fripp may detest them.
		The all-acoustic League of Crafty Guitarists (his students) album, conceived as an educational challenge and recorded in concert at George Washington University, features seventeen diligent pupils performing pastoral Fripp instrumentals with delicacy and quiet appeal.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=robert_fripp (498 words)

	The Scene Online: Music - CD Reviews by Michael Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Frippertronics was Fripp's way of escaping rock and making music that promoted man's role as "a small, intelligent, mobile unit." The basic technique involves setting up two tape machines to capture the initial guitar work and using it to create self-repeating sound loops that keep getting re-recorded while Fripp adds new improvisations over the original.
		The result is a slowly progressing sound that gains in its aural thickness and complexity by the repetition and gradual shifting of the layered tonal structures.
		Like peering into the structure of a fractal, the songs can be appreciated for both the overall shape of their surface and for the intense complexity that unfolds upon focused examination.
	www.valleyscene.com /music/mus0800.html (775 words)

	tonevendor.com :. Fripp & Eno - Equatorial Stars CD
		"Frippertronics," the recording method invented on 1973's No Pussyfooting, involved a tape-loop system wherein a single reel of tape is physically joined together at the ends and then run continuously between the outermost reels of two adjacent decks, the first of which records incoming sound and the second of which plays it back.
		However, its use of Frippertronics is subtler, and I don't hear the Zen-like simplicity of, say, Eno's Music for Airports, or the classical deconstruction of his Discreet Music.
		Instead, I hear cloudy, vague music, as if the pair invested too much in their own reviews over the years, believing ambience required a lack of planning or composition.
	www.tonevendor.com /item/18664 (1046 words)

	Home Recording dot com BBS - Frippertronics
		The first recorded evidence of Frippertronics of which I am aware is the album Exposure, which was the first release by Fripp following the end of his mid-'70s retreat from the music scene (and holds the additional distinction of being one of the most thoroughly bizarre recordings I've ever run across).
		A document of solo Frippertronics performances was released in the '80s under the title Let The Power Fall.
		Considerably more complex than Frippertronics, Soundscaping has provided the entirety of the music on the albums 1999, A Blessing Of Tears, Radiophonics, Soundbites, and The Gates Of Paradise, all of which are live direct-to-DAT solo performance recordings.
	homerecording.com /bbs/showthread.php?t=157179 (2393 words)

	The Birth of Loop
		Outside the avantgarde music scene, tape loops were soon used in radio studios and in the film industry where they were employed for synchronisation and soundtrack purposes.
		For Fripp, Frippertronics was a powerful way to open himself up for music and to explore new musical territory.
		The next incarnation of Frippertronics was called Soundscapes and employed a growing array of sophisticated digital machinery, such as digital looping devices and harmonizers.
	www.loopersdelight.com /history/Loophist.html (3412 words)

	Projekt: darkwave - 'A Temple In The Clouds'
		The "Frippertronic" structures feature subtly complex harmonic interweavings; Fayman layered several of these loop patterns together and inserted his own instrumentation.
		He worked on this project at a time when he was suffering from stress insomnia, almost nine years after receiving Fripp's basic tapes, and states in his CD notes that the work was a highly therapeutic experience for him.
		It utilizes both the guitarist's looped "Frippertronics" and recalls the lush "space music" sound pioneered in the late '80s by the Hearts of Space label.
	www.projekt.com /projekt/product.asp?dept_id=10&sku=PRO00104 (1686 words)

	StarPolish Current Issues: Intelligent Dialogue From Music Industry Professionals and Artists
		It was Fripps wish that the poignancy of these recordings be shared, free of commerce, with those who want to listen and reflect.
		Fripps Soundscapes are a self-described continuation and development of Frippertronics, the music of his solo guitar work based on delay, repetition and hazard, according to Fripp.
		Frippertronics are derived from a tape-delay-based approach introduced to Fripp in 1972 by guitarist Brian Eno, who employed it on songs such as No Pussyfooting.
	www.starpolish.com /news/article.asp?id=248 (385 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Let The Power Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The album is essentially a collection of six live improvised pieces performed solo on guitar using a method called "Frippertronics".
		Basically, Frippertronics is a delay system utilizing two tape machines in which the guitar's input signal is looped indefinitely creating repeated masses of sound.
		Robert Fripp would later expand on his Frippertronic ideas with Soundscapes using the same looping principles but utilizing MIDI-technology, digital delays and guitar-synthesizers instead of analog tape machines.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003S2F (996 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Save on thousands of CDs from your favourite artists. Free shipping within Canada available on orders ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The method used, once again, was the endless decaying tape loop system of Frippertronics but refined with pieces such...
		At the same time Brian Eno was working on Here Come the Warm Jets, he was flexing his experimental muscle with this album of tape delay manipulation recorded with Robert Fripp.
		In a system later to be dubbed Frippertronics, Eno and Fripp set up two reel-to-reel tape decks that would allow audio...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15885131/2 (401 words)

	Robert Fripp : Let the Power Fall - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With Frippertronics as his mantra, Robert Fripp creates impressive instrumental structures by building layers of sound atop one another.
		While Fripp employs the same soothing waves of sound that Eno used on Evening Star and Discreet Music, there's only so much that can be made from Frippertronics (think Yosemite Sam and his coconuts), and the end result feels a little cold and remote when compared with Eno's warm ambient textures.
		Let the Power Fall may be the ideal album of Frippertronics, yet it's a technique that, while fascinating at times, has its own limitations.
	store.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,89112,00.html (380 words)

	Arts & Entertainment 2 -- The Daily Cougar Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The method was inspired by the loop and phasing techniques of soundscape pioneer Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's "Frippertronics."
		"Frippertronics," developed by the King Crimson psych-fusion band member, is since regarded as the primitive dawn of tape looping.
		What Fripp did was amass a collection of vintage tape delay boxes and link them in a daisy chain to create an infinitely repeated sound sample.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol69/89/arts/arts5.html (583 words)

	loopography.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 90's he replaced his 2 tape machines with digital delays and added guitar synths, pitch shifters and harmonizers to the signal path.
		I am more of a fan of the Frippertronics sound than the Soundscapes sound since the latter has more of a guitar quality in my opinion.
		I guess I began looping around 1994 when I experimented in getting that Frippertronics sound not really being aware of how it was or could actually be done.
	www.loopography.com /colours.htm (1482 words)

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