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	Tape loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns.
		Tape loop effects are often combined with glissando, a technique wherein the playback speed of the loop is increased or decreased over time.
		Simultaneous playing of tape loops to create phase patterns and rhythms was developed and initially used by musique concrète and tape music composers, and was utilized by Steve Reich for his "phasing" pieces, and by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tape_loop (427 words)

	Reverbatape Tape Loops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		I have found that regular cassette tape is far too narrow to use on the Reverbatape unit, so after a bit of hunting found that the eight track tapes that used to be so popular, are the perfect width for use in the unit.
		There is enough tape in a cartridge for at least 40-50 tape loops.
		Be sure you put the Scotch tape on the recording tape on the side away from the recording side.
	www.users.cloud9.net /~pastark/sotaploo.htm (420 words)

	Good Old-fashioned Tape Looping
		If you observe the tape path, you will note that the tape is fed out by the supply reel on the left side, first passes across the erase head, then the record head, then the playback head, before entering the capstan / pinch-roller assembly, and then is wound onto the take-up reel on the right.
		It is not necessary to use an actual “loop” of tape to create the audio looping function, because the audio loop is formed electronically by feeding part of the playback head’s output into the recording input.
		Position the remote tape head assembly on a solid support some distance away from the tape recorder, to the right and at the same level as the transport deck.
	www.loopers-delight.com /tips/tape/tape_looping.html (1080 words)

	Loop Tapes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Loop tapes can be used as a beginning means of communication for an individual who is nonverbal.
		Loop tapes come in a variety of lengths (15 second tapes are recommended) and can be purchased in the phone answering section of a store such as Radio Shack.
		Single message loop tapes can be used to request something, indicate a desire for more of an activity or material, to gain someone’s attention, to direct the actions of another person, or to deliver a message.
	www.ttac.odu.edu /articles/loop.html (383 words)

	Fabric tape with loops for use as part of hook-and-loop fastener assembly - Patent 5664441
		A fabric tape according to claim 1, wherein approximately one-half of the loops in a group of adjacent courses are alternately canted in one direction and in another direction.
		Prior art fabric loop tapes offer disadvantages, including high cost, corner buckling, thin, tear-prone loops and flat loops which are difficult for the hooks to grip, all of which reduce the effectiveness and efficiency with which the seats are manufactured.
		The loop yarns 33, 34, 35 and 36 are knitted with the warp yarns 30 in order to give better resistance to tearing when the loops are pulled away from the warp yarns 30 by the mated hooks.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5664441.html (2327 words)

	Tape Loops for Tape Echoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		With the medium tape speed, giving the medium recording/reproduction quality, it is suggested that the tape loop is replaced after at most 300 hours of work.
		The tape loops available from Robert L's Analog Synths are hand-crafted from the high quality, modern tapes, like Ampex 457, 478, BASF LGR broadcast, and similar.
		These tapes are tested and confirmed to exceed the quality of the material used in the original Roland RT-1L tape loops from the 70s and early 80s (see also the discussion The Best Tapes for Loops).
	www.foi.hr /~rlogozar/mbsn1/AnalogSynthsTapeLoopsForTapeEchoes.html (875 words)

	David Templeton's Seldom Seen: Fear goes out of 'stick 'em up' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The bracelet is a roll of masking tape and the requirement in question is making thousands of tape loops, balls or doughnuts-- whatever you care to dub the sticky circles -- to hang artwork on doors and walls.
		She and the teacher made tape loops during lunch, snack time, recess, before and after school, and while children were doing assignments.
		Her device would create an instant tape loop that could be swiped onto the back of the artwork without the user touching the tape.
	www.postgazette.com /pg/04018/261893.stm (1110 words)

	The Best Tapes For Loops
		Though there are not any specifications as to the brand of tape from which the loops were made (Delatronics say that it was a Scotch tape produced in Italy), a simple check of the original tape shows that it is not significantly different from any other better quality tape.
		Also, when dubbing multiple tracks on reel to reel recorders, it usually happened that the same tape part is moved back and forth for several hundred times, meaning that the situation of extensive use of the same part of tape is close to that on echo machines.
		Although the tape loops are constantly checked during the production, and at the end tested by the method of a random choice, your opinions and suggestions are always welcome.
	barok.foi.hr /~rlogozar/mbsn1/TheBestTapesForLoops.html (1650 words)

	Music.com \|\|\| Loops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A loop was at one time a physical object--a loop of tape that was played repeatedly and incorporated into a musical composition.
		American followers of such French composers as Pierre Schaeffer and Edgard Varèse began to work with tape loops in perhaps the late 1950s, and became fascinated with their potential for reconnecting music with the hypnotic power that repetition wields in various musical cultures around the world.
		The most important center for such research was the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and the first composition to incorporate a tape loop may have been the Mescalin Mix of 1960 by the San Francisco composer Terry Riley.
	www.music.com /instrument/loops/1 (317 words)

	Schober Organ Notes No. 78
		Obtaining the tape loops for the Reverbatape is impossible.
		Of my two tapes, one has moderate, but acceptable wear to the heads, while the other (non-switched) one has major grooving to the heads -- so bad in fact that the heads were starting to behave like files on the tape loops, rapidly scrubbing grooves into the tape loop and throwing oxide everywhere.
		Some later tape loops are not 'welded' at the join, but held with a piece of tape splicing tape on the back.
	www.users.cloud9.net /~pastark/sonote78.htm (3704 words)

	ProSoundWeb \| Editing and Tape Loops
		Affix the blue adhesive tape across the cut and joined magnetic and leader tape (use the handle side of the razor blade or a fingernail to rub the adhesive tape on and to smooth out the air bubbles).
		Trim the blue tape from the top and bottom of the audio tape by holding the razor at an angle and sliding it along the groove that holds the tape in the splicing block.
		Incidentally, timing tape is essentially the same thing as leader tape, except it’s yellow or red and sometimes it’s useful to differentiate between timing and leader functions.
	www.prosoundweb.com /recording/tapeop/edit/edit_11_12.shtml (533 words)

	> TAPE DECAY
		The concept: A year long experiment was conducted in which Tribes of Neurot documented the degradation and disintegration of four unique sounding analog tape loops.
		The method: On December 21st 1999 Tribes of Neurot Neurot created four characteristically different tape loops and began to run them on four different inexpensive reel to reel playback machines with the intention of allowing them to play continuously for the duration of the year.
		After a few weeks, fifteen minutes of each sound loop was recorded to document its current state of decay.
	www.tribesofneurot.com /artworks/tape_decay.htm (621 words)

	Music Concrete
		Reversing the reels of recorded material and playing the tape backwards can be used to create reverse reverbs, attacks, etc. Recording the reversed track to another tape deck is the easiest way, although bouncing the reversed track to an empty track on a multi track can be done.
		With it he was able to transpose a loop in 12 distinct steps from using a keyboard (this led to the mellotron keyboard).
		We were cutting up classical music and making different size loops, and then I got an engineer tape on which some test engineer was saying, 'Number nine, number nine, number nine.' all those different bits of sound and noises are all compiled.
	csunix1.lvc.edu /~snyder/em/mc.html (702 words)

	tape loops rule! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		If the tape reels don't go around at all you'll need to open up the case and look for any belts that may have come off or broken, especially the one that drives the capstan.
		You can make a loop out of as many different bits of tape as you want, but be careful not to let it jam when the spliced bits go through the machine.
		It is important that you record any good loops onto ordinary tape as soon as possible as they tend to get a bit chewed up from played and handled.
	web.onetel.com /~spazoom/lofihigh/tapeloops.html (706 words)

	mixguides consoles Audio Loop editing by professional audio producers editing loops of sounds
		Loop usage—albeit with analog tape—dates back to the late '50s, when acts such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Pauline Oliveros, and later Pink Floyd, Steely Dan and The Beatles experimented with tape loops and cuts.
		There are virtually bazillions of pre-recorded loops, instrument samples and effects sounds that can be downloaded online or purchased on CD or CD-ROM these days, and most of them sound pretty darn good.
		Santana adds that library loops can spark an idea that kick-starts the songwriting process, which is probably one of the most popular ways to use loops.
	mixguides.com /consoles/tips_and_techniques/in-the-loop-0205/index.html (2920 words)

	www.sewdirect.com Introducing the Hookless system
		Simply choose the colours of the tape and loops you wish to use from our range of 10 coloured tapes and 13 coloured loops.
		For laundering it is not necessary to remove the loops; machine wash cold; tumble dry low and warm iron (without touching loops). For dry cleaning we recommend that you remove the loops.
		A pack of 20 loops will be sufficient for 100 inches (254cm) of tape.
	www.sewdirect.com /acatalog/Introducing_the_Hookless_system.html (151 words)

	ProSoundWeb \| Editing and Tape Loops
		Tape splicing and editing is essentially cutting and pasting tape by hand.
		Whether you use digital or analog editing, the basic techniques of splicing and editing (leader tape, tape loops, and cut and paste editing) are essential skills for anyone who uses analog tape.
		This shallow, wide tape groove is intersected by one deeper, thin, vertical groove for cutting the tape with a razor blade (hard cuts).
	prosoundweb.com /recording/tapeop/edit/edit_11_1.shtml (610 words)

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		Edgar Varese used tape loops in his musique concrete performance for the 1951 World's Fair, although that was probably done manually with copying, cutting, and mixing.
		To me, looping music (in particular) can be meaningful on an emotional level (perhaps, repetition has something to do with this, like a mantra) and on an intellectual level (perhaps, due to the complexity which results by combining simple, fundamental parts).
		The loops were simultaniously blended with other stuff that he would be playing on the record players and tape decks (usually old, extremely tacky and sometimes scary educational stuff) as well as spatterings of music.
	www.loopers-delight.com /archive/posts/LDwk6-1.txt (13461 words)

	William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV - Stylus Magazine
		However, once he started the transfer, he discovered something: the tapes were old and were disintegrating as they played and he recorded them.
		He and his friends went on the roof of his building and played the Loops over and over, all day long, watching the slow death of one New York and the slow rise of another, all the while listening to the death of one music and the creation of another.
		What makes these works so memorable is not the fact that the loops are slowly disintegrating but the fact that we get to hear their deaths.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=1691 (870 words)

	ProSoundWeb \| Editing and Tape Loops
		In the case of loops, either hard or soft cuts are fine.
		Tape loop will play back repetitiously at regular speed until you press stop.
		Also artificial tremolo, achieved by cutting many equal-size segments of tape and equal-size segments of leader tape (by the use of a ruler) and splicing them together (see diagram 6).
	www.prosoundweb.com /recording/tapeop/edit/edit_11_13.shtml (683 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Meaningful Arbitrary Collisions of Events: Getting Started With Acid Loops
		Tape loops are basically short snippets of sound, frequently designed to repeat infinitely (hence the word "loop").
		So a loop of a drummer playing a one or two bar pattern could be adjusted to play at any tempo, or a loop of a soloist playing a flute or keyboard could be adjusted to play at any tempo-and in any key.
		This track was created using the loops contained in Sony's World Pack, another five-CD set that loops of instruments from Asia, the Middle East, and lots of percussion from around the world, including a complete CD of Latin percussion.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/12/19/002001.php (2031 words)

	The Dub Discussion Board: Tape loops in Dub
		As i can't afford a sampler, to loop drum beats or bass phrases i recently started cutting tape loops for my reel to reel.
		If you want to make loops on tape, you have to cut very precice to get them synced properly.
		You can play mono loops of up to 15 feet or so on any space echo type of tape delay with the sound on sound feature.
	www.interruptor.ch /cgi-bin/discus/messages/1/86.html?1004996903 (359 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tape loops are made by gluing a length of magnetic tape in a circle and looping it in a tape recorder to make a repeating section of sound.
		Unlike a sample, loops don't follow any master tempo - you have to accept their unique pace.
		Because children don't know tape, they have designed the Scratcher to look like a record player but it will loop a section of sound endlessly.
	www.sevcom.com /research.htm (1253 words)

	The Dub Discussion Board: New replacement tape loops
		Our loops are hand made from professional grade materials and are guaranteed to give new life to echo units suffering from deteriorating tapes.
		Ok, one last thing: The hard part is getting 15 feet of tape put into a perfect loop with no twists, etc. I've found that loading most of the tape into the echo machine's hopper before making the splice is the easiest way to do this.
		These reels have 1800 ft of tape, as far as I can tell the loops run anywhere from 14'-17', which means you can make 100-120 loops from one reel of this tape.
	www.interruptor.ch /cgi-bin/discus/messages/1/95.html?1065293227 (1039 words)

	Industrial music
		Industrial music is a term that describes a wide range of music, generally mixing rock with samplers and electronic instruments and sounds.
		Industrial music grew as an offshoot of electronic music known as musique concrète, which was made by manipulating cut sections of recording tape, and adding very early sound output from analog electronics devices.
		Boyd Rice (aka NON) released several albums of noise music, with guitar drones and tape loops creating a cacophony of repetitive sounds.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/in/industrial_music.html (1524 words)

	Rummage Through The Crevices: Tape Decks, Tape Loops, Tape Bags & Flags
		Like DJ Aptem/Artyom, Loop Orchestra rely on looped audio tape as the sole source for their music; but, in their case, there are no cleverly-modded gadgets trying to emulate modern DJ rigs.
		Everything is the product of a mixer and five middle-aged men threading tape loops over the spools of reel-to-reel tape machines; carefully layering them to produce hypnotically repetitive soundscapes.
		They’ll be passed on to a women’s co-operative in Nepal who will weave them into reams of fabric that will be used make shoulder bags, thangkas, and banners that you can purchase from her website.
	www.filmcement.org /rummage/archives/000199.html (453 words)

	Beat by Beat: The Distinctive Spectrums of Loop-Based Production
		Toto's “Africa” is said to have used a tape loop of drums run partly around a paint roller.
		Loops have become accepted and expected groove components, found in everything from rap to rock.
		He records a 15- or 20-minute pass of the loop to either DAT or Roland VS-1880, making changes — punches, EQ and effects on-the-fly — as if he were DJ'ing live in a club.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_beat_beat_distinctive/index.html (3676 words)

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