reiheM präsentiert: 4. Internationales Kölner LiveLooping Festival (Y2K25)

In the organizer's words:

The international LiveLooping Festival is taking place in Cologne for the fourth time (after 2008, 2011 and 2013).

5 hours of non-stop music
9 solo musicians and 1 duo for half an hour each, without a break in between

With:

Michael Peters (guitar): Minimalism/Glitch

Michael Frank - The Absurd Loops (guitar, vocals): Experimental/Song

Leander Reininghaus - Hydrascapes (synth): Fluid/Drone/Minimalist

Raimund Gitsels - Gee and the Plastic Strings (violin): Ambient/Song/Noise

Julia Kotowski - Beltership: Electroacoustic Sound Sculptures

Juan Carrizo (AR) - dada (guitar): Progressive/Ambient

Emmanuel Reveneau (F) - The Fumid Strain Retroactive Project (custom software, gramo-phone): Concrete Jazz

David Tristram (USA) - Ancient Sponge (electronics, computer visuals): Ambient/Minimalism

Nelly Lavergne (F) - Nellyla (vocals, keyb, perc): French Song/Electro-Pop/Organic

Bernd Keul & Maurits Boreel (NL) - online grouplooping (bass / violin)

Live video projections: David Tristram

Program: Michael Peters/Michael Frank

What is LiveLooping?
With the help of digital LiveLooping devices, musicians can record a few seconds or minutes of the music they play live, play it back immediately as a loop and continue recording at the same time, creating ever more complex layers of sounds. In this way, LiveLooping solo musicians can duplicate themselves in real time. There are no stylistic limitations: many types of music can be performed using LiveLooping, from folk songs to ambient, rock and jazz to avant-garde sound research.

The world's first LiveLooping concert took place in July 1963: the American minimalist Terry Riley used two tape machines at a concert in Paris to duplicate the live sound of the Chet Baker Ensemble. Today, live looping is a technique used by many musicians, and new looping devices and corresponding software products are constantly coming onto the market.

Every year since 2000, Rick Walker has organized international LiveLooping festivals in California lasting several days, at which dozens of musicians exclusively play music in which LiveLooping is the central stylistic element. There are similar, smaller festivals in many American and European cities; three international LiveLooping festivals have taken place in Cologne so far (2008 and 2011 in Cologne's LOFT and 2013 in the Alte Feuerwache).