Originally from the East Coast, I’ve resided in CA for much of my adult life and have played guitar in experimental groups in San Francisco.
I began looping sometime around 2000, creating a feedback loop on my 4-track with cascaded digital delays in the effects send, embracing the decreased fidelity of each subsequent repeat (due to the limitations of the AD / DA conversion), and the way that even the most pristinely performed loop would degrade to whispery cyclic noise, given enough time, as if a barely discernible transmission from a distant world.
To explain what drives me artistically, it’s best to say that I’m driven by ‘setups’:
- parallel delays / loops: different phrases looped against each other, creating polymeters
- non-standard tunings: 4ths, 5ths, and (for the last year) a combination of both, I’m endlessly inspired by the malleability
It’s been a number of years since I’ve performed in the Loopfest, I’m excited to be present, play, and listen.
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IG: @desperatelyrandom
photos: Drew Hamilton
