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Founded in 1982 by Richard Fielding and John Blades. Other members: Manny Gasparinatos, Patrick Gibson, Hamish MacKenzie, Sheriff Lindo. The genesis of The Loop Orchestra occured in the ashes of a simple two-tape-machine-no-man-band, The Nobodies, which died in a fire in 1980. From those ashes, and with a pastiche taken from the likes of Terse Tapes, home of Severed Heads, an ashen poultice was formed to take up further and more involved household heretical experimention, this time with reel-to-reel tape machines. This idea was subsequently expanded upon in the studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm amid a group of experimental radio programmers. Two, John Blades and Richard Fielding, were using the studio equipment as an instrument, experimenting with tape machines through processes involving cutting, dissecting, rearranging and rejoining prerecorded tape, creating tape loops and playing them back. They felt a need to formalise their studio experimentation and so conceived the idea of creating a full blown machine orchestra whose contrived destiny it was to perform in the Sydney Opera House's hallowed Concert Hall. The intention of the Orchestra was for groups of instruments of an orthodox orchestra to be represented by reel-to-reel tape machines playing loops of the instruments' sounds. Upon the realization that this egoistical ambition was doomed a smaller ensemble comprising 4 reel-to-reel machines playing slowly evolving tape-loop constructions, made its live debut playing a live-to-air performance in the rather less graceful, but no less culturally appropriate studio of Sydney radio station 2MBS-fm in 1983, as The Loop Orchestra. A variety of eminent luminaries can lay claim to having been members of the Orchestra, including Patrick Gibson, Peter Doyle, Anthony Maher and Ashley Blower. The current lineup consists of John Blades, Richard Fielding, Emmanuel Gasparinatos, Hamish MacKenzie and Juke Wyat. Members of the Orchestra have been, or are, involved in a diverse variety of groups and projects including but not limited to: Severed Heads; Scattered Order; The Systematics; No Nights Sweat; Splendid Mess; War, Meat & The Dictator; East End Butchers; Z.glutz; Ya Ya Coral; Moral Fibro; Famous; Kinderschmerzen; Esqué; Clean Air Campaign; Hiroshima Chair; Sherrif Lindo & The Hammer; Nutcase & Papa Chubba; Men Like Licorice; Violence In Spring; Vorkapich; Kyoko-Mary & The Cogs of Death; Strict vs State; and Cannibal Loops. THE LOOP ORCHESTRA Against seamless method Against the state of the art and the art of the state Against the tension/release nexus Against the validation of effort Against the composer as genius for a transparency of sound for the anticlimax as metaphor for alienation, detachment and disembodiment for the occlusion aesthetic for the detritus of phonography THE LOOP ORCHESTRA
A SHORT TERM EFFECT
A.M.K.
ADERLATING
ADOLFO CATELLI
ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI
ANA-MARIA AVRAM
ANDREA ARMATI
ANDREA MARUTTI
ANDREA SOZZI
ANTOINE CHESSEX
ANTON MAIOF
ANTONY MAUBERT
ASTRAL LUEUR
ATRAX MORGUE
AUDIOLAB | ARTELEKU.NET
Aum Arrhythmia
BAD SECTOR | MASSIMO MAGRINI
BATCHEEBA
BIG CITY ORCHESTRA
BLACK METAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM
BLAKE VIOLA
BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER
BREATH OF CHAOS
BURIAL HEX
CHEETAH
CHRISTINA KUBISCH
CIANI PIERMARIO
CLAUDIO PARODI
CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI
CLAUSTHOME
CONTAGIOUS ORGASM
CORPUS PRINCIPIUM
CULTUS SABBATI
CURATED BY: NOSTRESS NETLABEL
CURATED BY: D.U.S.T. | MICHAEL O ROURKE, FINTAN NEYLAN, PAUL J. ENNIS.
CURATED BY: NICOLA MASCIANDARO, MICHAEL O ROURKE, KARIN SELLBERG.
CURATED BY: NUB PROJECT SPACE
CURATED BY: INLAND EMPIRE.
CURATED BY: RMEDL | METASOUND
DALOT | Maria Papadomanolaki
DANIEL JANSSON
DARK MATTER (Toeplitz / Chessex)
DAVE PHILLIPS
DEADWOOD
DEATH TRICHECO
DISTURBANCE
DJET
DRAKH / DRAKHON (MZ412)
DREAM WEAPON RITUAL
DYLAN MICHAEL BURNS
ECHRAN
ED OSBORN
EDITH ALONSO
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
ERNST VON GLASERSFELD
EUGENE THACKER
FABIO ORSI
FOLKSTORM
FRANCESCO CALANDRINO
FRANCISCO LOPEZ
GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ
GIACOMO VERDE
GIANLUCA BECUZZI
GIOVANNI ZUCCONI
GLOBSTER
GNAW THEIR TONGUES
GRAUEN PESTANZ
GREY HISTORY
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN
HARALD SZEEMANN
HEINZ VON FOERSTER
IRWIN LEE
IVES 1
JIGOKU NOHARA
JOACHIM MONTESSUIS
JOHN BLADES (The Loop Orchestra)
JULIAN BONEQUI
JULIAN PERCY
JULIEN OTTAVI
K11
KARLHEINZ ESSL
KASPER T. TOEPLITZ
KAULA
KEN HOLLINGS
KEN JEREMIAH
KINETIX
KLUSTER
L'ACEPHALE
LAIBACH
LEIF ELGGREN
LIEUTENAT MURNAU
LIMBO
LORENZO PICINALI
LUCIANO MAGGIORE
LUCIANO SCHERER
LUIGI GARLASCHELLI
LUIGI PRESICCE
M-16 | ALESSANDRO BOCCI
MACABRE
MARCELLO BACCI - GRUPPO PSICOFONICO DI GROSSETO
MARCO GROSSO
MARCO PUCCIARINI
MASONIC YOUTH
MASSIMILIANO VIEL
MASSIMO BARTOLINI
MASSIMO GIACON
MATARRATAS
MATS LINDSTROM
MAURIZIO BIANCHI / M.B.
MECONIUM
MELEK-THA
MEM1
MERZBOW
MICHAEL ESPOSITO
MICHAEL W. FORD
MOVIMENTO AVANGUARDIA ERMETICO
MUDBOY
MZ.412
NEKRASOV
NICHOLAS ISHERWOOD
NICOLA MASCIANDARO
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS | NIGEL AYERS
NORDVARGR / HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK
ORDO TYRANNIS
PAIN FORGED
PANICSVILLE
PAOLO MEONI
PAUL CHAIN
PER AHLUND
PHILIPPE PETIT
PIETRO MANDER
PIETRO RIPARBELLI
PINO PARINI
POSEITRONE | Luca Di Dato
PROJECT D.A.R.K.
RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON
RICCARDO FABIANI
RITA LUCARELLI
ROD SUMMERS
ROGER ROTOR
ROMOLO ROSSI
RUDOLF Eb.ER
SACRAMENTAL CEREMONY
SCAPEGOAT
SERVILE SECT
SETH CLUETT
SEVENGUITARS
SEWER GODDESS
SIMM-EL
SIMON BALESTRAZZI
SINEWAVES.IT
SIX STUDIO
SNOW CRASH
SONGS OF THE NEW EROTICS
SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS
STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES
STRANGE ATTRACTOR
STRUKTUR
SUDDEN INFANT
TELE.S.THERION
TELEPHERIQUE
THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT
THE HATERS
THE LOOP ORCHESTRA
THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CARDIOID SNAKE
THIERRY TILLIER
TIMET
TOROIDH
TORTURE CORPSE
TOY BIZARRE
TRAVEL TRIP
TRAX (V. BARONI, M. GIACON, P. M. CIANI)
ULTRA SPIESSER
UTARM
VINCENT COMO
VITTORE BARONI
VRL-IL
WERTHAM
WILDNESS PERVERSION | MORTUARY DRAPE
WILLIAM C. SEITZ
XABIER ERKIZIA
Y.E.R.M.O.
ZERO KAMA