Live Looping in Musical Performance offers a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the application of live looping technology by lusophone performers and composers. This book explores various aspects, including the aesthetic component, instrumentation, and setup, highlighting the versatility of this technology in music-making.
Written by musicians and researchers from Portuguese-speaking countries, this book comprises eleven chapters that delve into various musical contexts, genres, and practices. The novelty of including collaborative texts written alongside non-professional researchers offers the possibility of drawing from real experience to consider how live looping has been changing and "cyborguising" the concept of music, the ritual of the performance, the identity of the musicians, and the public's expectations.
Live Looping in Musical Performance provides cutting-edge reading for composers and performers, as well as ethnomusicologists, students, and researchers working in the areas of music production, technology, and performance. This book addresses a broader audience, both academic and non-academic, who are interested in new processes of musical creativity in a post-human world.
About the Author: Alexsander Duarte is currently working as Lecturer at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in Belém, Brazil. He is also a researcher at the "Music and Identity in the Amazon" Research Group at UFPA and collaborator at the Institute of Ethnomusicology - Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md), University of Aveiro, Portugal. As a musician and ethnomusicologist, his academic activities include concerts, as well as the publication of various forms of research output, such as CDs, ethnographic documentaries, articles, books, book chapters, and musical scores. His research interests encompass popular music in Lusophone territories, Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the application of audio technologies in sound production. As a postdoctoral researcher, he established LoopLab, a laboratory dedicated to live looping experimentation at the University of Aveiro.
Susana Sardo is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and Visiting Professor at Goa University in India, for the Cunha Rivara Chair. Her research interests include music and post-colonialism, sound archives, music in the Lusophone world, and the intersection of music and post-dictatorship regimes. Since 2013 she has been actively engaged in promoting shared research practices in ethnomusicology using research as a means for social transformation in the field. Susana Sardo is also the co-chair of the Study Group of Historical Sources for the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). In 2007, she founded the University of Aveiro branch of the Institute of Ethnomusicology - Research Center for Music and Dance (INET-md), which she coordinated until January 2023.
