Loop Berlin 2017

A Summit for Music Makers

Loop is three days of discussions, performances, presentations, studio sessions, installations and interactive workshops aimed at exchanging ideas at the cutting edge of music, technology and creative practice. Bringing together artists, technologists, educators and other creative thinkers, Loop is a collective exploration of what it is to make music today and what it could be tomorrow.

We believe that the most exciting developments in music are driven by conversation and exchange between interesting people. At Loop, a diverse range of music makers, thinkers and cultural creatives will gather to collaborate on new ideas, share new techniques, and make new connections.

By day, take part in discussions, participate in hands-on workshops and studio sessions, explore the work of other artists, and share your insights. By night, enjoy inspiring performances and meet like-minded creators from around the world.

Program

Here is an overview of some of the presentations, discussions, performances, installations, workshops and studio sessions at Loop 2017.

Presentations

Goldie,
Ben Frost, Chloe + Halle, Jenny Hval, Katie Gately, Laurel Halo, Machinedrum, Nosaj Thing + Daito Manabe, Susan Rogers, Tennyson, The Nile Project, William Basinski

Artists in Conversation

Abayomi, Jowaa, Ski Oakenfull, Stro Elliot
Live Track Deconstruction Sessions
Mandy Parnell
The Art of Mastering Audio
Butterz, Discwoman, Through My Speakers
Strength in Numbers: Building Creative Ecosystems
HAU Hebbel am Ufer presents Jlin, Gilles Peterson, Thomas Meinecke
Plattenspieler Sessions
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Minh Le
The Golden Record: NASA's Voyager Disc 40 Years On
Jace Clayton
Uproot: Global Travels in 21st Century Music
Nick Collins
MusAIcal Corposition: Artificial Intelligence, Large Audio Collections and You
Alkalino, Greg Wilson, JD Twitch
Re-edit, Re-work, Re-mix: DJs as Producers
Koka Nikoladze
Beatboxes from Wire and Wood: A Look into the Instrument Maker's Workshop
David Möllerstedt
Cultivating Developer Creativity at Teenage Engineering
Paul Adenot
Break Down the Breakdown: Coding the Elements of Dance Music
Susan Rogers
Hidden Hearing Loss: The Origin of Common Hearing Disorders
1500 Or Nothin'
A Performative Presentation
The Wire presents
The Invisible Jukebox
Ruth John
Your Browser Is The Studio: New Developments in Web Audio and Web MIDI
Tero Parviainen
How Generative Music Works: A Developer's Perspective
Trevor Wishart
Electroacoustic Music and The Composers' Desktop Project
SK Shlomo
Voice vs Machine: A Beatboxer's Journey through Tech
Yotam Mann
Making Music Interactive
Andrey Smirnov
Rhythmicon: Theremin's Drum Machine from 1931
Adam Neely
New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms
Victoria Armstrong
What do we mean by Inclusion in Music Education?
Cycling '74
Gen~
Paul Goodwin
Re-visioning Black Urbanism Through Music
Gene Kogan
Deep Listener: Machine Learning in the Composer's Future Toolkit

Discussions
Doseone, Katie Gately, SK Shlomo
I Speak Music: Manipulating, Improvising and Composing with Vocals
Paul Adenot, Ruth John, Yotam Mann
Plotting the Future of Web Audio
Deepchild, Emika, Help Musicians
Finding Balance: Conversations on Musicianship and Mental Health
Alice Eldridge, Gijs Gieskes, Koka Nikoladze
Motors, Magnets and Motion: Electronic Music Instruments from the Physical World
Adam Neely, Andrew Huang, Rachel K Collier
The Screen is Your Stage: Making Music for Online Audiences
Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Lauren Sarah Hayes
A Sense of Touch: Haptics in New Musical Instruments
Ethan Hein, Jack Schaedler, Melissa Uye-Parker
Re-inventing Music Education through Technology
Machinedrum, Kaki King and more, hosted by Dennis DeSantis
Breaking Through Creative Blocks
Jlin, Lotic, Minhtendo, mobilegirl
Sounds of Today, Sounds for Tomorrow
Darren E Cowley, Madeleine Bloom, Micha Frank
Code the Boutique
Aragorn Eissler, Hussein Sherbini, Max Wheeler, Melissa Uye Parker, Victoria Armstrong, Will Kuhn
Beyond Curriculum: New Approaches in Music Education

Performances
Performances at Funkhaus across the weekend include:
Caterina Barbieri
Chloe + Halle
Dedekind Cut
Jenny Hval
Kaki King - The Neck is a Bridge to the Body
K Á R Y Y N
Khaled Kurbeh & Raman Khalaf Ensemble x Oriel Quartett
Laurel Halo
Myriam Bleau: Soft Revolvers
Nosaj Thing x Daito Manabe
Sorne
The Nile Project
Tennyson
William Basinski
Visible Cloaks

Installations

Yannick Jacquet, Jeremie Peeters, Thomas Vaquié
ANTIVJ
3Destruct
Immersive sonic and visual experience, originally commissioned for Biennale d’Art Contemporain of Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium, will respond to the specific acoustics of Funkhaus' Sound Chamber.

Kaffe Matthews and musicforbodies.net
Sonic Bed
New work made in Funkhaus.
ECM, Faitiche, Shelter Press and New Kanada
Seeing Sounds: Labels and their Visual Identities

More installations to be announced soon.

Interactive

Sessions with Ableton Certified Trainers
Attendee Open Stage Performances
Attendee Lightning Presentations
Small Group Studio Signups
Young Producers Roundtables
Music Educators Roundtables
Attendee Meet-Ups
Maker Zone
Play Zone

CDR Sessions: Your Music in the Mix
Berlin Community Radio Loop Live Stream

Workshops*

LEAF Audio
Build Your Own Microphonic Soundbox
The Nile Project
East African Drumming & Vocal Workshops
Brian Smith, Francis Preve, Phelan Kane
Learn Synthesis by Example
J. Anthony Allen
Don't Let Music Theory Bully You: A Crash Course for Electronic Musicians
Flava D
Bass Management Boot Camp
Planetary Cymatic Resonance
Brainwave Stimulation & Therapeutic Sound Workshop
Phelan Kane, Milton Mermikides
Breaking out of 4/4 Time
Pierre-Antoine Grison
Less is More: Make an Entire Track from a Single Sample
Berlin Community Radio
Creative Audio for Online Radio
Claire Tolan
ShÜSh: ASMR as Performative Technique
Nick Collins
An Introduction to SuperCollider

More workshops to be announced soon

Studio Sessions*

Listening and process-focused studio sessions take place across several of Funkhaus’ professional sound studios. The intimate settings are designed to facilitate direct interaction with the participating musicians and artists.

Studio Sessions hosted by Mandy Parnell, Tennyson, Ben Frost, Honey Dijon, Ryat, Francis Preve, JD Twitch, Nosaj Thing, Susan Rogers, Machinedrum, Sorne, Kaki King, Rachel K Collier, Katie Gately, Stereo Total, Goth-Trad, and many more to be announced.

Loop x CDR Klubnacht

Loop passes include access to the Loop club night. Non-Loop passholders can buy tickets at the door.

Loop x CDR Klubnacht
Saturday 11 Nov, midnight until late
Venue: Tresor and OHM takeover

Featuring a night of live performances and DJ sets across four rooms from Jlin, Machinedrum, Gilles Peterson, mobilegirl, Nosaj Thing, JD Twitch and many more. Full line-up to be announced in October.