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Here are a few short samples taken from within longer pieces. Fidelity has been lowered to ensure they stream on dialup connections. They often make more sense within a longer context, but I've selected them to show the range of tonalities and moods.

Some are played live, others are pieces dropped onto the computer using Acid Pro (now made way for Ableton Live) And Audition to (re)arrange and (re)treat the various sounds. Ableton is the most wonderful software for the way I work; I can just drag things to where I want, add visual gradients for pan, fx level & so forth. VST plugins are a permenant source of inspiration. There are mp3 samples of each track from "one" on it's own page.

Chain Tape Collective
The CT group (see links) set each other projects with tight definitions, but within those limits, musicians can submit whatever they like. There is no pressure to be "commercial and I find their philosophy highly inspiring. Here are my tracks, which can be downloaded free from their site.

Foreplay from Quartet
Bleaklow from Nature
Capricorn from Zodiac
Careless Raptor from Birds
Vivacia from Acoustic 2
Pheasant Plucking from Birds & Men
Don't Waste Your Wiener from Teisha
Fight Them On The Beaches from Great Speeches (review)
Canson from Paper Music

mp3
lyonesse - track from a forthcoming CD project where I've arranged loops from Bernhard Wagner with my own.
akira - featuring the alesis akira
excerpt from Leeds Awakenings 05
excerpt from Leeds Awakenings 06
shen - dedicated to one of my origami inspirations, the late Philip Shen
ping - cunningly named piece I recorded many years ago...
snippet from 10 years ago!
live improv from Heeley City Farm gig
live improv from somewhere

There are also some full length tracks available at www.myspace.com/nickrobinsonloops

A short track I contributed to the 10th anniversary of Loopers Delight - (near the end of the page)

All the usual copyright guff applies - no commercial use without prior consent, just ask!


video from a gig at St Matthews, Sheffield

another from the same gig
 
with Stephen Scott at Heeley Farm, Sheffield

video from the OSE gig in Leeds

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