Creativity in the Engineer's Chair with Young Guru
Jay Z’s engineer Young Guru discusses his creative approach to making records, sculpting sound, and how he draws on life experience for his work in the studio
Check out videos and articles from Ableton's events for music makers
Daniel Miller on channeling creativity
Mute label head Daniel Miller discusses how he channels creativity in a video from Loop 2015
On And Off The Grid: Acoustic drummers and electronic music
Video of a discussion with Kiran Ghandi, Katharina Ernst and Zach Danziger at Loop 2015, on the topic of incorporating telectronic music into their playing
Loop 2016: The summit for music makers returns to Berlin
The 2016 edition of Loop, the summit for music makers, takes place November 4 - 6 in Berlin at the historic Funkhaus
Overcoming Creative Blocks with Matthew Herbert, Young Guru, Phoebe Kiddo and James Holden
Watch video of a panel discussion on creative blocks and strategies for overcoming them with Matthew Herbert, Young Guru, Phoebe Kiddo and James Holden
Practice What You Teach: Producers as educators
Video from a Loop 2015 panel discussion with Erin Berra, King Britt and Lawrence Grey discussing their experiences as educators
In Conversation: Robert Henke and Dennis DeSantis
Video of Robert Henke aka Monolake in conversation with “Making Music” author Dennis DeSantis at Loop 2015
Failure=Success: A talk by Robert Henke
Video of Robert Henke’s keynote presentation from the Loop music makers’ summit 2015
Henrik Schwarz and Bugge Wesseltoft: Collaborating and Improvising through Technology
Henrik Schwarz and Bugge Wesseltoft improvisation and collaboration presentation from the Loop summit 2015
Perspectives from Loop: Repetition, variation and sampling
Henrik Schwarz, King Britt, Recloose and Hillegonda Rietveld spoke at Loop 2015 about loops, sampling, repetition and variation
All Together Now: Interactive music making on the mobile web
From Loop 2015, a video of Norbert Schnell’s presentation of CoSiMa – a project exploring mobile platforms as the means to create collective performances
Perspectives from Loop: New frontiers of music tech
The desirable futures of music technologies as seen at the Loop summit for music makers
In Conversation: Holly Herndon and Jace Clayton
Watch a video of Holly Herndon and Jace Clayton’s conversation at Loop 2015.
Perspectives from Loop: Holly Herndon on Process
Watch a video of Holly Herndon’s presentation at Loop 2015 on how she uses process-based composition to engage with social and political issues
A look back at Loop 2015
See photographs and insightful quotes from the participants at Loop, Ableton’s summit for music-makers that took place in Berlin in November 2015
Loop: A Summit for Music Makers
Loop – a summit for music makers. A three day program of performances, talks, and workshops at the cutting edge of music, creativity, and technology.