Tape loop

<p>In <a href="/facts/Music/hDVP0xsQ">music</a>, tape loops are <a href="/facts/Loop_(music)/qaCpmaep">loops</a> of <a href="/facts/Magnetic_tape/wj6IDTR1">magnetic tape</a> used to create <a href="/facts/Repetition_(music)/TpSkfwn9">repetitive</a>, <a href="/facts/Rhythm/aHAByx9M">rhythmic</a> musical patterns or dense layers of <a href="/facts/Sound/DlKXlPuF">sound</a> when played on a <a href="/facts/Tape_recorder/fWXgHUwY">tape recorder</a>. Originating in the 1940s with the work of <a href="/facts/Pierre_Schaeffer/C0ya8Gu8">Pierre Schaeffer</a>, they were used among <a href="/facts/Contemporary_music/KuzN3elz">contemporary</a> composers of 1950s and 1960s, such as <a href="/facts/%25C3%2589liane_Radigue/ql9QUSfu">Éliane Radigue</a>, <a href="/facts/Steve_Reich/D8zYTljV">Steve Reich</a>, <a href="/facts/Terry_Riley/k1IL09Cs">Terry Riley</a>, and <a href="/facts/Karlheinz_Stockhausen/XCrTaejh">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a>, who used them to create <a href="/facts/Phaser_(effect)/e3uofh4c">phase</a> patterns, rhythms, textures, and <a href="/facts/Timbre/lVXB949E">timbres</a>. <a href="/facts/Popular_music/Q5yhxIwY">Popular music</a> authors of 1960s and 1970s, particularly in <a href="/facts/Psychedelic_music/RkxWNDTa">psychedelic</a>, <a href="/facts/Progressive_rock/79MRoIU7">progressive</a> and <a href="/facts/Ambient_music/QNnE3krK">ambient</a> genres, used tape loops to accompany their music with innovative sound effects. In the 1980s, <a href="/facts/Analog_audio/1Ggd37l0">analog audio</a> and tape loops with it gave way to <a href="/facts/Digital_audio/PgugcLAI">digital audio</a> and application of computers to generate and process sound.
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Tape loop