
In music, tape loops are loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound. Contemporary composers such as Halim El-Dabh, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Pierre Schaeffer, and Karlheinz Stockhausen used tape loops to create phase patterns, rhythms, textures, and timbres. In a tape loop, sound is recorde...
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A length of tape with the ends spliced together so that the recording will continuously play.
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