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February 19 2009

Video: Andrew Bird – “A Nervous Tic Motion” Live Looping

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Live looping is a technique made more popular recently by people like KT Tunstall, but it’s not really a new concept at all. Basically it consists of one or more musicians capturing live audio in a loop and adding more layers on to the loop throughout the song. Usually accomplished with something like a Boss Loop Station or Electro-Harmonix Super Multi-Track Looper. If done well it can be an incredible thing to see and hear.

Andrew Bird is an incredible musician, vocalist, live looper and whistler. In fact I’ve not heard many give as clean and on pitch whistle as Andrew. Noble Beast is Andrew’s latest album and it sounds incredible.

Here is a video of Andrew performing “A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left“ live at Bonnaroo in ’06 showing off his sick live looping skills.

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  1.  aaron dailey says...

    I wish he would do a whole song just looping whistling.

    Posted on 19 Feb 2009 at 6:36 pm
  2.  J.Utter says...

    Andrew Bird is a very talented artist with a peculiar twist in his music. I dig the textures he creates in his songs- I’ve honestly yet to see live looping as good as this… crazy shweet stuff. I believe he may have some free tracks available at RCRDLBL.com

    Posted on 21 Feb 2009 at 12:07 am
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