Josep Vicent Garces Pellicer

I first came to the Netherlands to work as a R&D engineer and I worked in the industry for several years. But always developing my music skills because music was what I really wanted to do with my life. After applying for the masters in Live Electronics, I quit my job and I made my dream come true: study Live Electroncis at the conservatory of Amsterdam.

I graduated in June 2018 and since then I’m the founder of the company LiveLoop BV in which the software will be distributed online.

What I loved from my studies is that I had a performance every month in which I had to prepare a new composition. It was very intense but very fruitfully.

My future plans are the moment is to continue developing my music and make the LiveLoop software available in the market for other musicians to use.

Guide to develop and build a live electronic setup for professional musicians

The idea behind this research follows my aim of building a performance set up for my own personal use, as well as a set-up which can inspire others musicians interested in live looping.

Live Looping is a playing technique based on loops being recorded during the performance. It is a means to real time composing, or “near real time” as the loops are recorded seconds or minutes before they are heard.
Looping seems to engender a valuable, reflective quality in the players who employ it, either from a meditative or “musical self-study” perspective such as multi-track recording, you get to stop & listen to what you’ve performed & then respond, play &/or overdub to it. but: it’s instantaneous, and its nearly infinitely mutable.

Other Projects

During my study programme I developed a software for LiveLooping which I will release on the market soon (liveloop.live).

The reason this project was important for me is because I was live looping myself for few years using hardware pedals, but I was getting limited for the kind of music I wanted to play. I wanted to play with more complexity in rhythms and structures and improve the way the loops are recording making it more intuitive and simple for the live performance. Since the start of my development, the LiveLoop software is part of my music set up.

Looping seems to engender a valuable, reflective quality in the players who employ it, either from a meditative or “musical self-study” perspective such as multi-track recording, you get to stop & listen to what you’ve performed & then respond, play &/or overdub to it. but: it’s instantaneous, and its nearly infinitely mutable.