Why Frippertronics?

For some reason the name has stuck with me since hearing about it (and hearing it) on YouTube. In the early days of my progressive rock fandom, I scoured the web for King Crimson live videos, when I stumbled upon this. In it, Robert Fripp introduces the concept in his usual dry way providing no info on what the system it nor what’s going to happen. Then he turns on some tape machines with some looped guitar/synthesiser and starts playing a gorgeous guitar solo on top.

Here’s a picture of a similar setup used by Brian Eno (from the liner notes of Brian Eno’s Discreet Music): Fripp’s setup replaces the synthesiser with a guitar followed by a guitar pedal to fade the guitar sound in and out of the tape loop. This allows him (or the player) to create delayed and looped backing tracks which can be soloed on.

What’s the purpose of this blog?

I’m not sure, really. I’ll probably post something every once in a while related to programming, embedded systems, electronics and/or music. Every once in a while I google something to no avail, so maybe this can become a location for that kind of stuff (like what was the IBM Festival Series that made some fantastic opera-related posters back in (probably) the 80s?).

P.S. Here’s some more Frippy goodness