Editing Frippertronics (section)

{{Short description|Set of recording techniques developed by Robert Fripp}}
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'''Frippertronics''' is a [[tape loop]]ing technique used by English guitarist [[Robert Fripp]].<ref name="Synapse1">Fricke, David. [http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/synapse.cfm?pc=48&folder=summer79&pic=24 "Electronic Music and Synthesizers"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504173130/http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/synapse.cfm?pc=48&folder=summer79&pic=24|date=4 May 2008}}, ''[[Synapse Magazine]]'', Vol. 3 No. 2, Summer 1979.</ref> It marked the first real-time tape looping device, evolving from a system developed in the [[electronic music]] studios of the early 1960s by composers [[Terry Riley]] and [[Pauline Oliveros]] and made popular through its use in [[ambient music]] by composer [[Brian Eno]], as on his album ''[[Discreet Music]]'' (1975).  The effect is now routinely found in many commercial [[loop station]] guitar digital [[Effects unit|effects boxes]] such as the [[Boss Corporation|Boss]] RC-3.