About
One person, several layers
My name is Vincent Cantin Bellemare and I live in Montréal. Lapin Looper is my solo project: instrumental music made of loops I stack up live.
The principle is simple, which is what makes it hard. I play a first bar on guitar and it starts going around. I play a second one over it, on bass. Then a third. Nothing is written ahead, nothing is patched afterwards: if the first layer is crooked, everything after it is crooked too. That's the constraint of live looping, and it's also what makes it worth watching.
How it gets made
Ableton Live holds the loops and a Push acts as the dashboard. There's no looper pedal on the floor: everything goes through the pads, which keeps both hands on the instrument as long as possible.
The writing happens in the studio, in one take or in thirty. The shooting happens elsewhere — all over the Montréal area, because the living room wall has done its time.
Where I stand on artificial intelligence
It fits in one sentence: the AI makes the set, never the music.
The images and videos around the loops are generated. The belfries, the looms, the burrows — all of that comes out of a model, and I don't pretend otherwise. The music is a hundred percent played, with my fingers, with the mistakes that come with it. That's why you see the hands in the clips: it's the only proof that counts.
I say it once per post when it's relevant, and I don't turn it into a debate.
The rabbit
He's made of brass and bone, he doesn't blink, and he isn't there to be endearing. A loop is a stubborn machine: it repeats without tiring and never decides to stop. Somebody had to keep it turning.