Tape Music, Tape Loops, Tape Manipulations

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their teachers at least

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone want to buy me this? pretty please???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Analog-Siemens-Tape-Delay-Kraftwerk-style-echo-moog_W0QQitemZ7357184902QQcategoryZ17401QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

pan sonic have these boxes with handles in which they wind up to produce sound. when someone peeked inside, they found butchered walkmans in which the mechanism was directly controlled by the turning of the handle - the faster it was turned, the higher pitch the noise etc.. simple and effective. it has the same principle as laurie anderson's tape violin. really cheap sampler delay pedals are good to use too. you can almost recreate the gashing the old mae west style mayhem on them by introducing new parts into the loop gradually replacing the original loop.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i had a roommate who invented an instrument called the ththphone (pronounced in an overly asperated lisping voice as thah-thah-fone). it involved opening up the circuitry of an ordinary cassette player and pressing the finger tips of one hand against the board while the other hand retarded the motion of the capstans. your fingers on the circuitry would cause it to create squeeling feedback. the speed of the tape would alter the texture. sounds silly, but it actually worked and was accurately repeatable with pretty much any cassette player. sounded good as an accompaniment to surf music, like a bastard theramin.

― Dan Gr (certain), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe an Otari is going for fifty bucks on ebay

Not like I'm going back to tape, ever, but...

fifty bucks!

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

well, at least a few people are bidding it...tape ain't dead yet.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I must have spent either one or two thousand hours in front of those things overall, out of my mind on whatever was handy at the time, but having one of my own was out of the question at the time

surreal

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember learning to cut tape and editing out awkward gaps and hmmms and ummms from interviews for a radio station talk show. Ah, the grease pencil and the scrubbing back and forth over the play head. Back when the phrase "cutting room floor" actually meant something literal.

God, I am SO old . . . . sigh.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, the chinagraph pencil..

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember having to write the sound to the tape with my bare hands! and walking 5 miles through blizzards just to get to the studio! Up hill! Both ways!

― Milton Babbitt, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

"someone at the 1958 world's fair cut up bits of tape and mounted them on the wall. then invited viewers to run playback heads over the tape manually. "

that was Nam June Paik - the year is probably right, i wasn't aware of it being at a world's fair though.

i just wanted to add that mellotrons do not use tape loops- they cut off after about 10 seconds.

― tremspeed, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

http://youtu.be/7AJX4flkK_w

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

https://vimeo.com/53891959

― am0n, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link

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