Re: LiveLooping on vinyl: Amy X. Neuberg in New York Saturday Night

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Thanks much for the review, Bill. Did Recordios only do acetate 78's?  
Doesn't seem like the idea would work very well if people could only 
listen to their home recordings twice.

I'm now consumed by the desire to get one of these and modify it to cut 
fixed grooves...seems like one could put a lot of loops on a single 
record. At 78 rpm, they'd be pretty short loops, but such analog 
loveliness it would be.

http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/portable-wilcox-gay-recordio.jpg

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> I was there and Amy was as fun as ever to watch and hear.  The 
> "experiment" as she called it went well, imo.  She played some sparse 
> chords on a tiny keyboard.  (Sort of Casio-like toy that she held in 
> her lap.)  She and Steve sang counter point while Steve cut the 
> acetate on an ancient Recordio.  Then they did the same song again 
> singing different parts and lyrics.  This was recorded on another 
> acetate.  Then both acetates were played on old Victrolas and miced 
> hard left and right, respectively, and synced by hand to make the 
> final song.  The acretates last for two plays and are then trash at 
> that point.  I hope that, since we only heard one play, that the 
> second play is done in a studio and recorded for a future Amy X. album.