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Thom- No ostracism here. In fact a real exploration of old school looping-how, what material, and what not would be a welcome lesson here. salam, buck > >>Good Ole Fashioned tape looping (Steven Dubofsky , Fri 10:43 PM) >> >>I haven't seen any posts relating to reel to reel looping, is anyone stil >>doing this? > >Sort-of related but not really -- has anyone here played with an ultra >lo-tech (and lo-fi) method of looping, i.e. hand-cut cassette loops? > >I've been lurking here a while; I mostly use an EPS classic for my >looping, which is lo-tech enough, but this cassette method was something >I and a parnter played with a few years ago. Something about its >rawness, and its limitations actually seemed conducive to interesting + >unexpected outcomes. Sort of akin to a Surrealist game/experiment >technique. > >I recently forwarded a Loopers-Delight post to a friend of mine who uses >looping (via sampler), and ended up reminiscing about the cassette >technique... > >>> Interesting little blurb about looping. He's especially right about the >>> way that repetition changes its meaning depending upon where the >>> sequence is located within the larger structure. >> >>And depending on amount of repetition perceived by the listener. When I >>was starting out doing the blue pill project with Jason (Holford), we got a bunch of >>cassettes, took them apart and made short tape loops out of them, the >>idea being to have an arsenal of these things for recording on and using >>in songs -- a sampler of sorts before I had the sampler (and this lo-tek >>method has certain aspects which digital sampling lacks). We were so >>amazed at how we could use one of these to tape anything at all, and >>then listen to the loop over and over... it was addicting... and hear >>new patterns, new elements the more we did this. To me, this is a >>fascinating thing, touching on the way our minds work (perceive). > >Just 'thought I'd share'... anyone else played with this, or am I soon >to be ostracized for my tinker-toy shenanigans? :) > >BTW, snippets of the blue pill material can be heard on the web site >listed below. > >Thom > >-- > _ _ _ Thom Heileson > //)) //^~ heileson@u.washington.edu > ((// // > http://weber.u.washington.edu/~heileson/index.html > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com