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Re: Dripsody

>Here's 'his' web page on the Canadian Culturnet site.
>http://www.culturenet.ucalgary.ca/cmc/dac_rca/eng/k_/LeCaine_Hugh.html
>
>A recording was released by EAR years ago...
>Hugh Le Caine: Dripsody: An Etude for Variable Speed Recorder
>(Ear Magazine Canada compilation.)
>
>In 1955 he recorded the sound of a water drip and manipulated it
>using a variable-speed tape deck. He create the two-minute song
>consisting of nothing more than the sound of the drip speed-up
>or slowed-down. Whew! That's what I call gripped by a vision.
>
>Quite impressive really. Think "Karlheinz Stockhausen with
>obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). ;)
>
>I'm still searching for an online recording. It's only 2:00 min
>long.
>
>- Larry T
>
It's on the "Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music" compilation set I think
I was raving about on this list last week. Amazing piece, actually.

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