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RE: G.M.Koenig and his Loops

There's some article floating around LD or elsewhere describing Terry Riley
actually getting the idea for the tape delay from a French engineer 
sometime
in the fifties.  Judging from the other-worldly sounds coming from early
20th-century _musique concrete_, that's not the only little secret that the
creative folks at the "Tape Music Centre" had.

  | -----Original Message-----
  | From: Bailey, Jim [mailto:JBailey@corporate.southam.ca]
  | Sent: Monday 16 October 2000 9:55 AM
  | To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
  | Subject: RE: G.M.Koenig and his Loops
  |
  |
  |
  | > -----Original Message-----
  | > From: Pohon-Kelapa@t-online.de [mailto:Pohon-Kelapa@t-online.de]
  | > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:30 AM
  | >
  | > found an interesting interview with G.M.Koenig.In this interview he
  | > explains a lot of his electronic work in his busy
  | > times(1953-1959) at the
  | > electronic studio Cologne of the WDR Radio/TV-station.
  |
  | This is indeed interesting. Do you have the source for this? If
  | it's true,
  | it predates the use of this technique by Terry Riley, et al. at the San
  | Francisco Tape Music Centre, widely credited as the origin of
  | tape-delay. As
  | one who still uses this method, I'm intrigued.
  |
  | Jim Bailey
  |
  |