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At 12:04 AM -0800 3/6/02, Andre LaFosse wrote: >A big part of my current view on using the EDP actually comes from what >I'd call a post-DJ mentality. I suppose you might say that my approach stems from a pre-DJ mentality, although I'm now interested in checking out what the DJs have been doing. I consider a lot of what I do to be "sound collage" and I've been doing it in various contexts since 1969. I started thinking seriously about this kind of sound art after hearing recordings of John Cage, David Tudor, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, et al. in the late '60s (my inclusion of some of their music, along with my other early influences such as the Who, was a deliberate homage in my Loopstock performance). Cage's Variations IV, with its environmental audio collage of recorded, broadcast, and live sound sources, was a particular inspiration, and it was after attending two Merce Cunnigham dance performances with music by Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma that I was inspired to do my own first multimedia piece with indeterminate multichannel surround sound. I prepared four tapes, to be played back simultaneously on a quartet of tape decks, each with its own autonomous operator. My production tools were two tape decks, a Nagra for playback and a Tandberg for recording. Each had a particular transport quirk that allowed a certain range of playback or record manipulation. The Nagra had a clutch lever that could be pulled out while the tape was playing. Pulled out a little bit set it into fast forward; pulling out all the way put it into reverse. I developed a technique for continuously "scrub" the tape back and forth, very much like vinyl scratching. The Tandberg had a small lever that would pinch the tape and prevent it from moving. This was no doubt designed for cueing during playback, but I used it while in record mode as a way to punch in. An interesting artifact was produced during the brief interval while the record tape was coming up to speed. This would produce an effect on playback of a sharp attack with a quick downward glissando. In several passages punched in repeatedly over the same section of tape, creating a sort of stutter effect. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz