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Re: Dig if u will my research paper Chapter 3
Title: Re: Dig if u will my research paper Chapter 3
on 27/5/03 4:09 pm, Richard Zvonar at zvonar@zvonar.com wrote:
At 6:21 PM +0100 5/26/03, Geoff Smith wrote:
His piece Mescalin Mix was Riley's first attempts at live looping, "with the help of Ramon Sender, he made use of an Echoplex, a primitive electronic contraption allowing a sound to be repeated in an ever accumulating counterpoint against itself" 1
1 p98 Potter, Keith. Four Musical Minimalists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000)
Did you confirm this with Terry? When I spoke to him about Mescalin Mix he said that he used two Wollensack tape decks. Also, in several conversations with Ramon Sender there was never mention of an Echoplex.
No I didn't confirm to this, as the book is so recent and thorough I though it would be true. However from what u are saying it sounds wrong.
I would however recommend this book as it is the most in depth resource on the music of Terry Riley that I found. In fact is was one of the few books I read where I thought that the author had been bothered to carry out original research into the music of the Minimalists.
If you read it or have read it then I would be interested to know what you think.
Cheers
Geoff
