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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
At 7:30 PM -0500 5/27/03, Doug Cox wrote:
So, then...
if Mike Battle starting making prototype 'Plexes in the late 50's, was
he aware of, or involved in, the activities of Riley, Oliveros, Reich,
et. al. at that time?
I asked him if he'd heard of Terry Riley, but he said not.
Was it
really, as it seems, that an Echoplex made it into Riley's hands... he
explained it to someone... who implemented the idea in a different way
(large tape decks)... which Riley tagged the "time lag
accumulator"... which Riley continued to use and others used
later as live looping devices... sorta like that?
I talked to Terry on the phone at some length and he never
mentioned the Echoplex. He was working with two monophonic Wollensack
tape decks circa 1959-60. He made "Mescalin Mix" in 1960 by
using one of the decks as a source, with a very long loop os source
material (across the room, out the window into the yard, around a wine
bottle and back in the window) and used the sound-on sound function of
the second deck to layer sounds. He played the resulting piece for the
French radio engineer, who then came up with the idea for the two-deck
system that became the Time Lag Accumulator. When Terry returned from
France he implemented the system on two Revox decks.
There is a little confusion about dates in all this, since Ramon
and Pauline claim there were some long-delay dual-machine performances
circa 1960-61. My suspicion is that this may be true, but that adding
the feedback component to the circuit may have come later. Time to
talk to them all again?
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