RE: Mellotron -

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

Title: RE: Mellotron -

At 6:17 PM +0200 10/30/04, Michael Peters wrote:

> it really _was_ an anonymous engineer who
> came up with the delay system for
> 2 tape recorders. This is what Pauline Oliveros told me when I asked
> her a
> couple of years ago, and this is what Terry Riley wrote to me when I
> asked
> him.
> Here's what Terry wrote:

I talked to Pauline, Ramon, and Terry about this a when preparing my looping history presentation for the Y2K2 Loopfest. As I recall, Pauline said she got the two-machine idea from Ramon, who in turn got it from Terry. However, there was a little fuzziness about dates. Here's what Ramon had to say:

>
> If Pauline is referring to feeding one tape through two
> Wollensaks,
> the first on record and the second on playback, this
> set-up was first
> demonstrated to me by Terry Riley who I think said that he
> and
> Lamont Young used it during a dance performance of Anna
> Halperin's
> troupe during the period they were the composers involved
> with her.
> I then used it for a 'piano canon' performance during a
> Sonics Concert,
> if I recall correctly. We're talking the fall-spring of
> 1961-62?

 

Terry dates the technique to 1963, Ramon to some years earlier.

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