Re: Arcane Device

["Randy Jones" <ranjones@texas.net>]

Hi All,

Buy Looper First!

Found a couple of locations for David Myers CDs
8 Arcane Device - Diabolis Ex Machina(CD)
http://www.staalplaat.com/st-a.htm
Didn't see any others at Staaplaat, but some very interesting looking items
here.
You can convert Dutch Guilders and other currency here:
http://www.cookiesfromeden.com/convert.html
Both " Also Sprach·and Envoi" located here:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Art.Konkret/mailca.htm
Left email for visa order, will see.  They are are in some nonamerican 
land,
I think they speak Globlish though.

Randy Jones

David Myers wrote (edited)>
>My favorite CD was a little different.  "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (may
>still be available on Staalplaat Records) was done with a Lexicon LXP-5, 
>an
>MRC, and one pot.  Same thing, the LXP-5 fed itself, but the MRC was used
>extensively to crank the parameters.  Given the setup, the variety of
>sounds and structures is pretty amazing, even if I do say so myself.
>(Admittedly, a pretty bombastic title, but besides being a longtime fan of
>the book, I guess I thought "stickin in to" the classical establishment
>wouldn't hurt, either.)
>
>The last solo CD I did (had two collaborative releases with German 
>composer
>Asmus Tietchens) technically puzzles even me.  On "Envoi in Cumin" I again
>used the 4X Time Machine setup.  Each delay was set for approx. 1 second.
>But the routing was so strange (wish I could recount it exactly) that what
>came out was a kind of "see-saw" base sound--yeah, a loop--which varied in
>period somehow.  I called it a "soft loop", and it subtly changed in sound
>as the loop time  wandered between 7 and 15 seconds!  In part, this was 
>due
>to these delays having LFO modulation available, which in this case I
>applied sparingly--a good selling point (along with all those other knobs)
>for the Digitechs.
>