RE: quad looping

["Javier Miranda V." <gnominus@earthling.net> (by way of Kim Flint)]

A friend of mine told me of a quadraphonic radio station here in California
in the early Seventies, when quadraphonic records started to come out.  He
told me they put together two different transmitters, each in stereo, of
course, tuned to the same frequency, and your radio was supposed to mix and
match, and you could hear the whole thing in your living room.

Come to think of it, wouldn't it be great that you could have a worldwide
concert where the bands are playing somewhere and you could set yourself up
at home and listen in surround sound to the whole thing, as though you were
sitting there?  It would also help if you had one of those 64-inch
flat-screen digital TVs.  What about doing that in a movie theater?  Movie
theathers all over the world with live music from somewhere...  OK, what
about loopers playing the music?  Wouldn't that be cool?

  | -----Original Message-----
  | From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tcn62@ici.net]
  | Sent: Monday 01 November 1999 6:12 PM
  | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
  | Subject: Re: quad looping
  |
  |
  | At 09:50 AM 11/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
  | (What do you call a
  | >quad pan-pot, anyhow?)
  |
  | Back in 1969, The Pink Floyd were calling their surround-sound setup 
the
  | Azimuth Co-Ordinator System, although theirs was hexaphonic rather than
  | quad. (They had used a quad system as early as '67, at the
  | infamous Games
  | for May show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but the rear speakers
  | were stolen
  | by the audience!) A joystick could send a sound source (which was
  | frequently tape loops, to bring this on-topic!) panning around the 
hall.
  | The loop most often remembered (a wonder in itself) was the sound of
  | footsteps walking completely around the crowd.
  |
  | But if you called yours a quad pan pot, we'd know what you were
  | talking about!
  |
  | Tim
  |
  |