Re: Musique concrete revisited...

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 4:51 PM -0400 8/18/04, bruce tovsky wrote:
>on a similar front, with possible looping applications, is
>an instrument i ran across researching 'bent electronics'...
>basically, it was a large square surface that was comprised
>of strips of 1/4" tape laid side-to-side. these strips are played
>with a tape head held in the hand. one can play the strips
>up and down, or for a wilder effect, sideways. the audio
>examples were pretty interesting...

There was something along these lines in an issue of Source: Music of 
the Avant Garde (1967-72). This earlier instance was simpler, being 
just a rectangle of magnetic oxide and a hand-held playback head. As 
I recall the magnetic surface was bound right into the magazine.
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