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RE: Mellotron -
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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