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Re: Mellotron -
Title: Re: Mellotron -
At 11:26 AM -0500 11/2/04, David Beardsley wrote:
Jon Hassell? I didn't think he used
electronic equipment
until the '70s and when he started doing it with Eno, he
was
using a sampler.
Here's what Jon wrote to me:
1960-63
While doing my time in the Army Band in DC (post-MM
Eastman, working on PhD musicology at Catholic University), I used to
make loops of chopped up bits of sustained chords at end of songs by
the Hi-Lo's (hip harmony vocal group) and play them permutating
against one another on 2 machines. Wound in tape score for Louis
Tupler dance group.
1969-71
After 2-3 years in Cologne with Stockhausen, etc. was at
SUNY Buffalo (Creative Fellowship) where I met Terry Riley (see In C
recording) and played with him in some late night concerts (unless
told otherwise, I do believe that I laid down the first bass line on a
Moog in live performance?) and of course saw the 2 Revox delay system
that he was using. Did a piece in Carnegie Recital Hall Series called
"Goodbye Music" using essentially the same system playing a
zither into big floaty chords which were erasing the previous
performance.
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