kk (mrfliz@interport.net)
Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:35:16 -0400
don't forget laurie anderson, who used tape on a bow she played over a tape head
instead of violin strings on a modified violin.
six degrees of acid jazz: laurie anderson lives with lou reed, who was sampled by a
tribe called quest (can i kick it), who if they don't qualify as a-j by themselves,
ought to solely by virtue of their work with ron carter......
kevin k-now k
Elson Trinidad wrote:
> Moonlight wrote:
>
> > >"Vinyl vs CD? It doesn't really matter, either format is acceptable with us.
> > >However, if you use tapes, we will laugh at you."
> >
> > I actually think that might be cooler. Would that be easier or harder to do?
> > Couldn't be that much different than using CDs, right?
> >
>
> Actually, tape is more like vinyl - tape is analog (unless it's a DAT), and
> theoretically, you can "scratch" on tape (though the effect won't be as dramatic;
> the tape reels revolve much slower than 33 1/3 RPM).
>
> The first examples of electronic music were done on tape, and even performed on
> tape - Stockhausen, Reich, et al, mostly by chopping up tape and re-arranging the
> bits;- musique concrete, the forefather of all sample-based music was a
> tape-based medium. Of course, we're talking about the old school reel-to-reel
> tape, which has a better sound quality than cassette or 8-tracks and can be
> manipulated due to their open mechanisms...Actually the audio effect known as
> "flanging" was invented from tape -- by running two tape machines playing the
> same tape, and pushing the *flange* of one reel, slowing it down slightly and
> causing a tonal modulation between the two. Also, the first sampling keyobard,
> the Mellotron, used tapes to store its samples (each key was a mini tape machine
> and each sound was a stretch of tape that played on its own playback head).
>
> But the weakness of tape as a DJ (TJ?) medium is evident: no random access (gotta
> rewind, fast forward), tape can get eaten up or damaged (they're *much* more
> fragile than records or CDs) and have a truly limited lifespan (most of my
> cassettes bought in the early '80s don't have any sound anymore). Oh yeah, and
> while vinyl crackle, rumble and popping may have its admirers, NO ONE likes tape
> hiss! If you're gonna use tapes, you might as well put everything on one tape,
> and if you;re gonna do that, you might as well not be there!
>
> Elson
>
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>
> "funny how frustration breeds desire" - meja
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