Re: [microsound] Tape recorder techniques

["ph!L @ c e n t i b e l" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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don't know how to do reverb with tape loops. You may be thinking of echo
which is made by playing with the time delay between the record and
playback heads. If you have two tape recorders, you can make longer
delays, Robert-Fripp-style. Also I read once how Pauline Oliveros once
made tape music and used paper towel rolls as filters and played sounds
into the bathtub to get reverb. There are lots of ways to get
interesting effects without outboard effects units. 

ph

>I have some questions about the different 
>techniques in manipulation of the magnetic 
>tape. Me and a friend is currently working 
>with splicing and cutting tape. We utilize 
>these ways of manipulating; change of speed, 
>direction, and delay. Here in his studio, we 
>have only one tape recorder right now, an 
>old 2 track. However, I am aware of effects, 
>like reverb, made by the use of tape loops 
>only. I would like to ask how this is done, 
>and also how many tape recorders would be 
>the minimum for this and similar effects 
>that is possible with the use of tape. 
>The only sound sources for this piece we are 
>planning and setting up for recording, is 
>the sound of 7 glasses with different 
>amounts of water, resonanting, and then we 
>put the glasses on a hard surface; the 
>surface is connected with two contact mics, 
>one for each channel -left and right. What 
>type of surface would be best fitted for 
>this? We are thinking of a thick glass 
>surface... Any help and/or comments on all 
>of this will be highly appreciated. Thanks! 
>
>-Kasper 
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