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Re: [microsound] Re: Metal Machine Music



>>From: Philip Curtis <pcurt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Thinking more of this of this "no input mixing board"
>>issue and historical uses, I'm wondering if Lou Reed's
>>"Metal Machine Music" didn't use this? What info I can
>>find seems to suggest it was just mic/guitar feedback,
>>but who knows... (another one of those pieces I've
>>heard a lot about but never heard, or maybe only
>>briefly). Anyone know?
>
>There was a good article about the making of that album in some zine several
>years ago and I think it was online at one point.  As far as I remember it
>was mostly guitar feedback but run through tons of effects pedals (lots of
>trememlo and fuzz) and multiple amps.  Then I think there was a lot of
>layering of tapes in the studio, possibly the same recording layered on top
>of itself forward and backwards so the different sides of the album are
>mirror images (not sure if that part is true).  So, it's not really related
>to the no-input idea but what a great album!  Pick it up if you have a
>chance and are at all interested in noise and "minimalism".  It's like the
>rock & roll Terry Riley ó Persian Surgery Dervishes through a wall of
>Marshalls.
>
>

hi+++i have got it. here i enclose the complete liner notes, whatever they
mean...
cheers :: nic

sony 1/2 track
uher 1/4 track
5 piggyback marshall tube
amps in series
arbitor distorsor (jimi's)
marantz preamps
marantz amps
altec voice of america
monitor speakers
sennheiser hadphones
drone cognizance and harmonic possiblities vis a vis
lamonte young's dream music
rock orientation, melodically disguised, i.e. drag avoidance of any type of
atonality
electro-voice high filter microphones
fender tremolo unit
sunn tremolo unit
ring modulator/octave relay jump
fender dyal showman bass amp with reverb unit (pre-columbia) white
no synthesizers
no arp
no instruments?
-- 10db + 57db
-- 20hz -- + 30,000hz
-- 12kz -- + 28,000kz
distortion 0.02 bass and treble ceilings
combinations and permutations built upon constant harmonic density increase
and melodic distractions
strict stereo separation
no panning
no phasing
no




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