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rz, >My first exposure to this technique was the Pauline Oliveros piece "I >of IV" (1966). PO and her colleagues at the San Francisco Tape Music >Center were doing a lot of pieces with live tape delay systems as >early as 1962, and Terry was part of that scene. Tape delay as both >live and studio technique was well known in those circles. Otto >Luening's "Low Speed" used delay techiques in 1952! This music is >all readily available on CD, so check it out. > >As to "soundscape," I find that the term is indeed generally credited >to R. Murray Schafer (The Tuning of the World, 1977), though John >Cage's series of Imaginary Landscapes (1939 and later) are plausible >antecedents. thanks for all that. dt / s-c