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hmmm, i haven't listened to or followed any of his stuff in years, but i recall seen a fairly good interview piece with him where he was describing a few pieces of equipment that he was using that he at least claimed to have built. seemed to be fairly specialized and 'garage-y' stuff. one was an analog device that used sine wave oscillators and some dedicated modulation to produce a fairly narrow range of tones, another was a simple low bit-depth sampler. there were some pictures of these as i recall. a couple of tracks (can't remember what albums they came of off) that i think would be interesting to check out if you get the chance, "Didgeridoo" and "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball", that had some rather distinctive tones in them which sounded very analog to me (at least analog filtering and modulation), or phenomenally good aproximations. stood out in my ear as quite unique. but i could be mistaken ... *shrug* -----Original Message----- From: Dave Trenkel [mailto:improv@peak.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:53 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: RE: prerecorded loops >I always thought this was a sort of musical "urban legend" (conflicting >reports). Does he *really* build his own gear and write his own software? I've heard the same, it doesn't seem like there's all that much in his earlier work (the pre-MSP period) that couldn't be done with creative programming of commercial synths and samplers. I think there's a tendency among a lot of the British electronic guys (and a few of the Americans I've met) to overly mystify what they do, as if they're afraid that someone else buying the same box will steal their gig. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Trenkel New and Improv Music http://www.newandimprov.com improv@peak.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------