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Re: Paul Dresher / Was Re: essential loop recordings
Title: Re: Paul Dresher / Was Re: essential loop
recordings
At 2:37 PM -0400 6/26/03, ArsOcarina@aol.com wrote:
He employed a single 8-track reel-to-reel
machine
It was a four track: TASCAM 40-4.
He had also constructed a "bank"
of foot pedals
24 control voltage pedals that regulated a VCA mixer build by
Paul Tydelski at UCSD.
One of the really neat tricks he would do
involved his post-loop processing through an early Eventide
Harmonizer. Somehow (this was pre-MIDI, I believe),
he was able to, at certain points, change the pitch of his loops
(without changing the tempo) by pressing keys on a small,
one-octave
keyboard. This was the first time I'd
heard (or seen) anyone do that.
He used an Eventide H949. The keyboard would have had a control
voltage connection. He later moved up to an H3000.
his music had a lot in comon (in my
thinking) to groups like Tangerine Dream and Ashra
I've often wondered about influences on Paul's loop music. I
never heard him listen to TD, Fripp, or any of that era's "space
music" but that doesn't mean he was unaware of it. Steve Reich
(and to some extent Terry Riley) were probably more direct influences,
and I expect Ingram Marshall and Daniel Lentz inspired the tape
system.
Bit of Dresher trivia: The first version of "Liquid and
Stellar Music" was a class exercise for Robert Erickson's tibre
seminar in the winter of 1978. It was realized on an Ampex 1/2"
4-track. The intention was to create a musical texture that was
perceived as a continuum, without individual "sound objects"
popping out in the mix.
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