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At 4:51 PM -0400 8/18/04, bruce tovsky wrote: >on a similar front, with possible looping applications, is >an instrument i ran across researching 'bent electronics'... >basically, it was a large square surface that was comprised >of strips of 1/4" tape laid side-to-side. these strips are played >with a tape head held in the hand. one can play the strips >up and down, or for a wilder effect, sideways. the audio >examples were pretty interesting... There was something along these lines in an issue of Source: Music of the Avant Garde (1967-72). This earlier instance was simpler, being just a rectangle of magnetic oxide and a hand-held playback head. As I recall the magnetic surface was bound right into the magazine. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com