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Daryl...yes yes yes!!! You got it, exactly my point to
doing this is to allow for others to contribute. The fact I haven't even created
it and still presented it allows the Idea itself to loop and evolve. No ego here
I know this is such a dated invention and this can be done by digital
means with of course a sampler and a arpeggeiator set to random. The point of
doing this is to challenge the primitive means of times gone by and create as my
hero's did in thier time. Think about it, Musique Concrete was done with tape
cutting technique with tools available at that time. ENO, RILEY etc. used tape
looping technique in the time it was invented. So my point to all this rambling
is, had the technology of the seventies existed, I have no doubt someone
would have done what I am proposing here. I am combining the two era's
technologies to see what could have been created if the tape looping,
M concrete, and 1970's 8-track had existed during the same era. The point
here is of course not about creating hit music...far from it. My goal is to
create a final device that creates looping , evolving random music
using two things TAPE and TAPE RECORDERS/PLAYERS this can be from any era. In
fact I may have to nab a dead or dying 8 track real to reel play head so that as
the record head switches tracks the tracks can still be heard. As of right now
if the record part of the head is engaged it can't simultaneously play back like
multi- track recorders of today.
Daryl
the concepts you present are right in line with my thinking. These concepts are
very cool indeed. I encourage anyone to make a similar device to what I am
proposing. That's what makes this so interesting as it triggers other ideas...as
already stated.
Leo
-----Original Message-----
From:
Daryl [mailto:highhorse@mhorse.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004
11:07 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject:
Re: Loop tracker / re-thinking technology
I'm dyin' to hear what this
sounds like, Leo! I love the idea of credit card strips too.
Part
of what I love about ideas like this, or the Magnatron, is how new ideas can
be generated which then can lead to development of other products based on
it. For example, I've seen people controlling a laptop instrument with a
pad and lightpen. Would it be possible to recreate and extend the
Magnatron with this technology - what I'm thinking would be to assign a sample
to the pad in a definite physical space, so that dragging the pen at various
spots would play that particular part of the sample. Moving the pen
forward would play it forward, backwards backward, and the faster the drag,
the higher the pitch. The limitation of the Magnatron of course is that
it's stuck with the sample on it, at least practically. With a laptop,
one could change samples on the fly, or even assign 10 samples to the pad, or
even 100, in 1 inch "sample blocks".
I've been messing with a stock
Dictaphone transcriber for awhile, and there's something unique about it that
could be interesting for digital loopers. I can record, say, 20
seconds of material, then switch into playback/transcribe mode. Pressing
the footswitch rewinds the tape a few seconds, which is controllable between a
fraction of a second and four or five seconds with a slider. The really
interesting thing is that, with the slider set to maximum rewind, it's
possible to control how far back the rewind happens by how quickly the
footswitch is pressed. So, imagine a sample of someone saying
"tracheotomy". As I understand it, the EDP could do stutters with this
loop like "tra-tra-tra", or "tracheo-tracheo-tracheo". By varying the
speed of the footswitch click on the Dictaphone, I can replay small pieces
while still rewinding, doing things like
"tomy-eotomy-my-acheotromy-otomy-my-tracheotomy". I can actually play
back through the entire length of the tape, playing varying bits and pieces
while moving back. The fun part is it being foot-controlled, which makes it
much more expressive. I suppose to recreate this on the EDP or
other box, a time value would have to be assigned to the replay function, so
that a slow click would stop the sample, rewind to the beginning and replay,
while a fast click would stop the sample and only go back part of the
way.
Daryl Shawn
highhorse@mhorse.com
Mind you the above are all
in concept phase... but theorically should work. I am hoping to have these
ready for the loopers convention this october for a live
performance.
Leo
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