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In college, me and a classmate recored stuff onto an old 8 track cassette recorder. Then played back the audio using the track select button as its own percussion part and the recored audio was completely random. Granted this wasn't on stage, but 3 am in a dorm room highly intoxicated. Up until now, I thought it was a really dumb little gimmick, but I guess we were ahead of our time. On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Bill Fox wrote: > todd reynolds wrote: >> The REAL reason I'm writing to the WHOLE list is that Amy let me >> in on a little secret. She's going to actually make a vinyl >> record onstage, put it on a second victrola and actually do a >> little vintage live-looping on Vinyl. I thought that I shouldn't >> let the opportunity pass to let you all know. Details below, I >> wish you well.. And if you go, tell us all about it! >> ... >> Also your own local anti-folk hero and discarded-technology geek >> Steve Espinola will join me for an experiment in live looping >> using archaic recording gadgets. > I was there and Amy was as fun as ever to watch and hear. The > "experiment" as she called it went well, imo. She played some > sparse chords on a tiny keyboard. (Sort of Casio-like toy that she > held in her lap.) She and Steve sang counter point while Steve cut > the acetate on an ancient Recordio. Then they did the same song > again singing different parts and lyrics. This was recorded on > another acetate. Then both acetates were played on old Victrolas > and miced hard left and right, respectively, and synced by hand to > make the final song. The acretates last for two plays and are then > trash at that point. I hope that, since we only heard one play, > that the second play is done in a studio and recorded for a future > Amy X. album. > > Chef Geoff brought Amy a rose and some home made schnapps. Howard > Moscovitz (Mr. http://electro-music.com) and I drove in to the > city together. I first saw Amy at electro-music 2005. > > Cheers, > > Bill >