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Re: 1952 Live looping recording Re: 50th anniversary of realtime looping? (BBC Radiophonic Workshop)

I wouldn't know.
Tyler Z
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:11:44 -0700, Revfever wrote:



>On Aug 19, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Matt Davignon wrote:

>The CD reissue of the entire original LP compilation album from way back 
>then 
>is available. 
>I ordered a copy earlier today. Not expensive. Other copies are 
>available. Do a 
>search.

>However, I did find this: 
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK_agPPxuR0
>(Only Tyler can tell us if it's the actual album version of the song.)
>Eeeee!  Mein Gaia!    Britney + Ussachevsky!   Oh dear...these ARE the 
>frickin' 
>End Times...!  :-)
>Cheers-
>Rev.Fever
>Portlandia
>http://www.spiritone.com/~rvfever
>http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elemental1
>http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elemental2
>http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/skult
><simart@gmail.com> wrote:
>I think it's little more than a footnote, but I found a recording of a 
>live 
>performance at the
>Museum of Modern Art in 1952 that clearly uses live looping techniques.
>It's the first live looping recording that I'm aware of.  The title is 
>"Sonic
>Contours" by Vladimir Ussachevsky. It was performed and broadcast live
>and is basically piano played through a tape delay. Otto Luening also
>participated in the concert, but "Sonic Contours" is only credited to
>Ussachevsky. The length of the delay and amount of feedback varies
>over the performance (maybe at the hand of Luening?). At times the
>delay is very short producing a slap back echo effect, but at the 5
>minute mark, the delay is lengthened and the there is sufficient
>feedback that several layers of piano are heard on top of each other.
>Amazon has it as an 99 cent mp3 download:
>http://www.amazon.com/Sonic-Contours/dp/B000S4B8YK