OT. Ideas, questions.

[Grant Richter]

There was a magazine in the 1960s called "Source: Music of the Avant-Garde"
which published one off scores. Each composer/contributor got
a single page for a score.

I remember one piece was a 6" x 6" square of magnetic tape material glued to
the page which had three different audio tracks recorded on to it using a
hand held recording head. Each audio track was recorded in a different
direction (horizontal, vertical and 45 degrees). The piece was "performed"
by taking a hand held tape head and scanning the tape surface at the
"performers" discretion. The tape azimuth and direction would automatically
provide different mixtures of the three source tracks and the pitch would
vary of course.

My other favorite was the woman who took a rubber garbage can full of staff
paper out into the desert and shot it up with a sub-machine gun. The actual
staff paper was bound in the magazine and the bullet holes were the notes.

Remember Dada and Anti-Music?, it was fashionable sometime before Brittany
Spears. (Although Brittany perfected it)


> Yo People of the list!
>
> I read about the idea of looping audio on Floppy disks.
> I wondering if any one has though of getting the head out of a walkman
> or something and bodgeing in to the the diskdrive ?
> For improved sound quality?
> and easy to get working? How about just draging a tape head over tape,
> 'scratching' samples on tape ?
>