OT. Ideas, questions.

[Hairy Harry]

Dont forget the guy who painted staff lines on a fishtank,
and then played the fish position as notes....

H^) harry


>From: "Grant Richter" <grichter at execpc.com>
>To: Mikahil Tomsky <firetomsk at yahoo.com>, synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: Re: OT. Ideas, questions.
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:35:47 -0500
>
>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 ?
> >

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