[sdiy] Sampler with tape dump?

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Sounds like an awesome extrapolation of Lucier's masterpiece! :-)

Another nice one is this:
https://repeatle.bandcamp.com/album/wf1-2023
by Wind & Fire (Andreas Tilliander & Christian Hutchinson-Berg),
a cassette release in limited edition of 100 copies (literally).

"Each cassette is a duplicate of the previous one where cassette number 001
is the master, 002 a copy of 001, 003 of 002, 004 of 003 et cetera.
In this way, every cassette is unique and the sound is slowly degrading,
getting more distorted and weird with each new copy.
A nod to Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In a Room or perhaps even more to the
The Cure cassettes we taped from and to our friends as kids. The cover art
is treated the same way."

Here's a picture of some of the cassette covers, number 1, 11, and 36:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/MZX3i67G3euGvrs9/

Quite refreshing concept art after all. Interesting twist that each
cassette owner gets only one slice of the degradation, not the full
degradation process like in Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room".

Hmm, makes me wonder what number of generations my old cassette copy of J-M
Jarre's "Music for Supermarkets" is... Speaking of saving samples onto
tape. 8-)

/mr

Den tis 13 aug. 2024 15:56ulfur hansson <ulfurh at gmail.com> skrev:

> Haha! Thats a great question - reminds me of the youtube version of I am
> sitting in a room - some guy uploaded/downloaded a video of himself
> reciting the text 1000x times and it gradually turns into a pastel coloured
> smear with very ambient sounding skype-ish soundscapes 🥰
>
> sent from outer space
>
> On 13 Aug 2024, at 10:03, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
>
> 
> What would Alvin Lucier have done with a sampler with tape dump feature?
> ;-)
>
> ("I am sitting in a room" -> "I am sampling in a dump"...)
>
> /mr
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 at 09:46, Adam (synthDIY) <synthdiy at adambaby.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 8 Aug 2024, at 5:04 PM, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
>>
>>  The tape dump method is of course much "better" since it's lossless,
>> and also might have needed less expensive/messy hardware solutions back in
>> the day.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ha ha exactly!
>> "Makes sense on paper" doesn't it...
>> but the "lossy" use of these things just adds to their character,
>> musically, of course
>>
>> (e.g. the S612 has this fabulous function they call "Overdub" where you
>> can record a new sample over the previous one... ad infinitum.. with the
>> sampler making adjustments to the gain each time to compensate... )
>>
>> A
>>
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