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Someone posted that Open Reel Ensemble on another forum recently. It must be making the rounds. While I don't really listen to that music regularly, there was a moment in the 1970s and 1980s that I got into it. Not only tape manipulation, but other kinds of analog electronic sounds.
I think it started when I read somewhere that flanging was discovered by putting one's thumb on the tape reel. That led me to making tape loops. I had two Akai open reel decks, and the splicing tools, and got pretty good at it, and used it for some independent low budget film scoring. I even got a job at a high school that was trying to revive its electronic music lab. They had tape decks and an ARP synth, and other electronic devices. They gave me a NYS curriculum guide for electronic music, and I obtained other materials from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.
The job only lasted a year, due to budget cuts, but that was an interesting year. It was pre-internet, and students were enthusiastic to learn this stuff. We made tape loops, ranging in length from 10" to those that encircled the entire classroom and did several recording projects. It was a lot of fun, and I learned enough to land a scholarship to study with the computer music pioneer Lejaren Hiller at the State University of New York Electronic Music Studio. Nice to see some folks doing that stuff today!
I think it started when I read somewhere that flanging was discovered by putting one's thumb on the tape reel. That led me to making tape loops. I had two Akai open reel decks, and the splicing tools, and got pretty good at it, and used it for some independent low budget film scoring. I even got a job at a high school that was trying to revive its electronic music lab. They had tape decks and an ARP synth, and other electronic devices. They gave me a NYS curriculum guide for electronic music, and I obtained other materials from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.
The job only lasted a year, due to budget cuts, but that was an interesting year. It was pre-internet, and students were enthusiastic to learn this stuff. We made tape loops, ranging in length from 10" to those that encircled the entire classroom and did several recording projects. It was a lot of fun, and I learned enough to land a scholarship to study with the computer music pioneer Lejaren Hiller at the State University of New York Electronic Music Studio. Nice to see some folks doing that stuff today!
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