Tuesday, June 13, 2006

But is it music..?

My evening class in 'analogue electronic music' is certainly fun, although a bit Blue Peter at times. Splicing up old bits of tape into tape loops and playing them through the old reel to reel player was pretty cool, although only one out of my three loops was really anything like 'musical'. Rather less successful was the use of doctored film played through a projector to create sounds, at least to my ears.

Steve Reich used tape loops a lot of course. I'll have to check it out. I'm looking forward to building the Theremin later in the course I have to say, but if all this just leads me back to the guitar, then that's fine too. Has anyone every played Theremin while playing guitar I wonder?

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