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Tape Bowing - Open Reel Ensemble
Quite original stuff, looks fun and sounds really weird.
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I guess we must have similar tastes as the YouTube algorithm suggested me this one yesterday too! Fun watch!
When this first started, I thought it would just be some artsy college kids fooling around.
But after a few seconds, it got really good. Actually very musically interesting.
You can tell that it's well planned and well rehearsed.
I wonder which of them came up with the idea, and how he sold it to the others.
How would you even describe something like this?
Hey guys, I got an idea, we'll take some old reel to reel tape decks and...
I think the whole idea origins from Laurie Anderson who in -77 invented some tape bow violin. Very revolutionary.
It seems like the tape recorder is functioning in a way similar to a MIDI breath controller. Notes are being selected in
a traditional MIDI controller manner.
The innovation is the visual performance that makes digital music making have the same visual ques as a string quartet.
For our needs the “pen2bow” comes to mind but who has actually purchased a pen. I did for StaffPad composing
but Ihate giving up a hand so I’d like a low cost breath controller. There’s an iPhone app called Smule “Ocarina” (not “Ocarina Amaya”). It works by literally blowing into the microphone port… maybe converting that apps volume envelope to a CC would make for a cheap breath controller but I would need some physical holder for the iphone to free up another hand… sounds like a job for a coat hanger and velcro. Might be worth experimenting with. I won’t race you if you want to jump on it.
Arg… not an AUv3 or IAA app: I thought it was because I used “Ocarina Amaya” a lot but Smule’s Ocarina is
a standalone app since it turns the iphone (or ipad) into a physical instrument with internal speakers.
I was wondering what part the tape is playing in that performance since it's not producing the notes. So is it affecting the audio at all or is this more of a dance?
It’s the volume envelope. No tape head movement = no sound. Faster motions = get louder. It’s in the category of “Performance Art” in my analysis and executed really well.
Thanks, that's interesting.
Thanks for posting Laurie Anderson. Especially that piece where she describes her instruments. I haven’t thought of her in decades. I think I first heard her on an “underground” radio station in Chicago back in the mid 70s and early 80s. It’s where I first discovered Hawkwind, Jade Warrior, Diez and Bischof, and so many others. I always envied Laurie Anderson. She came on the scene when people were open minded to new things. Brian Eno was okay too, but his stuff usually put me to sleep. She actually did musically and visually interesting things, and made a good living doing it. If only I knew then what I know now.
A few months ago, I was waiting in line with a group of various people of all ages, sizes, colors, and backgrounds. Every one of them, without exception, was holding their devices, staring down blankly, and completely ignoring everyone else around them. I was the only one without a device. Back in my day, people would have started conversations and got acquainted, until their number was called. I thought it might have ben fun to capture their keystrokes, without their knowledge, and feed them into a bank of MIDI synths, under my complete control, and create a symphony of apathy and indifference.
I see the market price on Pioneer reel to reels going up. Very surprising and very cool.
That's a fun idea, it rings a bell of something I've seen done, but, can't get it forward...