#28

Recording the birds in my back yard + a sound collage tape into the stereo Walkman for a friend

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#29

Passion Sources! Terry Riley!

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#30

Be sure to check them to see if you have any Type II in there (they’ll be darker colored tape) and hang on to them!

#31

mitch didnt leave me any but i have 5 or 10 type 2 tapes about. I use them selectively - I think the spectral machine noise / translation errors can sometimes be a feature more than a bug.

especially if a tape is one of those 30 minute streams of pretty you can get out of Cranes without much dissonance in the melodic structure, introducing discordance through machine noise is an interesting way to create and resolve tension.

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#32

How many of y’all are familiar with screw tapes?

I learned about this practice yesterday because it turns out George Floyd was into this in the 90s– when lean was really big in Houston, people liked to dub rap tapes using decks that were low on battery to slow them down.

I learned this about 12 hours after I had done the exact same thing to willie nelson’s blue skies, to turn it into a sad song.

George Floyd was tape head!!! :sob: :sob: :sob:

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#33

I remember those. DJ Screw was way into Purple Drank, and died from overdosing on it. But slowing stuff way down is still cool—especially analog sounds.

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#34

I wonder if there’s any relationship to vaporwave from this.

#35

Ahh yes the Chopped & Screwed remixes. Love those!

#36

chopping and screwing got me into making music on the computer in the first place… hadn’t really thought of going back to doing it the old fashioned way (although I guess you’d need a turntable and a tape deck, cuz I believe the original slowed down sound was achieved by running records at slower speeds? I could be wrong about this…) Love using loopers for this type of effect though : )

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#37

I like to pick up “found media” for sampling purposes. Bought some old church recordings and this massive lot of weird dubbed Japanese tapes from Yahoo Auctions (still need to go through them. Ha)

#38

Yessss thats the peril of buying used cassettes, half are too precious to record over

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#39

I’ll have to post some of the covers from the Japanese collection here, they’re great. I don’t know if they were made or bought.

#40

Just relaying what I heard in an interview - that def seems like an easier way than starving the battery.

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#41

Can 4 track recorder plug into a eurorack? What module would I need and what brand of decks should I look into? Would a Fostex X-18 be able to?

#42

Perhaps you could specify your use case a little more in detail? Also, when you say

do you mean the inputs or outputs or both?
As for inputting audio from your 4track into your modular, you will almost certainly need a module which is able to boost your signal to the appropriate eurorack levels (which are much higher than regular line levels).
You might not need a separate module for attenuating down your signals when you feed them from your modular to the desired 4track but I would highly recommend using one as this will give you much better control over your levels bevor the clipping/overdrive starts.
Perhaps a module like
LISTEN IO
from 4ms would be a suitable solution which can do both, input and output.

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#43

maybe i can piggyback onto this…

i had a similar thought, i’ve been looking into getting the folktek listen and synesthesia, mic preamps and envelope followers, respectively - mostly for getting drums and percussion into my modular. would these work for running my tape loops through my system as well?

would a headphone jack into a normal 3.5mm jack work? they look the same but i’m always assuming modular cables are different than headphone cables.

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#44

Yeah I’d always heard about DJ Screw pitching down vinyl on turntables and adding effects. A bit of a wander around Wikipedia articles linked out to a New York Times piece on DJ Screw that says:

The results of D.J. Screw’s labors often sound like rap records played underwater on an old cassette deck that’s running out of batteries and needs its tape heads cleaned.

So maybe that description of what the music sounds like has got translated over the years to some lore about how the music was made.

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#45

Gonna do an experiment with my ttsh tomorrow with running an output from my marantz cassette player thru the preamp/ envelope follower, maybe use it as white noise for a hat/ percussion sound.

Tomorrow is today

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#46

@pftjschute just wanted to say these studies are really fantastic really enjoying listening through, i feel like there’s a whole lot of interesting ideas and flow for what I (assume) is improvised exploration. thanks for sharing!

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#47

much appreciated! yes, all are improvised and patched live.

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