Korgscrew
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Posted: May 06 2000, 22:19 |
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My thoughts here...
rosko: For me, this was starting to get interesting. We're beginning to try and uncover how the album was put together and therefore the way Mike translates his thoughts into something more 'real'. For people creating their own music, knowing how other artists work, along with accidents and moments of pure genius can often help the ideas become something that other people can understand...If you don't find this interesting, though, nobody's forcing you to read this 
Blue Dolphin: The idea of pasting pieces of tape together might seem crazy, but it happened. If you listen to Pink Floyd's 'Money', you'll hear sound effects put together in a sequence which comes in time with the music, a bit like a sampled percussion track or something. This was done exactly like that, though - taking each effect on an individual piece of tape and sticking them all together so that they formed a steady beat (the musicians then played in time to this).
Now, listen to the vocal sound on Incantations. There's actually no separate 'attack' portion to the sound - it can be started anywhere and the beginning of the 'aaah' will sound the same. In simple terms, this means that it's perfectly possible to loop this sound. The way it is generally done is something like this: After being laced across the heads (the parts that pick up the magnetic field from the tape and turn it into an electrical signal) of the tape recorder, the ends of the tape, instead of being attached to the spools (the big reels that the tape is kept on and that hold the tape while on the machine), are stuck together to form a loop. It's then passed around something that will keep up the tension on the tape, and stop it dragging on the floor - often something hi-tech, like a broom handle. Then, as long as the tape machine keeps going, the sound keeps playing. In the case of the 'aaah's, the different pitches could be either created by using separate recordings, or by altering the speed of the same one (this could end up sounding artificial, though, so I have my reservations about that one). Either way, they'll all be laid down to the multitrack tape - they're probably all there from the beginning and just brought up one after the other from the mixing desk (simpler than trying to start a tape machine at exactly the right point, although that's probably possible as well...).
So there's some stuff to think about...
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