tapes
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Tag: recording
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glory of coloured lights (geoff’s mad moment)
aquired 30 reel to reel tapes, brand Raphone, mostly organ recordings, some big band, recorded early 70s. testing recently obtained Uher 4200 Report Monitor tape recorder (Akai 4000D now kaput). works beautifully.
scored also Tascam TSR 8 1/2″ 8 track. been a good week for tape recorders.
‘you are like a Victorian scientist, you like machines more than people…’
london short film festival 2011 recording
Thanks to the London Short Film Festival for inviting Sculpture to play at the opening night at the ICA on January 7th. Recorded it – lots of new as yet untitled stuff, spontaneous electronic modulations and tape collage, and versions of Double Throw and Tooth Lock (aka Plastic Raga) from 2010’s Rotary Signal Emitter LP.
plus:
Video fragment here thanks to DJ Food
impossible
more real
national RQ 505 reel
This fine machine will serve as your constant companion…
I guess this reel originally came with the tape recorder. Not a great advert for the RQ505’s sonic fidelity.
Thrill to the sound of ‘Japanese folk songs played in a modern jazz style’. I love all that racket, happily obliterated in tape growl and splutter.
Sculpture use and endorse the National 401S ‘reverse-a-track’. Frequency response somewhere between 500-5000Hz. Pinch roller doesn’t grip the tape too effectively, so it’s good for physical manipulations.
coming soon…
sinister reel-to-reel tape find
I used a different part of this tape reel in the sound riviera radio series a while back. It’s marvelous stuff. Stick around till the end, as the mystery professor’s final line is what really makes this special…
2 mono recordings playing simultaneously, one in each speaker.
If you’re interested, here’s the radio programme mentioned above: http://www.mixcloud.com/thesoundriviera/utter-tape/
Sculpture live recording 24th February 2010
Tapeloops, Walkman, Sampler, CDJ, 78rpm disc, Effectron. Recorded 24th February 2010. Shiiin, Jet Stream, White Earphones: http://www.fromadarkenedsunroof.com
Earlier, in the heated upstairs, gnarly drums/analogue synthesizer and bass duo, Temperatures, rubbed air molecules through an organisation of translucent perspex. Afterward, we obtained this recording in the cold subterranean gallery, between frigid water feature, geometric functional items, and moire patterned suspensions.
