So, it’s been nearly a year since I first mentioned this technique, and since then, I’ve been in quite a few places and recorded a ton of audio snippets. Funny thing is, I’m still not even near filling up a tape, and at this point, I’m in no rush. I have however, ripped what i’ve done so far and edited it some, and i really like it. It’s strange listening back now, and not remembering what half of it even is. It’s a delightfully screwed-up ride through the past year of my life.
Once I was done, I wanted to hear it in stereo, so i chopped the track exactly in half and made a stereo file. This one is particularly enjoyable. I love the random sonic collisions that take place. Sometimes the placement of sounds is so perfect, I wonder if I some how composed it intuitively, but I know that’s just not possible.
So, now that i’ve gone and done this, I feel like I have finally gotten it out of my system, and I don’t really need to do it anymore. The funny thing is, that I can’t stop recording sounds! I may go back to the loop cassettes and start building a sound catalog, but I can’t help thinking I’ll wind up back on the same old tape, in exactly the place i left off, continuing the journey.
- Dictaphone Cassette Collage Mono
- Dictaphone Cassette Collage Stereo
Tags: aleatoric music, avant garde, cassette tape, chance opperations, drone, drumming music, ethnic music, experimental music, field recordings, folk music, found sounds, generative music, improvisation, my music, noise, percussion, sound experiments
September 30, 2008 at 9:37 pm |
holy hell…. that stereo track is amazing.
hopefully this will serve as some sort of inspiration to me to continue forth with the source material for a “chopped score” for tape that I have “written”
October 22, 2008 at 2:38 pm |
great stuff.. drop me an email and maybe we can exchange some tapes? i do a bit of this type of audio collage myself
October 26, 2008 at 6:39 pm |
abandonview, glad you like the sounds. i don’t actually have anything to exchange tape-wise, and most of what i have done has been posted here. if you still want to try a trade (CDR?), you could contact me: e_han_ripp@gmail.com [_=t].