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Is there anything like this that happens in the greater Toronto area?
ReplyDeleteSomeone on AH suggested it and a few people were interested. I'd join the list if you are not a member already and ask there. If you need the link to sub, let me know here in the comments and I'll find it.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few knobs at that gathering, huh. Wait, let me rephrase that ...
ReplyDeleteLoved that Columbia-Princeton photo!
What was that wacky tape gizmo in the papers? (My German is as rusty as an old reel of 2" tape) Some kind of early frippertronics thingie?
And how'd those DX/TX7s sneak in???
;-)
here's the link for the AH list:
to join: mailto:analogue-subscribe(at)hyperreal.org
The DX7/TX7s were run through a filter on his modular, so that made it more analoggy.
ReplyDelete-daddio- What is your avatar picture?
Re: my avatar
ReplyDeleteIt's an old VU meter, sorta, kinda, ...
I found it on a web site of a guy that's into old radios etc.
Full size version here:
http://www.tapewarm.com/animated.gif
;-)
RE: my avatar, continued
ReplyDeleteHere's his web site, which is pretty cool, imho.
http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu/jjb.html
Well that avatar is the working end of an RCA Magic Eye Vacuum tube and it was used as kind of a level meter, many old stereos, radios and bench test gear had them , for a nice history see
ReplyDeletehttp://home.pacbell.net/philbert/tuning_eye/eyeintro.htm
My first reel to reel had a pair of meters that worked similarly. They were rectangles and the green fluorescent glow met in the middle at O db and overlapped at positive values. Gave one a warm fuzzy feeling staring at them. And speaking of avatars, nice tin foil hat, Brian! Good to know you'll be protected when the anons land.
ReplyDelete;-)
Steering things back on topic ...
Still curious about that tape gizmo ... anyone??
I had the 808 using 5 outputs to drive the simmons through the digitech talker and the balance of teh 808 mix went through the ring modulator which had a factory pedal on it. It is an Oberheim design and his logo is on the circuit board inside it.
ReplyDeleteI also brought some papers. The brown ones are translations of technical studies done in 1952 of german electronic music studios by Canadian scientists. Bode, Tautwein, Stockhausen, Melochord and an explaination of how the studio worked. I also brought two large music scores (Universal Editions) of Stockhausen's Kontake and a solo pieces which used a 1969 tape delay line with moveable pre-amps and heads, designed by Stockhausen for the performances at the Institute of Sonology i think. There are very good machining details in the score. The red mags are 1930s fleamarket finds of odd ball instruments. The Columbia studio photo is a large format of otto leuning and V Ussachevsky, found it on ebay with a small instructional film strip c. 1970 a few years ago. The metal plate that is em[pty was machined and screened by george who I drove down with from Canada.
There was also a nice study of the Ondes Martenot that came with the analogue solutions version.
"... a 1969 tape delay line with moveable pre-amps and heads, designed by Stockhausen for the performances at the Institute of Sonology ..."
ReplyDelete'preciate that!
(trundles off to Google)
Hey lhammond,
ReplyDeleteDid you and George make it back across the border OK?
It was nice meeting you and George. I had fun at the meeting.
hello to all!
ReplyDeletefirstly, george - you and the synth were both looking first-rate ! :^)
secondly - the referenced piece by stockhausen using the complex multi-head tape-loop set-up was for a piece called "solo" and was commisioned by nhk in japan not the institute of sonology in the netherlands.
best,
dave
(stockhausen fan)