Another Prepared Pedals Tune

This time longer development, oscillations centered around an M2 interval, with the top down low. The composition is in the preparation, the performance is up to these two little guys.

Enjoy!



Here it is. I step in near the end to add to the suspense. Aside from volume, I make two changes:
Lower the feedback on the low tone, up the feedback on the high tone. Then quick resolve.

Prepared Pedals

Two little delay pedals just hanging out on this speaker. They are set up to play you a song if I turn the power on. Don't mind if I do.



Both feedback settings are set to the lowest they could possibly be to generate a tone, hence the slow crescendo. The one that's focused more on being the M3 up from tonic has the wonderful ability to ever so slowly realize its full sound, so it comes in later. Really, they both are settling into a comfortable drone as they go.

Unfortunately, one of the more charming aspects of this piece is the ability to play different overtones with your head by walking around, turning your head, really any kind of movement. It does not seem to have the same effect in playback. Future plans with this is to make a recording and play the positions in the room.

I know I could listen to these oscillators settle in for hours. If anyone else is interested, I will make a longer recording available.



- db

We Always Cared About Him Until the End

Been making losa tapes recently. Latest one called The Runs, but actually known to me as The Stops. Part of it features this tape-tempo addled layering of two old recordings, one on guitar, one on piano. Don't they sound real nice like with eachother?

We Always Cared About Him Until the End by Some Pepper

Otherwise, The Runs theme is taken from a soundtrack recording session with the talented and strange saxophonist Michael Bauer. That theme comes back in after The Stops, which itself features double spaced periods of silence.
But this time, the theme is alternately played directly onto this unique tape by direct line feedback tonally managed by the EQ on a stereo receiver.
Here is a long clip from that tape, featuring the return of the theme, followed by a radio/drum game.

Excerpt from The Stops by Some Pepper

By the way this is


STEP TWO: THE STOPS: THE LAST STEP


of our highly acclaimed series on how I do the things I need to do. To update you, Step One has graduated to be the first youtube video used on a tape, "Nobody Notices the Mistakes. Ya'hear? Nobody!". It was given to Sakiko from Daily Life. See if they are playing near you. They are are good.
The end of this clip fairly well displays the layers and tape manipulation typical of these projects, as more inputs are sidelined by receiver feedback and power blanks (what I call the sound cutting out from hitting stop or play on the tape deck feeding into the four track (which itself feeds into the final tape recorder). I fade out, but this thing continues.

If you would like a tape, please ask.
- db