2 hours of 4 track quarter inch reel tape. The box is an old Ampex design but the actual tape stock is BASF in excellent condition. The music concrete composition is in the ambient noise style. Tape hiss and other artefacts are present but that's the whole point of it. The source cassette material features Chinese ritual music and some pop. I combine this will several of my sound sculptures including a 2 string motorised drone, a large mechanical oscillator called the Flux Organ (see main photo of it) made from 16 stepper motors and other mechanical electric hurdy-gurdies. One side is more choppy than the other due to the tape signal being fed into a rotating stepper motor that creates an unusual tremolo effect. The opposite side to this is more of a constant changing series of sustained tones that modulate and combine the tape signals via distortion in the mixer
USB VIDEO
$15 AUD
Flux Organ
$1,000 AUD
Chinese Restaurant Tapes
$200 AUD
Chinese Restaurant Tapes
$200 AUD
The Vessel
$1,000 AUD
Chinese Restaurant Tapes #3
$150 AUD
Rod Cooper Australia
37 years of instrument building, noise machine costruction and noise making. I use tape, gadgets, mortal coils, drain spaces, bridge spaces, microphones, computers, wood, metal, paint, paper, plastic and glass. See my instruments and sound sculptures for sale in the merch section. ... more
