This originally aired on the University of Pennsylvania's WXPN, in 1983, during Thom Dura's "Experimental Radio Project" show.  

In the months leading up to the broadcast, Jacqueline Alala, provided me with a cassette recording of a recent visit with her friend while he was working as a caretaker at a bird sanctuary. She suggested I use her document for an experimental tape manipulation process I was developing.  

The process involved using a number of portable cassette player recorders, a couple of microphones, and a foot pedal effects processor called, the "Memory Man."

Lacking a mixer, I would create "multitrack" mixes or "bounce" tracks by playing a couple of decks at once while using another to record the output through the speakers of each.

One deck had buttons for rewinding and forwarding while in play mode so you could hear the cueing.  I used these buttons to create a rhythmic effect during one segment of this piece.  A sort of dj scratching effect but with cassettes.

With this process, I would also make a copy of the source tape and play back both the source and copy tape at once. Since the decks speed varied to a small a degree, a phase shifting effect would result.

Sometimes I would send the signal from the headphone jack through the Memory Man plugged into my home stereo system and record that.

Equipped with a pc, a decent sound card and Sonic Foundry applications, I fed the tape signal into the pc for further manipulation during August of 2004.  This mostly entailed ridding most of the tape hiss noise and editing the original 15 minutes or more down to 6 minutes.

Note that Jacqueline's source tape document was a spontaneous field recording aiming to record her friend's attempt to make one of the birds say, "Hello".  The result  perhaps coaxed along by the sounds of an album of Fripp and Eno playing the background.   

The Bird Says Hello

The Launchpad app for iOS immediately gratifying from the start.   Although, as the app's name suggests, you may find further fulfillment recording your results as a .wav file to export into other consumer level software such as Audacity, Virtual DJ, and Mixcraft. 

Ampify and Novation provide the soundpacks of samples for project mixes in the Launchpad iOS app. Here are some examples: https://soundcloud.com/launchpadforios/sets

These soundpacks have a high repeat play value as it is, but you can even customize your project with sounds from other soundpacks or import your own! 

It's possible to create some uniquely interesting mixes as you aspire to produce professional results. I'd like to hear yours.

Here are few results yielded from my exercises primarily using the soundpacks provided for the iPhone Launchpad App.

Each track title includes the name of the Ampify Novation Soundpack.

Skater Cat (Ampify Novation Future Trap Soundpack)

French Exit (Ampify Novation House Soundpack)

Hydraulics (Ampify Novation Hip Hop Noir Soundpack)

Sunny Winter Saturday (Ampify Novation Berlin Dub Soundpack)

TV Show Theme Song (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack)

Last Episode Theme Reprise (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack)

TV Show Theme Reprise (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack Lauchpad Remix Exercise)

TV Show Theme Song (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack Launchpad Remix Exercise}

Sunny Winter Saturday (Ampify Novation Berlin Dub Soundpack Launchpad Remix Exercise)

The Launchpad app for iOS immediately gratifying from the start.   Although, as the app's name suggests, you may find further fulfillment recording your results as a .wav file to export into other consumer level software such as Audacity, Virtual DJ, and Mixcraft. 

Ampify and Novation provide the soundpacks of samples for project mixes in the Launchpad iOS app. Here are some examples: https://soundcloud.com/launchpadforios/sets

These soundpacks have a high repeat play value as it is, but you can even customize your project with sounds from other soundpacks or import your own! 

It's possible to create some uniquely interesting mixes as you aspire to produce professional results. I'd like to hear yours.

Here are few results yielded from my exercises primarily using the soundpacks provided for the iPhone Launchpad App.

Each track title includes the name of the Ampify Novation Soundpack.

Skater Cat (Ampify Novation Future Trap Soundpack)

French Exit (Ampify Novation House Soundpack)

Hydraulics (Ampify Novation Hip Hop Noir Soundpack)
( https://soundcloud.com/novationmusic/hip-hop-noir )
Sunny Winter Saturday (Ampify Novation Berlin Dub Soundpack)

TV Show Theme Song (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack)

Last Episode Theme Reprise (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack)

Hydraulics (Ampify Novation Hip Hop Noir Soundpack Launchpad Remix Exercise)

French Exit (Ampify Novation House Soundpack Launchpad Remix Exercise)

Skater Cat (Ampify Novation Future Trap Soundpack Launchpad Remix Exercise)

The Launchpad app for iOS immediately gratifying from the start. Although, as the app's name suggests, you may find further fulfillment recording your results as a .wav file to export into other consumer level software such as Audacity, Virtual DJ, and Mixcraft.

Ampify and Novation provide the soundpacks of samples for project mixes in the Launchpad iOS app. Here are some examples: soundcloud.com/launchpadforios/sets

These soundpacks have a high repeat play value as it is, but you can even customize your project with sounds from other soundpacks or import your own!

It's possible to create some uniquely interesting mixes as you aspire to produce professional results. I'd like to hear yours.

Here are few results yielded from my exercises primarily using the soundpacks provided for the iPhone Launchpad App; and in some instances, samples from the Mixcraft Library.

Each track title includes the name of the Ampify Novation Soundpack.

Skater Cat (Ampify Novation Future Trap Soundpack)

French Exit (Ampify Novation House Soundpack)

Hydraulics (Ampify Novation Hip Hop Noir Soundpack)

Sunny Winter Saturday (Ampify Novation Berlin Dub Soundpack)

TV Show Theme Song (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack)

Last Episode Theme Reprise (Ampify Novation Formant Cell - Gracefall Soundpack)

In Pursuit Of Subject (samples from Ampify-Novation Soundpacks & the Mixcraft Library)

Music soundtrack for Head & Heart Metamorphosis Exercises.
Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl7YS1-I-DU  and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7M_3qPALU

Wavy

Waves From Tranquility

Sound design to video featuring the shader visual created by Reinder Nijhoff. 

video: https://youtu.be/6y8vkLwI8dI

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