Rob Papen The Legendary Sound and Synthesizer Designer Joins and Emails Me Regarding My Blog.

 

Really chuffed to say that Rob Papen emailed me to say he is following my sound design blog and say’s its awesome!!!

Wow!!! Thanks very much Rob, the blog is only a few days old and I feel very humbled by this.

He is a real living legend in the sound design and synthesis field!!

The Email
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"Hello Barry Sanders,

I have received your blog news. Cool! You do some great stuff!

This is awesome work from you!!

Respect.

Rob Papen"

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Please visit his website http://www.robpapen.com/ for more info on Rob and his outstanding products.

Pair of reel to reels setup ready for some Frippertronics action tomorrow...

Tomorrow  I will be recording some Frippertronics. I will be filming the outcomes, so check back soon.

Frippertronics is an analog delay system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders situated side-by-side. The two machines are configured so that the tape travels from the supply reel of the first machine to the take-up reel of the second, thereby allowing sound recorded by the first machine to be played back some time later on the second. The audio of the second machine is routed back to the first, causing the delayed signal to repeat while new audio is mixed in with it. The amount of delay (usually three to five seconds) is controlled by increasing or reducing the distance between the machines.

Ben Burtt demonstrates how he made the sounds for the animation filmWall-E

"Ben Burtt demonstrates how he made Wall-E come to life and answers a ton of questions. This was a presentation I attended at Pixar and it’s seriously amazing to watch Ben as he demos how he made all the Wall-E sounds and what he bought on eBay to get new sounds. If you’re a fan of Wall-E and Star Wars, I really recommend watching some of this."

-Steve Weintraub

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A History of Loop Based Music

An interesting artical on the history of looped based music and how it has made a huge impact on how we listen and record music today. This might be an idea for my dissertation.

This Artical tries to summarize the steps in the history of music which led to the distinct style and technology of Looping Music.

Looping Music today typically employs tape delay/feedback systems, digital delay devices, or computers to create repetitions of sounds. These repetitions can either remain limited to simple repeated phrases, or they are allowed to add up to a complex sound texture which either stands for itself or is used as an atmospheric or rhythmic background for soloing or other musical expression.
To varying extents, repetition has always been part of the musics of all cultures, but only in the 20th century, it became a style, a musical form of its own. Inspired by the meeting of world cultures, aided by technology, pioneered by visionary composers, looping music was born.

Read full artical:
http://www.loopers-delight.com/history/Loophist.html

Research into the art of Frippertronics

Frippertronics

Frippertronics (a term coined by poet Joanna Walton, Fripp's lover in the late 1970s) is an analog delay system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders situated side-by-side. The two machines are configured so that the tape travels from the supply reel of the first machine to the take-up reel of the second, thereby allowing sound recorded by the first machine to be played back some time later on the second. The audio of the second machine is routed back to the first, causing the delayed signal to repeat while new audio is mixed in with it. The amount of delay (usually three to five seconds) is controlled by increasing or reducing the distance between the machines.
Fripp used this technique to dynamically create recordings containing layer upon layer of electric guitar sounds in a real time fashion. An added advantage was that, by nature of the technique, the complete performances were recorded in their entirety on the original looped tape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frippertronics

 

Frippertronics/Soundscaping The process known as Frippertronics originated when Brian Eno demonstrated a tape-loop system (wherein a single reel of tape is actually physically joined together at the ends and then run continuously between the outermost reels of two adjacent decks, the first of which records incoming sound and the second of which plays it back) based around two reel-to-reel Revox decks to Robert Fripp. (According to the liner notes for Fripp's 1994 solo album 1999, a mechanical diagram of this process graces the cover of Brian Eno's Discreet Music.) In a 1979 interview conducted by Ron Gaskin (which is, incidentally, one of the most illuminating and amusing Fripp interviews I've run across, and which is available on the Elephant Talk Web archive), Fripp describes the mechanics as follows:   Read full artical here:

http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/frippertronics/frippertronics.html

Barry Sanders - Sound Design - Making a Analog Tape Delay by Using a Reel to Reel Tape Recorder

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