Re: The beginning..

[matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias)]

>For this i have clues. I think it did ot ONLY started with tapes. I saw a
>video about composers in france in the beginning of the sixties, they had
>a whole laboratory that was to grow into an experimental plublic funded
>center od research on music and technologie with VERY state of the art
>technologie (like a using a Cray computer, wich far is from my Mac for
>the moment). They had an old analog sequencer that weighted 200 Kg I
>think, and they did loops with.... Vinyls! They had old black records with
>many looped on it. The record did not play from beginning to end but had
>each track(drill?) with a loop. Long ones on the beginning of the record,
>little ones in the end. They stacked up to 8 phono at a time...
>Hell I don't remember the name of this thinb Boulez set in motion it was
>like Centre d'etude et de recherche musicale or something...
>

Yeah, grab some more information! France was always very advanced in
electronic music due to institues like IRCAM. They certainly looped a lot
of weird sounds there!

Matthias