Re: tape based pitching

["Dennis Moser" <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

Okay ... page 97, "Stockhausen, Conversations With The Composer":
    "We have only now a special machine, called the Springer machine, where you can stretch or condense time without chaging the pitches; or you can transpose the pitches without changing the duration. (But this machine isn't really that good -- it makes too many mistakes)" 

I'm posting a hi-rez JPEG of the page at this URL:

http://audiozoloft.com/Stockhausen/

The file is a PDF called "Stock.pdf" ... go for it!

Dennis

On 11/26/07, andy butler < akbutler@tiscali.co.uk > wrote:

Stockhausen, Conversations with the Composer
Jonathan Cott
Picador 1974
(also pub by Robson Books Ltd 1974)
page 92
ISBN 0 330 24165 6

sadly the book which described his photoelectric (canned) loop device
must have been consumed when Norwich Library burned down in 1994
(and our late Stockhausen scolar, Dr. Zvonar was unable to find
any mention of this device in any book)

andy butler


Goddard, Duncan wrote:
>>> the tape based pitch shifter used by Stockhausen was called a Springer
> Machine<<
>
> andy, how did you come by this factoid? I thought the only tape-based
> pitch shifter was the eltro.....
> gotham studios had one, & the BBC radiophonic workshop, & someone here
> (my apologies) sent me some literature on it, which I may be able to
> dredge up.
>
> duncan.
>
>