I’m attempting to create more tape loops in order to have a few different ones to compose a generative piece. And use my second tape machine as another player going into my Tascam mixing desk. I’m curious as to what the different forms offer in length and audio.
I first split open a few more tapes and started cutting them down to size and looked online at a few different tape loop options that others have done. I tried this first one but It wasn’t working for some reason and I need to retry it again. Perhaps the tension wasn’t enough to make it spin around the heads.
I then went back to basics and created a similar small tape loop.
I did find that most of the tapes sounded horrible and didn’t really connect flush very well to the tape heads. I need to make a few more and compose with samples on tape loops alongside VCV RACK, and another thing is creating the phase loop that Reich creates that goes in and out of phase together. I have two cassette players so it could be interesting.