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Automata (1974)

from My Tangled Roots by Joe Paradiso

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This was another track that came from the winter 1973/74 session at WMFO. Here I was exploring a tape loop universe - I'd been playing with tape loops ever since grammar school, and had evolved techniques to make these little 'mechanical' sounding entities from them (this grew out of the experiments I made with tape loops in the following track). I remember making some couple dozen or so loops, and crossfaded across them in this piece, sounding a bit like a tour across a huge mechanical construct or big piece of kinetic art. There's a meandering echoed bass bed throughout coming from the organ or signal generator, which I had thought helped to ground things here. Influences may perhaps have been Pink Floyd's 'Ummagumma' experiments - I loved that album then, and still do.

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from My Tangled Roots, released July 15, 1976

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Joe Paradiso Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Paradiso has been designing, building, and using his own music synthesizers and systems since 1975. Joe is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he has designed many kinds of electronic musical instruments and controllers that have been used in performance worldwide. He has composed synth patches for live soundscape performances at several public venues, including Ars Electronica 2004. ... more

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