In 1996 I went into the studio armed with two cassette 60s, rigged up as much equipment as I could juggle in an improv session, loaded up my trusty headless recorder into the sampler, made a few crude sequences (action-painted into a piano roll type sequencer) and turned the tape on..... had I known it was for publication I suppose I might have behaved myself more, but the results are at times sarcastic and at other times disturbing. The two hours' worth of audio was transferred from tape to PC in March 2005, almost ten years on.
These tapes were recorded in April 1996 in the electronic studios of Huddersfield University. The improvisation was 80% "free" in that the recorder samples were prepared beforehand (though for a different purpose) and that certain sequences and new FM voices were used previously in other projects. Essentially this was two days in April 1996 where I took blank tapes into the room, locked the door, and lost it for a while.
There is no layering in these recordings - everything was played "live".
In a sense I suppose these are the hi-tech (by comparison) partner-piece to "Estuary Erotica". The kit used was Yamaha SY99 and Roland D50 synths,
Yamaha S2800i sampler and Apple Mac with Mastertracks Pro-5 v2.1. I don't have details of the mixing desk or effects unit though I believe it may have been Korg or Kawai. The taping was just literally a cassette deck with a standard C60 tape.
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