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Short article of interest: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/178664/jamie-oliver-discovers-long-lost-joy-divisionnew-order-tapes-in-restaurant-basement/#1 "Together with a collection of guns and jewelry, Oliver discovered a case filled with master tapes containing recordings by Joy Division and New Or...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/bismarcks-voice-among-restored-edison-recordings.html Highlights: 1) The cylinders, from 1889 and 1890, include the only known recording of the voice of the powerful chancellor Otto von Bismarck 2) the only ones known to survive from someone born as early a...

There was a starting point for this? I thought it was just an endless loop...There was a starting point for this? I thought it was just an endless loop...There was a starting point for this? I thought it was just an endless loop...There was a starting point for this? I thought it was just an endless...

Michael Gira used loops in Swans. I consider this statement to be the definitive answer for the OP question. ----- timcoalman - still mentioning Swans, especially Soundtracks for the Blind, in nearly every post. Because what you feel for the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, et cetera, is what I fe...

agreed - liberating to move beyond those mindsets - earnestly written now almost 10 years ago. making this artifact log helped tremendously: http://timcoalman.blogspot.com/ "an accounting and expectant listing of self-imposed demand that each passing day have a moment of artifact: 1) identification,...

From Tape Log of November 3rd http://www.tapeop.com/blog/2011/11/04/how-feel-miserable-artist/ Reminded me of a similar listing I did for unmanned probe part of my website - part 4 "advice" (copied in below) http://www.timcoalman.com/unmanned_probe_contents.html What is like to do what you do? What ...

Late to the party but it does feel so nice to see even the raw mix on bandcamp http://timcoalman.bandcamp.com/ instead of MySpace - moreso for the lack of all the ads and visual clutter

timcoalman wrote: Reminds me of a tape op article/post (?) where a silo had been rigged with a monitor and microphone allowing people to send in tracks to be played into the space and tracked again - e-mailed or FTP back to you with wicked reverb. Being generally enamored with reverbs on everything...

Exactly what I was thinking/hoping.

About 8-9 years ago I had some friends that set up camp in an abandoned oil refinery in Philadelphia. You know those giant cylindrical metal ... storage things or whatever they are? Someone had cut an opening in the side so you could go inside. I don't know if they're all like this but there was no...

About 8-9 years ago I had some friends that set up camp in an abandoned oil refinery in Philadelphia. You know those giant cylindrical metal ... storage things or whatever they are? Someone had cut an opening in the side so you could go inside. I don't know if they're all like this but there was no...

New article on Wired.com has some interesting related points that include gear: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/found-the-last-bugs-of-the-nixon-white-house/ Material that jumped out at me in terms of technique and/or gear: We went up to the office and entered one of the telephone closets, w...

You might check your old issues of Tape Op - I know there have been advertisements for companies/individuals who build computers specifically for audio work - and you would be supporting those who support Tape Op!

Whenever I see a small church for sale I daydream about tracking drums in a room as big as my house with vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows. That is a big part of it for me - I first think of the sound - especially in terms of reverb, diffusion and the space for upper harmonics to saunter.....

Also reminded me of David Byrne talk on TED:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_ho ... volve.html