[IO Music Academy / Amulets / Randall Taylor] Tape Loops with Amulets

Study the ins and outs of making music with tape loops with one of many medium’s premiere practitioners, prolific audio/visible artist Amulets. On this unique livestream course, Amulets will show all the means of working with tape loops, from constructing your personal to working with four-track tape, multitracking and recording, and creating complete compositions with tape. Uncover what makes magnetic tape such an unimaginable software for creating lush soundscapes, textured drones and rather more.
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The prolific, Portland-based Randall Taylor is an audio/visible artist greatest identified for his musical challenge, Amulets. Taylor’s work makes use of analog tape and its imperfections to discover themes like degradation and nostalgia and their relationship to expertise and to the self. By developing and modifying tape loops and repurposing antiquated cassette gamers, Taylor creates dense, unending, looping soundscapes for each his reside performances and sculptural sound artwork installations. As Amulets, Taylor pays homage to the paradox of reminiscence and development, making a deeply immersive musical panorama within the course of.