This episode focuses on magnetic tape, the instrument with which composers in the 1950s and 1960s pushed boundaries.
From Luciano Berio’s cut-and-paste work with the voice of Cathy Berberian (Omaggio a Joyce) to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s mix of children’s voice and electronics in Gesang der Jünglinge. We also hear the experimental Piano-Forte by Dutch composer Dick Raaijmakers.
In Come Out, Steve Reich shows how you can use tape loops. It produces hypnotic repetitions. And the tape has not disappeared yet: William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops was recorded on September 11, 2001.
Composing with tape is certainly also a try this at home experience, says Dennis Bajram in this fascinating broadcast.
