Tapeloops as cybernetic architecture where sonic vignettes alchemically invoke temporal sceneries that engage listeners to visit delicately curated sets of mind likely to resonate on sub- or supra-intellectual levels. Each loop exists as an independent control system which may invoke memories, humor, subversion, and (the ideal) transformation.
Using loops to highlight, rewrite finite patterns.
If one listens to a tape loop of a repeated word for fifteen minutes, one may hear as many as thirty different words other than the one which is on the tape loop… It turned out that this repeating word effect made it possible to demonstrate very rapidly to live audiences their own biocomputer operations. This is the reason that I went on with this work and made the transition from the dol¬ phin to the human through the repeating word effect. It was an extremely convenient way of demonstrating lo people their own self metaprogramming and various concepts of the biocomputer.
From the repeating word effect, I learned something about going with the flow, relaxing and allowing instructions from some place else to run my biocomputer. If one relaxes totally while listening to the repeating word, one can quickly find all of the phenomena lhat I have described above. However, if one is "up tight" and refuses to really "let go" even though one would like to let go, these phenomena just do not occur as frequently.
-from The Center of the Cyclone, John C. Lilly
Like a gangster film director’s insistance on the grit of real, living, breathing, deteriorating film stock - an Archaic Revival of technology’s past. Exhumed specifically for its nostalgic warmth, a fidelity which sizzles and saturates the consciousness and returning us to a simpler sit and stare at the boombox days gone by.
Escaping locked step matrices of sequencers and dictatorial BPM’s, these patterns are dictated by the physical length of each tape loop, where accidents of this actively degrading technology are celebrated as Revelations: Pop, Hiss, and Crackle - incidental tape cuts becoming winks of the curtain lifting.
The Veil dropping.
Magnetic. Textured. Repeated. Looping. Non-linear. Vetical. Fragments.
Time travel.