The making of LŪP - the instrument that wants to be Basinski and Reich

This is a video about the concepts behind LŪP and how I went about making it. I was commissioned to build a custom tape-looper instrument and wanted the machine to embody the compositional ideas of the two esteemed New York avant-garde composers - William Basinski and Steve Reich. It plays 10 second tape loops which ‘disintegrate’ over time as the tape passes near to a rotating magnetic disc. This rotating disc also provides a clock and drives two eccentric cams which sends out ever-shifting phase patterns. You can hook the machine up to a modular synthesiser and process the disintegrating tape loops while generating Reichian phase shifting canons.

Here's a link to the Harmonograph Synth mentioned in the video:
   • HARMONOGRAPH SYNTHESISER  

And here's the turntable sequencer:
   • HOW TO SEQUENCE YOUR EURORACK SYSTEM WITH ...  

And you can order the LŪP album here https://lomondcampbell.lnk.to/LUP

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