![]() ![]() ![]() I brought the recorder home, cleaned the tape head, and quickly discovered that the machine provided exactly the sound I had been looking for. As charming as I found the results, the project sat on the back burner, until one day about a month ago I was met with a stroke of luck: I was walking down the street and happened to bump into someone who was in the process of getting rid of an old four-track recorder: As part of those experiments, I’ve recorded this violin on and off throughout the last summer on a whole range of different devices. In my work as a composer, I’ve been doing a lot of experiments with hand-held cassette recorders. Of course, I wanted my recordings to be a bit different from everyone else’s. ![]() I love this violin–it was the first really high quality musical instrument I ever owned, and I’ve wanted to sample it for ages. It was made in about 1910 by Alfred Fallet, an award-winning luthier who lived in a tiny village in the mountains of Switzerland. ![]()
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