TONY TALKS TAPE

Make Noise founder Tony Rolando discusses his history with tape music, sampling, and microsound, which led to the development of the Make Noise Phonogene and Morphagene. Tony's new album Breakin' Is A Memory will be released on Important Records April 29th: https://importantrecords.com/products... https://tonyrolando.bandcamp.com/albu... Check out the music video for "Running Towards An Edge," directed by Elyse Tabet:    • Tony Rolando - Running Toward an Edge   0:00 Intro 1:01 Tony’s first encounters with tape music by John Pfeiffer, Barbara Kolb, and Mario Davidovsky 2:24 “Composing with Tape Recorders” by Terence Dwyer 3:21 The Superba tape machine 4:56 The Mystery of tape music 6:32 The difficulty of making tape music with just one device 7:28 The Casio SK-1 8:48 Tony’s tape music process ca 1995 9:58 Musical Interlude: “I’d Like to Make Communication W/ U” 12:00 The Ensoniq Mirage 13:52 Tony’s Mirage Sample Bank 14:48 The Wall of MIDI 15:32 The Akai S612 17:45 The Wall of MIDI (again) 19:18 Tony’s time in bands 19:57 Getting back into electronic music 21:44 Reaktor 22:39 Granular ensembles and computer struggles 24:38 Another Brick Wall and the feel of instruments 26:18 Other granular software of the time 27:57 Curtis Roads, Josh Kay, Richard Devine 29:09 “Microsound” by Curtis Roads 29:43 Outro http://www.makenoisemusic.com