sketch [12]: Steve Reich/William Basinski Inspired Phasing Tape Loop Performance | Norns Shield.

This piece is inspired by the works of Steve Reich and William Basinski who both use the technique of having tape loops of different lengths drift in and out of phase with each other. The idea was to make sure that all the sounds came from the same short loop and that the different length loops would be created live using 2 channels of an unsynced looper pedal. To do this I ran a 5 second tape loop into the TC Electronics Ditto X4 looper via the Old Blood Noise Endeavours AB/Y pedal. This meant I could record the first loop just on the left channel and then switch when recording the second loop to be just on the right channel. I also made sure the second loop was slightly longer than the first so that over the course of 4 minutes, the loops slowly become out of phase with each other before coming full circle and becoming in sync again. The ambience was then created live using the fantastic Glaciers script by dwtong (itself based off the super fun Paulstrech plugin) on the Norns. Glaciers is capable of recording up to 4 separate samples and time stretching them to the extreme (here I stretch them to 25%, 50% and 100% their original length!) Be good to one another, XJDX