Ingenious, mesmerising and strangely beautiful, these two opening tracks from the LŪP album by the Scottish Highlands inventor involve his tape-looper instrument that moves in and out of sync with itself. As he describes it: “I wanted the machine to embody the compositional ideas of the two esteemed New York avant-garde composers – William Basinski and Steve Reich. It plays 12-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.”
More about LŪP, the harmonograph synth, robot drums, the Korg F1 Synthesizer Traveler and other projects can be found at Lomond Campbell’s website and his music can be enjoyed and bought via Bandcamp – with link below. Videos about LŪP, and how it was created, are below.
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