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5th Oct 2022, 2:53 pm | #1 |
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Buried treasure?
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5th Oct 2022, 3:15 pm | #2 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
Don't think I'd want to buy the album either!
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5th Oct 2022, 3:59 pm | #3 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
Yes, I heard the composer and the couple who found it interviewed on BBC radio on Monday.
The composer was very emphatic that they should NOT attempt to play it themselves, though he didn't say why. I agree with both of your comments! Good publicity I suppose, though. |
5th Oct 2022, 6:54 pm | #4 |
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What a pretentious idiot.
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5th Oct 2022, 7:03 pm | #5 |
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5th Oct 2022, 7:39 pm | #6 |
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5th Oct 2022, 7:42 pm | #7 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
I'd try and record something else over the middle of it....
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5th Oct 2022, 8:14 pm | #8 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
Publicity hound. If he's a double smart-alec, the statement that all other copies have been destroyed will be a lie. (The uncorrupted recording then gets released two years after the buried one- telling the fib will just be seen as an expression of artistic angst..)
Lloyd's got the right idea- farts come out quite well on tape, as Spike Milligan discovered. Dave |
5th Oct 2022, 8:25 pm | #9 |
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I wasn't gonna say it, but that's exactly what I was thinking!
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5th Oct 2022, 8:31 pm | #10 |
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I suppose you can't blame him for playing the system.
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5th Oct 2022, 9:17 pm | #11 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
I'd claim my cats bury more artistic stuff on a daily basis, and you wouldn't run that through your Revox either.
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5th Oct 2022, 9:27 pm | #12 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
Just put out a rumour that the flipping of the Earth's magnetic field at some unpredictable but approaching date will erase it. Then watch the fun. These people have no sense of scale and will fall for it. They won't ask about the effect on all other (not buried) tapes.
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5th Oct 2022, 9:34 pm | #13 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
In accordance with modern folk lore and digital recording. That will need be demagnetised before playing.
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6th Oct 2022, 12:19 am | #14 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
Lee Perry used to bury tapes as well.
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6th Oct 2022, 1:50 am | #15 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
I can't say I've got into E.C.'s music. I found the stuff I've heard a bit obvious. However, I like his idea and the game of finding it. Some fun, a technique approaching musique concrete, and a nod towards the ephemerality of music in the age of endless reproduction and duplication.
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9th Oct 2022, 5:36 pm | #16 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
I find it a bit of a lame concept when compared to Masquerade and the golden hare. There's an interesting video on youtube (by ashens) which covers the golden hare story.
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9th Oct 2022, 5:51 pm | #17 |
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Let's stay on topic please. No more discussion of Masquerade or other treasure hunting fads.
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9th Oct 2022, 6:18 pm | #18 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
How playable do you think the tape will be?
A few months ago I was amazed by a video where a water-damaged 2-inch quadruplex video tape was returned to playable condition. Looking at the tape at the start of the video, I would never have guessed that anything remotely resembling a video signal could be recovered. |
11th Oct 2022, 4:56 pm | #19 |
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Re: Buried treasure?
Good question. I suppose winding it onto another spool while running it through a cotton pad to remove obvious dirt would work to an extent, then perhaps baking it? This could be done without lacing the tape. However playing it would require a machine with heads you didn't mind risking - which would rule out most 10.5" high speed machines.
Would perhaps have been easier if it hadn't been buried in the first place... |
11th Oct 2022, 6:58 pm | #20 |
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I think it would play pretty well after a lot of expensive manual cleaning. The binder won't have deteriorated in that time, and there shouldn't be too much mechanical damage. It's all a completely pointless exercise though, the sort of thing that gives modern art a bad name.
Kim Howells had it right two decades ago: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/...urnerprize2002 |