TapOut, by John Mayrose

TapOut

from Music for Small Ensembles by John Mayrose

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about

Digital delay is an electronic effect created by storing an input audio signal in a delay line and recalling that signal later in time by "taping out" of the delay line, much like a tap in a water pipe allows the retrieval of water further from its source. Frequently, delay is applied to a signal from acoustic or electric instruments, and in the output, the original signal is mixed with delayed copies of itself. The result often resembles an echo, but with multiple taps, rich rhythmic and spacial textures emerge. In TapOut, I sought to simulate the same textures created using a multi-tap delay, but with only live performers and no electronics. At times members of the ensemble act as input audio signals feeding into the delay line. At other times, the performers play the role of the effects processor taping out of the delay line. In other words, TapOut is just an effect, a virtual delay.

credits

from Music for Small Ensembles, track released 08 May 2010
Recorded live at the North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics on May 8, 2010 by pulsoptional: www.pulsoptional.org