Electric MMVII.04 [Rhodes, flute, reel-to-reel tape delay loops] Ostanada

Ostanada, from Suite II for Leigh. This is one of my earliest works, recorded when my partner Jo was still teaching in China. I recorded the Rhodes (through a slow, deep Stereo Chorus) onto a cassette tape, and then played this back in an atrium at Saint Paul's in Marquette), using my friend Howard's ReVox Reel-to-Reel for sound-on-sound delay looping, and playing my flute and singing, with the mix recording onto my Beta Hi-Fi. I used an Altec mixer to run some of the Rhodes 'direct' (with some of it playing through speakers in the atrium) as i played my flute into my home-brew stereo microphones -- also feeding into the mixer and the tape delay loops - in about two or three layers. The spaghetti patchwork was a hairy mess worthy of Edgar Varez.  I shared it with my friend, Leigh, who told me that it was her birthday. This was very cool, so i named it for her. This piece is just the ostanada at the conclusion of the two suites, and i think it's the best section, so it's what i share. Most of the full suites are only the Rhodes in one layer of tape loops.  In this ostanada i add two more layers. You'll be able to hear both flute and vocal layered together near the conclusion. Enjoy! ~joan ... Copyright MCMXCIII Joan Heath Patrie - Creative Commons Deed 3.0 (the attribution/non-commercial use/share alike license). ... joanpatrie.com