Tank-FX is back online so if you didnt check it out first time round now is your chance.
Billed as a ‘non-virtual’ plugin, basically Tank FX is a large echo chamber that you can upload sounds to & then wait as they are played into the reverbant space, re-recorded & then converted for you to download. How large scale? Well the chambers are two concrete water tanks 11m high and 7m in diameter.
The system is run on a unix server & makes use of two JBL Control one speakers and a pair of Rode NT-5 mics. I thought I’d give it a try & as per the title of this post I used the first sentence from Alvin Luciers work; ‘I am sitting in a room’ (TankFx has a 60 second limit) A wikipedia explanation of Luciers work is here and via ubuweb here is a 1961 recording of the work:
And here are the TankFX versions
(not sure why the processed versions are left heavy)
Maybe the tank on the right was full of water that day.
theres another place that does something kinda like this …called silophone ..silophone.net i think
cool
hey! got me another cool music blog. tom at waveformless mentioned this post.
I had completely forgotten about tank fx, meant to try it once Thx for bringing it up!