Tank-FX is offline and the website has disappeared…
So if you didn’t check it out before here is a fun experiment I did with it back in 2009…
Billed as a ‘non-virtual’ plugin, basically Tank FX was a large echo chamber that you could 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 was run on a unix server & made use of two JBL Control One speakers and a pair of Rode NT-5 mics. When I used it the right channel was not working, but even in mono it is fascinating…
As per the title of this post I fed the first sentence from Alvin Luciers work; ‘I am sitting in a room’ into TankFx… And then iterated, uploading the TankFx processed version again and again…
A wikipedia explanation of Luciers work is here
Ubuweb has a 1961 recording of the work here
Here are my TankFX iterations:
I’m reminded of Kamran Sadeghi’s Loss Less, for reasons that should be very obvious if you read about the process by which the album was made.
https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/loss-less
wow that is incredibly beautiful!