Been seeing Francis more often these days. Look... its a GBH teeshirt and I'm wearing a Kraftwerk. We still love rock band tees. This was taken last november.
Tonite Tiramisu opens for ZGPS at Esplanade. Meeting Patrick at the door. Pat, Francis and me started making music around 85-87 period. Francis formed Opposition Party. Mine was Corporate Toil and a year later Pat round up the Oddfellows. I don't think we know exactly what we were doing then but we did it anyway.
Amongst the cobwebs I found this. CT used 2 cassette tape recorders, a reverb box and various casiotones for different tones. One thing I like were faulty cheap cables. Because the wiring had gone haywire I had to twist and bend the cable at various points to get signal through. Depending on how it was "touch", the sound would stutter and randomly produce phrases. It was a matter of chance and jamming with luck. Another thing I like was overloading the input level and playing with the volume to get a phasing effect. It gives the flat casiotone sound a fat bottom that shifts listlessly and move with purpose. Using spent batteries was also exciting because nothing was predictable. Just when I was ready to go for a take, I'd unhook the a/c supply for the casiotone to go into spent battery mode. The result is uncontrolled random sputtering, gorgeously distorted beats and an organic texture. Qucikly hit record. Spent batteries don't last long. Life is short.
Tonite Tiramisu opens for ZGPS at Esplanade. Meeting Patrick at the door. Pat, Francis and me started making music around 85-87 period. Francis formed Opposition Party. Mine was Corporate Toil and a year later Pat round up the Oddfellows. I don't think we know exactly what we were doing then but we did it anyway.
Amongst the cobwebs I found this. CT used 2 cassette tape recorders, a reverb box and various casiotones for different tones. One thing I like were faulty cheap cables. Because the wiring had gone haywire I had to twist and bend the cable at various points to get signal through. Depending on how it was "touch", the sound would stutter and randomly produce phrases. It was a matter of chance and jamming with luck. Another thing I like was overloading the input level and playing with the volume to get a phasing effect. It gives the flat casiotone sound a fat bottom that shifts listlessly and move with purpose. Using spent batteries was also exciting because nothing was predictable. Just when I was ready to go for a take, I'd unhook the a/c supply for the casiotone to go into spent battery mode. The result is uncontrolled random sputtering, gorgeously distorted beats and an organic texture. Qucikly hit record. Spent batteries don't last long. Life is short.
