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Echo. Echo.. Echo...

Tape loops, the earliest recording of reverb and the world’s longest echo. Verity Sharp explores the echo chambers of adventurous music.

Verity Sharp explores the echo chambers of adventurous music. Including the first recorded use of artificial reverb from the bathroom of Bill Putnam, founder of one of America's first independent recording studios, Universal Recording in Chicago. Bill turned his bathroom into a makeshift echo chamber to record an instrumental ballad with a trio of harmonica players in 1912. And the world’s longest reverb time, recorded in a disused oil container in the Scottish Highlands by Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering.

Plus more music recorded in bathrooms, some innovative tape loop manipulation and an improvised track between a trumpeter and some unexpected reverb.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

2 hours

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Fri 31 Jul 2020 23:00
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Music Played

  • Matt Ulery's Loom

    Coriander

  • Trevor Cox

    World's 'longest-echo' 2nd impulse

  • My Morning Jacket

    I Think I'm Going To Hell

  • Svitlana Nianio & Alexander Yurchenko

    Untitled 2

  • Beatriz Ferreyra

    Echos

  • Sheila Stewart

    Echo Mocks The Corncrake

  • Iain Chambers

    The Regent's Canal

  • Kahn & Neek

    Venus

  • Zadie Xa

    Ancestral undulations and the transmission of knowing

  • Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton

    RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer

  • Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats

    Peg O' My Heart

  • µþÂáö°ù°ì

    There's More To Life Than This

  • Shabaka and the Ancestors

    'Til The Freedom Comes Â鶹ԼÅÄ

  • Nazar

    Bunker (feat. Shannen SP)

  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Messe de Notre Dame, Agnus Dei

    Performer: Jennifer Walshe.

  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Hoquetus David

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • Music Of The Gothic Era.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Ranil

    La Tuctuructia

  • Johnnie Allan

    Promised Land

  • Mariza

    Fado Curvo

  • Charlotte Keeffe

    'Noizemaschin!!' Solo Improvisation

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Form

    Performer: Echo Collective.

  • Arthur Russell

    The Name Of The Next Song

  • Anne-F Jacques & Tim Olive

    A1

Broadcasts

  • Fri 13 Mar 2020 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
  • Fri 31 Jul 2020 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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