OFF: "originals"

[John McIntyre]

Reefer Minimalism wrote:

> In 'Early Minimalism' Tony Conrad claims that he in fact was the first to
> use tape delay and looping in a performing/composing context with one of
> his works from 1961. He further states that Terry Riley then experimented
> with this idea a year later (but doesn't explicitly state that Riley got
> the idea from him, though it seems to be implied) and that Reich followed
> after (and he DOES explicitly state that Reich got it from Riley). Conrad
> does not seem to be overly fond of Reich, and I can't claim to have more
> than a superficial knowledge of modern musical history, but he does make a
> convincing case.

Does he mention Otto Leuning and Vladimar Ussachevsky, who were using tape
delay techniques back in the fifties?

John McIntyre
Physics - Astronomy Domine Dept
Michigan State University
mcintyre at pa.msu.edu