MASTER OF SILENCE ( Lyra-8 / Piano Tape Loop / Live Ambient )

To create this improvisation, I used parts of a piano, that I recorded on a looped tape a few months ago. loop simultaneously reproduces two cassett players, one signal it immediately goes to the mixer and is used to create an echo / delay. The output of the second cassett player is duplicated, one of the signals also goes into the mixer and is used as the main one. The second signal is sent through POG2 to the amplifier, from where it is extracted through a can mic and fed to the Marantz PMD-222 cassette with a slow recording level. Thus, a can microphone signal is recorded on a cassette also used as an echo. The second pair of cassette players also simultaneously plays a looped cassette on which the Kalimba is recorded as percussion. Both signals pass through the delay effect. From a portable cassette player the looping speech of the legendary musician and my compatriot Mstislav Rostropovich sounds. Also for this experiment I use the crazy drone synth SOMA Lab LIRA-8 (creator Vlad Kreme