Friday, May 29, 2009

TORI AMOS Abnormally Attracted To Sin OPTIGAN





























In "Fast Horse"

I use an Optigan violin bank along with the Chamberlin.
The Optigan is an electromechanical device that
uses the modulation of a light beam to create sound.
The light passes through a spinning disk of transparent plastic, that has the waveforms
of both instruments and complete musical segments,
printed on one side. It resembles an optical track from old film technology in concentric rings, and sounds like it .The Optigan, Chamberlin and Mellotron, all have their own characteristic sound that they impart on the original source material. "Band-limited, Lower Fi , with noise" is how I would describe the sound in general.

2 Comments:

Blogger André LCR said...

Ah, well. That thing. I´d never seen anything like it, not even heard of it. The greatest haunting sounds. You used it on Willy´s Vampire´s Lullaby.One of my favourites.The optigan definitely delivered.

June 1, 2009 9:00 AM  
Blogger John Philip Shenale said...

Good memory.
Howz Berlin, mine bruder?

June 1, 2009 12:40 PM  

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