Fundamentals of Tape Loop and Various Tape Manipulations Ana Hatlarıyla “Tape Loop” ve Çeşitli Ses Şeridi Manipülasyonları
Art and Interpretation, cilt.2026, sa.47, ss.108-117, 2026 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 2026 Sayı: 47
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.47571/sanatyorum.1644991
- Dergi Adı: Art and Interpretation
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.108-117
- Anahtar Kelimeler: concrete music, Electronic music, tape loop, tape music
- Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Tape loop, first discovered in the 1940s by composers that pioneered the musique concrète movement, is now a significant technique used both in classical music and modern music. This method transcends the mere simple recording and playing of sound as it allows for the possibility of developing a circular structure. A tape loop works by joining the ends of a magnetic tape into a loop, and it is placed in the re cording or playing-back machine. The configuration produces an infinitely recurring sonic cycle. Far from merely a music-making instrument, the tape loop has become an expressive vehicle of beauty directly engaging the physics and technology of sound. Composers such as Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Karl heinz Stockhausen, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich have utilized this technique to break the concept of time, space, and sound in music. Though the technique has moved from mechanical tapes to digital loops with digital audio technologies, tape loops still produce a more organic sound with their vintage sound color and random audio distortions. Musicians have explored tape loops as a technique of manipulating sound and pushed the technique even further. Physical manipulation of tape has allowed for numerous inter ventions that alter the nature of sound. These include magnetic tape distortions, time lag accumulator, variable playback speed, speeding up when it is quickly rewound, blocking the erase head, and reversing the tape. These processes have made impossible listening moments possible and provoked introspec tion about the interrelationship of sound with velocity, space, and time. Mechanical repetition of sound has compelled the human mind to perceive things about sound that remained unperceived. In this way, the conditions for the emergence of new musical ideas were established.