Snake Guitar and Chips Please

This morning was filled with many big ideas, mostly sparked by reading this :-



However, it did make me realise that I was just recycling Eno's own ideas. However since I managed to get a VB version of Piano Phase working I have been wanting to do something like Come Out and have found out that it is extremely easy - simply two media player controls running on timers with an interval 1 millisecond apart. I just need to find a decent phrase to play - I did try "Daddy Daddy" from the end of the Plath poem and though the process works there is just not enough variation to get any interesting interactions. When Reich did the early phase shift pieces he had to either find recordings or make them himself. Now, like for image making, there is the whole Internet - millions of recordings to use as source and that is probably why it is actually more difficult to settle on a source - the fact that something seems OK is tempered with the idea that something better is just around the corner. Which sounds like how My Bloody Valentine make records.

While Searching for the Come Out Link I found this video of one person playing both parts of Piano Phase.



It makes me wonder if this is just the latest in the line of Honda robots. I always thought that two players need to be at the top of their game but to play both parts is just breathtaking.