LUNAR ACCUMULATOR

"Time lag accummulator" is a name given to an arrangement of two tape recorders set up to coninuously record and never erase over a fixed length of tape. The tape, being connected at both ends makes a loop. Allegedly great lengths of tape would be strewn about, orbiting entire studios, to extend the unit of time that was the loop. Though, the perimeter of a large room would still repeat in only about a minute. For musicians this offered a way to "play with the past," improvising in time with echoes of your own previous musical decisions. Though, as that unit of time that makes up the loop grows, it becomes harder to conceive of it this way. From seconds to minutes, structure or 'groove' break down into their own movements. As minutes move into double digits, enough time has passed to where you might be surprised by your own echoes, and prefer to just listen or merely segue between artifacts. As this effect scales into hours and days, more attention and sound sources are needed to preserve the structure. The notion of music becomes stretched as more room is created for time-keeping itself. A loop the precise length of a lunar cycle could take years to aquire any meaningful strutcure, and that structure might be only ephemeral or all together imperceptible.