I left instructions for the judges how to operate the Craig so they could hear my voice describing the theory and implementation of the project. I one a first place ribbon in my Catholic school’s 8th grade science fair for a project called “Light Beam Communication.” I modulated a small incandescent bulb with my Craig recorder and picked up the sound with a solar cell and amp I built. But by the time I was twelve I was equally involved in both. I think an interest in electronics preceded recording by a year or two. Were you originally more interested in recording, or electronics? It seems as though your general field is about half science and half art.
Really kind of an anachronism at that point in 1968. Just a lovely “can do” spirit-wireless sets, spark gap transmitters, induction coil radio telephone sets. I found a copy at my local library and was the first person in decades to check it out. Morgan’s “The Boy Electrician” published in 1912. I lived in the Lafayette Radio catalog poring over parts specs.Ī great inspiration for me at this time was Alfred P. At the same time I was building Heath kit stuff (a vacuum tube CB radio, 10-4 good buddy) and wireless mics etc.
I remember a close up shot of the composer splicing 1/4″ tape in a splicing block so the idea of recording and manipulating chucks of sound originated there and stuck with me. I had seen a public television show that, in retrospect, must have been about tape-based music composition. I received a portable Craig tape recorder with 3″ reels for a birthday present when I was 12. About how old were you when you first got started with all of this stuff? On your website you mention that you got started recording when you got your first open reel tape recorder. And here, for your reading pleasure, is the whole shot. I had the full interview up in blog form on the Looming Pylon MySpace page, but MySpace chose to delete that interview (along with most of my other stuff).Īnyway, the interview did see print in TapeOp magazine’s “Behind the Gear” feature, albeit in an edited form. I had high hopes of publishing this interview in an issue of Looming Pylon, but sadly that never came to pass. My head was still buzzing with all manner of aetheriality, and I was flush with enthusiasm for the minutiae of my new-found passion for recording. I’d purchased a mic mod on an Oktava Mk-319 which (as it turns out) was about to completely change my world.
Oktavamod (Michael’s company) was really starting to take off in a big way. A few years ago–2007, to be exact–I had the opportunity to interview mic modification wizardMichael Joly.
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