The book outlines five classic techniques for composing concrete music. Four techniques are derived from tape manipulation, and one is an external process.
Tape Techniques
- Tape Splicing: allows for the re-ordering of sounds in time.
- Tape Echo/Delay: self-explanatory
- Change of Playback Speed: changes pitch and duration.
- Reversing of Tape Direction: also changes amplitude envelope.
Process
- Reverberation
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