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John Wiggins - OCT Bed 4

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John Wiggins TEXT FOR “Composing with Tape Recorders, Musique Concrète for Beginners”

The sound all around us is referential; it refers to some actual event in an actual place. Its interpretation isn’t abstract like a music motif because it’s concrete. When these sounds and spaces are dynamically and rhythmically organized, a music emerges that arouses deep emotion. Survival based familiar sensations that we all know are the starting points for these sounds and unexpected interpretations are always the result.

The process I used to create “OCT Bed 4” is exactly the same process I used in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s using multiple tape machines. Back then I would record sounds from everywhere and layer and edit them on 4 track. Playing these 4 track tapes back on multiple machines I would mix to 2trk. Today I record sounds from everywhere and layer and edit them in LOGIC Pro and mixed the various pieces together in ProTools as a stereo WAVE file. A process not unlike shooting a film – record the raw sounds (shoot), edit them and then mix.


John Wiggins is an Emmy winning sound designer living in New York.

“OCT Bed 4” (2016)

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