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From:
Francois Dion
To:
923117Q
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Date:
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:40:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) Autechre/Didgeridoo...useless trivia
Msg-Id:
<199603280540.VAA01557@taz.hyperreal.com>
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<9603270628.AA25093@chomsky.arts.adelaide.edu.au>
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Dans la Matrice, 923117Q a dit:
quoted 7 lines rather than an actual digeridoo- the timbre is right but most digeridoos> >rather than an actual digeridoo- the timbre is right but most digeridoos > >don't just drone on for several minutes... never seen someone with that > >much lung capacity). > > Australian Aborigines (along with many other people probably:) use a > technique known as cyclic breathing whereby air is inhaled through the nose > whilst simultaneously being exhaled through the mouth!
To be precise you push air with your cheeks while breathing with your nose. A bit like trumpet players. Circular breathing is not easy to do, and even if you can do it does not mean you can do it forever. I made myself a didj and i get exhausted after a short while. Some players (there are bands and all with tuned didj) can go on for hours! In the digital domain i've had mixed results doing a didj with csound, while with analog gear i've had very interesting results with a Sequential circuits six-trak. In the case of Mr. Aphex, he used a real didj sample modulated with an analog filter (with a Sequential Circuit Studio 440). Ciao, -- Francois Dion (IdMEDIA) [> Email: francois@hyperreal.com <] ' [> C.P. 278, St-Lambert, QC, Canada, J4P 2N8 <]