In this video, the Open Reel Ensemble, a Japanese band known for their use of open-reel recordings to create music, performs with bowed audio tape.
This is a trio performance on the “JIGAKKYU,” a traditional folk instrument, made by stretching magnetic tape across bamboo. Tape loops are attached to a bamboo bow, which is used to control how the tape moves through a reel-to-real tape deck.
The track is composed by the Open Reel Ensemble (Ei Wada, Haruka Yoshida and Masaru Yoshida).
via Dongleboob
AIn’t the dude closer to camera one of the “Electrónicos Fantásticos!” band members?
I think he is.
I think it’s the guy who plays the Vintage Electric Fan.
I thought the same too. Dude is brilliant.
Kinda looks like they are fishing lol
Wicked idea and sounds
It looks as if they are fishing for an audience.
Definitely advant garde
It doesn’t get more analog than this, though. Sometimes, you have to do something silly to draw people’s attention to something superb.
How does that work? When I slow down tape, it drags in pitch. And what do the keyboards do?