30/01/2011: Silence

Spent the week doing some practical experimenting with the 4-Track. Learning, but slowly. Mostly seems a case of having the correct wires and enough of them to be able use the thing as you want; couple of complications with various modes and knowing which ones activate or deactivate others etc. It doesn’t make for particularly interesting reading, too much of a practical activity. Been playing the semi-warped records and recording snippets of static and pops onto the 4-Track to see what kind of volume level they’re output as. I’ve also taken John Cage’s Silence out of the uni library and started to read bits of that.