1992 Reels

In 1992 I filled several tapes with improvisations and experiments on a two-track reel-to-reel machine from 1967. I had a Yamaha CS5, a Casio SK-10, and an Arion analogue delay pedal, that was all. I was studying electronics at college and working part-time in Roches Stores supermarket. So not many choices to make, and this is a good thing… Brian Eno once observed that guitar players tend to produce more interesting music than synthesizer players because you can exhaust the options on a guitar in about a minute, after which you have no choice but to start making aesthetic decisions. These budget keyboards I had were not much more - expansive - than a guitar, so the decisions came quickly.