6TonBand
Experiments with old reel-to-reel machines
Reel-to-reel machines first used by Lifeloop in his performances with noisiv, then for his installation "Music for Toilets" later became the centre point for "6TonBand", a project started with Alan Layton and on some occasions accompanied by Kaspar König. It is still presented or performed in different forms, but the general set up looks like this...
A number of old reel-to-reel machines are arranged in series with a tape running through from first to last machine. The first machine is recording through a mixer (with line inputs from the other machines) and the rest are playing the signal back thus creating an analogue delay effect that is infinitely looped over a large space and long period, normally resulting in a cacophony of semi-random sound.

27.10-2.11.08 < Reel Tape performce at NOISE NoD 08, a week long meeting of artists focusing on sonic works and installations in the gallery of NoD, and Klub Roxy, Prag, Czech Republic. Photos

14.06.08 < at the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft" - Music for Toilets installation and a ReelTape performance. Technical University, Berlin

20.12.07 < performance/installation at Gallery Wallywoods, Kulturhaus Peter Edel, Weissensee, Berlin

09.07.06 < Tape Only Night at Balla Balla Bar with Rinus van Alebeek, brunnen/bernauer str., Wedding, Berlin

2-4.05.06 < Installation at the Lost Shadows festival, The Factory, Berlin

10.07.04 < Work Room, installation and concert in the project Leerstelle, berlin, D

23.08.03 < Performance and installation in Wortvirus, Schöneberg, Berlin

22.-24.07.03 < audio-installation and open experiment with reel to reel machines - at f-export - schlossfreiheit, schlossplatz, berlin

05.02.03 < Performance/Installation at Salon Bruit in Kathedrale, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin

08.12.02 < Performance at hotel berlinische galerie, Berlin, D - listen to the MP3

30.11.02 < Perfromance at Institut für Klang&Raum, Dunckerstr, berlin, D

07.09.02 < Performance titled "for your aural pleasure", in Salon Bruit, schliemann, berlin, D

12.12.01 < Installation at MeltingMediaProject 002, Acud Remise, berlin, D

05.09.01 < Performance with Kaspar König at the new Fleischerei, berlin, D

17.05.01 < Installation at "Melting-Media Festival I", Bornholmerstr. 12, Berlin, D