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The Cone of Light

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Froderik:
The "Cone of Light" was a second story room in the building on the corner of Haight and Fillmore. My friend Daniel and his now ex-wife lived there for some years. It was a sunny room with three windows facing Haight St. in the general direction of the Mission district... I went for a few extended visits at various times during the early 90's.

The Cone of Light WAS the room itself plus a portable cassette player with built-in condenser mic.

Instruments involved were: A little Casio SK-1 keyboard with a mic for sampling any number of different weird sounds, a few acoustic guitars with strings sometimes open-tuned or tuned down for bass effect, harmonica, vocals, a rattling old birdcage for percussion, a metal tabla drum, a concertina and other things that I don't recall right now.

And then there was tape editing & splicing, swinging the cassette recorder around in circles on a rope while it was recording for that whirling Leslie effect.  

There were environmental sounds that were peculiar to "The Cone": Jackhammers tearing up Haight Street, trucks beeping as they backed up, busses with all of their strange noises, cable cars, street people yelling, dogs, etc...

Froderik:
::bump::

starry-eyed pirate:
Sounds interesting.  I slept in Golden Gate park once, every night for about a week, circa 1990.  Hung around the Haight til I got tired of the city.  Cool place if you know what you're doin.

Froderik:
Cone of Light CD:

http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&BandId=5295

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