As live looping was requested, I went for that. Since it's well past one minute long, feel free to only listen to a minute. Not sure if this is as attack free as asked for, but it leans toward texture, layering, build up.

My instrument was an interactive combination fairly characteristic of my ongoing goofy tech approach. That is to use:

--something cheep
--something I already have
--something in a way not originally intended
--something in odd combination with something else
--something somehow altered by the overall interaction with other somethings

[I could envision many T-shirt ready slogans like "ZERO BUDGET. ZERO LATENCY." But hey, time's short--it's Zero Hour.]

Along those lines, I had a stereo cable plugged into the aux in of a Korg Monotron plugged into the aux in of a Radio DJ toy AM radio transmitter being received by a Sony countertop cassette/radio set to AM band.

The earphone out of the Sony radio was patched into a DOD digital delay with long enough time (1 - 4 sec) to serve as a very basic, sound-on-sound style looper delay. I have no fancy discrete looper delays and no patience for anything that discourages a slurry of sound in any case (a late found taste). The output of the DOD went to the line input of a very goofy tech Radio Shack powered speaker which was stereo recorded live and open air by a Zoom H4 handy recorder.

To explain the instrument better: the operative words are "body capacitance"--something like a theremin's antenna or a body contact on a circuit bent device. Just the connection of the Monotron to the Radio DJ makes the Monotron act wonky. The stereo cable to nothing not only leaves the Monotron's output gate open, it sets up this body cap. deal. So the Monotron acts certain ways, one of them is to create a body proximity control over pitch [of self osc. VCF cutoff, that is]. There's nothing rigorous or precise about this control--Lydia Kavina will not be teaching a master class about it. Change other factors and the pitch will shift. Engineers and techs would speak of this as being "interactive". And so it is. Idiomatic and idiosyncratic, proximity to the ribbon controller is a prime but not solitary consideration.

The original live take of this was edited in Audacity.

Goofy tech list:

2 - 1/8" stereo cables
Korg Monotron
Wild Planet Radio DJ toy AM radio transmitter
Sony cassette/radio TCM-959T
DOD Digital Delay/Sampler DFX94 pedal
Realistic Amplified Speaker System 32-2031A

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