I think that some of the effects are gotten just by over-modulating input and saturating the tape. I mean some of the tapes were distorted, and I don't think that he wanted to hear that rough kind of sound. I know there were some other composers working in that medium at that time – I don't know who fired the first shot, so to speak – but he didn't really have good equipment to do it on. Well, I don't know historically who came first – the chicken or the egg – in that realm. To know in advance what's going to come out and to plan your composition to achieve effects like that was something that people just hadn't thought of doing before. If you take two intervals and play them very loudly on a woodwind instrument – for instance, this one spot where two piccolos are playing either a Major second or minor second apart, very high octave – when you blow it real hard you hear a third note that's not there.
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