In an effort to practice what I had learned in an in class exercise on tape loops for Sound for Screen, I recorded and created a 4.8 second loop of one of my favorite song introductions, ‘The Ocean’ by Led Zeppeling. In the introduction of the studio recording and live recordings of this piece John Bonham, the bands drummer, recites ‘we’ve done four already but now we’re steady and then they went 1,2,3,4’ in order to count off the intro tempo of the song. The purpose of this was in recording this piece, the band was having initial trouble syncing up the slight polyrhythms that occurs throughout the duration of the song, and in an attempt at humor, Bonham shouted that phrase which was then picked up by an overhead drum microphone and released with the album ‘Houses of the Holy’.

This tape loop is a minor tribute of mine to the band.