tapes
Revel in an anti-celebrity activity, making tapes seems like the most backward, irrational ambition that’s possible but all the creations and technologies that we rely on day to day have resulted from idiosyncratic and eccentric invention or discovery; behaviour that might easily be classed as 'mental disorder' by modern standards. Peoples mental health will decline if culture is consumed by excess, then it will regress, adopting a warlike mentality. There is a battle with the past, a desire to expand like a force fed animal, swallowing up everything to get fat profits....
Ready made art, this is the idea behind each hand made cassette tape, just as artist Marcel Duchamp proposed in 1915. Every tape represents an altered state, a mass produced commodity customised by hand into something individual, like some fictional droid that forms its own character and consciousness once let loose into the world. These are Tapes of Wrath that take as their theme modes of oppression and its continuous defeat by those who resist control. A relentless vigil that takes in the perspective of the flaneur, who strolls through streets of Blade Runner cool, except its set in Charles...
Dolby and dbx noise reduction system
While there are dozens of different kinds of noise reduction, the first widely used audio noise reduction technique was developed by Ray Dolby in 1966. Intended for professional use, Dolby Type A was an encode/decode system in which the amplitude of frequencies in four bands was increased during recording (encoding), then decreased proportionately during playback (decoding). The Dolby B system (developed in conjunction with Henry Kloss) was a single band system designed for consumer products. In particular, when recording quiet parts of an audio signal, the ...
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. Most audio, video and computer data storage is this type. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders. A device that stores computer data on magnetic tape is a tape drive (tape unit, streamer).
Magnetic tape revolutionized broadcast and recording. When all radio was live, it allowed programming to be prerecorded. At a time when gramophone records were recorded...
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art".[1] By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, tilting and signing it, the object became art. As the process involved the least amount of interaction between artist and art, it represented the most extreme form of minimalism up to that time.
Duchamp was not interested in what he called "retinal art" — art that was only visual — and sought other methods of expression. As an ...
hiss and burn, white black pink noise. Tape hiss is the high frequency noise present on analogue magnetic tape recordings caused by the size of the magnetic particles used to make the tape. Effectively it is the noise floor of the recording medium. It can be reduced by the use of finer magnetic particles or by increasing the amount of tape used per second to record a signal. The small amount of noise present in magnetic recordings can be thought of as arising from two separate and distinct causes -
1) Minute magnetic irregularities in the
tape which vary...
There are many relationships that can be observed winding between the most popular sounds of the moment and whats going on at large, I always thought that the obsession with house music and the economic housing boom had some kind of strange connection this is an obvious one but there are countless others, we act as a herd when viewed as a whole. The role that music plays in peoples lives has changed a lot from the days of vinyl and reel to reel tapes where a lot of liberating views now associated with the 'sixties' meandered their way through...
Each tape machine I use has a slightly differnt sound, mostly its imperceptible but sometimes there is a noticable quality of hiss and jingle that varies with the machine, generally the better the mchine the less the hiss but there is a tonal quality that cheaper machnes can have that is quite nice, so I use all kinds of tape machine from high end nakamichi to cheap philips data recorders.
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A cassette tape is a universally recognised thing, its shape is symbolic and it has outlived its technological niche of significance. This kind of ascociation and legacy of use underpins the whole technology of language, in all its conceptual relationship.
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