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[ _last updated: 01 september, 2008_ ]
Welcome to the 'Found Tapes Exhibition' (in dutch : the 'Voddebandjes Tenhoorstelling'), a project that was inspired by Zoë Irvine's "Magnetic Migration Music" project.
It was Zoë's idea (I mean: that is where I got it from originally) to start picking up the bits, knots and clods of thrown away cassette tape that one ever so often sees lying or hanging around in the streets, parks, fields ... - over the years I have been coming across a couple of still other, but like-minded, projects; you can find links, whenever available, in the 'found tapes links' section, and more information in several SoundBlog entries - ... I thought this was an excellent idea, with several fascinating angles, and started picking up tapes in the streets of Paris and elsewhere as of end march 2002.
I regularly mount my finds back onto a cassette, to listen
to them. This is done in chronological order of finding, in series of five
(except when I have more than five bits found on the same day, in which case
all finds of that day will be mounted together).
From each of the parts of such a series I select one, or more, fragments,
which I then assemble (I used to do this in ProTools, but currently I'm using
the very basic one-track audio editor Sound Studio), again in chronological
order, and create a 128kbps 44.1 kHz stereo mp3-file of the 'montage'.
The 'Exhibition' archives the bits of found tape that I have
treated in this manner, and lists them in descending chronological order of
finding, together with date and place of finding, as well as scans, photographs
and a description of what's on it ... as precise as I can.
[ Satellite pictures of find-spots courtesy Google Maps. All other
pictures and photographs are part of the project; please do not use them without
permission and reference to their origin. ]
If you can describe a fragment more precisely than the way in which
it is done in the list, then, yes, please, please let
me know!
You can read more about specific finds and procedures in several entries on this subject in my 'Sound(B)log'. Direct links to entries related to specific exhibits are given on the corresponding pages. You can subscribe to the SoundBlog mailing list, and receive email notifications of updates of the blog and the Found Tapes Exhibition (as well as the very occasional related bit of info).
You can listen to all the montages in order using the mp3 playlist. Alternatively, each montage is available for download from its own dedicated page ...
On special occassions some of the found tapes montages are available as in a limited edition, specially packaged and mastered on cassette. These 'Found In ..." cassette editions are for sale in the Found Tapes Exhibition's online store ...
Thank tou for your interest and support ...
Harold Schellinx, 2002-2008
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FT86.495 - 491 |
FT43.251 - 246 |
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found tape links |
- Visit the
Found Tapes Exhibition's online store |