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Found Tapes Exhibition wendy

[ _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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Read more and others about the Found Tapes Exhibition :

  1. Foundtaping: les trésors des cassettes jetées à la poubelle. Barraque à Freaks / Rue 89 (may 2008)
  2. Le réfuge des cassettes abandonnées. Ecrans / Libération (february 2007)
  3. Lost Tapes, Found Sounds. We Make Money Not Art (february 2007)
  4. Found Tapes. Home Made Labor (february 2007)
  5. The New Readymades. Low-fi.org.uk (april 2005)

found tape index

FT86.495 - 491
FT85.490 - 485
FT84.484 - 480
FT83.479 - 460
FT82.459 - 454
FT81.453 - 449
FT80.448 - 442
FT79.441 - 435
FT78.434 - 428
FT77.427 - 424
FT76.423 - 418
FT75.417 - 413
FT74.412 - 406
FT73.405 - 400
FT72.399 - 394
FT71.393 - 388
FT70.387 - 384
FT69.383 - 379
FT68.378 - 375
FT67.374 - 368
FT66.367 - 363
FT65.362 - 358
FT64.357 - 353
FT63.352 - 348
FT62.347 - 342
FT61.341 - 337
FT60.336 - 332
FT59.331 - 328
FT58.327 - 324
FT57.323 - 319
FT56.318 - 312
FT55.311 - 308
FT54.307 - 303
FT53.302 - 296
FT52.295 - 290
FT51.289 - 285
FT50.284 - 280
FT49.279 - 276
FT48.275 - 270
FT47.269 - 266
FT46.265 - 261
FT45.260 - 257
FT44.256 - 252

FT43.251 - 246
FT42.245 - 241
FT41.240 - 234
FT40.233 - 229
FT39.228 - 224
FT38.223 - 218
FT37.217 - 204
FT36.203 - 202
FT35.201 - 191
FT34.190 - 184
FT33.183 - 179
FT32.178 - 173
FT31.172 - 155
FT30.154 - 147
FT29.146 - 143
FT28.142 - 138
FT27.137 - 133
FT26.132 - 128
FT25.127 - 123
FT24.122 - 118
FT23.117 - 113
FT22.112 - 108
FT21.107 - 103
FT20.102 - 098
FT19.097 - 093
FT18.092 - 088
FT17.087 - 083
FT16.082 - 078
FT15.077 - 073
FT14.072 - 068
FT13.067 - 063
FT12.062 - 058
FT11.057 - 053
FT10.052 - 048
FT09.047 - 043
FT08.042 - 038
FT07.037 - 033
FT06.032 - 028
FT05.027 - 023
FT04.022 - 018
FT03.017 - 011
FT02.010 - 006
FT01.005 - 001

Find #318
 
 


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found tape links

- Visit the Found Tapes Exhibition's online store
- Zoë Irvine's Magnetic Migration Music site
- Exquisite and tasty: Åsa Ståhl's Tape Salad ('Bandsallad')
- Ever since 1998, Gunter Krüger has been collecting cast-away magnetic tapes, both audio and video. In 2002 he produced the video film Magnetic {eye} - Jerusalem, based upon audio- and videotapes found in the streets of Jerusalem from early march till end of june 2000, and the spots where they were found. You can follow Gunter's ongoing work at his magnetic {eye} website
- The video Lost Sound (1998-2001) by John Smith, in collaboration with sound artist Graeme Miller, shows "discarded audiotapes around London [...] The sound track combines the voices and songs on the found audiotapes with ambient sounds recorded on location".
- An audiotape recovery project in Chicago, USA, by David More and friends.
- Project C90 - an ultimate audiotape guide.
- One hundred blank audio cassette covers, collected by Polar Alert.