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[ _last updated: january, 2010_ ]
Welcome to the 'Found Tapes Exhibition' (in dutch : the 'Voddebandjes Tenhoorstelling'), a project that at its beginning, in 2002, was inspired by Zoë Irvine's "Magnetic Migration Music" project.
It was in that year that I started 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 ... Though none as longrunning as this online Exhibition, over the years I did come across a number of related projects and works; you can find links, whenever available, in the 'found tapes links' section, and more information in several SoundBlog entries.
I regularly mount my finds back onto a cassette, to listen
to them. You can find a detailed description of the 'restoration technique'
that I use in the SoundBlog entry entitled Prof.
Dr. Cassette. 
The Exhibition is organized in series of
five (on the average, but there are exceptions), each of which is called an
'acquisition', and is exposed on its own dedicated web page.
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 'SoundBlog'. Direct links to entries related to specific exhibits are given on the corresponding pages.
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 ... If you'd like to support the project, please do consider adopting one of the acquisitions.
Thank you for your interest and support ...
Harold Schellinx, 2002-2010
found tape index | |
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FT114.676 - 669 |
FT57.323 - 319 |
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| Click the picture to the left to view and download your own copy of the highly collectable Found Tapes Picozine ... (november 2008) |
found tape links |
- Visit the
Found Tapes Exhibition's online store |
