The Tapes UK
The Tapes is an idea born of a desire to collaborate with old friends. The idea of using old tapes is born out the feeling
that these little cartridges of captured magnetic information somehow embody the complete moment they capture - carrying the scars of history leading to that moment and beyond.
Send us a tape: it is listened to by a mind machine, and then built upon using microphones and tool
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