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Swan Song For Tape Recorder

by Shaun Robert

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The title is self explanatory, the auto destructive art in a recording, an endless search for a sound, in an ever-changing interconnection, as circuits and wires melt, new pathways are found. Made using no external sources, a conscious crosstalk layering; so interactions of sound are both by chance, as previous layers can’t be heard in record mode, and close deep listening of the actively made sound, an improvisation in a sense.

Swan Song for Tape Recorder is a 15 track album, recorded in 1997 with a rather battered and broken double tape machine, bought from someone in the street for £10. It had a 4 slider graphic and bass /stereo separation/switching. By fusing and feeding it back on itself, internally and externally, using metal objects (coins, washers) and wire, making a layered distortion by removing the erase head, and detaching the record-head to make it malleable to various positional adaptions effecting the stereo panning.

A piece for prepared tape machine or a circuit bending masterpiece? Make your own mind up.

This is CDROT108

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released June 1, 2022

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Oxidation is the process that destroys the CDr format over time. Unfortunately, we have started to lose several great releases because of this deterioration.

This label was started to preserve some of my favorite releases from the 90's and beyond. All releases are posted with complete permission from the artists.

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