We Make a Lot of the Products You Buy Better.¨ (2005):

In the 1930's, German scientists at AEG and BASF collaborated

to redefine recording technology.  The new magnetic tape and

AC current biasing technique made the recording process

transparent and, following World War II, provided the first 

cheap, accessible recording format for consumers.


In 2005 the last magnetic audio tape factory shut down.

The general public, in their quest for high-fidelity music,

finally abandoned tape for other storage formats.  Now the 

technology that changed the way the world listened makes its 

last stand as an enabler for mass consumption.
		

This piece is an homage to magnetic tape.  Recorded on a tape 

loop constructed out of credit cards is a music box-esque

composition.  As the loop rotates through the reel to reel

deck, the recording is read off the cards and sonified by 

electro-magnets placed above the strings inside the adjacent, 

open-damper piano.  The audio is intentionally faint, so please 

don't turn your volume up too high.		listen [mp3]