buried tape loops, by Alexandra Spence

buried tape loops

by Alexandra Spence

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	1.	second beach [side B] excerpt 00:29
	2.	crab beach [side B] excerpt 00:28

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'buried tape loops' is more art project than album. it consists of a blue-glitter cassette + accompanying colour-printed, hand-bound zine. 'buried tape loops' is part of an ongoing installation project wherein Alex makes 7-second tape-loop recordings and then buries them in the earth; an attempt at collaboration, asking and prompting a place to affect its own sounding.

this particular edition consists of twelve field recordings, one at each of Vancouver’s beaches. each tape loop ribbon was removed from the cassette casing and buried in the location at which it was recorded. one to three months later they were dug up. the obvious result is the physical deterioration of the tape, and degradation of the original recordings. and yet the deterioration of one thing is a transformation into another. the cassette loops each recording for one minute, so 12 minutes of audio on each side.

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more info on the project: alexandraspence.net/Listening-to-the-sea-from-at-least-twelve-points-of-hearing

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released March 13, 2018

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