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submerged tape loops

by Alexandra Spence

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Submerged tape loops is more art project than album, it consists of a cassette and accompanying book of prose and photos - including a foreword by Yang Yeung. It’s part of an ongoing project in which I create 7-second tape-loop recordings and bury them in the earth, in the location at which they were recorded. The tapes are later dug up and placed back in their cassette casing for listening. The result of the time the loops spend embedded in the earth is the physical deterioration of the magnetic tape, and a degradation of the audio recording. This iteration was developed whilst on a residency in Hong Kong in the summer of 2019. Surrounded by water I decided to submerge these tape loops instead. Six locations were chosen according to their proximity to a body of water, be it the Hong Kong harbour, two neighbouring islands, a fountain on newly reclaimed land, a bubbler next to fragments of the old sea wall... and six loops were recorded at each of these locations. While the magnetic coating of the tape retains sonic remnants of the recorded sounds of the place, the physicality of the tape ribbon retains material remnants of the place: earth, sand, salt, other, which, in turn, impart audibly on the recording in the form of crackles, scratches, tape-warp, and hiss.

hard copy sold out, email me for pdf copy of book.
C12 - Canto 34
www.cantimagnetici.com

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released January 29, 2022

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living on unceded Wangal Land ⌇ making sounds

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