I like sending stuff by mail and today the idea of this traveling cassette tape came to me. Here’s what I was thinking;
A cassette tape is shipped around the world to participats in the experiment.
Each participant records a (short) segment to the tape - a field recording, a short composition, a sound, a voice etc. (we can specify this more if wanted, or not)
Each participant sends the tape by mail to the next participant on the list
See @Hovercraft’s Post here for info.
This edition runs on the following concept:
participants post here in the thread when they’re ready to send out their tapes and people can volunteer to make the next recording. That way, you can ask for a tape when you have time to make a recording and ship to someone else.
Edition 1
Starting point: Norway
Current status of tape: unknown
The list has been sortet with european countries first, followed by North America.
Details
Participants receive the cassette by mail and record a short piece of audio to the tape (music, field recording, voice, etc).
max 2 minutes per artist
Locate your position in the spread sheet and contact the lines-member listed after you for shipping details relevant to you
Send the tape by mail to the next lines-member
Cassette recording rules:
Please make sure to use only 1 side of the tape. Cassette decks with 4 recording tracks record two channels to side A and two channels to side B, which would «mess up the tape» for everyone else)
Please make sure you’re recording in ordinary speed (many of the Tascam 4 tracks record in ‘high speed’ mode)
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For this to work, it’s obviously essential that the tape is moving around and doesn’t stop at one location. Personally, I like the idea of not having a time frame on this. One participant might sit on the tape for a while before recording and sending it away to the next.
In the end we’ll have a cassette tape of various sound experiments. I was thinking we can record the tape and publish the collection on bandcamp, or make duplications of it if that’s of interest.
Very much up for this - but not too keen on putting contact details online, sorry. There must be other ways to share names (real or otherwise) and addresses.
PO Box could be an option. I don’t think you can open one under a pseudonym (at least they checked my ID when I got mine). But technically only the person with the tape before you needs to know your name.
we’ll find another way! I can update the top post with lines member names. Once we start the project we can perhaps share the details in an e-mail? Or I could collect details from everyone and share the address you’ll need according to your position in the line, or something like that? Open for suggestions
For sure! I was thinking this is a world-wide thing. The cost of sending a single cassette tape in the mail with standard shipping should hopefully not be too bad.
Haha such a cool idea!!! Yes count me in if possible. Hopefully the tape will not get lost when sending over too long a distance. But It might also be interesting if this project runs for a long time due to long shipping times. It might traverse different historical periods.
How about you get the address details from the first recipient via PM, then they do the same in turn with the next along the line? That way there’s no need for PO boxes (unless you want to, of course) and no need for a central list, maybe?
Is there any need to consider arranging the running order by relative geographical location, if only to consider the carbon footprint (minimal as it might be) of sending a cassette back and forth across continents?
