thatjeffcarter was here: Wow and Flutter

They're already obsolete and pretty much gone the way of the dodo. The younger generation has no memory, no concept of the audio "tape". (Even so, the reports of the death of the audio cassette are greatly exaggerated ...)

So the theme of the most recent Dare at the Freesound Project was to create an original piece of music from various tape recordings - we're talking actual magnetically coated plastic tape winding from reel to reel. Samples came in from long forgotten audio cassettes found in the back of the attic, VHS tapes, even old computer programs recorded to magnetic tape...

And these recordings came with all the flaws and idiosyncrasies common to cassette recordings - all the hiss, warbles,clicks and pops you remember.

For this dare, I partnered with César, a friend from the Freesound Project. We talked about how cassette tapes were often used multiple times and how sometimes the various layers of recordings would bleed through each other. We wanted to include some of that in our piece, so between the two of us and the 31 sound samples we chose to use, we created the following song: Wow and Flutter

One of the demands of this particular Dare was that each entry had to include at least one sound sample from everyone who contributed their cassette recordings - and there were many contributors.

Tape Behaving Badly 001

Tape Behaving Badly 003