We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Chewed

by Andy Birtwistle

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Download also includes:
    • PDF inlay card
    • Start Here: the art of the audio cassette – a 40-page booklet featuring extended artwork and liner notes from Start Here audio cassette tape releases 1 – 7
    Purchasable with gift card

      £4 GBP

     

1.
2.

about

When a cassette player fails, it may begin to destroy the very thing that justifies its own existence – stretching, creasing, twisting and warping the contents of the cassette, binding and choking its own internal workings with magnetic tape. Such failures may become audible as wow and flutter, or as more radical variations in playback speed that ultimately terminate in silence.

Rather than hearing these sounds as a problem, this tape locates them at the centre of the listening experience. To isolate and foreground the sounds produced by the deformation of magnetic tape, I worked with cassette recordings of sine wave tones, which were then played back on a faulty Technics RS-HD350 Stereo Cassette Deck.

Chewed is released on the Start Here audio cassette tape label, which aims to bring discerning listeners the finest in magnetic tape based media archaeological art. The files available for digital download are taken directly from cassette copies, and include the sound of the cassette's leader tape at the beginning and end of each side.

"My neighbors (and their pets) fucking hate me for playing this on the livingroom stereo." - Jacob An Kittenplan, Cassette Gods

credits

released October 26, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Andy Birtwistle Canterbury, UK

Andy Birtwistle is a sound artist, filmmaker and writer. He is the author of 'Cinesonica: Sounding film and video' published by Manchester University Press (2010).

andybirtwistle.com

contact / help

Contact Andy Birtwistle

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this album or account

If you like Andy Birtwistle, you may also like: