Cassette Journal Entries

2 creative works found

• 10th Serve of Toast Just Served!
  by Stephanie Roth

  I have just sold my 10th t-shirt of my Toasted design! THANKS MUCHLY GUYS WHOEVER YOU ARE!!!!! It really makes my day. That desi…

  I have just sold my 10th t-shirt of my Toasted design! THANKS MUCHLY GUYS WHOEVER YOU ARE!!!!! It really makes my day. That design is pretty much the only thing i have ever sold and this was helped along by being featured too. _ That’s all folks!

• Cassette Mythos 1992
  by ANewKindOfWater

  Currently I’m reading a softcover called “Cassette Mythos,” from 1992. According to the receipt, I picked it up used in ‘95. I can vaguel…

  Currently I’m reading a softcover called “Cassette Mythos,” from 1992. According to the receipt, I picked it up used in ‘95. I can vaguely remember it coming out, because I collected a lot of cassette culture cassettes and demos, and made a couple, and was getting through the end wave of mail art that flooded my po box for years on end. The book sat on my shelf for 13 years because I couldn’t bear to open it. I wished I opened it a bit sooner – it would have synced nicely with the “images of cassettes” trend in graphics a few years ago. However it is still interesting to read because some music copyright/license issues then have been recycled over and over again since the Napster era – who owns what, should manufacturers pay a flat tax to RIAA or whoever to redistribute to musicians, the concept that copying is in 1-to-1 ratio to lost sales etc. Some of the art is cool; other pieces shlocky. Almost all involve pre-computer collage/juxtaposition of black and white images—no photoshop, cut-and-paste xeroxing was primary method during this micro-era. I finally cracked this open because I was directed to a handful of “album blogs” that are constantly uploading cassettes from the ‘80s to rapidshare, sharebee, and other large file-sharing sites. For the last few years I wanted to digitize my “good” cassettes before they rotted, and then this trend of album blogs doing the same thing appeared. Music on the internet may act as a great copyright destroyer to some, but it is also becoming a massive archive of disappearing stuff—great cassettes, crappy cassettes, limited run LPs that are impossible to find, your friend’s LP, and so on. Enough post-coffee tangents: many of the musicians and compilations in this book are re-appearing on the album blogs; I remember when making collages was so much easier, quicker, and rewarding; I feel spurred on to: / 1] digitize my tapes before they turn to static; / 2] go back to completing music; / 3] try to make collages again, completely by hand; / 4] actually dub the 30 minutes of outdoor samples on my digital recorder to my computer, and dump them into garageband; / 5] sleep more, floss, read, exercise, and go to bed on time This book is on amazon, usually about $3. Later I will post its ISBN, as well as links to the blogs mentioned above.