Artist Amy Corson has developed a unique medium over the last decade: portraiture with cassette tape. It all began one day when she picked up a cassette of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and pulled ...
Summer has arrived, and I am craving a good road trip — windows down, sun shining across the horizon, and good music à la Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic. This craving is the idea behind my recent ...
When the Internet and MP3s began taking off in the early 2000s, many hand-wringing critics believed the rise of digital media would spell doomsday for their physical counterparts. While that looks ...
Who says the cassette tape is a dead medium? Artist Erika Iris has taken the defunct cassette tape and turned it into something jaw-droppingly beautiful. Her muses include The Beatles, Kurt Cobain, ...
For nearly a decade now, the cassette revival has been a subject of debate. Much of this chatter surrounds the trend’s unlikelihood and the reasons behind it, while others fret over supposed ...
Joseph Nechvatal in 1983 at his art show at Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC, photo by Peter Bellamy The first time Joseph Nechvatal infected sound with a virus it was just a “little tiny two-second ...
Here are three tracks from a mix tape made by Thurston Moore. Trying to control sharing through music is like trying to control an affair of the heart — nothing will stop it. Before the iPod and the ...
Opportunity Enterprises clients recently completed an art project made from upcycled cassette tapes, which they donated to Mixtape Social Kitchen, 55 Franklin St., Valparaiso, according to a release.
Over the last year I’ve seen more and more graffiti emerging in Brighton and one artist has stood out more than others. He goes by the name of Cassette Lord. To me what makes his artwork stand out is ...
When the City of Dallas decided to green light a grant for a cassette tape label, they probably got more than they bargained for. 2015 ain’t exactly peak time for cassette tapes, but when Vice ...
On the producer end of the market, the cassette is light and easy to produce and distribute for the musicians. In addition, its cover art provides the listener with a visual stimulus to accompany the ...