My initial idea was to slowly degrade my recordings by passing them along a very long tape loop, running through three separate cassette players. Each cassette player would be a different output coming into my DAW, and combining both the varying playback qualities with different processing on each channel, I will have a long triple delay with each repeat being more distorted than the last, with the tape finally returning into the ‘recording’ player and being wiped with new audio. This sounded good in my minds ear, and I had the tape players necessary. I didn’t have enough tape shells so I quickly ordered some in.

Upon the shells arriving I suddenly felt that I would be going to a lot of effort to precariously create this long tape loop around a room passing through three discrete players, but the physicality of the process would be lost on the listener. The audio would be distinctly analogue sounding, but I felt that half of the power in this piece was in the unstable layout of tape machines visualising the audio progression in real time. For this reason, I decided that this technique would best be lent to an exhibition-style piece as my flat is very small with not much space to work with.

For this reason I decided to keep digital for this project. Some analogue might find its way into the signal chain, but not as a central focus.