Generation Loss
For a project in a ‘Sound Art’ class at Stanford, I decided to revisit a song I created for ‘The Fourth Way’ EP. I wanted to use it as a way to investigate how tape degrades after each replication. I started the process by re-mastering the original song and recording it onto a cassette. I then recorded a recording of the song on another tape, and repeated the process until I had ten tapes, each with more generation loss than the last.
The result was a series of tapes, each more distorted and warbled than the last, on which I pressed a linoleum cutting with progressively less paint, to visually represent the degradation of sound.
