TAPE MUSIC

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Electroacoustics / Music

Musical compositions created with TAPE RECORDERs and MAGNETIC TAPE using a variety of sources, both electronic and natural. Activities in tape music began in both Europe and America after the Second World War. See: TAPE RECORDING.

Various techniques such as SPLICING, TAPE LOOPs, tape ECHO, SOUND-ON-SOUND, tape FEEDBACK, speed changes, tape reversal and MIXING are used in the making of this kind of music, all of which are usually simulated by contemporary digital editing techniques.

Compare: DIGITAL RECORDING, ELECTRONIC MUSIC, MUSIQUE CONCRETE, SOUND SYNTHESIS. See: DIFFUSION.

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