Category Archives: Cassette

Cassette Project #3: Status Update

Posted on Thursday, 15. October 2009 by hmvh

It’s not that I asked for them or anything, they just got dumped on my desk since it seems that I’ve become the guy in the building with a reputation for collecting old equipment, electronica, and media. Continue reading →

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Project Tape2MP3: Completed!

Posted on Saturday, 6. June 2009 by hmvh

This, dear readers, is all that remains of my tape collection. Twenty years of collecting and nurturing an audio cassette collection have been reduced to nothing more than one 16GB USB flash drive’s worth of bits. Continue reading →

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Nothing important happened today…

Posted on Tuesday, 9. September 2008 by hmvh

No matter how carefully and obsessively you (thought you) looked after those tapes by storing them in a cool, dark, dry place, far away from anything that could possibly generate a magnetic field, some of the mechanics and materials have started to fail. Continue reading →

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Cassette Culture Untangled

Posted on Friday, 25. July 2008 by hmvh

TDK, BASF, Maxell, Denon, and Sony: Once, these were among the most important words in the teenage lexicon. The advent of the iPod, downloads and peer-to-peer networks seemed certain to consign the old analogue cassette tape to cultural oblivion, but in music, it seems, that what goes around doesn’t just come around again; it’s simply rewound! Continue reading →

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Ghosts in the cassette shell

Posted on Monday, 16. June 2008 by hmvh

The Tape2MP3 project is making slow but certain progress. Of course, it can’t all be fun and games: we’ve had about three tapes so far that got munched by the tape deck, and another snapped… but nothing that a screwdriver, a pen and some sticky-tape can’t fix! Continue reading →

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Audio tapes are dead!

Posted on Friday, 13. June 2008 by hmvh

Needless to say, and without exception, all people are curious and interested as to what exactly one would be doing with the thousands of old tapes that I’ve accumulated so far. Many have even asked if they’ll eventually get used as material for some work of art. Continue reading →

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The art of the mixtape

Posted on Friday, 2. May 2008 by hmvh

Creating and maintaining a humble collection of tapes also meant outfitting them with some sort of artwork or pictures to make them look good, unique and instantly recognisable. Continue reading →

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The Cassette Projects

Posted on Thursday, 10. April 2008 by hmvh

This was my tape collection. Lovingly nurtured and cared for over a period of some twenty years and surviving two intercontinental and numerous domestic moves, the time has come to bid farewell to this past passion and hobby, too. Continue reading →

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