The Tape Machine is a live looping instrument made of one retrofitted tape cassette recorder and two retrofitted tape cassette players. Since 2008, I have composed and improvised with this instrument honing my ability to use the unique attributes of this instrument, including haptic sensitivity, rate of playback change, live manipulation of sound by distorting both recording and playback, as well as compositional choice in vocal and sonic material and finally, interplay between recorded material (fidelity changing over time as the tape becomes used) and live sounds. I would like to perform a new work using this instrument.
