Re: Radio Lab - Show on loops with middle section about a magnetic tape loop dying.

[Dust Bunnies <mech@m3ch.net>]

Christopher Darrow wrote:
> In particular (and this is why I post) the middle segment regards some 25 
> year old
> tape loops being transferred to digital but apparently too late as 
they began to deteriorate
> with each pass. What results is the death of the loop, physically and 
sonically, as the
> metallic/magnetic (whatever) fragments fall as dust to the floor, bit 
by bit, until the tape
> itself is clear rather then brown.

Haven't heard the Radio Lab episode, but from the description it sounds 
like you're talking about William Basinski, "The Disintegration Loops". 
 Beautiful and sublime; IIRC there are actually four complete albums 
(DL I-IV).  "Disintegration Loops III" is one of my favorite "rainy 
Saturday morning with a cup of tea" disks.

Good choice, for both conceptual art and looping!

        --m.