“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.” ThinkingMadeFilmPayAttentionRecordsTelevisionMachinesMy FavoritePay AttentionVisualsTapeSoundtracksAnswering Machines Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.” RealEndsSoundRecordsMachinesConsumersFactoriesTapeMechanicFidelityReal EducationHigh Fidelity Author:Alan Parsons
“I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.” ValuesOfficeMachinesInvestingTape Author:Walter Schloss
“I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.” KindPersonsI CanMachinesTape Author:Jim Morrison
“Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.” WayWellsCertainSoundEffectsMachinesBoxesTapeLoadBumpsSaturation Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.” WayTwoDifferentAbleUsedMy OwnFiguresMachinesTrackStudiosDifferent WaysTapeCentreDelayComing BackSan FranciscoPatchesTubesElectronic MusicRecordersSynthesizers Author:Pauline Oliveros
“Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.” IdeasWindowMachinesAvailableAccessMotivatedTapeInitialsMicrophonesRecordersCassettesSearsAmbienceCassette Tapes Author:Pauline Oliveros
“When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.” PastNextCoupleMachinesStringsTapeDelaySan Francisco Author:Pauline Oliveros
“As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.” YearsFirstsLastsForeverFiveInformationExampleMachinesOriginalsLikesBrandsFive YearsDigitalTapeFoundersMarsLaboratoryJetNasaVikingsGlobal BusinessPropulsion Author:Paul Saffo