For years musicians, producers and engineers sought to reduce the noise-floor of tape. Technologies such as Dolby dbx were developed to minimise the influence of the media on the recorded sound. However today, for many the noise-floor of tape carries a sense of nostalgia, similar to the crackle of vinyl. Akai 4000D is an exploration of the sound of tape and tape machines. The piece looks to question the function of these sounds in a post-digital society. Whilst composing this piece I was particularly interested in exploring the simulacra of nostalgia I felt for the medium of tape as I was born after the invention and popularisation of the CD.

Akai 4000D

This is an edit of one section of a roughly 30-minute live improvisation which took place at Spektrum in Berlin on Sept. 8, 2018. In the performance, Chicau and Bell performed with their own systems and further manipulated each other's systems. More information can be found here:

https://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/joana-chicau-renick-bell-490.html

and here:

http://circle.renickbell.net/

Joana Chicau's homepage: http://joanachicau.com/
Joana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BChicau

Círculo e Meio

w/ Joana Chicau, Círculo e Meio, circulation section live 180908, Spektrum, Berlin (edit, draft)

Track listing: https://www.nts.live/shows/samuel-kerridge/episodes/samuel-kerridge-25th-november-2018

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