On: A Primer on Vintage Cassette Decks: How to Find a ...

[aspenmayer]

Most of the artists I'm familiar with that release on cassette tapes are vaporwave or adjacent and sell their work as DRM-free lossless FLAC files on Bandcamp as well, so there's really no downside for the artist or the audience.

[jareklupinski → aspenmayer]

i love vaporwave on cassettes, because the medium lends itself to the art

you never know if that flutter / wow effect was originally in the song or coming from the deck

[badgersnake → jareklupinski]

Art has to be deliberate surely? What you’re describing is just noise I would say.

But we’re getting philosophocal.

[aspenmayer → badgersnake]

Art has to be deliberate?! Don't tell Duchamp!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp

> Types of readymades

> Readymades - un-altered objects

> Assisted readymades - putting several readymades together taking away their use

> Rectified readymades - an altered or marked readymade

> Corrected readymades

> Reciprocal readymades - a unique art work presented as a mass-produced utilitarian object

[exitb → badgersnake]

Choosing a medium that carries particular characteristic can be a deliberate choice.

[neuralRiot → exitb]

Like film grain or contrast. Still love the look of pushed kodak tri-x.

[atoav → badgersnake]

With an art definition from before the first world war, maybe.