Review: The OFFICIAL Tape Lab Lore Book
REVIEW: The Official Tape Lab Lore Book
Reviewed by D. R. Delfino for The Journal of Cassettes & Tapes
The central thesis of the Tape Lab Lore Book is that when nobody is listening, the artist can say anything. When nobody knows about it, nobody thinks they know about it. Strongly stated (with at times thin evidence): The purest forms of art exist without an audience.
The archive is the achievement; the method is the madness.
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