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Tape

Before a part could be programmed it had to be synchronised to tape, and before a bar could be moved it had to be cut. Editing here has no undo.

3 entries · Editing as composition.

Hands splicing magnetic tape beside a portable multitrack recorder and printed document — A razor, a grooved block and a pencil mark. The edit is decided before it is cut, because there is no way back afterwards.Photograph supplied to Lexicon Magazine.

Every entry in Tape

One machine, room or technique each

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The Machines Drum machines, polysynths and samplers. The Rooms Studios treated as instruments. The Desk Producers and what they changed. Formats How it was carried. The Wave Punk to new wave, and what the label covered. Disputed Origin stories that do not agree.