Chain Tape Collective: Locations Vol. 1
“”The focus on this project was to explore the sounds of different locations, as well as the musical ideas, sensibilities and techniques of the artists who recorded the sounds, most of whom are residents of these areas.”
Chain Tape Collective is nothing short of brilliant, and also a sign of our times, as distances and locations no longer are obstacles on the way to diffusion of the arts. Earlier on we had the tape exchange underbrush of the musical sub culture, sometimes resulting in commercial releases such as Nonsequitur Foundation’s “The Aerial” (1990 -) and the even more wild “Cassette Mythos Audio Alchemy” CD (1991) …
Chain Tape Collective is world wide and works within projects, specifying the work needed to be done, which I think is a very good way to keep ideas flowing and have the different projects develop within their basic frames. As seen above, concerning Locations, these frames are not very hard to stay within, and they don’t restrict creativity, but rather gives it a trajectory, an aim. I’m sure these kinds of initiatives pick up a lot of creative goings-on that would otherwise not be diffused like this across our globe…” Continue reading Chain Tape Collective (CT) Project: Locations Volume 1 by Ingvar Loco Nordin. [via]






















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