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DATs, MiniDiscs and the Self-Idiomatic Archive
- Leonardo Music Journal
- The MIT Press
- Volume 27, 2017
- pp. 45-46
- Article
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The author discusses recent efforts to archive his personal catalog of live recordings on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and MiniDisc and the challenges that arise in returning to these once popular, now defunct formats. The materialized history represented by the objects puts pressure on the memories of what they contain.