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Sounds of Wow: Tape Composition and the Poetics of the Index
- Leonardo Music Journal
- The MIT Press
- Volume 27, 2017
- pp. 56-57
- Article
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Sound artist Joseph Kramer discusses the function of indexical signs when working with magnetic tape and tape loops to elicit a nonsymbolic connection to the past. Compositional and technological strategies using custom devices to employ indexical signification are described.