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Tape Cuts

by SITKA

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about

May 2020,

I had been collecting cassette tapes from a dumpster for nearly two years, knowing that at some point they would come of use. After gathering a vast amount of these old tapes and experimenting with them, I found a way to handle them with a tape machine I had bought.

Cassettes were pried open to slice off stretches of tape and record guitar compositions. Recording and playing these pieces over and over again, the tape was used up quite heavily in the process, shedding residue and clogging up the machine.

The sound these tracks ended up carrying, reflected what I was missing in my work earlier on. What was there before, now shifting out of focus or gone.

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Photograph by Edward S. Curtis

Mastered by Ronald Mariën

Composed and recorded during 2019-2020 by Ben Van Houdt using guitar, tape machine, Echoplex preamp and effects.

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released May 25, 2020

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Ben Van Houdt is a Belgian musician releasing solo work as SITKA since 2015. Inspired by the sound of tape machines and reel to reel recorders, manipulated guitar textures stutter and distort through layers of runaway loops and broken sounds. Crippled oscillators surface hissing and blaring along steady streams of faded noise, echoing a withered image of decay. ... more

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