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Tape Cuts II

by SITKA

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    Pro dubbed cassette tape loaded with high quality ferric Fox and spliced with red leader. Layout by Athoms, printed on heavy card stock. Released by Taping Policies. Includes download card.

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November 2020,

The second tape started to develop when I was looking for a way to play Tape Cuts live. A track was composed and its shapes were repeatedly explored. The final form was ultimately recorded in a single take on 1/4 inch tape, mirroring a live performance and celebrating one moment in time.

After completing this recording I was faced with a mass of tape loops left hanging on the wall, the wreckage of the composing process. Layers and layers of sound buried and obliterated, trying to push through what was on the surface.

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Photograph by Edward S. Curtis

Mastered by Ronald Mariën

A - composed during 2020 and recorded in a single take on 1/4 inch tape; B - the wreckage, by Ben Van Houdt using guitar, tape machine, reel to reel recorders, preamps and effects.

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released November 27, 2020

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SITKA Belgium

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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