Play -> The tape (cassette) as a mean of reproducting and restoraging sound

Tape as an object was used during the 70's and the 90's as a usable mean of copying.In a space of sixty cubic centimeters, it's able to storage up to 1 and a half hours of music.It was used as a way of recording by most of ,those decades, musicians in studios,concert places and even in amateurs home performances.I'll never forget the tape with Jonh's jokes that was found somewere in the dark abyss of the Mediteranian on the spot were it's united with the Atlantic ocean.It was writen on the cover: "A disc that could even be a flying one".Without a doubt the straight meaning of that sentence was way beyond the literal meaning of the word "flying".Even the word disc,when it was readed,it seemed insignificant writen on a simple, everyday tape with recordings from inspired moments on a guitar.Since the creation it walked easily everywhere.On shelves, bookcases, drawers, bags and trouser pockets and marked the freedom of movement of music in information in space.In dance studios, theaters, schools, at festivals, schools and even courts were a small technological revolution of everyday social life was taking place.The message of the tape was always well clear: "60 min". It was a fact. From that moment anyone could carry with him an hour of music of their choice.The information began to cast the first coward throttle on the worlds highway of overconsumption.Then walkman sealed the absolute freedom of individual expression and "drive" the tape to the most inaccessible places, sometimes only companion at a climber on a top, a motorcycle driver in endless lines, a dancer in endless rehearsals at a city apartment, a truck driver on a difficult night trips carrying its goods or a long distance runner in ecstatic meditation.So it became both a tool of expression and broadcasting a handy tool of empower young people especially in an era of overproduction of goods. Consequently there was an explosion of industrial output.Random perhaps, life and culture of the tape was an disillusionment, atomic absorption and renegotiation of this unprecedented pace and variety in consuming energy emitted by this explosion.The older will remember endless hours with friends or on the radio trying to write a tape options.People were first able to organize a makeshift home studio and record a selection of songs."Options". The tape changed hands always.Was a gift with a dedication or a simple message but rather represented a strange magnetic letter that could convey feelings melodies even to its same creator on to the future.We would also say that the analog broadcast spectrum that can mark a piece of emotional space, mainly is the same ones that they can regenerate each time as a subconscious memory of a subtle sensation.It was the best sound in the background reading a book, a magazine, or could be directed to the cinematic feel of the moment in a sunset or a storm. The magnetic tape, because it could be cut without warning at any time, and be magnetized or break sensitivity, one might say, a living organism, need special care not to lose its quality. In one way or another the tape handed out in the' '90s its heritage in digital audio.Continued to be a companion of the most hard-core music lovers, but the incredible ease of copying, transmission and storage of information and the lack of noise of the digital media has changed the way we hear music today.But there are some peculiarities of the tape that never delivered , which were characteristic details of those decades.First of all its analogic sound.The outline of analog audio sound is based in electromagnetic waves and hence, so the structural architecture of reproduction differs greatly from the digital.The basic difference is that while limited in some frequencies, the overall nature of their transmission reflected most prominently in the "perceptual cortex"of the receiver-listener.Secondly, the industrial shell, which is basically a box that within the tape rotates.It consists entirely of a hard plastic material that wants hundreds of years to melt, which means that those which are not recycled yet are still in attics, in bags, in dusty basements, or mixed with old videotapes to antiques stalls or garbage bags.Because of the industrial use of the cartridge rather than as a standalone device but as part of the storage of more complex mechanisms audio player, the shape had of a world geometric constant ratios and based on these proportions is made until today, in very small productions anymore.