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KASSETTE KIDZ Earlier this year, Paul and I worked with a group of young people on a circuit bending/audio art project with the Barbican. We got the participants to rewire walkman's to create a new audio tool and then created objects which allowed us to put the new tools into effect to create new sounds. We wanted to exlain that consumer electronics dont have to be used straight from the box and we also wanted to ask the participants to explore the idea of "acceptable" sounds. |
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| The project we developed had the participants removing the tape head from the walkman |
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| soldering longer wires between the walkman components and the tape head |
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| some of the participants had never soldered anything before |
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| and the aim was to create a walkman which would play cassette tape that was stuck to a 2D or 3D object, rather than just off a cassette tape. |
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| all of the objects that incorportated the cassette tape were the ideas of the participants. one person re-wired a record player to play cassette covered records. |
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| another restrung a guitar with cassette tape. |
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| other participants wove the tape, melted it with chocolate, wrapped objects in tape or made wigs. |
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| other participants went further and made cut up records for sound projects. they glued broken sections of record back together for new audio remixes. |
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| how most of the walkmans looked |
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| some participants made pieces about current affairs using cassette tape with recordings from the news. |
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| other participants made cultural pieces incorporating the designs of flags and music from that country in their piece. |