I wonder whether anyone has tried using the magnetic strips on Metcards or similar cards for recording music; given a sufficiently dismantled tape recorder (or perhaps just a read head wired up to an amplifier), one could swipe the card back and forth, scratching up a loop (or, more probably, a fragment of a loop). (via one.point.zero)
...plus there's others like Laurie Anderson in the mid-80's with her violin that had tape instead of strings on the bow (see _Home of the Brave_).
I heard that Laurie Anderson did something similar, playing an instrument which looked like a violin, only with the bow consisting of magnetic tape and the body containing read heads, or something similar.
Heh; I believe you're the one who told me about it too. :-)
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Thu Feb 28 15:33:41 2002
I saw a performance last fall that included audio samples on a card with a magnetic strip being swiped through a reader, at various speeds (analogue, obviously).