Constructing a tape loop is not easy. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong fiddling with a cassette’s plastic cogs and the delicate magnetic tape inside. Tape breaks or becomes unspooled, all ...

Fans of vinyl music or the once-popular ⅛-inch tape cassettes may share the same appreciation I do for the imperfections of an analog medium. Hearing a needle skipping over a scratch, or the crinkled ...