I needed some solid focus music this weekend; this fit the bill nicely: https://open.spotify.com/album/5fmPy3XmYD0BJKEr86a3Cu?si=O2M-1KBMQ1CipqSOsd25aw > In a healthy state, analog tape is pale brown, the color of the magnetic audio recording contained therein. In 2001, https://pitchfork.com/artists/302-william-basinski/|William Basinski, looking to digitize a collection of older tape loops he’d made out of easy listening music, found that the tape began to flake a bit as it played, like paint peeling. Playing the loops repeatedly, they began to lose their composition as the tape disintegrated. What starts as a snippet of a forlorn brass instrument eventually degraded into a pale imitation, as though he’d produced a composition and then, immediately after, performed its faded memory.