Tape the Eleventh: Heaaaaaaaaadcleanrrrrrr Cosmic Physics

Tape number eleven.

90mins long, type 1 cassette in pale blue tranlucent plastic casing, manufactured by Maxell. Should play in any cassette player but is probably more likely to dirty your heads than cleanse.

Left sellotaped to railings outside what turns out to be the School of Cosmic Physics, 5 Merrion Square North, at approximately 12.15pm on Wednesday 20th of August, 2008.

Tape the Tenth: Impressions of Outer Ear

Tape number ten.




60mins long, type 1 cassette in transparent clear plastic casing, manufactured by Strand. Should play in any cassette player and portrays outer ear.

Left on the railings of the big church on Lower Dominic Street, at approximately 1.45pm on Monday 25th of July, 2008.

Tape the Ninth; And God Made The Platypus

Tape number nine.

90mins long, type 1 cassette in translucent grey plastic casing, manufactured byMitsubishi. Should play in any cassette player and is attractively decorated with... attractive things. And table scraps.

Left on that little grey-blue painted ledge right across from the George on South Great Georges Street, at approximately 12.15pm on Monday 14th of July, 2008.

Letter-box Dublin

Not technically a Kassettenkopf tape proper, as it differs from the rest of these hopeless cases in that I have a vague I idea who will listen to it (the fact that I have any certainty that it will be listened to also differentiates it). It is "addressed" (and I do actually speak directly to "someone" on this one) to the people/person behind Letter-Box Dublin.

60mins long, type 1 cassette in opaque black plastic casing, manufacturer unknown. Adamov.
Left in the letter box in the little laneway down the side of The George that seems to be called Dame Lane, at approximately 12.00 on Wednesday 10th of July, 2008.

Not in a plastic bank bag;

Tape the Eighth; Tit-tape (One is for killin', the other's for fun)

Tape number eight




90mins long, type 1 cassette in opaque black plastic casing, manufactured by Crown (yeah, me neither). Should play in any cassette player and is attractively decorated with mammary glands.

Left on a ledge beside the side-door into Connolly Station on Amiens Street, Dublin 1, at approximately 9.10am on Thursday 12th of June, 2008.

Web food

Some interesting links:


Polar Alert Top 100.
Look I know, I know, that background would probably sell for 200 euro in Urban Outfitters and as such I should be rolling my eyes and moving on. Someone collected 100 blank audio cassette covers and made another online timewaster - however it does resemble nether regions of my own room and looks really slick.
Easily written off as an example of pop culture's current schoolgirl crush on the 80s, but it... pertains... to the rest of this post and this blog and I'll regret losing the link if I don't save it.


HarSmedia Found Tapes

The website/blog of Dutch artist Harold Schellinx. Among (many)other things, he picks up pieces of tape on the street and listens to them. YES. He then records them in his blog and as far as I can make out most of them are up on his site as mp3s so you can have a bittova listen. The SoundBlog is interesting reading in itself.

Loca. Stalking in the name of art, yes fucking please. They installed bluetooth nodes in various places in San José, which were able to track anyone with Bluetooth activated on their phone. They then sent them messages commenting on things they'd just done, the messages getting progressively more unsettling as time went by. Must try that sometime.

Tape the Seventh; Being Welcomed to the Jungle (with Fun and Games)

Tape number seven






60mins long, type 1 cassette in opaque black plastic casing, manufactured by BASF or EMTEC or whatever they called it. Should play in any cassette player and is decorated with the airport-barcode from my suitcase, while side two depicts part of the room I slept in while I was in Berlin.

Left on a window ledge on the Oranienburgerstrasse end of Auguststrasse, Berlin-Mitte, at approximately 18.30 on Thursday 10th of April, 2008.

Tape the Sixth; Is It Life?

Tape number 6



90mins long, Type 1 cassette in opaque black plastic casing, manufactured by Philips. Should play in any cassette player and is decorated with green acrylic and the wise words of Flann O'Brien.

Left on a window ledge in that little alley off Middle Abbey Street that seems to be called Batchelor's Way at approximately 3.15pm on 26th of March, 2008.
In a plastic bank bag.

Previous tapes

This has been going on since summer 2007. I've been using a livejournal account, but I don't think the layout of livejournal is very easy to understand if you've never used it before - profile information goes on a completely different page, the archive isn't very well organised, and the url is a bit awkward to write on the tapes themselves.
Blogger.com is more user-friendly, so I'm moving here.
Previous tapes are to be found here

For those of you who have followed here from livejournal, I'm looking into syndicating this account so you can get it on your friends pages.