Tape Music

Musical compositions created with tape recorders and magnetic tape using a variety of sources, both electronic and natural. Activities in tape music began in both Europe and America after the Second World War. See: Tape Recording.

Various techniques such as splicing, tape loops, tape echo, sound-on-sound, tape feedback, speed changes, tape reversal and mixing are used in the making of this kind of music, all of which are usually simulated by contemporary digital editing techniques.

Compare: Digital Recording, Electronic Music, Musique Concrete, Sound Synthesis. See: Diffusion.