Today, we live in a world of highly portable, highly functional electronic media devices of incredible capacity. The songs contained on boxes of 45 RPM records of yesteryear can now be downloaded from ...

The 28-year-old Princeton artist plays with media we take for granted, like old film reels, and breathes fresh life into portraits of historical figures, from Marilyn Monroe to Albert Einstein to Jimi ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

When the technique of tape recording was developed a quarter-century ago, it unreeled a whole new way of marketing recorded music. The best tapes had all the high fidelity of phonograph disks but none ...

As people sprawl out on yoga mats on the dance floor of Capitol Hill's Q Nightclub during the Rare Air ambient/new-age event in February, Portland DJ Max Schneider (aka Incidental Music) fills the ...

Vinyl is experiencing a huge resurgence — we all know this. But a rising tide lifts all ships and it has actually spawned renewed interest in other old-school audio formats as well, including CDs and, ...

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