Tape fundamentally transformed musical aesthetics, practices of composition, and concepts of sound in the twentieth century. Cutting, sticking together, measuring, and lopping audio tapes made it possible to access a new kind of sound that was also reflected conceptually. Tape Matters traces the beginnings of this development, showing how this technology "helped to write" the compositions and discourses of sound theory in the 1950s and 1960s.

Maximilian Haberer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.