SAM: The Collection

Tape is the material that gathered and collected a curious generation’s first experiments in home-recording, and historically disseminated the power to author, retain and remix the soundscape of the home.

It seems that the important times are those when a lot is needed or required, and we're hypnotized by motion. In truth it could be quite different: that all that's important comes in quietness, and that activity is the working out, digesting and putting forward of what's been learned, in order to become empty again and receive more.

The salt crystals snap into sharp geometries: snowflakes, perfect circles, striated waveforms, registering the frequency of the note. Mathematicians, acoustic scientists and philosophers since the ancient days of Pythagoras have been fascinated with desmonstrating the invisible number-magic of sound.

Since the early 1960s he has moved like a shadow through the Tokyo, New York and European avant-gardes, leaving few tangible traces, but equally at home with the Fluxus crowd, Downtown improvisers and European electronica experimentalists.