Remember the long lost art of the mixtape?  The cassette tape ushered in the era of portable playable music that could not only coax any emotion from your intended listener, but could also be right there existing in the heat of the moment. On the cusp of the 50th anniversary of the now retro audio […]

Digging iRI5’s (Erika Iris Simmons) resourcefulness and technique—specially her recycled cassette tape and old film and reels material. The idea, she says, comes from British philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s (dude that coined the phrase, “The ghost in the machine”) idea of how your spirit lives in your body. “I imagine we are all, like cassettes, thoughts […]