Comments on: Clint Heidorn's "The Oak Tree" exquisitely-packaged cassette

By: a_w_young

a_w_young — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Certain kinds of music actually lend themselves well to cassettes… they have certain qualities that really help color the sound a certain way. It’s also better sounding than MP3s until they degrade in certain ways.

By: a_w_young

a_w_young — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:59:00 +0000

MP3s never did, and never will sound better than something recorded to tape. It’s not technically possible.

By: Michael Lathrop

Michael Lathrop — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:19:00 +0000

Interesting choice of materials for the project. Kind of hope he used sustainable wood for the box, given the choice of musical topic. Not sure what folk/drone is, but sounds like it could be interesting

By: jimkirk

jimkirk — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:58:00 +0000

And here’s the tree…

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:56:00 +0000

Thanks, Dave X! Looks lovely.

By: Dave X

Dave X — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:54:00 +0000

This reminds me of “The New World” by A Death Cinematic, on the Simple Box Construction label. The release not only arrives in a handmade wooden box, but also contains a hand-made, hand-stiched (!) book of photos with this really clever stamp art– the artist cut or tore small chunks from the stamp after each inking/press, so as you flip the pages of the book, the complete stamped image slowly forms out of the initial degraded noise. Past releases on the label have included homemade stickers, different sort of interesting papers and sleeves, etc. It’s pretty cool stuff, and the music is excellent as well.

http://simpleboxconstruction.blogspot.com/p/current-projects-and-releases.html#5

By: John Lester

John Lester — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:25:00 +0000

When you buy the wooden box edition (which I just did) you can also download the track, so you have the best of both worlds.

I really like the idea of having a copy on cassette. Makes me think of the similarity between the slow soft decay of both leaves and magnetic media. Good art makes ya think about stuff like that.

By: EH

EH — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:23:00 +0000

Plus it sounds 1000% better than Caroliner Rainbow!

By: Baldhead

Baldhead — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:29:00 +0000

Cassette is a bit of a problem, simply because me, like so very many others haven’t had a cassette player in well over a decade, and once i noticed that 128kbs mp3s sound a lot better (yes that is a statement on how crap i think cassettes are) i ditched the tapes as well. Good luck finding a player in stores as well.

By: xy9ine

xy9ine — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:55:00 +0000

love the aesthetic – even if it treads dangerously close to hipster levels of preciousness / pretentiousness (cassettes?? – rad! music recording formats as tactile, collectable, art objects is neat). cascadian black metal – unplugged, perhaps.