experimental music How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

Legendary producer reveals untold Beastie Boys collaboration stories Lee Keeler

interview Interview with Case Esparros, independent filmmaker and director of "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost" Natalie Dressed

music Chompi is an adorable miniature sampling synth Rob Beschizza

Environment Carl Sagan: a lovely and powerful new short film and automaton installation about the urgency of environmental action (video) David Pescovitz

music The Disintegration Loops is a deeply beautiful 4-volume album series by William Basinski Popkin

music Listen to Enya's "Watermark" cut up, looped, and transformed into stunning new ambient work David Pescovitz

television Meet the man behind the laugh tracks of 1980s sitcoms David Pescovitz

documentaries Tape Wizard, a mini-doc about tape-loops musician Randall Taylor, aka Amulets Gareth Branwyn

Musical instruments Check out this cool Japanese guitar from the 80s with a built-in cassette player Thom Dunn

makers DIY method for transmitting audio in large spaces directly to people's hearing aids David Pescovitz

music Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, a freaked-out ambient tape loop remix David Pescovitz

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

music Spectacular "Ambient Walkman Symphony" and other tape-loop, circuit bent performances David Pescovitz

maker Secret history of classic TV's laugh tracks David Pescovitz

happy mutants A field guide to the incredible scissors of Japan Cory Doctorow

maker Rolls of Lego tape! David Pescovitz