Paper Tape — A Cassette Tape without Prior Acoustic Information

Kazuhiro Jo

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This paper presents Paper Tape, a cassette tape without prior acoustic information. The work consists of a circular loop of paper printed with magnetic ink via digital silkscreen printing and housed in a standard cassette shell. Situating the work within the technical and artistic lineage of magnetic recording and sound generation from visual patterns, the paper repositions the cassette tape player as an instrument for sound generation without recordings. Through analysis of five tapes presented in the exhibition Maybe It’s Music, it proposes a minimal yet concrete rereading of the history of magnetic sound media.

Citation

Kazuhiro Jo. 2026. Paper Tape — A Cassette Tape without Prior Acoustic Information. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20784060 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2026_11,
 abstract = {This paper presents Paper Tape, a cassette tape without prior acoustic information. The work consists of a circular loop of paper printed with magnetic ink via digital silkscreen printing and housed in a standard cassette shell. Situating the work within the technical and artistic lineage of magnetic recording and sound generation from visual patterns, the paper repositions the cassette tape player as an instrument for sound generation without recordings. Through analysis of five tapes presented in the exhibition Maybe It’s Music, it proposes a minimal yet concrete rereading of the history of magnetic sound media.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 articleno = {11},
 author = {Kazuhiro Jo},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20784060},
 editor = {Benedict Gaster and João Tragtenberg and Anna Xambó and Tom Mitchell},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 note = {},
 numpages = {4},
 pages = {90--93},
 title = {Paper Tape — A Cassette Tape without Prior Acoustic Information},
 track = {Paper},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2026/nime2026_11.pdf},
 year = {2026}
}