We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Portrait 2

by tapeportraits

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
1 00:01
2.
2 00:01
3.
3 00:01

credits

released April 13, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

tapeportraits Boston, Massachusetts

Magnetic strips on swipe cards are scanned with magnetic tape heads and recorded as audio to cassette tape. I ask each person I'm taking a portrait of to give me the cards in their wallet that have a magstip-- credit cards, IDs etc. It examines the meaning of a portrait as a representation of a person when technology and capitalism increasingly simplifies human individuality as pure data. ... more

contact / help

Contact tapeportraits

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like tapeportraits, you may also like: