Method
The Tape Loop Is the Argument
Before the edit was free, every decision cost something. That cost is what made the records sound like they were made by people who had decided.
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Friction
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A razor blade through quarter-inch tape is a commitment. You hear the splice for the rest of the record's life. King Tubby's drop-outs, Perry's saturation, the Studio One room tone sitting behind everything like damp in a wall: all of it is the sound of a choice that could not be undone at four in the morning.
The mouse removed the cost and, with it, the reason to choose. Infinite revision produces a record that agrees with everybody. We are not against computers; we are against the fantasy that a decision without weight is still a decision.
Repetition
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A loop is not laziness. It is a held note long enough for you to walk round it. Dub understood this first: strip the song until the room is the melody, then let the same eight bars ask the same question until the answer changes.
Print does the same trick with furniture. The rule at the top, the rule at the bottom, the page code on the right. Same eight bars, every sheet. The repetition is what lets the content be heard.
House rule
Keep the frame identical and let the evidence move. Novelty in the frame is a way of hiding a thin idea.
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