Tape Loops

Make a tape loop from an old recording, then mix it with other people's tapes into a short ambient piece.

1Make a tape

A workbench, separate from the mix. Pick a length of tape, then click the recording where you want to start recording. The tape decides where it ends. You hear your tape here on its own; when it sounds right, put it in a deck or on the shelf.

Speed

2Mix

Four decks, all alike. Pop in tapes from the shelf below, yours and other people's: they're all in the same key and cut to the same lengths of tape, so any of them fit. Then play them together.

The shelf