mistfunk: Mistigris: est. 1994 (Default)
mistfunk ([personal profile] mistfunk) wrote2024-03-13 12:52 pm

MIST0224/BLIPPYPIXEL-REEL_TO_REEL

Mistigram: a state-of-the-art audio recording medium during WWII, over the next fourty years the #ReelToReel machine became the refuge of audiophiles and the experimental avant-garde, before falling by the wayside and, finally, becoming illustrated as a #teletext animation by [profile] blippypixel in the music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection. There's still something hypnotic about watching the spools endlessly turn.

Two circular tape reels, each divided into thirds, roll unabated on the top of a magnetic audio playing machine, whose level indicators flash and flicker in accordance with the signal it reads off the tape they are passing across its read head.