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Casseptember: Aki Onda and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Jennifer Lucy Allan continues our month-long celebration of the cassette tape with an exclusive new commission from Aki Onda plus memories from Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Jennifer Lucy Allan continues our month-long celebration of the cassette, a format which was launched at the end of summer in 1963. Marking its sixtieth anniversary, we delve into our own collections to bring you playlists featuring favourite tapes as well as hearing from an array of Late Junction artists about how the humble cassette (and the portable recorder) has impacted on their artistic journeys.

In this episode, we share the first of our specially-commissioned Casseptember creations courtesy of Japanese composer and sound artist Aki Onda. Onda is no stranger to the cassette - he is perhaps best known for his ongoing work Cassette Memories, in which he uses a portable cassette recorder to make field recordings, creating a personal sound diary. He then uses them in live performances by manipulating Walkmans by hand, creating what he calls 鈥渁 sonic collage of ritualistic tape music.鈥 For Late Junction, he digs into his huge tape archive to rework recordings made during the formative years of his cassette practice, collaging sound snippets he made in New York鈥檚 East Village in the early 2000s.

Plus, the pioneering performance artist, musician and writer Cosey Fanni Tutti shares some of her own most treasured cassette memories. A tape-lover for six decades, she looks back on how they democratised music, as well as her time making cassettes as part of Throbbing Gristle. Plus, she shares how important cassettes were in her work as a striptease dancer in the late 70s, offering some of her top tracks to strip to.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for 91热爆 Radio 3

2 hours

Music Played

  • Throbbing Gristle

    Industrial Introduction

    • The Second Annual Report.
    • Industrial Records.
  • Mucha

    A Travelling Voice

    • Hello Caller.
    • Frequency Domain.
  • New Order

    Video 586 - 1

    • Feature Mist.
    • Touch.
  • Robin The Fog

    COSMIC FUNGHI MIND MUCK

    • TRESPASS AND WELFARE.
    • Buried Treasure.
  • Niaz & Fayyaz Ahmad Khan

    Malkauns

    • AIR Tapes 2: Kirana Gharana.
    • Power Moves Library.
  • Throbbing Gristle

    鈥業ndustrial Muzak鈥 - Live at Industrial Training College, Wakefield, 1st July 1978

    • TG24.
    • The Grey Area.
    • TG CD 24.
  • Jack Nitzsche

    Hard Workin' Man (feat. Captain Beefheart)

    • Hard Workin' Man.
    • MCA Records.
  • Wolf Eyes

    With spykes 3

    • Wolf Eyes w/ Spykes.
    • HN_AM Records.
  • Kofi Flexxx

    By Now (Accused Of Magic) (feat. Anthony Joseph)

    • Flowers In The Dark.
    • Native Rebel.
  • Pauline Anna Strom

    Domestic Peace

    • Echoes, Spaces, Lines.
    • RVNG.
  • Abdel Halim Hafez

    Mawood

    • Mawood.
    • WEWANTSOUNDS.
  • Aki Onda

    Dust

    • South Of The Border (Cassette Memories Volume Three).
    • Room40.
  • Aki Onda

    Footsteps in the Lower East Side

    • Footsteps in the Lower East Side.
  • Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

    ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL

    • SAVED!.
    • Perpetual Flame.
  • Sloopy & The Guys

    Hang On Sloopy

    • Somethin鈥 Wild.
    • Mark Recording Company.
  • Steve Williamson

    Rhyme Time

    • Rhyme Time (That Fuss Was Us!).
    • Verve Records.
  • Lee Gamble

    She's not

    • Models.
    • Hyperdub.
  • Led Zeppelin

    Black Dog

    • Led Zeppelin IV.
    • Atlantic.
  • Appleblim

    Foghorn Lament

    • Ungoverned Ungovernable.
    • Synesthesia Media.
  • Gita Sarabhai

    Gitaben's Composition

    • NID Tapes.
    • The state51 Conspiracy.
  • Emptyset

    ash

    • ash.
    • Subtext.
  • Goldblum

    Then It Stops

    • Goldblum.
    • Het Generiek.
  • Sessa

    Dor Fodida (Demo)

    • Estrela Acesa: Demos & Alternates EP.
    • Mexican Summer.
  • The Hearts of Oak Shantymen of North Devon

    The Boatman (Fair A Vata)

    • All at Sea.
  • Triple Negative

    both hands lost on baby bonds bet

    • NOTHING IS POSSIBLE NERVOUSNESS, OR IMMORALITY DON'T WAIT TO BE HUNTED TO HIDE /.
    • Penultimate Press.
  • Shizuka

    B4 My Favorite Rain

    • No.4.
  • Still House Plants

    Dance

    • Assemblages.
    • GLARC.
  • Max Tundra

    The X-Files (Knees Up Remix)

    • Before The Tone (Ancient Answerphone Antics).

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