For my video i chose to take something from the past, destroy it, and make it into something new. I took a passage from the book that read: “Always changing, never twice the same.” These words were etched into the floor of the Los Angeles Museum.  I took a cassette of Willie Nelson, smashed it open, and grabbed about 20 seconds of music out of it. Then i made it into a loop so that it played the same section of music over and over.  Then i hooked the loop up to some guitar pedals with delay and reverb, so that as the loop played (at half speed), it was constantly changing and forming into something completely new and different than how it was intended. I wanted to use the quote i used in my article response as inspiration for this. The quote i thought of while making this video was “The realm of shadows also equates to Plato’s cave in that it is colorless, odorless, flavorless, simulacrum of the world stripped of what most makes it real.”  I stripped the tape of just about all of its musical properties except for a few flavorless notes that are almost completely drowned out in noise and fuzz. Making tape loops is a tedious process, and a lot of the time you are left with something not even close to what you anticipated, and depending on the age of the tape (in this case a 30+ year old tape), the adhesive on the ribbon of the tape is being scraped away, literally scraping off the music notes from the song.  Since this is such an old tape, the more the loop played while i was recording the piece, the more of the musical notes were being stripped away.  These are called Disintegration Loops, which evolves over time into something far from what it was intentionally meant to be.
