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Ways of Hearing 1 – TIME

Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution

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Musicians Speed Up at the Chorus

In 1988, the songs my bandmates and I recorded slowed down and sped up. We played as steadily as we could, but this was a performance. The first drum machines to be widely used in commercial recordings were introduced in 1980. Digital time is not lived time. It's machine time - it's locked to a clock. And that clock, a time code, makes everything more regular than lived time.

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