So in the very old days, there were different genres of music made by tape* collage, with manifestos, and geographic bases.

Then those techniques got adapted by people** on the West Coast of the US, who wanted nothing to do with European politics or New York neighbourhood drama, so we called it "Tape Music".

Any studio piece made by manipulating recordings or via non-real-time electronics or non-real-time collage was tape music. Non-interactive music realised in real time was also, essentially, tape music.

As this shifted to samples and DAWs, tape was still around and remained a plastic, sliceable medium, so we still called it " tape music."

But now, most tape manufacturers have quit and even CDs are a historic medium. Virtually nobody says "tape music". So what term has replaced it? Or has the whole concept been supplanted by something sidestepping the baggage that term had accumulated over the decades?

* Ok, fine these techniques were first explored with disks and wire recorders, bit people switched to tape as it became affordable.

** Pauline Oliveros got a tape recorder and the San Francisco Tape Music Centre was formed around this as a community organisation. Among their accomplishments were commissioning the first voltage controlled synthesiser from Don Buchla and the invention of Minimalism with the premier of 'In C' by Terry Riley. They eventually became the Centre for Contemporary Music at Mills College, and carried on as an important centre until Northeastern University took them over as a real estate deal, to help with its major endowment shortage.

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