Music concrete, electronic, soft noise. Over two hours of content in total, one hour on both sides of the reel. I found a random storage unit of cassettes from a closed down Chinese Restaurant at a flea market in the inner city suburb of Camberwell, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. So why would I persist in using what some people may call an outdated recording medium? I have a few key reasons. Firstly I love the warm quality of tape, especially reel to reel. Most recordings from the past were recorded onto tape first as session tapes, then these tapes become mixed into masters and eventually transferred onto a medium such as vinyl records. So in this case the Chinese restaurant tape series are all first generation recordings. No other examples exist. They are not copies, hey are the artists originals. The tapes sat around my studio for over a year, waiting for me to use them in an appropriate project. In May and June of 2022 I built a large sound sculpture called the "Flux Organ". This sound object is very unique, its the only one of it's type in the world. The object is constructed from over 20 discarded inkjet printers, that I have collected randomly over the past three years from suburban curb side rubbish dumping. I constructed the Flux Organ from a large format plan printer. A row of 12 stepper motors are driven by the rotating axel of the plan printer. The previous function of the axel pulled paper through the printer. Each stepper motor touches the spinning axel, and then turns the stepper motor shafts to create an oscillating electronic tone. Above the 12 tone row is another 6 motors that are belt driven. They also make oscillating tones. 3 of the motors have an extra audio input wired into them. Typically the input source is tape deck signals, hence my flea market find of discarded Chinese Restaurant Tapes. The spinning action of the motor modulates the extra incoming signals provided by the tape audio. The result is a bit dirty and gritty, not Hi Fi. Recording onto reel to reel also adds extra Lo Fi qualities to the final mix. I use good quality BASF quarter inch reel tape. However if want the added security of having a digital back up to your physical purchase, I will happily retrieve this from my archive. Thank you from Rod.