Room Tapes by Brendan Byrnes

This album was recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder, building on demos created on a computer.

As a teenager I learned how to write and record music on a small Tascam, writing and recording countless songs, and I've since been nostalgic for the limited capabilities and noisy, warm sonics that come with cassette recording.

In the summer of 2018 I lost original session files for a handful of unfinished demos I had been working on for a future release, and I was left with only stereo files of rough mixes. Rather than recreating the songs in the digital domain, I decided to transfer the rough mixes onto a 4 track and finish them in the lo-fi analog world. So, this album has some programmed elements, but most of it was tracked and overdubbed direct to cassette.

All songs are in 22 EDO.

22 EDO electric guitars made by Metatonal Music. Digital and Analog Synths re-tuned by H-Pi Instruments CSE and TBX1.

mostly microtonal musician

music in various EDOs (equal divisions of the octave) and just intonation. some 12 EDO music as well.

also a member of ILEVENS and Birch

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