I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.
Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them.
I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?
Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.
Black boxes are really important to our investigators. The cockpit voice recorder can give us insight into what's going on with the crew in the cockpit. The flight data recorders can give us insight into what's happening with the performance of the aircraft.
I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.
Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
