Category: Open Source Tapegerms

September 1, 2025

Mr. A Only Has A by Greige Travail

CC BY 4.0 Greige Travail, tapegerm.org This description of the cassette album was sent to GAJOOB in 1990 along with tape: We are Justin Hughes and Zak Sitter. We are located in Atlanta (as is Bangaway). We hope to have a 4-track soon, although this tape was all normal tape recording. This is our 5th…
March 26, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm 26 March 2025

Today’s Daily Tapegerm is 10 source audio files from a random gamegerm. CREDITS Sources by: David Alexander McDonald, Insecta Sonic, Arthur Loves Plastic, Darph Nader, Blind Mime Ensemble, mystified, Suckling Infants Network, Virus Factory, Dave Fuglewicz, Razing Darkness PROJECTS 470, 225, 369, 148, 438, 381, 449, 290, 201, 453, FILES 239, 172, 271, 90, 6,…
March 25, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm 25 March 2025

Today’s Daily Tapegerm is from the Tapegerm archive. It’s by Magical Cigarette, February 2005. It’s a manipulated voice saying, “That’s just an illusion you’ve built in your mind,” with a toy piano playing.
March 21, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm (royalty-free audio seeds) 21 March 2025

This is a tapegerm from Dave Fuglewicz’s Open Loop Directory in 2005. Dave was a founding member of the Tapegerm community and left a large body of work with his passing that is well worth diving into. Tracks
March 20, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm Royalty-Free Audio Seed 20 March 2025

Today’s tapegerm is a recording I made today of our offset press running and stopping. Let’s here what you make of it. Tracks Stop the Presses! by Blind Mime Ensemble
March 19, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm Free Audio Seed 19 March 2025

Today’s tapegerm is me (Briyan Frederick of Blind Mime Ensemble). This is a 3-track serial pattern on Kontakt Signal Half Life, Arturia Analog Lab V ARP 2600 New Vision by Klaus Schulze and Emulator II String Ensemble by Lily Jordan. Download and share something new here. Tracks
March 19, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm Free Audio Seed 18 March 2025

The key is C Phrygian with a passing B note, with me playing S.K.Y. Keys Everything Right, Apple Percussion, Arturia Analog Lab V Multimodulpad. The percussion is finger played and a bit off, but I like to see where that kind of thing lands as it evolves into something. Sometimes the “mistakes” are what makes…
March 17, 2025

Briyan’s Daily Tapegerm 17 March 2025

I’m playing this on three Kontakt instruments; a couple sounds from Native Instruments Stacks play series and something from a Venus Theory instrument. I would say the key is G Phrygian Dominant (G – A# – B – C – D – D#(Eb) – F – G).

Tapegerm was formed in 1999 out of a project on GAJOOB with artists making new music from loops extracted from homemade cassette albums in our archive. The .ORG site, directed by original founder Briyan Frederick Baker, launched in the fall of 2025. It documents and provides new acceess to this activity while encouraging new collaborators to regerminate the continuing evolution with new and vintage sounds and further musical exploration.

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