*New podcast: ONLY GIRLS OF 17 CAN HEAR UP TO 16.000 HERTZ. A short history
of the audio cassette. Curated by Felix Kubin*
On the origins of the cassette format with former Philips employee Wim
Langenhoff.
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/wim-langenhoff/capsula
As a former employee at Dutch electronics conglomerate Philips, Wim
Langenhoff was involved in the development of the audio cassette. He was
also a member of The New Electric Chamber Music Ensemble, an
Eindhoven-based artists’ collective that became notorious in the region for
their anarchic performances in the late sixties. The cassette tape played a
vital role for the pre-digital generation, providing an inexpensive way to
record directly from the radio or vinyls and to create mixtapes for friends
and lovers. As a side effect, it also triggered the emergence of an
underground cassette scene.