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p004 » sony cassette - a design appreciation




i stumbled upon a render of the sony tc-510 / tc-5550-2 tape recorder on printerest back in 2020.

i didn't believe this thing existed in real life.
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sony/ux-s type 2 cassette/1986


some old technologies have never been exceeded, they are merely abstracted, from physical objects to concepts.


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sony/tc-510-2/1975

we have forgotten their true form. the tactility, the sonicity, the creativity. so much so that i can be astonished when seeing their original form.


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sony/wm-d6c/abstracted/1986
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sony/tc-d5m/abstracted/1979
sound is memory of magnetism

image is etched silver halides

the intangible embodied in physical matter

they are present, they decay, they become entropic



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sony/wm-d6c/1986
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sony/tc-d5m/1979



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sony/tc-510-2/1975




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sony/tc-d5m/1979


i miss these machines. i will buy more of them.