I’m Shane Culp and I’ve been experimenting and building homemade electronic instruments for 8 years. I’d never worked with actual cassette tapes, or tape players until I discovered the Dogbotic tape hacking workshop. It's something I’d thought about but I needed the workshop to get me started. It's still very early in my tape hacking journey. I tend to try something new then iterate and refine over a series of projects. Ultimately I like to build objects that are sturdy enough to use in live shows. After the workshop I simply recreated what I had learned there to make sure I understood it. Early hacked tape decks just had jacks and pots glued to the enclosures. I then started building breakout boxes for the new modifications I was adding. I experimented a great deal with adding a line-in to record to tape from these generic walkmen that only had the ability the record from an internal mic or the radio. This led me to have several versions of this hack including one that could record my synths on top of the radio signal. I also took the advanced tape loops and tape echo workshops. This led me to completely tear down one of the tape decks to better understand its constructing and help me come up with ways to rebuild them into new devices. I’m currently working on a new version of the tape echo machine that I hope to build into a new art piece in the near future.