If you have the time, interest, and/or wherewithal to take apart an old tape player, you can actually run the tape head back and forth over the tie to kinda, sorta reproduce the sounds originally found on the cassette.
These interviews were poorly taped, and Vivian spent her days winding the tape recorder back and forth in order to see if a husband had said that he loved children or loathed them, or if a wife had called herself infertile or infantile.
Triptych by Claude Simon: This book kind of works like a text-film spliced from three different tapes, switching back and forth without letting you know when and building these fucked up image-graphs that keep spooling into darkness.
To start with, try using a heating gun close above the tape, moving it back and forth over the tape to help loosen it.
As the band worked on a Barry White cover, the dials above the tape machine bounced back and forth.
"The red tape, the checking back and forth, hiring someone to do all the paperwork -- it's been nothing but a headache," she said.
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
It was this obsession with the worldwide underground metal collective, sending tapes and interviews back and forth across the globe, that got the zine up and running, and it wasn't long before he met two young chaps from a nearby town who had a band called Mayhem.
He ran to get his tape recorder and raced back and forth to catch everything that his furious, shouting students said, laughing joyfully.
