Paul Cousins
paulcousins.bsky.social
Paul Cousins
@paulcousins.bsky.social
Sound Artist & Composer
linktr.ee/paulcousinsmusic
Analog 🇯🇵

#akai #yamaha #roland #teac
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Working on the audio collected from our recent Composing with Tape workshop in Port Navas, Cornwall. Memories of a fantastic week come flooding back. I really enjoyed creating the programme for the workshop, and sharing the techniques & exercises with those in attendance was the best part of all.
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins
‘in a fugue state’ album launch, Thu 6th Nov at The Horse Hospital.
Support from Vera Sacra
Released via @nonemorerecords.bsky.social

www.thehorsehospital.com/events/joe-h...
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reassembly 🔊〰️
September 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Manual rhythmic glitches using the pause lever. Loop two is a half-speed CR-78 drum machine sample. Everything going through a Roland RE-201, with intensity on the edge of feedback. Patch notes 〰️ #tapes #analog #reels
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Deep in prep for my show @thetradesclub.bsky.social on 15th Aug. I usually start by creating a small library of tape loops. I then map out sounds into a framework for the show. This leaves enough room for improvisation, whilst providing a foundation on which to play. thetradesclub.com/events/mono2
August 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Had a great time on Craig Charles’ BBC 6 Music show, preaching about tape and my upcoming projects for a truly generous stint. Here's a clip, the full piece is available on BBC sounds starting at 1h41m www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
August 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Excited to announce a new collaborative album with Joe Harvey-Whyte

‘in a fugue state’ blends tape loops and pedal steel guitar in a warped ambient journey to the subconscious

released via @nonemorerecords.bsky.social on 17th October 2025

‘lift’ is out now. LP pre-order: tinyurl.com/3p6p83ek
July 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
what genre is this? 〰️

Prepping for my next show, deep excitement for this one - 15th August in Hebden Bridge at The Trades Club for @monochapel.bsky.social alongside @polypores.bsky.social @flcartographer.bsky.social @kyliemonologue.bsky.social

thetradesclub.com/events/mono2
July 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In May 2023 I launched my album ‘Vanishing Artefacts’ with a show at Iklectik in Waterloo. This was also my first live performance! It was a pleasure to perform with Joe Harvey-Whyte and Vincent Curson Smith.

The LP is available now via the wonderful @castlesinspace.bsky.social subscription library
July 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
lucid dreaming 💭

With the tape machine in pause mode and the play head engaged, you can manually move the tape across the play head.

#analog #tape #ambient #soundart
July 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Composing With Tape, a five day residential workshop in Lamorna, Cornwall. In a beautiful house surrounded by woodland we created, recorded, experimented, talked and listened. Thanks to all the wonderful artists who attended and shared their ideas.
#analog #tape
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If your tape machine has 3 heads, you have a tape echo. Connect your instrument to a mixer. Connect the tape machine output to a 2nd mixer channel. Connect the mixer output to the tape machine input. Make sure you're monitoring the play head. Press record & control the echo using 2nd mixer channel.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
More from this setup. The technical limitations in using this equipment always gives interesting results. Adding wonky glitches using the pause lever, as I needed to slow machine 1 down. I've realised this is basically an awesome, elaborate guitar delay pedal with a finite timer (the tape length)
April 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Spring is here, enjoy some Frippertronics.

Playing a Tele into a TEAC mixer, which is blended with playback from deck 2 then sent back into deck 1, which is recording. Once the tape spool runs out, the entire recording is on it. I got lost for hours and hours.
March 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One year ago today we were shooting this film for Fact. This was a prototype of my installation ‘Atomised Listening’. I learnt so much about the work before installing it at Stone Nest in November. The full film is available here: www.factmag.com/2024/06/07/p...
March 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
more Pause Lever, this time using it to build a sequence. This is a great way to construct loops, and can achieve the effect of different sections of tape being spliced together. Using the same sound here, but it could be anything. The workmen making a racket outside my window, for instance. #tape
March 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
new release! ‘Half-Speed Bias no.3’ is an abstract sound collage of prepared 1/4” tape loops, field recordings and sound effects. This is an honest expression of how I create using tape.
pay-what-you-want on bandcamp for 48 hrs 🥜
paulcousins.bandcamp.com/track/half-s...
#analogue
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Released this Friday 21st March. 'Half-Speed Bias no.3' is a 14-minute tape loop sound collage. Created using two reel-to-reel & captured live in one take. It will be PWYW for 48 hours on Bandcamp: paulcousins.bandcamp.com

#analogue #soundart #tapes
March 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is how to manually record at different speeds using the pause lever on a reel-to-reel. When the pause lever is engaged and recording is activated, you can move the tape across the record head manually. The faster you move the tape, the lower the pitch.
#analog #voiceover #reeltoreel #recording
March 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
More experiments with this setup. I will never tire of 'Repeat Rate' on the RE-201. It's my favourite control on any piece of equipment, ever. Bliss! 🎶🧡
#tapes #analog #experimental
March 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Quite obsessed with this patch. 5 inputs: Akai 1722L, Akai 4000DS, Juno 6>Mercury 7, Echosystem (send), RE-201 (send). The loop on the 1722L is constantly flipping over and playing the other side in reverse. Some interesting results with this, but is completely random & hard to replicate.
#analog
March 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
26" tape loop. I cut 9 sections from other loops and randomly spliced them together. Have you ever seen a Copicat echo snap? 🐈 ➰
#analog #soundart
January 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Back in the lab 〰️🧪

Akai 4000DS mkii
Akai 1722L
WEM Watkins Copicat
TEAC M-30
Soundcraft EPM6
#analogue
January 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey Bluesky, I'm (finally) new here so thought I would do an #introduction.

I make music & sound art using #analog equipment and magnetic tape. I'm hoping to connect with other #electronicmusic #soundart #ambient devotees.

I'm always looking for new, experimental, weird music recommendations 💙
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM