The Tape Machine

I want it to be a sculpture, a relic, an instrument, as if from the Middle Ages, home-made, yet futuristic. I want it to be a functional instrument. I want the audio processing to be visible, physical, tactile...I want to see it, multi-media in the form of object art (sculpture) meets art in the time dimension (sound), and the tape, something that stores the events, ghosts of the past…