Soon after, the first multi-track tape recorder, also designed by Les Paul,was marketed.
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So, these are stories, some of them for voice and tape, and he'd do readings where he'd go and he'd put a tape recorder on the podium and he'd stand next to the tape recorder as his voice read the story from the tape recorder. And it was all to dramatize the problematic relationship between voice, story and person.
These interviews were poorly taped, and Vivian spent her days winding thetaperecorder 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.