Warm Up Cassette Tape Archive
- Audio
“When I first started at PS1, this was one of the first things you showed me,” remarks Nick Scavo, MoMA PS1 Senior Project Manager, Music, Performance and Events. “This mysterious box with tapes, floppy disks, flyers. There’s a beer koozie in there as well.”
Scavo joins MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator Kari Rittenbach and Thomas Laprade, co-director of Montez Press Radio and member of the 2024 Warm Up host committee, for a listening session of cassette tapes sourced from the museum’s archives. The tapes, many of which are partially or totally unlabeled, include recordings from some of the earliest Warm Up performances in the PS1 courtyard.
Warm Up began in 1998, just one year after rewritable compact-disc technology became widely available as a digital storage solution. Hear Rittenbach and Scavo discuss the evolution of Warm Up and the audio integrity of cassette tape ribbon, alongside commentary from special guest and former PS1 Curatorial Assistant Maika Pollack, now Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Syracuse University Art Museum. Listen to the conversation on Montez Press Radio or below.
Hear Kari Rittenbach and Nick Scavo on Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform. It was founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. The platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh.
Warm Up 2024 is organized by Kari Rittenbach, Assistant Curator, and Nick Scavo, Senior Project Manager, Music, Performance, and Events, with Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant.
