Artist
Audio Players
Late 1970s experimental music project exploring avant-garde sound design through self-released cassettes and futurist aesthetics.
About
Audio Players was an experimental music project active during the late 1970s and early 1980s, operating primarily within the underground cassette and DIY music culture of that era. The project produced a series of self-released cassette recordings that explored avant-garde and experimental sound design, as evidenced by their releases "A Futurist Octet" (1978), "Towards the future" (1979), and "3 - Soundings" (1980). These works demonstrated an engagement with futurist aesthetics and exploratory sonic territories characteristic of the experimental underground scene of the period. The group also maintained connections to the broader experimental music community through publications such as "Futurist Sound Program," suggesting involvement in the networks and discourse surrounding avant-garde and experimental music. Audio Players' approach to cassette-based distribution and their thematic focus on futurism positioned them within the DIY experimental music ecosystem that flourished outside mainstream commercial channels during this formative period of electronic and experimental music development.
