The Portable Analog Audio Archive (PAAA) uses the analog technology of cassette tapes as both method and metaphor to interpret our memories. By restricting the resulting sound archive to analog tapes, the PAAA facilitates intimacy, both in recording and listening to improvisational music, bootleg audio books, dating profiles, and poetry readings. Unlike other cassettes, these tapes mix disparate recordings together, mimicking the real-life and sometimes haphazard experience of remembering. The PAAA is nostalgic. It wants to relive moments over and over. It feels the weight of all its memories, even the ones that it does not remember.
