SWAPA Rotating Tapes

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The SWAPA Rotating Tapes were started by David Van Stone '88 in 1989 as a way for SWAPAns to share music with each other. They were a set of cassette tapes that got mailed around. Members would receive the tapes, listen, handwrite comments, then add 15 minutes of music and send them to the next person on the list. Over a period of seventeen years, thirty people contributed to the tapes, with about 18 people participating at any given time. Once the number of contributors grew large enough, the tapes 'budded' into independently-rotating subsets to lessen the time between when each individual would next get a turn.

The SRTs continued to circulate through 2006. The Swarthmore Exchange Tapes (SET) were a brief Swarthmore-local variant on SRT, while SWAPA Digital Music Exchange (SDME) is a successor which fills the same niche.

The list of sets is at www.keyfitz.org/srt/srt.

(Note: Please don't link to the list in a Google-indexable place; SWILwiki is tagged so that Google won't index it.)

• Source: David Van Stone, "Terrible Lemonade", in SWAPA 292, November 2006.