Steve Tibbetts

Musique Concrète

Phoebe

August 31, 2025

In 1988 or so I mentioned to my sister that I’d had a pregnancy scare with my girlfriend. She recorded a cassette tape of her colicky daughter whimpering and crying and sent it to me, labeling the cassette “birth control.”  I sampled bits of it and made a little composition for her as a gift.