Do It Yourself! On Cassette

It began with listeners posting tapes to the radio. On VPRO's De Radiola Improvisatie Salon, Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder asked for music or other sounds on cassette and broadcast what came in, uncensored. Many makers realised that a cassette and a four-track recorder were all they needed to put out their own music.

This is a small display in the Studio, the free room next to the Espressobar, where the museum always shows something from its music collections. You come here to listen to the clips. The tapes reached the collection through Oscar Smit, who reviewed self-released cassettes in the pop magazine Vinyl in the 1980s. It closes the museum's three-part series on Dutch cassette culture with Carcassettes, a musicians' collective whose first set of four tapes came out in 1996.

Entry is free during museum hours (Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00). The whole Smit collection is digitised and online at Diggin' Demos, so you can keep listening at home.