Jorma Tapper is a Drone Music studio alias for ambient pieces made with tape techniques. Short sound sources, often a synthesizer chord or a recorded bell, are copied onto loops of different lengths and allowed to degrade through repeated playback, so the timbre softens and blurs with each pass.
The pieces have a faded, slightly worn quality, with wow and flutter giving the pitch a gentle waver. They evoke old photographs more than open landscapes. Durations are long and the movement is nearly imperceptible. Low-volume listening suits the fragile character of the recordings.
