When I was a kid, I used to make themed cassette tapes. I would choose the songs one by one, record them in order, and name them. Later, I kept doing it with CD-Rs. It was an act of affection. Putting together music for someone, or for a specific moment.

In 2012, Spotify came along and that started to die. We stopped owning our music and started having it in the cloud. Everyone had everything, and nobody made anything for anyone anymore. The handmade playlist, thought out for one specific person, was getting lost.

So I did this. Real cassettes, one for each theme. For the road. For waiting. For making out. To remember. To forget. Each one with a QR code stuck on it that leads to a Spotify playlist. The object doesn't play audio anymore, but it points to the music just the same.

I pasted them on the street. On lampposts, on utility boxes, wherever a curious person could find them. You scan, you listen, you share. A playlist put together for a stranger. A way of talking to random people and connecting without knowing each other.

I did it before Spotify turned playlists into something social. Before the platform itself understood what it was that I missed.

I've always liked leaving things on the street for curious people. This is exactly that. A cassette that no longer makes a sound, leading you to a song that does.