Some materials age more nicely than others, some designs are more durable.'I think White Albums age beautifully!' says Chang, 'There are commonalities between the albums such as yellowing or ring wear, as well as unique differences like graffitied or mold.'Chang doesn't focus on just the physical appearance of the albums, but also on their audio quality.As the albums age, they warp or become scratched. It's a memento mori for everything that we make: nothing lasts forever, so we should design for that. 'Each copy has become a unique object because of the physicality of vinyl records,' says Chang, 'It's a format that is impossible to keep pristine, unlike digital recordings, so this collection of artifacts, created by the individual journeys of each album, has become a document of an era that will never be replicated again.'The White Album is a perfect example for this lesson because it's iconic, there are a lot of them, and the plain cover makes the aging readily apparent.

The resulting file starts in sync, but by the end is complete chaos. Highlighting this, he has mixed together a track of one hundred 'side ones' from his White Album collection.

Beatles White Album