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TraxPong is a tape-music (mediatic) composition based on J.C. Risset's rhythmic paradoxes, applied to speech signals so that their effect is implicit. The source of these signals belongs to previous works, Las Meninas(1991) and TxRx Pong(2007). "Trax" means transmitting a source signal while "pong" is receiving feedback from the source signal, both terms used in radio transmission and appropriated in radio art. The effect of each rhythmic paradox is a continuous crescendi or otherwise decrescendi, to achieve tension contrasts throughout the piece. Other sounds in this piece are futher processed using spectral modeling, as well as known delay-line techniques. Spatial manipulation is achieved by distance changing trajectories of sound sources over Lissajous graphic schemes. This piece was composed using Bill Shottstaedt CLM and Snd, with Michael McNabb's reverb in addition to Juan Pampin's ATS on a PlanetCCRMA Linux workstation.