Hal McGee 1909E |
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1909E is now available at the Internet Archive. You can listen in streaming audio to mp3s of the tracks, as well as download Ogg Vorbis and lossless audio files (WAV and FLAC) originally released late Summer 1998
The Sushi That Ate Tokyo (6:17) Electric Eels (23:03) Marijuanalysis, Part Two (1:16) Marijuanalysis, Part One (7:39) The Dog Bites Back (22:57) Recorded during the Summer of 1998, 1909E
is an album of sounds recorded in and around my one bedroom apartment
in Gainesville, Florida, where I have lived since January 1992. It was
created on a Fostex XR-5 4-track cassette recorder. The opening track, "The Soundtrack To
The Television Special About The Making Of 'The Sushi That Ate Tokyo'
", starts out with overlapping layers of shortwave radio transmissions
and Casio VA-10 keyboard feedback and tonal bursts -- and later segues
into tapes of dogs barking and spoken word statements about the importance
of saying nothing. "Electric Eels" is a 23 minute electronic jam with rippling pulsating bass synth patterns, overlaid with chaotic Moog flourishes and swirlicues and white noise drones, theremin swoops, over the top of refrains from "The Sushi That Ate Tokyo".
"The Dog Bites Back" is another
23 minute excursion -- this time with sustained organ tones that crash
into discord collisions -- with spoken word importance of saying nothing
refrains -- with arbitrarily inserted tapes of apartment yard lawn blowers,
barking howling dogs, screaming children, airplanes overhead, and mundane
discussions with a neighbor about Fall weather and how our dogs eat grass
to settle their stomachs but most of the time just vomit it up... "Marijuanalysis" (Parts 2 &
1) is a multi-tracked spoken word tape collage of my ruminations about
how the use of marijuana, by short-circuiting short-term memory, causes
the user to experience the mundane and everyday in more detail, and other
nonsense about espresso and various subjects. 1909E is one of my most dadaistic works, and also one which seeks to blend electronic synthesis and sound-making and with tape collage treatments of daily sounds. |
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