Dog As Master Black Body
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Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation project
Hal McGee music January through May 2009
Hal McGee Music Index containing listings for McGee's albums of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble
originally released on cassette in 1985, C37
Black
Body was
the third cassette tape release of my solo project Dog As Master. I recorded
this album with a Fostex X-15 four-track cassette recorder. This is one
of the best and one of my favorite Dog As Master albums, and is highly
recommended as a good starting place for getting acquainted with DAM.
One 36 minute tape collage, meticulously laid out in overlapping layers
of shrill synthesizer trills and patterns, cascades of tape cut-ups, voice
choruses, and noise blasts from a Commodore 64 data cassette. This took
me about six months to create. Black Body is noisy and chaotic, yet highly
listenable, with a thrilling and high energy electronic sound. Symphonic
grandeur, positive anger, with a touch of Residents whimsy. Released
on the Cause And Effect label.
review by Alessandro Aiello, Constrictor, 1985:
"BLACK BODY is a strong suite that has the same serenity and awareness
of a powerful precious work even if it's composed of a cluster of sound-noise-music
and by a series of pauses, models of sounds. McGee's answer to the high
concept of creating a connection with serial electronic music."
Side One of the tape: "Black Body (Part One)" 17:49
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Side Two of the tape: "Black Body (Part Two)" 19:00