Hal McGee Late 2007
CLICK HERE to go the Hal McGee Music Index page, which contains listings for Hal McGee's cassette albums of the 1980s and 1990s.
New on December 29, 2007 available online in its entirety for the first time!
Charles Rice Goff III and Hal McGee
Lobhia aur khumbi (1998)
CLICK HERE to go to a special page about the Lobhia aur khumbi recording session - includes mp3s and numerous photographs
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New on December 19, 2007 available online for the first time!
Hal McGee and Phil Klampe Alien Progeny (1998)
CLICK HERE to go to a special page about the Alien Progeny album - includes mp3s and detailed information.
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New on December 16, 2007 available online for the first time!
Hal McGee and Dave Fuglewicz Synergistic Deconstruction (2003)
CLICK HERE to go to a special page about the Synergistic Deconstruction album - includes mp3s and detailed information.
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New on December 5, 2007 available online for the first time!
Herd Of 360 Homogenized Dogs: Summit
originally released on cassette in 1997
CLICK HERE to go to a special page about the Summit recording session - includes mp3s, numerous photographs, and articles.
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New on November 29, 2007
Hal McGee Live at Action Research 8
(10:29)
Click here to visit a special page for Hal McGee Live at Action Research 8. Hal McGee recorded live at Action Research show #8, Friday, November 17, 2007, at Tim & Terry's, Gainesville, Florida. I played Custom Black Edition Little Boy Blue analog synthesizer [by Flower Electronics], Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator, Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Distortion (Russian-made), Moog MF-104 Analog Delay, Alesis Microverb III digital reverb, all patched back into Behringer Eurorack UB802 mixer in a feedback loop. Similar to my four "Positive Anger" pieces below. This performance was a sort of high water mark for me as an artist, and I count it as a highlight in my life. I had been working toward this kind of sound, and I finally found it! It might be considered "noise", but I think that it much more than that. After I performed K. Paul commented that it sounded like "Italian Futurist Macho Electronics". When he said this I just about literally laughed my ass off because just the day before I had re-read The Art Of Noises Manifesto (1913) by Luigi Russolo. Then K. Paul started quoting some lines from Futurist leader F.T. Marinetti's poem "the Battle Of Adrianople" (which is included in Russolo's piece). Check out the ultra sonic high-pitched harmonic modulation and the bone-shaking low bass tones. The bass was especially awesome, and K. Paul said of the music I played that it possessed big low-hanging balls made of pig iron. LOL. Recorded by and mp3 created by K. Paul. This mp3 includes plenty of audience sounds and comments after the performance. Fun to listen to!
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New on November 24, 2007
Hal McGee
A Young Person's Guide to Experimental Electronic Music
Click here to visit a special page for A Young Person's Guide To Experimental Electronic Music, which was recorded in November 2007 by Hal McGee in his home studio in Gainesville, Florida. It is a 46-minute free form abstract minimal synthesizer piece created on a Fostex X-12 four-track cassette recorder, employing the following gear: Custom Black Edition Little Boy Blue analog synthesizer [by Flower Electronics], Technosaurus Microcon analog synthesizer, Moog Micromoog analog synthesizer (on loan from Jay Peele), circuit bent Casio Rapman [bent by Daniel Park], circuit bent Casio SK-1, Alesis Microverb III digital reverb (used during mastering/mixdown), and Behringer Eurorack UB802 mixer (for EQ and volume adjustments during mastering/mixdown). Mixed down directly to CDR, on a stand-alone RCA CDRW140 CD Recorder. The unique idiosyncratic character of this recording is due in great part to the cassette medium and the Fostex machine on which the raw materials were recorded. I used no outboard effects such as delay, distortion or reverb during the creation of the four raw tracks. The Fostex 4-track lends to this music an unmistakable colorful tape distortion which couldn't be found on more expensive and/or digital gear. I am proud of this piece of work and there is not a lot of this kind of highly-idealistic electronic music being produced these days.
"A Young Person's Guide to Experimental Electronic Music" (46:13)
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See below 6 new recordings available on November 23, 2007
Click here to visit a special page for Positive Anger 1-4. Here are four new recordings of minimal synthesizer noise music, with a touch of that old school 1980s harsh industrial power electronics flavor -->> created with the Little Boy Blue synth, Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator, Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Distortion (Russian-made), Moog MF-104 Analog Delay, Alesis Microverb III digital reverb, all patched back into Behringer Eurorack UB802 mixer in a feedback loop. All four improvised tracks were recorded live in Hal's home studio, direct to cassette, Friday, November 23, 2007.
Positive Anger 4 (4:08)
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Positive Anger 3 (4:08)
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Positive Anger 2 (4:10)
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Positive Anger 1 (4:15)
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Hal McGee Live at Unbalanced Connection 42
(7:50)
Click here to visit a special page for this recording, with an additional photo and the concert poster. Excerptage of live performance recording at the University of Florida School of Music, Room 102, on Friday, November 9, 2007. Hal McGee on Moog Etherwave Theremin, circuit bent Casio Rapman, cassette field recordings from the hours preceding the show, circuit bent Casio SK-1, shortwave radio, Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator, and Moog MF-104 Analog Delay.
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Sandwichism [Full version] (11:43)
Click here to visit a special page for Sandwichism. A microcassette cut-up collage by Hal McGee, featuring the voice of Jen Sandwich, and sounds recorded in and near her home in Palmetto, Florida - and Brad Kokay too. Please note that a shorter, 4-minute, excerpted version of "Sandwichism" originally appeared on MySpace. This is the full-length version.
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Free Space 090107 Jam 1
(11:45)
Visit the Free Space page by clicking here. Recorded during the eighth Free Space studio recording session, Saturday, September 1, 2007, at Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, Florida. On this recording: Adam Batley (The Viirus) - Little Boy Black synthesizer, K Paul Boyev (Otolathe) - Moog Voyager RME, Andrew Chadwick - Moog MG-1, Jesi Langdale - Moog Rogue, Hal McGee - Moog Voyager RME.
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Hal McGee and Jesi Langdale
Jesi Langdale plays theremin and Andrew Chadwick plays Moog Rogue during the second jam of the session
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Hal McGee Live at Action Research 7
Click here to visit a special page for Hal McGee: Live at Action Research 7. Recorded live, Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at Action Research show #7, 2nd Street Bakery, Gainesville, Florida. Hal McGee presented a no-input-mixer feedback performance, utilizing Behringer UB802 mixer, Moog MF-102 Ring Modulator, Moog MF-104Z Analog Delay, Alesis Microverb III, Marshall MG10 amplifier. Recorded on a Sony TCM-200DV cassette recorder.
Hal, Yummm, you've blistered
my eardrums. Yet I am drawn to it over and over. Hal, you have become
a true master of your instruments, the electrons dance through your
fingertips. Dave Fuglewicz.
(10:56)
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Zen and the Art of the Tape Recorder (2007)
A new 90-minute cassette release by Hal McGee.
CLICK HERE to view a special page about Zen and the Art of the Tape Recorder, Hal McGee and Ironing's Hissing Across America Tour, the Sonic Circuits Festival, and more... with lots of photographs, information, and video!
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The following tracks
can now be found on a new page
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Hal McGee: Wired For Sound
Hal McGee: Aleatorium
Hal McGee: Itchinmytwitchyglitch
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Renegade Electronauts
Free Space: Live at Stardust
Hal McGee: benttapecircuitfuck
Free Space: 072607 Jam 1
Free Space: Live at Action Reserach #4
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Live at Action Research #3
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Moon Mining
Free Space: 071307 Jam 1
Free Space: 070807 Jam 1 excerpt
Free Space: 072607 Jam 2 excerpt
The three tracks by The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble listed directly above in green can also be found on
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble page
The six tracks by Free Space listed directly above in green can also be found on the
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The following tracks
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The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Active
Galactic Nuclei
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Orbiting Souls
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Asteroid Deflection Unit
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Astronaut Survival Training
Parahalwicz: Live at Tampa Noise Fest June 9, 2007
Hal McGee: Magnetic Personality
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Star Police
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Geostationary Satellite
Hal McGee: The Man With The Tape Recorder
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: White Dwarf
Hal McGee: Factor IX
Hal McGee: NoiseFuck Monument #1
Hal McGee: Waterproof Serpent
Hal McGee and Dave Fuglewicz: Dark Side Of The Sun
ParaHal: Live at Cafe Bohemia #1
ParaHal: Live at Cafe Bohemia Momentum Of A New Self-Image
Plus the seven tracks by The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble listed directly above in green can also be found on
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble page
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The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Distant
Forms
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Life From Afar
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Accelerate
Belinda Subraman: "Dark Energy remix version"
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Optical Solar Search
two audio excerpts from The Secret Life Of Hal McGee
The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble: Black Hole Departure
Hal McGee's Theremin Orchestra: Beat Frequency
Hal McGee (with Ed Drury): Momentum Of A New Self-Image
Live Jam excerpt 01-06-07
Hal McGee (with Jen Abell): Personality Assessment Test
Hal McGee and Chris Phinney: Black Mood
Hal McGee: Kitchen Sink Sinfonietta
Hal McGee: Factor IXX
Plus the five tracks by The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble listed directly above in green can also be found on