Sunday, February 21, 2010

Music & Noise (#18)

Source also found here. Recorded September 14th, 1996.

The first one with a title! This is a momentous occasion, best left unmarked although remarked upon.

Or maybe not. I will say that this is the first one I've posted with a title, and hence a theme to the show. This is also a bit short. There are probably others in my ever growing back catalog that have names that were recorded before this.

There's been a question as to what to _do_ with the tapes once I've finished this endeavor. I'm boxing them up and probably will include a printout of the documentation as a guide, but they're too fragile to put in an attic/basement, and yet not worth keeping around for close perusal. The debate rages on! (I've been told disposal is an option, though one I'm going to choose not to exercise)

All this is more logistics than art, and perhaps inherently uninteresting.
  1. The Best Meat Tenderizer Ever
  2. This one was hard to start
  3. Permanent damage to hearing
  4. Shaking their whole body
  5. Utilitarian music
  6. Quiet Products
  7. I wear black on the outside
  8. Castanets / Pianos
  9. Outside, looking in
  10. Whoa, dude
  11. A Rhodes Piano Was a Bad Choice Here
  12. Belt Sander
  13. Hamsters


Added by IanF-R:
I wish I had a flowsheet for this show, but it's gone with the tornadoes of time. I know that the pleasant chug-chug-chug machine drone throughout this show is a slowed down tape of myself beating on an aluminum foil take-out pan. Other music incidentally recognizable includes:
  • Negativland's Escape From Noise
  • Perry & the Redd Foxxe
  • Daniel Johnston
  • Beck (loser)
  • Herbie Hancock's Rockit
  • Fudge Tunnel
  • Meat Beat Manifesto
  • Laurie Anderson's For Electronic Dogs
  • Scratch Acid
  • Space Streakings