Hal McGee
Hal McGee's Audio Insult 15:57/192k
...with sounds and pre-recorded material by Hal McGee, K Paul Boyev (Otolathe), Andrew Chadwick (Ironing, Capstan Drive), Al Margolis (If, Bwana), Aaron Zarzutzki, Charles Rice Goff III, Phil Klampe, Jen Sandwich, Ego Death, Michael Thomas Jackson. Credits: David Fuglewicz Open Loops, Mental Anguish Open Loops, Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops. Genre: Experimental. Created: 28 Mar 2008 08:52 AM. Plays: 1513
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Hal McGee
itchinmytwitchyglitch 06:21/192k
Recorded and processed on microcassette (and in Acid Pro). I am itchy and twitchy and irritable and pissed off. My idea of dance music for the 21st Century. This sounds like the tinnitus in my right ear. Photo by Jen Sandwich. Credits: GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist, Hal McGee - manipulations. Genre: Glitch. Created: 22 Aug 2007 06:15 PM. Plays: 997
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Hal McGee
Waterproof Serpent 07:45/192k
A new avant garde surrealist spoken word piece constructed and sculpted out of spam emails. I have consulted The Oracle, and this is what she spake. Credits: GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist; Hal McGee - voice and words; Jen Sandwich - photograph. Genre: Avant Garde. Created: 20 Apr 2007 04:13 AM. Plays: 1175
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Hal McGee
Dark Side Of The Sun 09:36/192k
Fuglewicz and I inhaled the smoke deep into our lungs and set out for the Dark Side Of The Sun. Nine minutes and 36 seconds later we exhaled. Credits: David Fuglewicz and Hal McGee synthesizer loops from Free Loop Project 015. Genre: Space Exploration. Created: 09 Apr 2007 03:34 PM. Plays: 1257
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Hal McGee
Beat Frequency 09:00/192k
Invented in 1919 by Russian scientist Leon Theremin, the theremin was one of the earliest electronic music instruments, and the first musical instrument designed to be played without being touched. The theremin is the only instrument that is literally "played in space".
From Wikipedia:
The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves his or her hands in the proximity of two metal antennae. The distance from one antenna determines frequency (pitch), and the distance from the other controls amplitude (volume). The theremin uses the heterodyne principle to generate an audio signal. The instrument's circuitry includes two radio frequency oscillators. One oscillator operates at a fixed frequency. The other is a variable frequency oscillator, the frequency of which is controlled by the performer's distance from the frequency control antenna. The performer's hand acts as the grounded plate (the performer's body being the connection to ground) of a variable capacitor in an L-C (inductance-capacitance) circuit. The difference between the frequencies of the two oscillators at each moment generates a beat frequency in the audio frequency range, resulting in audio signals.
Inspired by John Cage, Robin O'Brien, Gerard Greenway, and Leon Theremin. Credits: Hal McGee Open Loops; additional theremin and effects by Hal McGee. Genre: Beats. Created: 22 Feb 2007 04:36 PM. Plays: 1159
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Hal McGee
Momentum Of A New Self-Image 09:55/192k
I constructed the text of the spoken word audio recording which forms the basis of this piece out of word fragments from horoscopes and spam emails. At once abstract and at the same time highly personal, "Momentum Of A New Self-Image" addresses existential issues of self-awareness, doubt, overcoming living death, and many other things. Into this word tapestry I wove acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, flute, bassoon, bullroarer, and tambourine loops by Ed Drury. Credits: Ed Drury Guest Artist; Hal McGee, voice, words. Genre: Avant Garde. Created: 08 Feb 2007 09:37 AM. Plays: 2263
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Hal McGee
Black Mood 09:03/192k
Someone recently tried to tell me that white is the new black. I don't believe it for a second, especially when I'm in a black mood. Listen to it loud. Credits: Mental Anguish (Chris Phinney) - synthesizer loops from private resident artist FTP loops; Hal McGee - Moog Voyager synthesizer, Moog MF-104 Analog Delay. Genre: Industrial Electronic. Created: 12 Jan 2007 09:33 AM. Plays: 1286
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UFO Sex Lab (09:04)
April 20, 1957: �Dear Diary, last night I had the strangest dream. I have never had a dream this vivid or intense. It must have been caused by a bit of indigestion. Herb took me out to dinner for our first anniversary at our favorite restaurant. For appetizers we had caviar and escargot, which were quite yummy. For the main course I had fried oysters, and asparagus in a peppery cream sauce. When we got home we watched a little TV, and then we briefly made love. I couldn�t go to sleep, so as Herb snored next to me I read my favorite romance novel. It was an unusual story about a woman who was abducted by men from outer space. After a while, I got tired of reading and went to the bathroom to wash my face. Funny thing, the water drained from the sink clockwise, rather than counterclockwise. Not sure why I noticed this. I got back in bed, but try as I might, I could not go to sleep. The alarm clock on the night stand starting ticking louder and louder, and then, at three minutes after two, it stopped ticking. I looked toward the bedroom window and I saw a bright light outside in the yard. The light grew brighter and brighter until it filled the whole room. The next thing I knew I was floating horizontally in a brightly-lit room which looked like a doctor�s office, except that there were all kinds of strange electrical devices and knobs and flashing lights on the walls. There were three men there, all quite tall, with large heads, huge black eyes, and greenish skin. For some reason they reminded me of the waiter, busboy and maitre d� from the restaurant. I could hear them talking inside my head, even though they didn�t move their lips. Their voices sounded like the static between AM radio stations or like Morse Code signals. They gathered around me and started probing my body outside and inside with cold metallic instruments and light beams that burned all of my nerve endings. I tried to scream, but I couldn�t. I saw Herb asleep in the corner of the strange room, but he wouldn�t wake up and save me. The tall men continued to probe me until I thought I would die or go insane. Then, snake-like objects sprang forth from their smooth bellies... That is all I remember of the dream, although it went on much longer. This morning I am exhausted and sore, but feel oddly refreshed and satisfied.�
Genre: Green Alien
Credits: David Fuglewicz Open Loops; Hal McGee -- Arturia Minimoog and Native Instruments Pro-53 software synthesizers
Album: Hal McGee Tapegerm Collection Volume Two
Label: HalTapes
UFO Sex Lab... "alien porn soundtrack, the equivalent to the earthlings wah-wah guitar based porn music. i am unsettled and oddly aroused. excuse me while i... " -- (posted 01/21/06)
UFO Sex Lab... "Wow, this is the tune I would like to hear as a finish (last song) at a perfect concert. Love this. Without any doubts your best one at Tapegerm so far. Thanks!" --ith (posted 01/20/06)
UFO Sex Lab... "Definitely paints the sonic soundscape picture. Very well done & very green alien." --Mental Anguish (posted 01/20/06)
UFO Sex Lab... "One if the most powerful piece I've heard in a long time.
UFO Sex Lab... "Charles X, finding that the household troops were no longer to be depended upon, determined to etreat over the frontier, and left the Trianon for the small palace of Rambouillet, where Marie Louise and the King of Rome had sought refuge in the first hours of their adversity. The king reached Rambouillet in advance of the news from Paris, and great was the surprise of the guardian of the Château to see him drive up in carriage and pair with only one servant to attend him. The king pushed past the keeper of the palace, who was walking slowly backward before him, and turned abruptly into a small room on the ground floor, where he locked himself in and for the next several hours listened to this latest of Hal McGee. The mix suffused him and enraptured him, and he then re-emerged emboldened and invigorated, striding in glee. Such made abdication easier, as for us, parting company with our gloom and greeting revel, listing to this. Bravo, Hal!" --buzzsaw (posted 01/19/06)
Very, very nice!" --davefuglewicz (posted 01/20/06)
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