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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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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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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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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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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Giant Monsters Attack Hong Kong (07:36)
Detective Johnnie Wong was a killer cop. He was edgy, brash, cocky and had a bad attitude. The Chief of the Hong Kong Police said he was a disgrace to the department. Wong would just as soon shoot a gangster as look at him. He had wrecked a lot of police vehicles, and damaged millions of dollars of public and private property in his pursuit of the bad guys. One day he shot the son of Boss Fats, the king of the Hong Kong mafia, right in the crotch because the young man had spit in his face. Boss Fats got even with Johnnie by sending his goons to gun down Wong's kid brother, who had just graduated from the Police Academy. As his brother lay dying in his arms, Johnnie vowed to track down his killers and tear them to pieces. He caught up with Fats and his gang at the Golden Dragon restaurant. Johnnie stormed in the front door, guns ablazing. He didn't care who got hurt, even if they were innocent. After Johnnie had blown everyone away in the dining room, he realized that Fats had escaped out the back door of the place. He darted through the kitchen and out into the alley. Hong Kong was pure chaos. Sirens blared, flames danced from the roofs of tall buildings, and the air was filled with an infernal din, the deafening sounds of destruction. Johnnie could see Fats 50 meters away, running as fast as his fat legs would carry him. Wong never missed at this distance, and he shot Boss Fats right in the ****. The gang boss crumpled to the pavement. At just this moment, a gigantic hairy foot came crashing down from between two skyscrapers and squashed Fats flatter than a pancake. "That son of a ****!", screamed Johnnie. "Fats is mine! Nobody is gonna take the pleasure of ending his life away from me and get away with it! I'll show you, you frickin' hairy monster". And Johnnie pulled a grenade launcher out of his trench coat...
Genre: Big Badd & Ugly
Credits: Loops by Mental Anguish, Cystem, and DJ Get Yo Fat On; Hal McGee � Circuit Bent Casio SK-1 and SK-5, Casio VA-10, Dark Star synth module (built by Fuglewicz), Technosaurus Microcon synth, shortwave radio, beats, mix; art by Jimmy McCullough.
Album: Hal McGee Tapegerm Collection Volume Two
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Giant Monsters Attack Hong Kong... "go Johnnie go! an incredible addition to the 'monster saga'! a crunching collision of sounds, tremendously aggressive, truly monsterous mix! awesome!" -- (posted 01/30/06)
Giant Monsters Attack Hong Kong... "Let me now explain how the Great Khan bestows charity upon the poor of Khanbaliq. Whenever he learns that some family of honest and respectable people has been exposed to misfortune or delivered into illness by circumstamces so that they are unable to continue working so that they are left bereft of the ability to earn their daily bread, the Khan sees to it that such families (which may consist of more than a dozen persons) are each given the means to hear all the Hal McGee mixes available, especially the latest available, even to the Khan himself, in the realm as a palliative and a medicine for care. And such continues today as Hal's mixes are a solace of honey in a world whose greater measure is bile. Bravissimo, sir! Triumph is named Hal again." --buzzsaw (posted 01/28/06)
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