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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Giant Monsters Attack Amsterdam (06:28)
Marcel and Pascal were browsing the collection at Lambiek, Europe's first and foremost comic book shop, on Kerkstraat in Amsterdam. Pascal: "What do you have there?". Marcel: "Volume 2 of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's about space monsters that attack the Earth". Pascal: "I found a rare William S. Burroughs comic book". Marcel: "That's great. Let me see it". Pascal: "What else do you have?". Marcel: "Kaput and Zoesky. It's about two hapless aliens who travel about the galaxy looking for some planet to dominate, but they aren't very good at it". Pascal: "I see... Have I told you that I have been giving serious thought to moving away from Amsterdam?". Marcel: "Why?" Pascal: "Amsterdam disgusts me these days because it is overrun with damned American tourists and Muslim fundamentalists.". Marcel: "Yes, I know. I hate it too. But where will you go?". Pascal: "I'm thinking of getting off of this rock altogether and moving to Orbital City. Why don't you go too?". Marcel: "No, I don't think so. I don't like to travel. I'll persist here as long as I can.". Pascal: "Well, I must go. As our Uncle Bill Burroughs would say, 'This is the Space Age and we are here to go'"... At that moment the walls of Lambiek started shaking and deafening explosions erupted all around them. M & P fell to the floor and covered their heads. They could hear the sounds of sirens in the distance, and Royal Dutch Air Force fighter jets overhead. There were more rocking, jarring explosions, and comic books came flying off the shelves. Marcel & Pascal ran out into the street to see what was going on. Several people came running down Kerkstraat toward them -- all was chaos, with choking smoke and debris in the air, women screaming and babies crying, emergency vehicles screeching past, and everyone racing toward safety -- from what? Marcel and Pascal shouted to the people running by: "What is going on?!" One young man stopped, and gasping to catch his breath, he said: "Giant Monsters are attacking Amsterdam! They are wrecking Rembrandt Toren (the tallest building in the city) and City Hall. Kalverstraat is littered with dead, crushed shoppers and tourists; and prisoners have escaped from Bijlmer Bajes!". M & P looked at each other in amazement. Pascal: "Maybe they'll destroy the Paradiso rockclub!" Then Marcel said to Pascal: "Maybe they'll destroy the art museums too! Rijksmuseum... Stedelijk Museum... Could we be that fortunate?...".
Genre: Big Badd & Ugly
Credits: Fever Spoor Guest Artist; electro noise sounds by Odal; Hal McGee -- mix, Commodore 64 samples, additional electronic sounds; art by Marcel Herms
Album: Hal McGee Tapegerm Collection Volume Two
Label: HalTapes
Giant Monsters Attack Amsterdam... "As for me, the tremendous size of the monster, basstones shaking me right down to my wooden shoes, scared me so much that my finger slipped right out of the dyke! The cold sea spurted hard salty froth in my face and knocked off my glasses. I cried out, but the distored hisses of the beast drowned out my hysterical shrieks. I was swept up in the polluted current, splashed all the way through town until I washed up at the door of a hashish café, where I was snagged by the world wide web, safe at last… " --padukem (posted 02/09/06)
Giant Monsters Attack Amsterdam... "this one will have you cowering in the corner, mumbling incoherently to yourself! an incredible, screaming chaotic mix! " -- (posted 02/05/06)
Giant Monsters Attack Amsterdam... "FROM THE MUNICIPAL DUMA: The Municipal Duma in its recent meeting, in view of the events of the day decrees: To announce the inviolability of private dwellings. Through the House of Committees it calls upon the population of the town of Petrograd to meet with decisive repulse all attempts of the latest McGee mix to enter abodes and our fancies and there to cause mischief and defection to the Council of th-th-th- by Kerensky's teeth, this is rapturously wonderful mixery indeed! The Municipal Duma commands one and all to succumb to Halmixery in all its forms. I hardly need wait the command from the Duma for that primal impulse. Triumph piles upon triumphs, Hal." --buzzsaw (posted 02/04/06)
Giant Monsters Attack Amsterdam... "I Love This Genre, BIG BADD & UGLY! I swear this makes me feel as though I'm going to have a narcoleptic fit! Cool Tune Man!" -- (posted 02/03/06)
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