Introduce yourselves to each other

4/4/2018

Electronic Cottage is a Family and a Community. I want all of you to get to know each other well. Take a strong interest in the personal artistic histories of the other staff members, get to know their art and music. Click on Comments to get started. Tell everybody who you are, where you live, a little bit about your history and projects, and tell us about your plans for your page on Electronic Cottage.

42 Comments

Jerry Kranitz link

4/5/2018 03:46:07

Greetings all !

My name is Jerry Kranitz. For 18 years I published Aural Innovations: The Global Source for Space Rock Exploration, which from 1998-2000 was a printed zine (9 issues) and from 2000-2016 was a continually publishing web site and series of online radio shows. Though no longer active, the web site still houses the entire 18 years of reviews, articles and interviews.

I am also the author Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age, scheduled to be published by Vinyl-on-Demand in January 2019. The book is a social history and analysis of the cassette culture network, focusing on it's place in both post-punk and independent arts histories.

William Davison link

4/5/2018 11:03:03

Oh, wow! Looking forward to reading your book when it comes out!

Jeff Central

4/5/2018 14:05:15

YAY!!! Can't wait to get a copy of your book for VOD Jerry!! Glad you're here!!

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 14:27:10

Jerry, it is great that you are here! Electronic Cottage is going to be a lot of fun. It is like the Wild Wild West because it is wide open. It will become what we will make it. When you are ready to make your first posts, contact me by email and I will construct your entries for you. All you will need to do is supply the raw materials, words and images.

Lord Litter link

4/5/2018 07:55:50

Hello!

Lord Litter here. In 1986 I discovered something called *cassette scene*. I had no idea what it was all about but I had struggled with all kind music business structures before which always had led me to the edge of frustration - suddenly I realised everything is possible in *cassette scene* land.

So in the end I really did everything: music, distribution, label, radioshows, news, article writing .. whatever came along I did it.

In the late 90s it all slowed down for me. One main reason was I was very much involved in a live band (Litter & The Lazy Sleepers) and we did not record much. The second and probably more important aspect is difficult to define. It was the general change of planet earth's culture based on digitalisation.

At the moment I'm not *appearing* at live events. The last regular thing I did, I hosted a live show series also playing own songs up to 2011. My last solo release was *Lights Out, 2016*.

I always kept on producing radioshows - 3 slightly different ones today for 3 different stations. When I started I presented everything that came to me via cassette culture connections. The focus was DIY, communication, cooperation, exchange, doing something *different* .. whatever the musical output was. From soft Folk to harsh Noise.

Everyone of those creations was special if compared to the general musicscene. For various reasons all had a certain *quality* - that was the selection I learned to present.

With the years I think all this extremely softened - became a new mass culture - in a way became mainstream (This is definitely worth a closer look. Because I never wanted to support mainstream, though I play music at my shows that sounds like mainstream to others) So, today I no longer present anything that comes my way. There were several waves where I almost drowned in the "Hey - we're indie please play our song" avalanche.

I will try to define how I select and how I present these days on my EC page. It is based on a 30 year development. It was important to keep the fun and sense of my work.

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 14:17:37

Dear Lord Litter! Thank you so much for joining the new Electronic Cottage! You contributed to EC when it was a magazine! You have inspired me to create the new EC. It is going to be great! So much fun! Something new and special and all our own!

Ditlev Buster link

4/5/2018 09:55:31

Hello Everybody!
I’m Ditlev, but i also answer to Lasse. For the longest time i thought all the music in the world was what was available at a store called Kvickly in the next town from where i grew up. Kvickly wasnt a music store just a supermarket, and for that reason i thought i just was’nt interested in music. Wich was’nt the case, i just was not happy woth the music provided. Then later i discovered a venue in Elsinore ( Hamlet’s city) wich was in a former powerstation, and they put on noise and punk rock shows. From there i discovered there were people into those things all over the world , and so i got into corresponding with them over the mail.
I also run the tiny independent lable Stilletid, wich releases mostæy on cassette and once in a while a vinyl LP or a cd-r
I mostly write something as oldfashioned as songs, and do an occational soundscape audio-wise, but my page on here won’t be much about my own work. Rather it will be mostly about what is going on around me in Denmark. A report from the danish underground if you will. But that does’nt exclude people from elsewhere, who are on tour or what have you.
Looking forward to reading your page aswell!
Best Wishes from Græsted, Denmark
Ditlev

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 14:19:32

Lasse! It is so great to have you here! Electronic Cottage is filled with infinite potential because its contents will be created by the people who use it! I look forward to your posts here. Email me when you are ready to get started!

Hal McGee

4/6/2018 00:28:52

Lasse, your page is now live at EC! You can find the link in the ARTIST PAGES tab at the top of this page.

Ditlev Buster link

4/6/2018 17:29:45

Cool beans! Thanks for letting me be a part of it!

William A. Davison link

4/5/2018 11:01:20

Hello all! I'm William A. Davison, W.A.Davison, The Bim Prongs, M.Stactor, Songs of the New Erotics, Panic Engines, Th W rbl r, etc., etc. I'm a multidisciplinary artist and musician producing various forms of experimental art and music for 35 years or so. You can read about my entry into "cassette culture" on Don Campau's "Living Archive..." (http://livingarchive.doncampau.com/early_experiences/w-a-davison) or check out more of what I do at www.recordism.com. The original print zine version of Electronic Cottage had a huge impact on me when I discovered it in the early 90s and I'm pleased as punch to be asked to contribute to its resurrected form on the interwebs! Looking forward to seeing what everyone does here.

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 14:22:29

William, I am so happy that you are here! Welcome! I have always enjoyed your publications and your work with audio art ensembles in the Toronto area. Plus it was a great pleasure to meet you (and Sherri) several years ago. When you are ready to get started with your page send an email to me and I will assist you in any and very way possible. That's my job here.

William Davison link

4/5/2018 19:28:30

Thanks, Hal! Yeah, when we visited you in 2009 (jeez, almost 10 years now!) it was one of those first meetings that felt more like hanging out with an old friend. Good times! Kicking around some ideas for my page and will get something to you very soon!

Jeff Central

4/5/2018 14:19:25

Hello fellow tape nuts and music collectors!! My name is Jeff Central aka/ Jeff Chenault. It's been my name since I started home recording in 1983. I've always been attracted to strange and unusual sounds. My dad was a DJ from the day I was born so I was exposed to all kinds of music from a very early age. Records fascinated me!! I've been collecting them my entire life. Once I discovered electronic music I never looked back. I wrote for Dana Countryman's Cool and Strange Music Magazine from 1996 to 2002 and then wrote for Tiki Magazine from app. 2003-2010. Now I hope to join you folks on resurrecting Electronic Cottage in digital form!! This'll be FUN!! Thanks Hal!!!

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 14:24:53

Hi Jeff! Hey buddy, it is SO GREAT that you are here with us! It is going to be a lot of fun, believe me. I want you to have as much fun as humanly possibly at EC. When you are ready to get started with your first posts, contact me by email and I will help you through every step. You're basically just going to send me the raw words, pics, and other materials and I am going to construct your posts for you.

Jeff Central

4/5/2018 15:56:17

Great! Thanks Hal. I'm working on ideas now and even got the name of my title page Central Processing Unit. I'm going to review the brand new cassette Hunting Lodge entitled Unearthed!! Look for it soon!! :)

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 16:04:38

That's great, Jeff! I am totally looking forward to it! Electronic Cottage is off to a good start! Rafael González created the first ARTIST PAGE just a few minutes ago! You can find the link on the ARTIST PAGES tab at the top of this page.

Rafael González

4/5/2018 15:57:54

Hola!
I am Rafael González. I released my first cassette of experimental electronic music in 1986, at the age of 16, Exenple by Brigada Nadie, a duo with my 13-year-old brother.
I was a member of the futurist multidisciplinary group Equipo Estético Étika Makinal (or 3EM), and Spanish experimental noise band I.Q.C.M.
I have created numerous collaborative works as well as solo recordings.
In recent years I have turned my attention more toward visual and mail art.

Hal McGee

4/5/2018 16:01:01

Rafael, thank you for telling us about yourself! Thanks also for creating the first artist page at the new Electronic Cottage! Everybody, please click on the ARTIST PAGES tab at the top of his page.

Rafael González

4/5/2018 16:38:01

Thank you very much for everything, amigo!

Phillip Klampe link

4/5/2018 18:25:10

Thanks Hal for setting up Electronic Cottage online! I have been releasing my sound experiments as homogenized terrestrials for a little over 30 years. During that time I have met a lot of others creating and sharing their art. Being part of this extended community is part of what makes this so fun. I look forward to contributing.

Hal McGee

4/6/2018 00:42:13

Phillip, we are happy that you are here with us! We look forward to your contributions. When you are ready to create your page and make your first post please contact me via email with texts (article and brief autobio) and high res jpegs (including a profile pic or photo). Welcome!

Frank Audiffret link

4/5/2018 19:13:22

Hi all, let me start by saying that this is a great idea Hal and thanks for getting me involved! Now, I can read and find out about artists that I otherwise may never discover. I am looking forward to read about all of you!
I'll keep my intro short... At the age of 12, when everybody in my school was listening to A-Ha, Wham, Billy Ocean, ... I got into Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Doors, ... from there I got introduced to The Residents and Negativland... got into tape-trading and so on...
Unlike most of you, I own close to 0 physical releases at the moment(not collecting anything anymore), I sold all my stuff(twice) to travel the world and that got me to Indonesia, where I am living for about 7 years now. Almost 3 years ago, I started making my own music again, and a year ago I picked up painting once more... so you see, I am a newbie.
That's it, for now... I told you I would keep it short.

Hal McGee

4/6/2018 00:43:46

Hello, Frank! And welcome to the Electronic Cottage Community! We look forward to your contributions to the site. I am happy to read your autobiography above because I did not know those things.

Chris Phinney

4/6/2018 12:32:38

Nice to see familiar artists & new artists here! I. am glad to see Electronic Cottage back as I used to contribute to the print version. That said I used to run Harsh Reality Music started the label in 1982 releasing my own music in various groups. They were Mental Anguish, Pungent Odor who became The Skoptzies, Misfeasance, Macroglossia, RSVP which became Cancerous Growth, Viktimized Karcass, Planet Zero. Anyway I started releasing tapes by artists that I liked.Over 350 tapes, some vinyl, Cds, Cdrs, And videos on Vhs.Also did distribution of some lps. Did some writing for mags, some mail art, I did a lot of compilations as well. Helped run Tapegerm with Bryan Baker, Scott Carr & J Mundok, for 10 yrs or more a collaborative site to intense to explain here. Had my own domain for HRM, shut down the label due to several reasons around 2006 if memory serves. You can see some of the releases on Hals site the HEM section. Quit Tapegerm around 2010. Took a 5 yr hiatus due to personal reasons but came out of it & did Mental Anguish - Frozen Lake & a few Phinney McGee microcassette releases. I have collaborated extensively with Hal McGee, Carl Howard - Nomuzic, Mike Jackson, plus others Prescott, jeff Central, Charlie Goff, John Hudak, Minoy, Alien Planetscapes plus many others I may have forgotten. I look forward to contributing!

Hal McGee

4/6/2018 14:27:18

Chris! Thank you for introducing yourself to the new EC Community! I am very happy that you will participate in the new EC. It would not and could not be the same without you! The new EC site is going to be a slow, gradual build, very organic. We are going to try to create here an online environment that will feel good, that will be ours (all ours!). It'll be an online community that we will want to be a part of it, and that won't make us feel like we are dealing with toxic goo and radioactive slime! When you get ready to create your artist page here on EC and start making your first posts, contact me by email and I will help you get it all set up, every step of the way. All you will need to do is provide the raw materials - words and high res images - and I will do the rest. That's my job here!

Chris Phinney

4/6/2018 16:41:11

Thank you Hal for the warm welcome! I neglected to mention a few other important artists in the scene back in the day collaborated with. Some with Lord Litter, others Don Campau, Angwana which was Margolis hence the name, Pat Grafik, Isaac Ersoff, & a cdr with a pdf comic book by Matt Howarth released on his label!

Hal McGee

4/6/2018 16:54:48

All of that is classic stuff, fer sure. Glad you mentioned those others!

Molly McNamee

4/6/2018 19:07:49

Hi everyone! This is Molly, Chris' daughter. I provided many hours of morale boost to Chris and Hal in the early '90s (ha, ;) ). I'll continue my support here!

Hal McGee

4/7/2018 01:23:51

Hi Molly! Yes indeed, you were present and around when Chris and I recorded some of our collaboration albums. There's even a track on one album on which you provided the vocals!

Chris Phinney

4/7/2018 11:59:28

Molly, yes you supplied a lot of morale boost on our releases & as Hal has stated vocals on one of our releases. For those who don't know Molly was very supportive of Viktimized Karcass & you can find some vocals by her on a few of those releases. On a compilation Body Sounds released on Harsh Reality in which all tracks were sounds of the body no instrumentation are or fx Molly recorded a track artist name M.A.P. It was so good a guy I forget who from Belgium wrote me wanting to release a tape by M.A.P. You can find & listen to this compilation on You Tube of interested. I have no idea who the person is who posted it there. A search of the net the tape pops up other places. Even a download someone out up.

Jen Sandwich link

4/7/2018 14:54:07

Hi everyone! I'm Jen Sandwich. I live in an arts village in Bradenton, FL with a cat named Lightning Butt. I am a writer, photographer, painter, illustrator, and zine maker. I have been making zines since 1987 and have been doing an autobiographical comic series called Total Trash since 2013. From 2005 to 2008 I was on a mission to go to as many noise and experimental shows as possible and photograph all of them. Then I got out of doing that for a number of reasons; circumstances in my life changed, I moved around a lot, I no longer had a reliable vehicle, etc. but this year I am determined to go back to attending and photographing every show I can. A decade ago I used only film and vintage cameras, but film is too costly for me now, so I have gone digital. I'm looking forward to sharing photos and other various things with you all!

Hal McGee

4/7/2018 15:47:07

Jen, thank you for introducing yourself to us! We are happy that you are here with us! We look forward to your contributions to the Electronic Cottage Community. It's going to be a lot of fun. We are going to make a lot of new connections with a lot of new friends. When you are ready to make your first post, let me know and I will help you set up your Artist Page. I will help you with every step along the way. All you need to do is provide the raw materials and I will lay out your page and do the rest. Welcome!

Dave Fuglewicz link

4/8/2018 00:06:43

Hi all. Thanks for this site Hall, it looks great. I've been working with analog synths since the mid-1970's. Mainly on the electronics side until 1981 when I purchased my ARP 2600. I worked on recording and mastering the intricacies of the 2600 until my first cassette release in 1990. Since 1981, I have also acquired and ARP Odyssey, Axxe and Sequencer. a PAiA Stringz and Thingz, several rack effects, stompboxes and home made synth modules. I started recording using two cassette decks, then a reel to reel with sound on sound, a 4 track cassette and now to my Win XP computer. I occasionally use my micro-cassette (when Hal motivates me). I have an old DOS/Win 98 P3 computer with some early synth programs that I started messing around with in the late 1990's (and a couple of Atari computers that I haven't done anything with yet). Around 2002 - 2003 I moved into working with computer based compositions, with either stand alone programs, VST's or (the great tracker) Buzz. I have been sidelined with several illnesses for the past eight months and while it has been frustrating, it has given me much time to reflect on what I want to do next, which is to integrate my computers and analog synths into my next studio iteration. Both types of hardware need repairs/rebuilds so it's going to take some time, but hopefully not too much. If you are interested in my music, please go to my website. The majority has been posted to the archive.org site and I have provided links on my website. Even though there many more details to mention, that's about all for this post

Hal McGee

4/8/2018 01:50:04

Hello Dave! Thanks for bringing us up to speed on your work and projects! As far as I'm concerned, EC would not be the same without you, so I am happy that you are here. We all look forward to your contributions to EC, in whatever forms those might be. When you get ready to create your first post(s) contact me by email and I will work with you and assist you through every step. All you will really need to do is supply the raw materials (words, high res photos and other graphics, even audio files are possible), and I will do the rest. I will lay out your Artist Page and any posts that you make. For your Artist Page we will need a Profile Pic, Page title, and a brief bio.

Jay Peele link

4/10/2018 00:51:50

Hello E.C. fam! Excited to be a part of this 'zine. I met Hal McGee early in 2007 at a screening/live score of his "The Secret Life of Hal McGee" film in Gainesville, FL. A Tampa area noise artist named Microwave Windows whom I'd recently met invited me to the event. Paramutual Operator, Andrew Chadwick, and Aaron Zarzutski were part of the live film score. I had just spent my first night in jail shortly after a recording session with Oubliette and Noche Rider (Jeff Zagers) in the Murray Hill Theater in Jacksonville, Florida and Hal's film with the live sound makers really had a positive impact on me. The next day, Hal, Paramutual Operator, Microwave Windows, and myself set up an arsenal of analog synthesizers and recorded an album called "Stoned Space Jams". Within days, that same crew and my good friend Christoper Page (Cellular Terror, Acid Majik) did more analog synth / Theremin recordings at my house in Jacksonville, FL resulting in "Center of The Universe" & "Invisible In-Betweeners". Hal and I became good friends and started to collaborate in live performances, micro-cassette recordings, museum appearances, albums, and occasional lunches.

Hal McGee

4/10/2018 06:17:58

It is great to have a close and dear friend like yourself here. I hope that you will discover many new connections and friendships at EC.

spirit link

4/29/2018 10:17:38

bonjour a tous mon nouveau projet s’appelle SPIRIT mais j'ai étais dans les années 80 et jusqu’àu debut des annees 90 le chanteur guitariste du groupe local seynois (puisque je suis dans le var ) NO ANSWER ns avons fait quelques scènes et participer a des compilation puis j'ai travailler avec des peintres plasticiens sous le non de TOHU-BOHU jusqu'en 2002 puis plus rien mais me revoilà
j'aimerai travialler a nouveaux avec d'autres artistes et aussi pour le cinéma je ne suis pas contres la scene mais cela reste a définir

Frank

4/29/2018 17:46:10

(My Google translate-translation + some adjustments. Sorry, if there are mistakes in the translation, I am not a native-french speaker)

Hello everyone,

My new project is called SPIRIT but in the 80s, until the early 90s I was the singer/guitarist of a local Seynois group(since I'm in the var*) 'NO ANSWER'. We have done some gigs and participated in a compilation and I worked with painters and visual artists under the name of 'TOHU-BOHU' until 2002. After that, nothing anymore, but now, I'm back and I would like to work again with other artists. Also for cinema.
I'm not against the scene but it remains to be defined.

*No idea what is var.

Hal McGee

4/29/2018 19:07:16

Thank you, Frank!

spirit link

4/30/2018 03:39:36

le Var est un departement de la region PACA c'est a dire sur la Cote d'azur

Frank

4/30/2018 04:12:11

Merci pour l'info! Il y a aussi un problème avec le lien (flèche à côté de votre nom), quand vous donnez un lien, ne mettez pas le 'http' avant. J'espère que vous comprenez ce que je veux dire.

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