Lord Litter meeting 7-9-18

7/19/2018

Lord Litter, 7-9-18

Thanks to being invited to the Eruption festival at The Golden Püdel Club in Hamburg, Germany celebrating the music of pioneer home taper Conrad Schnitzler I got to take a short excursion to Berlin, the capitol of Germany and the home of Electronic Cottage veteran Lord Litter.

Gen Ken Montgomery, Lord Litter, Crystal Penalosa

I was traveling with my Generations Unlimited partner Crystal Penalosa and we were excited to return to Lord Litter’s studio for more conversations about music, art and life. As soon as we sat down we began talking about the Eruption festival in Hamburg but we were stopped by Lord Litter who said we should wait and talk about that when he turns on the red light and interviews us. So we ate cookies and drank bubbly water as we talked about other things, but it seemed like whatever we talked about led to an interesting and relevant topic that Lord Litter wanted to “save” for the interview. After this happened several times we laughed and decided to talk about the weather. This conversation inevitably brought up a discussions on how erratic the weather has been and that took us to climate change, difference between the US and EU, Trump in Europe, the disintegration of democracy, differences between Berlin and New York, the eighties and now etc.

Lord Litter's studio, Berlin

We abruptly stopped all this chatter and sat together in front of microphones connected to a Lord Litter’s retro-looking desktop computer running Sonic Foundry which miraculously still does everything that is needed to make a radio show now as it did in the nineties. Then we continued our conversation with microphones on.

I’m still unpacking my bags from this trip but I hear Lord Litter has already nearly finished a radio program from our conversation. Lord Litter is a radio manufacturing machine! Always a pleasure to be in the same room with him and also a pleasure to know his active ears have been there on the other side of our mailboxes receiving and sending sounds and songs since the eighties. You can always expect another great radio show from Lord Litter because his passion and commitment to DIY sound and music is as solid as ever. Viva La Difference!

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Gen Ken Montgomery

I have been making my own homemade experimental music since 1981.

I was an active participant in the 1980s Cassette Culture scene, and I operated Generations Unlimited with David Prescott and Conrad Schnitzler, and recorded solo as Gen Ken & Equipment, and in a duo with KMZ and Vision of Control.

From 1989 to 1992 I ran Generator, a gallery, music shop, performance space and hangout for fringe culture and lovers of sound, noise and music and in 1994 I started A.T.M.O.T.W. (Art is Throwing Money Out The Window) which has kept me busy and smiling ever since.

In the last 36 or so years I have recorded, produced and released and not released too many recordings for me to keep track of, and I’ve performed with too many people to list here (really I’m just too lazy to try to remember them all).

I also love lamination. I perform Lamination Rituals as Egnekn, The Minister of Lamination in the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.

I’m a fan of haphazard collage and I design covers for LPs, CDs, Cassettes and 8-Tracks using Instant Art and Instant Covers technology. I also love postcards and have been sending them to friends for as long as I can remember using We Clip technology. I have been working on a website called Everybody Loves Postcards since 2009 and expect to have it functional one day soon.

I am greatly indebted to the pioneer of home-taping—Conrad Schnitzler, who I met by exchanging music through the post, and have been lovingly dedicated to organizing events celebrating his life and work under the name
CON-Mythology
since his passing in 2011.

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C. Goff III

7/19/2018 12:23:12

Nice digs, Mr. Litter! How do you water that plant without getting your CDs all wet?

Mr. Kenerator -- how about sharing some stories from the Eruption Festival with us?

Lord Litter link

7/19/2018 14:37:00

Pssstt... this is a Trump plant...total fake needs no water.

All Eruption Festival (and more) insights at forthcomming radioshows. I'll produce several with our conversation mainly for Radio On Berlin where detailed info on subculture is very welcome.

Chris Phinney

7/19/2018 18:14:24

A Trump plant lol

dAS link

7/21/2018 14:00:02

what a fun visit ! Berlin is still such a hub of the cassette culture scene...noticing the cassette & cross bones on the music stand which looks just like our version from 1983.....

7/22/2018 08:03:35

..grin... that cassette & cross bones is a leaflet for Hal McGee's Kassette Kult Tapes..

But - yes - Berlin is still very much *cassette* with brilliant unique labels like Das Andere Selbst ( http://dasandereselbst.org/ ) and Radio stations like http://www.Radio-On-Berlin.com with very unique cassette shows like *The Tape Review Show*.

And new is this show: Rinus Van Alebeek – Letter from Linz, Interview with Wolfgang Dorninger on cassette culture node.linz ..!

The shows rotate on a alternating timeline, so whereever you are on this planet there may be a convenient time for you!

http://www.radio-on-berlin.com/?page_id=591 - The Time indications are automatically adapted to your local time.

C. Goff III link

7/26/2018 11:18:49

OOO... look who's getting in the discussion!! What say you share details of your UBUIBI adventures with us, Mr. dAS? I'm sure there's plenty of eyes around here that would light up at reading your words.

Lord Litter meeting 7-9-18

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