Velcro Wall Sign at Generator, 1989 and 2012

6/16/2018

I thought people might enjoy seeing this sign which was on the velcro wall at Generator in 1989. The velcro wall was a wall filled with cassettes attached to the wall with velcro. There was a Walkman in the middle of the wall and a laminated sign typeset on my Mac Plus. I still have the original sign because it was laminated. I had a laminator at Generator and I love it because it transformed pieces of paper or ephemeral items that would have gotten lost in a short amount of time to permanent official documents that last… almost forever. So because of the technology of lamination I had this original sign at the 2012 re-creation of Generator at AVA in New York. Notice how pixelated the original photo is from 1989 compared to the one from 2012. As time moves on documentation gets better. Not sure if the quality of life is better but at least it is better documented.

8 Comments

Lord Litter link

6/16/2018 09:11:18

... aaaahh ... and there is the legendary Evan Cantor tape!

And another legend .. Harald *SACK* Ziegler, who is still (!!!) alive and well with his totally unique style - still releasing cassettes and playin' live....!
http://www.haraldsackziegler.de/

gen ken link

6/16/2018 10:11:25

and Anna Homler's legendary Breadwoman cassette which was recently re-leased on CD, yet another live and well gem!

Lord Litter link

6/16/2018 10:22:01

aaahhh... now I see it! .. yep .. I have the CD .. she sent it recently .. different cover, so I did'nt realise immediately ..

Hal McGee

6/16/2018 10:23:50

https://www.electroniccottage.org/lord-litter/anna-homler-and-steve-moshier-breadwoman-other-tales

Lord Litter link

6/16/2018 10:30:03

... I had a hunch I knew it from *somewhere* .. now I know from where!

Little Fyodor

6/16/2018 11:48:35

I'm a huge fan of that croiners tape!! (bottom right in the top pic)

Rafael González

6/16/2018 14:58:47

It's clear ... Long live the Lamination!

Chris Phinney

6/16/2018 21:45:46

Love it. Good to see Sack & the Conrad tapes!

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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