 announcing a new Electronic Cottage Community Project! The ELECTRONIC COTTAGE ADD-AND-PASS CASSETTE PROJECT EC Add-And-Pass Project #1 Public Distribution Add-And-Pass These EC Community members have signed up for this project: Penny Grune-Fae (already sent to Penny) W.A.Davison (already sent to William) Ken Montgomery Mike Nobody Phillip Klampe Dylan Houser Crank Sturgeon Rafael González Frank 1. I will mail a 60-minute cassette with a maximum of five minutes of my sounds recorded on the beginning of the first side of the tape to an Electronic Cottage Community member who wants to participate in the project. 2. That EC Community member will record a maximum of five minutes of their sounds on the cassette after my recording, and then they will mail the cassette to a friend who will like to participate. They can mail the cassette to anyone. 3. The third person on the cassette does not need to be a member of the Electronic Cottage Community. After me and the first EC Community member, anybody can participate, regardless of whether they are a member of the EC Community or not. When the cassette is full the twelfth participant will mail the cassette back to me. I will make copies of the completed cassette and will send copies to all of the participants, and the tape will be probably be published online on Bandcamp. Each cassette will be accompanied by an information sheet on which the participants will enter their artist name, recording title, and their contact address. If you are an Electronic Cottage Community member, and you want to be an initial recipient of an EC Add-And-Pass cassette, please contact me by email with the words "EC ADD-AND-PASS PROJECT #1" in the title of the email.. Please understand that you should be willing to pay necessary postage costs, which could possibly be high. At the bottom of this page you can see examples of what the cassette j-card and information sheets will look like. There is a great likelihood that most of these cassettes will never be returned to me. Danger! Excitement! Chance and happenstance! Who knows what will happen?! Just think of how exciting it will be if one or more of these cassettes will be completed and returned to me! More importantly, it will be a fun and unique way to promote Electronic Cottage, and to pay homage to Mail Art and the Add-And-Pass Cassette tradition of the 1980s. ///// Alternatives are available! EC Community members can choose to participate in one, two, or all three of the projects. ALTERNATIVE #1 If the above project plan seems to you to be too chaotic and prone to failure (and you think of that as a problem), you can participate in the... EC ADD-AND-PASS CASSETTE PROJECT #2 (EC Community members only) These EC Community members have signed up for this project: Hal McGee Rafael González W.A.Davison John M. Bennett Mike Nobody Phillip Klampe Penny Grune-Fae Dylan Houser Shatter Wax Michael Ridge Crank Sturgeon - We need at least one more person to sign up for this project! - If we can get a total of 18 people we will make a 90-minute cassette instead of a C60! It is the same basic idea and procedure, except that only members of the EC Community will participate in the add-and-pass cassette. The community members who choose to participate can coordinate their efforts to make sure that the cassette is completed. This will create new connections between the members, and help to establish trust and cooperation. If you would like to participate in EC ADD-AND-PASS PROJECT #2, please send an email to me with the words "EC ADD-AND-PASS PROJECT #2" in the title of the email. This project requires commitments from at least 12 EC community members before the project will begin, with a maximum of 18 members. I will choose the order of the participants on the tape. This order will be determined largely by the order in which members sign up for the project. ///// ALTERNATIVE #2 If neither of the above projects appeal to you, perhaps because you do not own a cassette recorder or you cannot afford the high postage cost to mail cassettes, or you live in a place where postal mail service is unreliable, you can participate in the... EC AUDIO EXQUISITE CORPSE (EC Community members only) to be conducted via email These EC Community members have signed up for this project: Hal McGee Penny Grune-Fae W.A.Davison Lord Litter Frank {AN} EeL Mike Nobody Phillip Klampe Francesco Aprile Osvaldo Cibils Seiei Jack Dave Fuglewicz Shatter Wax David Nadeau Leslie Singer Crank Sturgeon more participants are welcome! If you are not familiar with the Exquisite Corpse technique Wikipedia has an extensive article on the topic I will record a maximum of five minutes of my sounds. I will then send a sound sample of the last/final 15 seconds of my recording to the next participant who will react to what they hear and they will record a maximum of five minutes. They will send their recording to me and I will then send a sound sample of the last/final 15 seconds of their recording to the next participant who will react to what they hear and they will record a maximum of five minutes. And so on and so forth until a maximum of 75 minutes is reached. If you would like to participate in EC AUDIO EXQUISITE CORPSE, please send an email to me with the words "EC AUDIO EXQUISITE CORPSE" in the title of the email. This project requires commitments from at least 12 EC community members before the project will begin. I will choose the order of the participants in the Exquisite Corpse. This order will be determined largely by the order in which members sign up for the project.  example of what the EC Add-And-Pass Cassette j-card will look like...  ADD-AND-PASS INFO SHEET, FRONT — will be printed on letter size sheets of paper  ADD-AND-PASS INFO SHEET, BACK — will be printed on letter size sheets of paper
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 The big blue postal mail deposit box near my apartment will be removed tomorrow, Thursday, July 19, 2018. I have mailed thousands of packages to all of you since October 1991, and this receptacle has been the starting point of the journeys to all of you. On Monday I saw an official U.S Postal Service info memorandum attached to rhe box. Here is what it says:  I do not understand how a reduction of service is an enhancement of service!
Any way, it is with great sadness that I bid a find farewell to this old friend! The final two pieces of mail that I deposited in the box this morning went to Jay Peele (Shatter Wax) and Danny McGuire. 
ELECTRONIC COTTAGE
COMPILATION 004 an international compilation featuring recordings by 34 members of the Electronic Cottage community also available on CDR for $8 postage paid worldwide PayPal to haltapes@gmail.com Contributors will receive one complimentary CDR copy and five free download codes (by request only). 1. Ditlev Buster — Welcome to the EC compilation 2. Frank — That’s how I would like to be remembered 3. {AN} EeL -- The Quaker's Staff & The Dutch Oven 4. Thomas Park — Rite Cycle 5. Juan Angel Italiano — Barrio Tassano 6. Jack Hz — Don's Refrigerator Makes the Best Cottage Cheese 7. Shaun Robert — Gregorius 8. Don Campau — Too Hot For Hands 9. Rafael González — Electronic Cottage Theme 10. Walls Of Genius — Escape Of The Madman 11. Swami Loopynanda — Twisted In Space 12. John M. Bennett -- ILB'AL 13. Ken Montgomery — Kisses 14. Eduardo GOZNE -- The Great Flood (Genesis 7.12) 15. Lord Litter — Workshop 16. Phillip Klampe — Merlin’s Gesture 17. Dylan Houser — Stop-Motion Zombie Frycooks on the Moon 18. osvaldo cibils -- soundart28june2018 - the bombilla distortions 19. Chris Phinney -- Slap Shot 20. Jim Barker — Pile Driver Folk Dinner 21. Lumen K -- A Shaman Prays For Hal McGee 22. Aimee Grace Naworal — Haint Blue 23. Adam Naworal — Suomi (for P. Airaksinen) 24. Seiei Jack — The Fake Project 25. Jen Sandwich — False Memories 26. Shatter Wax — Electro Acoustic Cottage Visitation 27. John Wiggins — JAN Zoom Samples String (2018) 28. Dave Fuglewicz — The Near Bygone Days 29. Jeff Central — HAL No 30. Francesco Aprile — Zen poem 31. W.A.Davison — Broken Radio Loops 32. Hal McGee — microcassette assemblage for Electronic Cottage 33. Hal Harmon — Zap...Yer Dead On Arrival 34. David Nadeau -- Cenestopathical Caroussel compilation produced by Hal McGee artwork by W.A.Davison July 2018 The EC compilation will create greater solidarity among the community members, forge stronger connections, and stimulate more community projects. ELECTRONIC COTTAGE is an alternative international community dedicated to homemade & DIY experimental art and music, Cassette Culture, Mail Art and zines – inspired by Dada, Fluxus, Punk Rock, Hacking, Circuit Bending, Anarchy, and Noise. JOIN US!  A few months ago I uploaded the third print issue of Electronic Cottage to the Internet Archive. Yesterday I went to the page and it was gone! Without warning or explanation! As you can see by visiting the page the only thing on the page are these words:
This item is no longer available. Items may be taken down for various reasons, including by decision of the uploader or due to a violation of our Terms of Use. Does anybody have any clues or guesses as to what happened? Many of you like to use archive.org and regularly praise it here at the EC site, and talk about how "permanent" it seems. You may wish to re-consider whether the Internet Archive is a good place to upload your stuff. 
now available at Bandcamp - Hear the ROAR of Mountains
1985 compilation produced by Carl Howard and issued by his audiofileTapes label, C-90 + C-60 Free streaming audio. $1 minimum download includes liner notes, cassette covers, and a PDF of the booklet. Tracks by If Bwana, Mystery Hearsay, Controlled Bleeding, Port Said, Band of Holy Joy, F/i, Sleep Chamber, Problemist, Haters, Smegma, Skoptzies, Monochrome Bleu, Hunting Lodge, Gerechtigkeits Liga, Smersh, Bene Gesserit, Audio Leter, Viscera, Nomuzic, many more.
Confessions Of A Shit Addict
GOF 004 Girls On Fire label, 1983 Sadistic Gossip / Mary Davis Kills Mary Davis Kills HalTapes proudly presents this archival reissue of this cassette classic at the Cassette Art Classics site at Bandcamp authorized and approved by Leslie Singer of Girls On Fire, June 2018. Hal McGee is currently conducting an in-depth interview with Leslie Singer which will be published at Electronic Cottage later this Summer. 
Sadistic Gossip —
Dead Poets Don't Shave Their Heads Camus' Car Crash My Calvins Fassbinder Had A Good Set Designer All Songs © 1983 L. Singer Mary Davis Kills Mary Davis Kills — Live At Ollie's In Oakland, CA On 7/22/83. Clara Lusardi On 2nd Guitar. GOF, Leslie Singer, San Francisco, CA, USA The audio is a transcription of Hal McGee's copy of the cassette that he received from Leslie Singer in 1984. McGee's copy of Confessions Of A Shit Addict was dubbed onto one side of a 60-minute Normal Bias Maxell cassette, with the second side left blank and labeled "Audience Participation Side". The audio itself is about 32 minutes, and it is presented here in one continuous 32-minute program, just like it is on McGee's copy. Some copies produced by Singer were dubbed onto 30-minute cassettes withe the program split onto the two sides of tape. 
review of Confessions Of A Shit Addict by Hal McGee in HalZine 12
Currently in progress in Linz, Austria, Cassette Culture Node Linz is a fantastic exhibition curated by Wolfgang Dorninger dedicated to the Cassette Culture of the 1980s and 1990s.  front of the Cassette Culture Node Linz exhibition space with 2.000 tapes and 700 empty tapes for the letters One of the features of the exhibition are listening stations where visitors can listen to continuously-playing cassettes loaded with music from cassettes of the 1980s and 90s. Wolfgang asked me to create a 90-minute program of selections from cassettes that were distributed by the Cause And Effect Distribution Service, which was operated by Debbie Jaffe and me in the mid-1980s.  Cassette Culture Node Linz Listening Stations In the 192 kbps MP3 players below you can listen to the program that I created, which includes short excerpts from the cassettes I chose plus narrations and commentaries by me in-between the tracks, very much in the style of a radio program or podcast. I selected cassettes that were listed in the first Cause And Effect Cassette Distribution Catalog in January 1985. Here is the playlist of Side A of the tape (45 minutes): – Schlafengarten: Memorandum – Walls Of Genius: Before ...And After – Viscera: A Whole Universe Of Horror Movies – Dog As Master: Coffee Spleen & The Barking Dog – Master/Slave Relationship: The Desire To Castrate Father – Dega Ray: Clasp/Click – John Wiggins: Anagenic – Twa Digs Under Paris - i shin ohn – Sue Ann Harkey: I tell you everything, just not out loud – Let's Have Healthy Children: OSLWMMGIB? After you click on the PLAY button it might take several seconds for the file to load, so please be patient. 
Here is the playlist of Side B of the tape (45 minutes): – Sadistic Gossip: Confessions Of A Shit Addict – Bene Gesserit: Insane Music For Insane People Volume 1 – Magisch Theater: Magthea and Insanity – DDAA: Prehistoric Rejet – Architects Office: Memorial Issue – Theatre Of Ice: The Haunting – Grey Area: Anatomy Of Coincidence – Paul Kelday: Worlds Apart – Cleaners From Venus: Under Wartime Conditions
      This is a special issue featuring an essay by Jerry Kranitz, "Some Thoughts On Listening", in which he talks about the personal joys of listening to "difficult music", and he gives detailed reactions to four albums that introduced him to homemade experimental music, by Bret Hart, Charles Rice Goff III, Dick Metcalf, and Hal McGee. With artwork by Rafael González. Available for $8 postage paid worldwide, or trade (message me).  I am happy to announce a new Electronic Cottage Compilation!  EC Compilation artwork by W.A.Davison The purposes of the compilation will be: - to create a stronger connection among EC community members! - and to promote Electronic Cottage to the outside world! To participate you must have a Personal Page on Electronic Cottage.
Your recording must be no longer than two minutes and must be new, exclusive, and created for this compilation. You must submit your recording by the deadline of July 12, 2018. Your recording must be submitted in WAV file format via email, Google Drive or WeTransfer. I will also allow submissions on CDR, cassette, and microcassette. Your track must be submitted using your NAME ON EC as the ARTIST NAME. When you submit your track, please state the track title. The compilation will be available on CDR and download on my Bandcamp site for a minimum of $1.00 and the buyer will have the option to pay more. - Money from download sales will be used to reimburse me for the costs of producing the compilation. Each participant will receive one free CDR copy of the compilation, and five free download codes so that you can share it with friends. Participants can purchase additional CDRs at the cost of materials and postage. I think that this is a perfect way for all of us here at EC to get to know each other better and to make new connections with our friends here! CDRs will be dubbed in my home on high-quality Taiyo Yuden blank CDRs. Each CDR will come packaged in a transparent soft plastic CD sleeve, with a full color printed-at-home cover, and simple black and white printed label. This will be the fourth Electronic Cottage Compilation. The first three were issued in the early 1990s. |
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ELECTRONIC COTTAGE is an international community where independent artists, musicians, writers and freethinkers can meet and share ideas, sounds, visual art, photos, zines, videos, reviews, news and info, opinions, tech and gear articles, and much more, all in the spirit of two-way communication.
EC draws inspiration from the Cassette Culture Revolution of the 1980s, 90s and beyond; Mail Art, Small Press and Zines, Dada, Fluxus, Punk Rock, Hacking, Circuit Bending, Anarchy, and Noise.
EC values inclusion, democracy, experimentation, independence and freedom of thought and expression, open-minded exchange, and Community.
EC draws inspiration from the Cassette Culture Revolution of the 1980s, 90s and beyond; Mail Art, Small Press and Zines, Dada, Fluxus, Punk Rock, Hacking, Circuit Bending, Anarchy, and Noise.
EC values inclusion, democracy, experimentation, independence and freedom of thought and expression, open-minded exchange, and Community.