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Apartment Music 29 – May 20, 2018

5/22/2018

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Apartment Music is a long-running series of concerts of improvisation, experimental and electronic music, and Noise
​at Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, Florida.

The 29th edition was held on Sunday afternoon, May 20, 2018.
We had a nice mix of new people and Apartment Music veterans:
​Vasectomy Party, Emmy Lou, Dylan Houser, Mark McGee,
Jonas van Den Bossche, Tomokie's Cup, Novasak, Gear Lust,
and Hal McGee.
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I have created a playlist of Apartment Music videos on YouTube.
Videos recorded by Trevor Luke and Hal McGee.
I apologize for the poor quality under-exposed videos.
​My video camera is very old and I need to replace it.
See Dylan Houser's post about AM 29.
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DJ Adam Oko presents 2-hour Hal McGee radio program

5/16/2018

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Tokyo-based DJ Adam Oko
hosts
a monthly program on London's NTS Radio
that specializes in
"crackled lo-fi tapes, sparkling synth-driven ditties, rarities from Japan and a whole lot else: all wrapped up neatly in a pleasing package of oozing ambient goodness​".

This past Sunday evening he presented a two-hour program called "An Introduction To Hal McGee", which features dark ambient tracks by Hal and collaborators such as Brian Noring, Chris Phinney, Al Margolis, and Charles Rice Goff III.

You can listen to the archived program
in the Mixcloud audio player below.
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Adam Oko
Here is the tracklist of Adam's program:
HAL MCGEE - ALGAL BLOOM IN THE WATERDROP NEBULA (from Deep Space Search Engine)
HAL MCGEE - B12 (EXCERPT)
HAL MCGEE - DEVICE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (from Homemade Alien Music Volume 1 Split)
GOFF/NORING/MCGEE - ENCOUNTER OF WORM AND PAPER CLIP (from Cryptomnesia)
CAPTAIN MISSION - DAWN FALLING (from Analog Space)
NORING/MCGEE - THEOREM (from the Preoccupations album)
NORING/MCGEE - OUT OF NOTHING (CREATION) (Preoccupations)
IF, BWANA/DOG AS MASTER - VESSEL OF ANXIETY (from Symbolic Accidents Of Ceremony)
THE CONCRETE ETENDUE - PERDU
NORING/MCGEE - MAGNIFIED (Preoccupations)
NORING/MCGEE - ALL FUNCTIONS WORK AS THEY SHOULD (from Cardboard)
HAL MCGEE/IMIAFAN/LOZI - TIME (from Space Exploration)
NORING/MCGEE - SLIP PAST OUR WALL (from Surveying The Wreckage)
HAL MCGEE & PARAMUTUAL OPERATOR - LIVE AT CAFE BOHEMIA #1
NORING/MCGEE - THE MELTDOWN (from Cross Contamination)
PHINNEY/MCGEE - STARGROVE (from Antenna Club)
IF, BWANA/DOG AS MASTER - UNTRANSLATABLE
HAL MCGEE - AS/IF (from VA10)
HAL MCGEE - THE DOG BITES BACK (from 1909E)
PHINNEY/MCGEE - STRANGE DOINGS IN THE NOOKS & CRANNIES, POURING OUT OF THE CRACKS & CREVICES (from Knot)
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Cassette Mythos Audio Alchemy Digest #4

5/12/2018

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Audio Alchemy Digest #4

This archival reissue of Audio Alchemy Digest #4
originally issued in 1987 by Cassette Mythos
has been authorized by the producer of the cassette
Robin James of Cassette Mythos

 The Audio Alchemy Digest was an irregularly published cassette of samples from audio artists around the world, combining music and sounds from the tapes with the voices of the artists themselves, talking about what they do/did and about cassettes in general. It was an ongoing project generated by Cassette Mythos, an information gathering operation whose goal was to publish a now famous book about home-recording and networking.
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Side "HOWDY!"
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"push the record button..."
Rich and Jonathan Jensen at the carnival with Minóy and Deaf Lions
The Joke Project - child singing
Brian Ladd - "People used to think cassettes were..."
Fat Belly Studios - "bbbthhhhllll.."
Sue Ann Harkey - The Greenhouse Effect "Hurry, it's almost over..."
Joel Haertling, Architects Office
audio logo mixed with some of the Joke Project tape
House of Dogs - blip from Gargoyle Mechanique cassette
Floating World - "Is he going to have a book..."
Rich Jensen "hi"
John Wiggins - bits of Particle Music
One of the things that Cassette Mythos does...
Duncan Campbell - Yaaahoo!
These are the legends of Audio Alchemy...
AM radio talk show excerpt
Sub-Genius Foundation - "Wise up!" from the Media Barrage tape
back to the radio
Simon Butcher - Cretin Productions - "From the mind boggling regions
of the 21st century.."
1984 Op Conference: A Produce, Rich Jensen, Calvin Johnson discuss
cassette recording quality
"See the light, feel the heat..." Ronald Reagan Speaks for Himself
Alain Neffe - tape duplication quality
Architects Office (continued) "Home at the Dome"
Willem de Ridder - "Why you should not you get involved in a radio play..."
Op conference - Calvin Johnson (K) talking about cassettes at
community radio stations
The Jensen Brothers at the carnival. continued
Jeff Greinke - Through Fog (just a moment of the ending)
Jonathan Kline and CT in Mexico
Bump Tiddly Bump Tiddly, Holiday Recipies (excerpts from two
cassettes) Silent But Deadly
Snapshot - "A strange dream of Kathy Mulhiem and Audrey Marrs"
Lakefair Parade in Olympia (1984)
CT and JK in Mexico, continued
Cuts abruptly into Steve Peters talking about a utopian cassette
listing catalog, which came to Cassettera in 1985
Hello collage by Robin James
"Cassette Mythos is going to be a book about a tape recorder and a mailbox"
Whistling postal workers in Africa, contributed by Ron Sakolsky
Side "Tuba"
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​THESE ARE THE LEGENDS OF AUDIO ALCHEMY FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE RECORD BUTTON...

One electronic drum beat by Harlan Mark Vale - Kramtones
Klaus Groh - AEA - includes Tuba-Piano Talking excerpt
Insane Music Contact blip
Postal workers bitten by dogs - contributed by Jeffrey Bartone
an audio business card by a band called Chuck - Upheaval Records
Leslie Singer
Evan Cantor reminisces about the Walls of Genius project
Architects Office - continued from other side
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Widemouth tape contribution
Eugene Chadbourne sequence - interview from an appearance in 1985 Los
Angeles and live excerpts from "People Want Everything" in Olympia,
improvised orchestra version with Connie Bunyer reciting the aria.
Special recording made with a dying tape recorder.
Hal McGee - Dog as Master - excerpt (Cause and Effect)
Dennis Carlton - song about getting out of here (Green Light Records)
Sound Theater - excerpt from a sampler in the "Feast of Hearing" series
Mike Jackson - Excursion Tapes (spelled kurXzen) contribution,
excerpted, the actual interview will be included in future Audio
Alchemy Digests
liner notes transcribed by Robin James
May 11, 2018
from the giant poster that came with his Cassette Mythos mailings
at the time of Audio Alchemy Digest #4

Cassette Mythos logo by Suzanne Dycus-Gendreau
Screaming Reptilian Hominoid by Barb Warr

The digital audio transcriptions were taken directly from Hal McGee’s personal copy of the cassette.

Send an email to Hal to request a free download code
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helpful hints and guidelines for posts on EC

5/5/2018

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I think that things are going very well here at the new Electronic Cottage. I am quite happy with the contributed articles bulletin items. You are doing great!
When you submit an article, interview, review, bulletin, etc. you can help me out and make my job as EC Editor a lot easier, more enjoyable, and less tedious if you will do the following:


YOU MUST ALWAYS include a picture or photo of some kind with your item.
I am going to insist on this from now on, and you can consider it mandatory.

Pictures draw people in and pique their interest. Some people are afraid of big blocks of text on a web page.
Please attach a high resolution picture or pictures of some sort to the email that contains the text of your item.

It will also be VERY HELPFUL if you will indicate within your text where each picture should go.
Number your photos in the order that you want them to appear within the article.
Don't send me a bunch of photos attached to an email and expect me to figure out the order.


Please proofread your article or other text items before you email them to me. It is your responsibility to make sure that your article is FACTUALLY CORRECT and not riddled with obvious errors, such as typos, misspellings, and other careless stuff.
If I look at your text and see numerous misspellings and obvious punctuation errors I will reject your text and tell you to fix it before re-submitting it.
I'm not going to fuss over every little punctuation mark, because I'm not always very good at it myself.
Grammatical aberrations don't bother me either. 


- European/British spellings such as 'favourite' and 'grey' are fine with me.

- always use the upper case 'I' for the first person pronoun -- not 'i'.
- in contractions make sure that the apostrophe goes between the 'n' and the 't', not before the 'n'.
- Your sentence construction doesn't have to be perfect, just coherent.
- Do not put two spaces at the beginning of a sentence. This habit is a leftover from the days when we used typewriters, and we're not going to do it at EC.

I TOTALLY understand that for many of you English is a second language, and that it will be difficult to always make your articles conform to the above standards or suggestions. I will be more lenient with you than I will be with Americans or Brits.

Many of you have already sent to me nearly perfect texts on which I need to make few corrections or adjustments. These articles make me happy!
Articles that will require fewer edits by me will get top priority, quite simply because they will be easier to publish.

I really really enjoy laying out articles and constructing web pages and blog posts. It is a lot of fun for me! It's not fun when I have to correct a bunch of stuff that I shouldn't have to be bothered with.

The above is not just meant to be a bunch of bitching. I'm trying to keep EC FUN, and that is VERY IMPORTANT. I will appreciate it if you can please do all of the above things because if you follow the guidelines above it will save me a lot of time and tedious effort and it will enhance MY PERSONAL FUN.

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    Electronic Cottage
    ​Editor
    ​Hal McGee

    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 the Cause And Effect Cassette Distribution Service and label, and recorded solo as Dog As Master, and in a duo as Viscera.

    From 1989 to 1991 I published six issues of the original Electronic Cottage print magazine.

    In the last 40 years I have recorded, produced and released more than 300 solo audio works, collaborations and compilations.

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