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apartment music 31

10/25/2018

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Apartment Music #31 was held Saturday, October 20, 2018.
Apartment music is a long-running series of live sessions of experimental, electronic and improvised music and noise in Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
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the glyph — Aaron Abrams — Jacksonville, Florida
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Shelby Radcliffe — Gainesville, Florida
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Jiblit Dupree — Danny McGuire — Polk City, Florida
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Watchable Wildlife — Mullarkey — Saint Petersburg, Florida
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Andrew Chadwick — Gainesville, Florida
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Tomokie's Cup — Aimee and Adam Naworal — Jacksonville, Florida
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Lumen K — Gainesville, Florida
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Elsie Shiro — Emmy Lou — Tampa, Florida
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Dylan Houser — Lakeland, Florida
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Canned Ham — A.J. Herring, Mark McGee, Hal McGee — Gainesville, Florida. Photo by Lumen K.
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apartment music 30

10/13/2018

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things evolve in swamps
Sunday, October 7, 2018
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This Apartment Music show featured performances
​by members of the Electronic Cottage Community
who live in Florida.
The performers were invited to interpret the theme
​"things evolve in swamps".
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detail from t-shirts that were worn by Adam Naworal and Aimee Naworal
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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. 
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Hal Harmon
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Shatter Wax
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detail from manatee video by Shatter Wax (Fiver's Stereo)
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Aimee Naworal and Adam Naworal
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Shapes With No Names (Jeremiah Paddock)
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All Electronic Cottage Community members — people with Personal Contributor Pages — can request by email a free download code for the album
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Things Evolve in Swamps digital collage by Aimee Grace Naworal
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Mister McGee's neighborhood

10/4/2018

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Mister McGee's neighborhood

1. lovebugs and cowlicks
2. dead bodies cast shadows
3. I am well-traveled in my neighborhood
4. the future of assemblage starts with you


simultaneist dictaphone assemblages
everyday sounds and electronics
audio folk art
featuring Lumen K and Stanley

also available on CDR for $8 postage paid worldwide
by request

recorded September 2018
with four Sony ICD PX-470 stereo digital dictaphones
in Gainesville, Florida

Hal McGee
with Lumen K
on
Korg minilogue
Yamaha Reface CS
Novation Circuit Mono Station
synthesizers
with Moog Theremin

plus Hal on
Moog Filtatron
Moog Model D
Animoog
and Noisemusick
iPhone app synths
played through a JBL Clip 3
belt-clip Bluetooth speaker

Stanley 
improvised performances on Babble Ball
and voice of course

album cover photo by my mom, JoAn McGee
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7 years ago I recorded Nature Guy and Nothing Happened

10/2/2018

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Seven years ago I recorded my album Nature Guy, while in Key West, Florida celebrating the wedding of my sister, Terri, and Einar Myklebust
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Two 31-minute cassette tape noise collages of field recordings from Key West, Florida, September 30-October 2, 2011. Most of these recordings were made on Duval Street. I carried with me two identical Sony TCM-150 cassette recorders, one in either pocket of my cargo pants. I would pull one out, record certain sounds in my surroundings, put it back and pull out the other recorder and record new sounds, over and over. Sometimes I would pull out both recorders and record at the same time, with slight variations. Later, I mixed the two tapes together in an arbitrary purposely haphazard manner. 

As I was recording the raw source materials I was struck by the feeling that in that hyper-detailed, over-the-top, too-much-information environment of Key West (which is as far out on the edge of the USA as possible) I was in a sense immersed or swimming in everything that is good and bad and exciting and boring about living in a mixed market Capitalist society that is teetering and tottering, collapsing and yet bursting forth... 
During the same weekend I also recorded my half of a split album with Bryan Lewis Saunders, "At this spot on October 2, 2011, nothing happened". Recorded on a handheld cassette recorder during a one hour continuous walk in Key West, Florida, on Sunday morning, October 2, 2011. A prime example of a recording in which "nothing happens".
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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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