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Hal McGee — Home For The Hellidays
audio folk art dictaphone assemblage 
recorded Thanksgiving Day through New Year's Eve 2018
with four Sony ICD-PX470 stereo digital dictaphones in Gainesville, Florida featuring Stanley and Lumen K 
I played Korg Monotron, Monotron Duo, Monotron Delay,
and Moog Model D iPhone app synthesizers through a JBL Clip 3 speaker.
The opening track, "new adventure in life — Sticky Mix", was recorded November 22-30, 2018. The four separate threads or layers of this mixed assemblage were originally offered here.
Download the album at Bandcamp for $1 minimum: click on this pic
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Announcing an official Electronic Cottage Audio Project is now complete!
The Electronic Cottage Audio Exquisite Corpse is a collectively-created continuous audio collage 45 minutes in duration consisting of contributions by 20 Electronic Cottage Community members, each of whom composed a short audio segment (of no more than three minutes) in reaction to a brief 15-second audio sample from the previous participant in the continuous serial audio stream. 
contributors in sequential order:
1. Hal McGee — Food For Thought 2. Juan Angel Italiano — Concretismo 3. {AN} EeL — Portable Effluvium 4. Girls On Fire (Leslie Singer) — Take It Back 5. Frank — Take 2 6. Lumen K — The First Table 7. osvaldo cibils — soundart25september2018elartedelasperillas 8. Crank Sturgeon — (h) Awl-type latter C, impt 9. The Joke Project (Seiei Jack) — FACELOOK 10. Lord Litter — dreamstate 11. Jeremiah Paddock — One Missed Call 12. Francesco Aprile — Second Zen poem 13. Mike Nobody — untitled 14. Rafael González — Writing errors 15. W.A.Davison — Internal Monologue Of A Fried Egg 16. Dave Fuglewicz — Running A Red Light 17. homogenized terrestrials (Phillip Klampe) — unlocking fendor’s lantern 18. Penny Grune-Fae — "sometimes, it's okay to eat your friends" 19. David Nadeau — Sublime Contradictions (Invisible Files) 20. Fiver’s Stereo (Shatter Wax) — Winter Sky
Editor's Note:
Any EC Community member or close friend and associate can request a free Bandcamp download code. Send an email to me to request your free code. After Christmas I will mail to all participants a complimentary CDR version of the ECEC! Non-participants can purchase a CDR for $8 postage paid worldwide.
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1. Hal McGee — Food For Thought
2. Juan Angel Italiano — Concretismo
3. {AN} EeL — Portable Effluvium
4. Girls On Fire (Leslie Singer) — Take It Back
5. Frank — Take 2
6. Lumen K — The First Table
7. osvaldo cibils — soundart25september2018elartedelasperillas
8. Crank Sturgeon — (h) Awl-type latter C, impt
9. The Joke Project (Seiei Jack) — FACELOOK
10. Lord Litter — dreamstate
11. Jeremiah Paddock — One Missed Call
12. Francesco Aprile — Second Zen poem
13. Mike Nobody — untitled
14. Rafael González — Writing errors
15. W.A.Davison — Internal Monologue Of A Fried Egg
16. Dave Fuglewicz — Running A Red Light
17. homogenized terrestrials (Phillip Klampe) — unlocking fendor’s lantern
18. Penny Grune-Fae — "sometimes, it's okay to eat your friends"
19. David Nadeau — untitled
20. Fiver’s Stereo (Shatter Wax) — Winter Sky
The Electronic Cottage Audio Exquisite Corpse draws inspiration from the surrealist parlour game cadavre exquis, in which the players add a drawing or phrase to a piece of paper and then fold the paper obscuring most of the image or words with only a hint to inspire the next player who then adds their image or words. The paper is passed among all of the players until the paper is finally unfolded and a collectively-generated image or poem is revealed or dis-covered through chance, subconscious collaboration and pure psychic automatism.
— The Old Bean Himself
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I have been friends with Electronic Cottage member
John M. Bennett since 1990, when he contributed the opening track to the first Electronic Cottage Compilation.
In the liner notes of that first EC Compilation I wrote:
John M. Bennett is an eclectic and innovative poet who has recorded numerous audio cassettes, and also published The Lost & Found Times, an interesting magazine and compilation cassette publication featuring diverse audio poetic works by a number of artists. Bennett twists and shapes and contorts the elements of language, carving out unique and highly personal self-portraits.
In the fifth issue of the original Electronic Cottage print magazine I published an interview with John by Dimthingshine.
Attendees of my Apartment Music shows have seen this photo of John which he sent to me in 1991 to accompany the interview.
John and I have exchanged a lot of mail through the years and in May 2012 we finally met in person for the first time during my visit to Columbus, Ohio.
Several months later, in early 2013, we collaborated for the first time on a dictaphone-based album called Sticky Suit With Tape.
In 2014 I issued an album by John and C. Mehrl Bennett called A Hamster In Your Sandwich on my Kassette Kult Tapes label. It is currently available online on my HalTapes Bandcamp site.
In March of this year I issued an authorized archival reissue of his 1985 cassette release, THE SPITTER.
In July 2018 John contributed his recording titled "ILB'AL" to the fourth Electronic Cottage compilation.
I mailed one of the EC badges created by Jeremiah Paddock (based on a design by Mike Nobody) to John and he sent me this awesome photo of him sporting his EC Badge. You can view a slideshow of 39 other EC members wearing their EC badges.
In trade for the EC Badge John mailed to me four badges/pins, including a pin of Luna Bisonte Prods, his long-running personal publishing outfit.
It seems like I receive mail from John M. Bennett just about every month, and sometimes two or three times a month! In recent months I have fallen behind on my postal mail correspondence (due to being so busy with Electronic Cottage!), but I hope that will change soon. I will eventually mail some more stuff to you, John! I promise.
Here are a couple more mail items that I received from John M. Bennett in the last couple of months. 
Hello Friends at Electronic Cottage! This is my new audiovisual creation: new adventure in life It is available exclusively here at Electronic Cottage. I created new adventure in life from Thursday, November 22 through Friday, November 30, 2018 in Gainesville, Florida. Above is a slideshow of photographs that I took with my iPhone 6 during those nine days. Below are recordings that I made with a Sony ICD-PX470 stereo digital dictaphone. The four audio players below contain high-quality 320 kbps MP3 streaming audio files. These should work well for people with fast Internet speeds. For those of you with slower or less reliable/consistent Internet speeds I have provided 128 kbps MP3 audio players below. The second track features Lumen K.
Stanley is featured throughout. On tracks 2-4 I played Monotron, Monotron Duo, Monotron Delay, and Moog Model D iPhone app synthesizers through a JBL Clip 3 speaker. I will make the audio recordings available as downloadable WAV or MP3 files upon request. |
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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.
From this moment forward the Electronic Cottage website will primarily be an online magazine for the publication of lengthy and in-depth articles, essays, and interviews.
For those of you who use Facebook I have created an Electronic Cottage Group, which will be a casual social gathering place of the EC Community, where EC people can meet, share artwork and news of current projects and releases.
The EC website will continue as before, and I encourage those of you who do not use Facebook to use the FORUM page here at the EC website to post miscellaneous thoughts and personal updates.
The website and this EC Facebook Group are two separate but connected entities of the greater EC Community.
and much more.
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.
From this moment forward the Electronic Cottage website will primarily be an online magazine for the publication of lengthy and in-depth articles, essays, and interviews.
For those of you who use Facebook I have created an Electronic Cottage Group, which will be a casual social gathering place of the EC Community, where EC people can meet, share artwork and news of current projects and releases.
The EC website will continue as before, and I encourage those of you who do not use Facebook to use the FORUM page here at the EC website to post miscellaneous thoughts and personal updates.
The website and this EC Facebook Group are two separate but connected entities of the greater EC Community.