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Home For The Hellidays

12/30/2018

26 Comments

 
Hal McGee — Home For The Hellidays
audio folk art dictaphone assemblage
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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

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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.
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Download the album at Bandcamp for $1 minimum: click on this pic
26 Comments
Rafael González
1/1/2019 07:34:10

Enjoying right now! Happy Hellidays Assemblages!

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Rafael González
1/1/2019 12:56:54

I have listened to “Home for the Hellidays” before lunch and after nap. I love your sound assemblages, very inspiring for me and really nutritious and also very good to help you to go into reality after a deep sleep

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Hal McGee
1/2/2019 02:12:45

Amigo I am happy that you have enjoyed Home For The Hellidays. It was a lot of fun to create!

Rafael González
1/2/2019 15:36:18

I know, my friend! I can feel it

Leslie Singer
1/1/2019 08:44:32

2019 is already off to a great start! Knowing that you were working on this really helped me get through the past Xmas season. Home for Hellidays is the deliverance. The keyboards with all the voices and sounds is intoxicating— like a glass of New Year’s champagne. The photos and the slide show are fantastic too. Now onto Bandcamp for the download so I can get this baby on my iPod. Happy New Year, indeed! Thank you!!!

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Hal McGee
1/2/2019 02:13:35

Leslie, I am happy that you like Home For The Hellidays! Thanks for the support and thanks for listening!

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Dylan Houser
1/1/2019 15:26:13

Very nice. I have my own audio assemblage collages I need to put together sourced from the same field recorders last month. Maybe 2019 won't suck after all.

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Hal McGee
1/2/2019 02:11:48

I would like to hear that!

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Leslie Singer
1/2/2019 13:52:40

Dylan,

I too would like to hear your audio assemblages! Wishing you and everyone here at the Electronic Cottage all the best in 2019! Looking forward to seeing you Florida folks soon....

peter zincken link
1/2/2019 05:01:28

Im listening now !!!!!! enjoy it !!!!!

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Hal McGee
1/2/2019 14:38:38

Peter, thank you for listening, friend!

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Juan Angel Italiano
1/2/2019 09:30:21

Greetings Hal. I'm listening, excellent collages. (visual and sound)

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Hal McGee
1/2/2019 14:39:07

Juan, thank you for listening, amigo!

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Leslie Singer
1/2/2019 13:57:26

Hal,

I really love the picture of your mom and dad at the Mexican restaurant. A great update on the American Gothic painting for the 21st Century!

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Hal McGee
1/2/2019 14:40:19

Yeah! I am fond of that photo too! You can see in that photo evidence of my nature(s).

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Rafael González
1/2/2019 15:39:42

Completely agree, Leslie. Hal's recordings always make me hungry. Currently I have a good cold, but I can still think of a taco or burrito

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Leslie Singer
1/2/2019 16:44:43

I also want to shout to Lumen K for his contribution- erudite, entertaining and right on as ever!

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Lumen K
1/3/2019 16:11:58

Thank you, Leslie Singer. I am honored! I look forward to meeting you!

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Adam J Naworal
1/8/2019 22:25:47

Lumen always adds a certain something, that's for sure! Aimee and I are also looking forward to meeting ya in person this Sunday, Leslie!

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Leslie Singer
1/2/2019 23:12:06

I mean shout out to Lumen K for his wonderful contribution to Home for the Hellidays not shout at.:)

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Penny
1/3/2019 02:09:24

What a fun recording... I got to get a sony number two.. See u in a few weeks.

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Hal McGee
1/3/2019 02:14:12

You will see me in 10 days from now! :)

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Adam J Naworal
1/8/2019 22:24:49

Another fine piece of audio folk art!

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Jerry Kranitz
1/13/2019 20:42:33

Finally had a chance for a dedicated listen to Home For The Hellidays and, as always, it’s chock full of fun audio nuggets. Lots of cool spaced out music along with the day in the life morsels. And I like the playful tune near the end. Should there be a wet Stanley pic in the slideshow? (Damned if I know why that caught my attention)

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John Wiggins
1/14/2019 13:23:28

Hal - I love the whirl of your life going on here, great, clear stereo too. We're all engulfed in the waves!
Enjoyed all the sounds on these recording - thanks man!

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Hal McGee
1/14/2019 17:20:46

John, thank you for listening to Home For The Hellidays. I am glad that you have enjoyed it. My dictaphone assemblages are created to make fun for the listener and to connect me and the listeners to the joyous swirl and density of life.

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    ​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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