“Found Sound” Collage work
Pay The Price (1999/2022)
“Do what all the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do; pay the price.”
What We Deserve (1999/2021)
An early fragmentary collage experiment re-visited, expanded, and re-contextualized, with all new musical accompaniments.
The Trouble Today (1997)
An old dub, powered by the Linn Drum running through the Korg MS-10’s external input. This track is equal parts homage to Lee “Scratch” Perry and culture-jammers Negativland (both of which are huge musical influences).
Ill-Gotten Gold (1997)
Part 1 of the trilogy “What Shall the End Be?”. This audio has been salvaged from cassette, and will be eventually reworked. Among the sources used in this piece, one of my favorites is a phone conversation recorded through an answering machine, wherein my friend “Loki” receives repeated unsolicited calls after putting up a flyer on college campus looking to start a “Pagan Campus Ministry,” Northwest Florida hilarity ensues.
Waters of Life (1997)
Part 2 of the “What Shall the End Be?” trilogy. Pat Robertson asks the musical question: “You suppose God wants to heal cancer?” And Jimmy Swaggart repeatedly refuses to take his own advice.
Here Come the Soldiers (1997)
the third part of the “What Shall the End Be?” trilogy. Suffice it to say a deep quarry was mined from the “preaching records” I would find in flea markets and thrift stores growing up in the evangelical South. This is offered as a representation of the kind of audio collage tangents I have been known to go on. More to come.
“Home and Laboratory Use” theoretical EP Circa 1998
Transmigration.
Rickenbacher electric 12-string, ebow, echoplex, and a lovely tube-driven tremelo.
Time Stands Still
Korg Rhythm-55 home organ drum machine, 2 bass guitars, a cb radio, a stack of records, and an un-earned retro-futurist sense of optimism.
Wormhole Blues
Maestro Rhythm Ace, Rickenbacher electric 12-string and echoplex, Korg MS-10, Korg Mono/Poly, Moog Micromoog, and a Dr. Who sound effects record = Space Rock.
Resurrection
I am currently in the process of re-contextualizing some old material. A large portion of my early work heavily integrated “found sound” and audio collage. I did not have access to a sampler in the early days, but used a turntable and various formats of magnetic tape to create a similar “sampling” effect. I was recording on the Akai MG1412, a home-studio oriented analogue 12-track recorder which used 1/2” audio tape in casings very similar to Beta SP video tapes. Due to having lost some master tapes in a fire, and the 1412’s tape assembly no longer working, some early works exist only in 1/4” cassette form, with less than optimal fidelity. But some things live on and will find musical re-birth, and this is where I will share them with you.
