Dog AS Master - Black Body and Trompeur Et Sournois
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Black Body was the third cassette tape release of Hal McGee's solo project Dog As Master. I recorded this album with a Fostex X-15 four-track cassette recorder. This is one of the best and one of my favorite Dog As Master albums, and is highly recommended as a good starting place for getting acquainted with DAM. One 36 minute tape collage, meticulously laid out in overlapping layers of shrill Moog synthesizer trills and patterns, cascades of tape cut-ups, voice choruses, and noise blasts from a Commodore 64 data cassette. This took me about six months to create. Black Body is noisy and chaotic, yet highly listenable, with a thrilling and high energy electronic sound. Symphonic grandeur, positive anger, with a touch of Residents whimsy. Released on the Cause And Effect label. Originally released on cassette in 1985, C37
review by Alessandro Aiello, Constrictor, 1985:
"BLACK BODY is a strong suite that has the same serenity and awareness of a powerful precious work even if it's composed of a cluster of sound-noise-music and by a series of pauses, models of sounds. McGee's answer to the high concept of creating a connection with serial electronic music."
A black body is an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls onto it. No radiation passes through it and none is reflected, yet in classical physics, it can theoretically radiate any possible wavelength of energy.
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Sadistic experimental electronic music by Dog As Master: near-silence punctuated by noise blasts. One continuous 45-minute track, hewn from the same mass of sonic material as Black Body, Trompeur Et Sournois by Dog As Master is a real test of your stereo equipment and your endurance. Thumbing my nose, slap in your face, a sadistic twist of your arm and nipple pinch in sound. Over and over again, no matter how much it hurts. It is the quieter parts which make the roof-shakingly loud parts all the more painful.
Originally released on cassette in 1985, C46, on the Cause And Effect label; re-released by Freedom In A Vacuum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1990).
review by Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five, 1985:
"Usually I'm not all that thrilled with experimental music, but I took a shine to this one, perhaps because of its outright obnoxiousness. Most of the tape is somewhere between dead silence and low-level white noise. But the listener who cranks it up will be sorry, because this is punctuated at irregular intervals by blasts of electronic sound. Not easy to listen to, but strangely rewarding."
Black Body was the third cassette tape release of Hal McGee's solo project Dog As Master. I recorded this album with a Fostex X-15 four-track cassette recorder. This is one of the best and one of my favorite Dog As Master albums, and is highly recommended as a good starting place for getting acquainted with DAM. One 36 minute tape collage, meticulously laid out in overlapping layers of shrill Moog synthesizer trills and patterns, cascades of tape cut-ups, voice choruses, and noise blasts from a Commodore 64 data cassette. This took me about six months to create. Black Body is noisy and chaotic, yet highly listenable, with a thrilling and high energy electronic sound. Symphonic grandeur, positive anger, with a touch of Residents whimsy. Released on the Cause And Effect label. Originally released on cassette in 1985, C37
review by Alessandro Aiello, Constrictor, 1985:
"BLACK BODY is a strong suite that has the same serenity and awareness of a powerful precious work even if it's composed of a cluster of sound-noise-music and by a series of pauses, models of sounds. McGee's answer to the high concept of creating a connection with serial electronic music."
A black body is an object that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation that falls onto it. No radiation passes through it and none is reflected, yet in classical physics, it can theoretically radiate any possible wavelength of energy.
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Sadistic experimental electronic music by Dog As Master: near-silence punctuated by noise blasts. One continuous 45-minute track, hewn from the same mass of sonic material as Black Body, Trompeur Et Sournois by Dog As Master is a real test of your stereo equipment and your endurance. Thumbing my nose, slap in your face, a sadistic twist of your arm and nipple pinch in sound. Over and over again, no matter how much it hurts. It is the quieter parts which make the roof-shakingly loud parts all the more painful.
Originally released on cassette in 1985, C46, on the Cause And Effect label; re-released by Freedom In A Vacuum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1990).
review by Mike Gunderloy, Factsheet Five, 1985:
"Usually I'm not all that thrilled with experimental music, but I took a shine to this one, perhaps because of its outright obnoxiousness. Most of the tape is somewhere between dead silence and low-level white noise. But the listener who cranks it up will be sorry, because this is punctuated at irregular intervals by blasts of electronic sound. Not easy to listen to, but strangely rewarding."
