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Factor X and Hal McGee
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62 minutes - a cassette collage collaboration

about the factor X source tape:
"The tape was recorded straight from beginning to end no pauses, it was meant to be a sister tape to one I did around the same time called Roh. I was doing lots of stuff using my voice at the time, 1989/90. The idea was kind of to lift the lid off the subconscious mind, that somewhere beyond this stream of nonsense something dwelt. It was a concept now matched.
Completed maybe."

Hal McGee recorded his cassette on a handheld recorder in March 2013 - conversations with two friends, Jiblit Dupree and Hollis Smith, lunch at a Chinese fast food restaurant, and at a local grocery store, plus spoken thoughts, and other sounds of daily life.
Without listening to either tape first, McGee improvised a mix of the tapes (inspired by simultaneist chance procedures) and created two collages of shifting textures, contrasts, potential meanings, utterly joyful non-sense, and happy accidents that are negotiated by listeners through active listening.
homemade audio folk art by Hal McGee and friends 1981-2022
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