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Hal McGee - Maps Of Nowhere

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73 minutes

Side A
1. Recognition Physics
2. Islands And Outparcels

Side B
1. Terrain Vague
2. Sounds From The Selvage

Maps Of Nowhere consists of four long tracks distilled from 12 hours of field recordings made on a handheld cassette recorder - recorded August through October 2000. 

Lots of shortwave radio tones and static; surreptitious recordings from my work environment in a hospital; quotidian, found and trash sounds: alarm clock, Hare Krishna chanting, public transportation, street & traffic noises, toys, children, family, howling maniac dogs, mundane conversations -- audio ethnographic recordings from the streets, alleys, sidewalks, parking lots, and fields of Gainesville, Florida -- all blended, multitracked and contorted into big concrete music noisy cut-up collages. 

I employed chance process, aleatory and automatistic methods of dada and surrealism in the making of Maps Of Nowhere. 

Constructed on a Fostex XR-5 4-track cassette recorder.

homemade audio folk art by Hal McGee and friends 1981-2022
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