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62 minutes
Real Cash Money
Not Dead, Yet
Two 31-minute dual-track cassette tape noise collages of field recordings from Key West, Florida, September 30-October 2, 2011. No electronic sounds, no instruments. Most of these recordings were made on Duval Street. I carried with me two identical Sony TCM-150 cassette recorders, one in either pocket of my cargo pants. I would pull one out, record certain sounds in my surroundings, put it back and pull out the other recorder and record new sounds, over and over. Sometimes I would pull out both recorders and record at the same time, with slight variations.
As I was recording the raw source materials I was struck by the feeling that, in that hyper-detailed, over-the-top, too-much-information environment of Key West -- as far out on the edge of the mainland USA as possible -- I was in a sense immersed in everything that is good and bad and exciting and boring about living in a Capitalist society that is teetering and tottering, collapsing and yet bursting forth...
Real Cash Money
Not Dead, Yet
Two 31-minute dual-track cassette tape noise collages of field recordings from Key West, Florida, September 30-October 2, 2011. No electronic sounds, no instruments. Most of these recordings were made on Duval Street. I carried with me two identical Sony TCM-150 cassette recorders, one in either pocket of my cargo pants. I would pull one out, record certain sounds in my surroundings, put it back and pull out the other recorder and record new sounds, over and over. Sometimes I would pull out both recorders and record at the same time, with slight variations.
As I was recording the raw source materials I was struck by the feeling that, in that hyper-detailed, over-the-top, too-much-information environment of Key West -- as far out on the edge of the mainland USA as possible -- I was in a sense immersed in everything that is good and bad and exciting and boring about living in a Capitalist society that is teetering and tottering, collapsing and yet bursting forth...
