Noring/McGee - New Music for Shortwave Receiver and Tape Recorder
74 minutes
List of Cassettes, Ordering info, and Trades
recorded June 22-23, 2000
originally released on CD-R on the F.D.R. Recordings label, F.D.R. # 127
Side A
1. alienation from appearance (7:24)
2. creating energy for no purpose (10:34)
3. sympathetic magic to influence others (12:40)
4. scribble as expressive gesture (5:00)
Side B
5. ideas are a dull gas (7:19)
6. pictures followed by lightning (13:05)
7. doll with antennae (12:33)
8. horror vacui (5:19)
4-track audio collages constructed out of raw materials recorded on handheld cassette recorders by McGee and Noring of sounds from portable shortwave radios and field recordings from in, around, and near Brian Noring's home on East 25th Street, and in other locations (such as restaurants, convenience stores, book shops, thrift stores, flea markets, and junk shops) in Des Moines and West Des Moines, Iowa -- June 22-23, 2000
homages to, dedicated to, and inspired by: Kurt Schwitters, Jean Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Adolf Wölfli, Charles Crumb, Art Brut, so-called Outsider art, folk art, Indian cuisine lunch buffet, greasy Mexican food, Quik Trip, coffee, clutter, trash, garbage, decay, rot, rust, noise pollution, horror vacui, the "alloverness" of Abstract Expressionism, audiocassettes, marijuana, tornadoes, Half Price Books, lawnmower, the AE Cows.
List of Cassettes, Ordering info, and Trades
recorded June 22-23, 2000
originally released on CD-R on the F.D.R. Recordings label, F.D.R. # 127
Side A
1. alienation from appearance (7:24)
2. creating energy for no purpose (10:34)
3. sympathetic magic to influence others (12:40)
4. scribble as expressive gesture (5:00)
Side B
5. ideas are a dull gas (7:19)
6. pictures followed by lightning (13:05)
7. doll with antennae (12:33)
8. horror vacui (5:19)
4-track audio collages constructed out of raw materials recorded on handheld cassette recorders by McGee and Noring of sounds from portable shortwave radios and field recordings from in, around, and near Brian Noring's home on East 25th Street, and in other locations (such as restaurants, convenience stores, book shops, thrift stores, flea markets, and junk shops) in Des Moines and West Des Moines, Iowa -- June 22-23, 2000
homages to, dedicated to, and inspired by: Kurt Schwitters, Jean Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Adolf Wölfli, Charles Crumb, Art Brut, so-called Outsider art, folk art, Indian cuisine lunch buffet, greasy Mexican food, Quik Trip, coffee, clutter, trash, garbage, decay, rot, rust, noise pollution, horror vacui, the "alloverness" of Abstract Expressionism, audiocassettes, marijuana, tornadoes, Half Price Books, lawnmower, the AE Cows.