SIDE A
Per-Arne Hognert (Tanumshede, Sweden) - False spring tape dreams All recordings took place in my bedroom if not otherwise specified. March 24, 2014 - Got the tape in the mail. * Recorded an improvised sad sounding tune with the Casio SA-77. * From the furnace room in the basement: Making noise with a bunch of firewood. Some metal thingy. Chopping firewood. Lighting the furnace. March 26, 2014 * Atari Punk Console noise. * Just outside the house: Grinding a handful of gravel. * From an empty house my parents are renovating: Sounds of an old detuned piano that has some broken strings. * From my dad's old barn: Fan with bad bearings spinning in the wind. * Two 16 note tunes (in a major scale) generated by a piece of software I'm working on. * Korg Monotribe synthesizer noises. March 30, 2014 * Outdoors: Rock thrown at empty oil drum. Birds tweeting, the wind and the sound of cars driving by. * From my dad's workshop: Messing around with random metal rods and a bunch of scrap metal. Banging my fist against a large metal drum. Slamming a large heavy door. * Outdoors: Conversing with the cat. * Went for a walk in a wooded area: Throwing pinecones in a pool of water. Grinding some jagged rocks. Throwing said rocks in a pool of water. Walking on a sandy path. Birds tweeting. Water trickling in a creek. Water running through a pipe. More tweets. March 31, 2014 * Monotron and Monotron Duo sounds and cassette tape of me talking. Passed through the Monotron Delay. The 'Sony Microcassette-corder M-455' was used for this recording. I was a bit disappointed in how much noise from the motor that was pick up by the mic. Originally I planned on using a 'Radionette' microcassette recorder, but when I recieved it in the mail it turned out to be in terrible condition and it sounded pretty much like crap. Visit my Bandcamp site for more of my recordings. |
SIDE B
Hal McGee (Gainesville, Florida, USA) - Social Anxiety recorded April 8-28 on a Sony M-470 microcassette recorder rain on umbrella, shortwave radio (including a Numbers Station), kazoo, talking with a co-worker, cigar box diddley bow, Stanley, piano lady in lobby, voice, life monitor signal, street recordings, talking with a customer at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, talking with my mom Review by Jerry Kranitz:
For his side of this split, Swedish audio artist Per-Arne Hognert’s arsenal of sounds and sources includes Casio SA-77, making noise with a bunch of firewood, some metal thingy (his words), Atari Punk Console noise, grinding a handful of gravel, Korg Monotribe synthesizer, throwing pinecones in a pool of water, and much much more. We’ve got a Casio melody that sounds like a cross between beer hall accordion and Phantom of the Opera, rhythmic clatter, radiophonic tone diddling, melodic synth noodling, out and about field sounds, noise, all manner of electronic fun and spaced out sci-fi weirdness. Rather than a rapid fire succession of sound events, Hognert spends at least some minimal time with each piece of his audio collage, making for 16 minutes of on-going reflection. Hal travels a similar path, with sources including rain on umbrella, shortwave radio, kazoo, cigar box diddley bow, life monitor signal, and various conversations and street recordings. Oh, and Stanley the dog. There’s a cool diddley bow and barking Stanley duet that I enjoyed and frowned when Hal told Stanley to stop. I don’t think he realized the leg up on the doggy Jingle Bells he had going there. There’s plenty of Hal spoken word, interactions with others and general day in the life activity that I always enjoy. I especially liked Hal’s coyote interpretation of Home On The Range. I keep using the term “rhythmic clatter” in my descriptions of these albums but damned if there’s not a lot of really interesting and surprisingly measured bang ‘n’ clang pandemonium going on. |
Per-Arne Hognert's letter to Hal McGee
above: iPhone photo taken near a garbage dumpster in Ventura Apartments, Gainesville
below: cell phone photo from April 25, 2014 by Jaz Myrick, taken from her apartment window
below: cell phone photo from April 25, 2014 by Jaz Myrick, taken from her apartment window