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Hal McGee



Last Updated: 12/21/2009

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City: GAINESVILLE
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/17/2006

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 

Category: Music
I will resume the Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation Project on February 1, 2010. At that time you can send to me a 5-minute recording on a microcassette, of any sounds, in any style that you want. I will make an announcement at that time and I will tell you my postal address. In the early 1980s I was one of the people who helped to start the homemade music movement. We released our music on standard-size audio cassettes because we could afford to make our music that way. At that time there were no compact discs or Internet music. And most of us could not afford to release our music on vinyl records. Cassettes became an art form with their own special qualities. Many cassette artists made very personal releases with homemade packaging and artwork for the tapes. Dictaphonia is a response to those old days of the Cassette. People still like cassettes because they seem real and like a living creature. Dictaphonia is also a comment on Internet Music. I like Internet Music but I also like physical objects to contain my music. So, with Dictaphonia I use the tiny microcassettes because they sound unique. Very compressed sound, limited dynamic range, mono sound - but they sound very direct and organic. Microcassette also has sound that is decayed. It sounds like an old creature that has lived, that has a history, in a future past that never existed. The Dictaphonia tapes come packaged inside a folded piece of paper that has black and white photocopy collage art from odd photographs and advertisements and street trash, inside a ziplock plastic bag that is usually used for sandwiches and food items. I want Dictaphonia to comment on how music art noise can be close to real daily life. Best regards, Hal McGee
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Monday, December 14, 2009 

Category: Music
Listen in streaming audio and download for free on this page

Hal McGee, no-input mixer feedback loop, Moog MF-107 FreqBox and Behringer UB802 mixer, at Action Research show #46, at The Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA, Saturday, December 12, 2009. This is a microcassette recording I made of the performance on a Panasonic RR-930 desktop transcriber. I wanted to incorporate the sound of the space into the performance. I set up my gear and performed at a table near the front of The Laboratory, where I had been collecting admission money from the show attendees. My performance was intentionally unannounced, and most of the audience members did not even know I had started performing until the first loud sound I made, and then the ambient sound in the room changed noticeably. Also view a YouTube video on that same web page or on my MySpace profile, filmed by Christopher Miller, which captures well much of the atmosphere of the performance.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 

Category: Music
DICTAPHONIA FEST
3-microcassette-tape live set
 
live recordings from the Dictaphonia Fest of November 7, 2009 at The Laboratory in Gainesville, Florida! now available !

18 artists, 130 minutes of live performance sound recordings made on microcassette, released on microcassette. Recordings of live microcassette audio art, experimental music and noise, including audience reactions and Hal McGee's introductions and spoken interludes from the show. Dynamic live recordings with surprising clarity, subtleties and details.

- this is a homemade product! featuring simple homestyle packaging
- 3 microcassettes each with a j-card cut out of the poster insert
- with a black and white photocopy show poster (x4) on one side and a list of the artists and their piece titles on the other, packaged inside a ziplock plastic sandwich bag - also includes a photocopy of the original lyric sheet of "Hal McGee Has Stipulations" by Waterdigger that was handed out to the audience for the sing-along

$8.00 postage paid USA and Canada -- $9.00 Air Mail postage paid everywhere else
PayPal to haltapes1 @ aol.com


Keywords: lo-fi, lo-tech, minimalism, analog, tape, cassette, reductionism, fluxus, dada, utilitarian, everyday sounds, collage, improvisation, experimental music, electronic music, noise, conceptual audio art, stipulations, dictaphone

TAPE ONE

SIDE A (24:30)

Sous Su Toulouse En Rouge
Saint Petersburg, Florida
Mark McGee
Gainesville, Florida
Vagina Teeth/Jesus Teeth
Clemmons, North Carolina
Waterdigger performing "Hal McGee Has Stipulations"
Polk City, Florida

SIDE B (22:43)

Krysten Davis
Tallahassee, Florida
minimum of none
Gainesville, Florida
Black Beast Of Arrrghhh
Saint Petersburg, Florida

TAPE TWO

SIDE A (24:15)

S.O.S.
Jacksonville, Florida
Jamison Williams (soprano sax)
with Jay Peele (microcassette)
Jacksonville, Florida
Richard Orlando
Bayside, New York

SIDE B (22:00)

M.Stactor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mannequin Hollowcaust
Kingsport, Tennessee

TAPE THREE

SIDE A (19:26)

Projexorcism
Hickory, North Carolina
Capstan Drive
Gainesville, Florida

SIDE B (19:13)

Lindsey Leepe
Jacksonville, Florida
Otolathe
Tampa, Florida
Hal McGee
Gainesville, Florida

Recordings by Hal McGee on a Panasonic RR-930 microcassette transcriber with the built-in condenser microphone, except for Capstan Drive, which was recorded on a Sony M-100MC handheld microcassette recorder.
Poster by Christopher Miller.
Live sound lo-tech support by K Paul Boyev.
Lyrics of "Hal McGee Has Stipulations" by Danny McGuire (Waterdigger).
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Sunday, November 29, 2009 

Category: Music
idea... CHEAP AND PLASTIC, a POSSIBLE compilation of homemade experimental and noise works created with Casio and Yamaha keyboards, and other cheapo electronic consumer gadgets and toys, circuit bent or not. How many of you would be interested in participating? The compilation(s) would be released on cassette. It's just an idea for now. I want to find out how much interest there is before I develop the idea further.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 

Category: Music
DICTAPHONIA
Microcassette Compilation
Volume 5

now available





21 artists, 57 minutes of sound recordings made on microcassette, released on microcassette
this is a homemade product! featuring simple homestyle packaging
with a black and white photocopy insert with collage artwork on one side and a list of the artists and their piece titles on the other

$6.00 postage paid USA and Canada
$7.00 Air Mail postage paid everywhere else
PayPal to haltapes1 @ aol.com
or a suitable trade, by pre-arrangement

SIDE A
01) Don Campau
Santa Rosa, California, USA
"Don't Dick With My Dictaphone"
02) Ian Watson and Matthew Lovett
Cardiff, Wales
"Untitled"
03) Otolathe
Tampa, Florida, USA
"Tannenberg 1410"
04) William Wesley & The Tiny Sockets
Pounding Mill, Virginia, USA
"If something comes up with the fuzz I ain't got no buzz"
05) Rajun Cajun
Plant City, Florida, USA
"Untitled"
06) Ironing
Gainesville, Florida, USA
"Alachua"
07) Heffalump Trap
Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England
"Bird terrorism crashes plane"
08) Ceramic Hobs
Blackpool, Lancashire, England
"Punk rock ist nicht tot"
09) Mi.T.-CON (Michael Thomas Roe and Conrad Schnitzler)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Dallgow, Germany
"micro-jam"
10) Charles Rice Goff III
Kansas City, Kansas, USA
"Take A Letter"
11) Sonic Disorder
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
"Untitled"

SIDE B
12) M.Stactor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Egg Blood"
13) Mannequin Hollowcaust
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
"waste not/want not"
14) Mad Max
Gainesville, Florida, USA
"This Is Real Wrassling"
15) Hal McGee
Gainesville, Florida, USA
"Hal McGee's Day Off"
16) Richard Orlando
Flushing, New York, USA
"für Herbert Eimert"
17) Littlecreature courses thorough content in ribald constance
Totton, Southampton, Hampshire, England
"this must n, n must it."
18) NXP
Bodø, Norway
"LEHX"
19) Jamison Williams
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
"Raymond Pettibon (b. June 16, 1957)"
20) Zebulon
Gainesville, Florida, USA
"Perfected Reality"
21) Capstan Drive
Gainesville, Florida, USA
"Miami Canal House"
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 

Category: Music
Now available are three new improvisational performance videos - two from the recent performance by Action Sound Painting Orchestra, and a duo collaboration by saxophonist Jamison Williams and Hal McGee.

Action Sound Painting Orchestra at Solder VI Electronic and Experimental Music Fest, Saturday, October 17, 2009, Common Grounds, Gainesville, Florida. Improvisational orchestra conducted by Hal McGee (handheld tape recorders), Jamison Williams (alto saxophone), Christopher Nadeau (electric guitar), John David Eriksen (cello), Mark McGee (tubanos), Jay Peele (trumpet, cornet, cracklebox, misc.), James Bess (digital sax), Don Butler (theremin). Solder VI was produced by Christopher Miller of Electronic SubSouth. Videography by Adam Batley. 

video of part 1 of the performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjk7H4JLso8

part 2 of the performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XInGZNze-eM

Jamison Williams (alto saxophone) and Hal McGee (two handheld cassette recorders processed through Moog MF-107 FreqBox and Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion plus two 10-watt Marshall amplifiers). Free improv recorded Saturday afternoon, October 17, 2009, at Hal McGee's apartment, Gainesville, Florida. Recorded by Mark McGee. Stereo sound recording. Listen to it loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSiVjzHl2x4

Enjoy!
Hal
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 

Category: Music
Automatic Confessional Tapes 11 and 12 download now ! Two new collections of answering machine gems are available for free download HERE You can contribute too! Call 352-336-7915 and leave a one minute message of any words, thoughts, sounds, and noises.
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Monday, October 05, 2009 

Category: Music
Check out the Automatic Confessional YouTube video here:

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Friday, October 02, 2009 
Here listed below is what I have received for Dictaphonia #5 so far. If you have not yet contributed to Dictaphonia, or even if you have previously contributed, please send a 3-minute audio work on microcassette. This will probably be the last volume of Dictaphonia!

01) Otolathe
Tampa, Florida, USA
"Tannenberg 1410"

02) William Wesley & The Tiny Sockets
Pounding Mill, Virginia, USA
"If something comes up with the fuzz I ain't got no buzz"

03) Rajun Cajun
Plant City, Florida, USA
untitled

04) Heffalump Tramp
Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England
"Bird terrorism crashes plane"

05) Ceramic Hobs
Blackpool, England
"Punk rock ist nicht tot"

06) Mi. T.-CON (Michael Thomas Roe and Conrad Schnitzler)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Dallgow, Germany
"micro-jam"

07) Charles Rice Goff III
Kansas City, Kansas, USA
"Take A Letter"

08) M.Stactor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Egg Blood"

09) Mannequin Hollowcaust
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
"waste not/want not"

10) Ironing
Gainesville, Florida, USA
"Alachua"
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Friday, September 25, 2009 

Category: Music
Conrad Schnitzler, Krautrock Godfather and Grandfather of the Hometaper Movement will appear on Dictaphonia Microcassette Compilation #5.

You can be too!

Send a 3-minute experimental music noise sound art recording on microcassette to:

Hal McGee
1909 SW 42nd Way
Apt. E
Gainesville, FL
32607
USA

You will receive a copy of the compilation. And, after a few months, your piece will be published online on my site, http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com

You can check out more info on Dictaphonia here:
http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com/​dictaphonia.​html

Basic info and project guidelines here:
http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com/​dictaphoniasubm​issionguideline​s.​html

See info and download the tracks from the first three Dictaphonia compilations at these links:
http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com/​dictaphoniavolu​meone.​html
http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com/​dictaphoniavolu​metwo.​html
http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com/​dictaphoniavolu​methree.​html

Dictaphonia Fest, a showcase of experimental audio art by participants in the Dictaphonia project will be held Saturday, November 7, 2009 in Gainesville:
http:​/​/​www.​halmcgee.​com/​dictaphoniafest​.​html
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