Hal McGee Magnetic Personality

See below for information on Andrew Chadwick's Magnetic Personality release

Magnetic Personality is now available at the Internet Archive. You can listen to the 63-minute work in streaming audio, and download Variable Bit Rate mp3s in a zip file with the artwork. Also available are lossless versions in FLAC and WAV formats, plus Ogg Vorbis.

Magnetic Personality consists of two big noisy cut-up collages recorded June 7-13, 2007 on microcassette in Gainesville, Tampa, Palmetto, Bradenton, and Sarasota, Florida

Hal McGee (voice, field recordings, alarm clock radio, shortwave radio, piano, percussion), Dave Fuglewicz, Jenny Le Zotte (voice, cracklebox), Peter Le Zotte (voice, circuit bent Casio SK-1), Andrew Chadwick [Ironing] (voice, microcassettes) Aaron Zarzutzki (percussion, wind, voice, bagpipe chanter), Jen Sandwich (photographs, voice), Bobby Moseley (electronics), Chad Duffy (kora, percussion), Action Research Show #1, Tampa Noise Fest 2007, Brad Kokay, Kristin Calvarese, Wildwood Waffle House, Main Bookshop, muffcakes, muskage, squirrel sandwiches, spiky crystal stars, Lenny Pearlman, Transitions Art Gallery, Roma Pizza, supplanted, Fuglewicz's truck, a rental car, La Fiesta, white pizza, Chris Cprek, Irene Moon, mourning doves, lack of comprehende, unethical help, Clorox, Hackers International, ear rattle, tinnitus, cigarettes, universalism, the lonely frontier, coffee, Ethiopia, Hal McGee created music and then destroyed it, Jen Sandwich's invisible performance, Brandon Abell, pirates, cool in school, Jen Abell, I-4, giant cock, eggs, giant yellow grasshoppers, DeSOTO Square Mall, stirrer, contamination, you're allowed to repeat yourself, balls, applause, Hal-isms, K. Paul, Matt Welch, Chris Nadeau, Santo Di Piazza, Kat, Gabe, Jijimuge, bottled water, Red Roof Inn, Claritin, black clothing, butt cracks, naked wings, marijuana, anchovies

Photographs by Jen Sandwich, Hal McGee's Official Photographer

Magnetic Personality Part One (31:38)

Magnetic Personality Part Two (31:51)

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Andrew Chadwick: Magnetic Personality CDR (Hymns label, hymn 21)

This album was recorded in response to an irrationally perceived challenge in Hal McGee's announcement that he would be recording on microcassette an album to be named Magnetic Personality in the vein of his recent The Man With The Tape Recorder during the weekend of Tampa Noise Fest (2007). I quickly announced that I too would be recording on microcassette an album to be named Magnetic Personality in the vein of his recent The Man With The Tape Recorder during the weekend of Tampa Noise Fest. Self-imposed "rules" were stretched and redrawn by us both in order to benefit the greater good while keeping to the overall spirit. In my case, further editing was done after this weekend, including using the microcassette of Hal's version as source material to cut in with and manipulate.