Noring/McGee New Music For Shortwave Receiver and Tape Recorder
4-track audio collages constructed by Brian Noring and Hal McGee 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 East Des Moines, Iowa -- June 22-23, 2000
eight tracks totaling 73:57
visual collages constructed by Noring and McGee out of materials collected by McGee and Noring
homages to, dedicated to, and influenced 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 Cow
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
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
total time 73:57
