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Here is mine:

"It is difficult to bungle a good idea " - Sol Lewitt


Over time, through multiple yard sale bulk cassette tape scores I ended up with a fair accumulation of Dead tapes. Not a fan. I don't hate the Dead per se, I hate just the insufferable Deadheads. So into a box they went. I figured at some point I'd unload the lot in some manner of trade.

I posted on NG or Troniks asking what should I do with them. Many suggested contacting Zeno Marx. I did and he basically shat on the "collection". Typical snobbery from a SERIOUS BUSINESS Dead collector.

However, several glorious bastards and women of noise boards suggested:
RRON recycling, erasing them completely or partially, selectively dubbing noise on them etc.

I did all manner of the suggested ideas and then some.

I dubbed a loop of Tom Araya's Scream from Angel of Death, bursts of LAZER NOIZ, select snippets of Japanoise, Otomo Yoshihide's epic Dec.'93 guitar solo, random shortwave radio tuning, select needle drops from my sound effects records - especially steam train engines, records played at the wrong speed, audio veritae from field recordings I made walking around, blast beats,
editing out sections or clipping and flipping sections and splicing the tape
( correctly with the proper splicing tape ), jet engine noises, Space Shuttle engine sounds during lift off, explosion sounds, recordings of flipping between television channels, selections of Black Metal................

Each tape received some form of treatment.

Any and everything to crush the good time fun hippie love vibe un-washed body odor patchouli smelling Jerry is god I've seen the Dead eleventy times matted hair tye dyed Birkenstock vegan LSD mushroom stoned eternally fan's expectations and mood.

The wife asked on several occasions what I was working on/doing. I told her when I was done I'd tell her. She is an artist so she understood. But she didn't like it when I revealed the concept of the "work". I explained the depth of the live show, tape trading culture involved with the band and that I was going to Craig's List the lot under Free Stuff. With a groovy love vibe spirit of "duuuuude free Dead tape collection".

I got yelled at. A LOT.
I mean, seriously, A LOT.

To ensure randomness I dropped them at a bookstore that has shelves of books outside for after hours purchase.

Talking of which, many years ago I was in a Pub Quiz team with a Stockbroker who worked in The City (London) Commodities exchange, who was a Deadhead. Pin stripe suit de rigueur there. And there is now an accountant 2 streets away into Merzbow.

I got yelled at. A LOT.
I mean, seriously, A LOT.

Nope hell fucking no.(first thought)
There aren't even abused animals nazis
or rap whats to yell at.

Why..why did you get yelled at?
Right now I'm thinking...his wifes an artist?
Like crafts and knitting or what?

Love what you did with those tapes.
That is great.

What the actual fuck...the board won't allow me to post the word R A P E..

if you are trying to accomplish anything with noise you are doing it wrong

JLIAT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:48 am

What about the CD that would ruin speakers.
That was your thing too wasnt it?

RUBBISH wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:57 am

JLIAT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:48 am

What about the CD that would ruin speakers.
That was your thing too wasnt it?

Yes, its though silent. If you record a CD with very high or low binary values it will produce high DC at the amplifier's outputs. It also flattens Walkman batteries quickly, but as its silent I didn't rate it a Great Noise.

Given that if you issued a CD of music with high DC offset you'd have like a stealth Speaker Burner... the poor user would find the recorded music quiet - turn up the volume and burn...

JLIAT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:48 am

Given that if you issued a CD of music with high DC offset you'd have like a stealth Speaker Burner... the poor user would find the recorded music quiet - turn up the volume and burn...

That's a great idea. I'm just trying to think what genre would be best targeted and how to deliver the package.

I'm thinking full on original package bootlegged shrinkwrapped and all.
Then drop lift that in the local music shop....
It would be great t make anti records in New l.p. sleeves and sneak them into Wal-Marts or targets or fucking Aldis record bin...I wouldnt do this to a small shop unless they were cunts

I don't know if I'd call this my greatest accomplishment but one of my early tapes.. more experimental than noise was called FREE. I made a number of copies and posted them in notice boards around the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute. One of the things I really embraced was the various student services on offer like a color xerox machine and a 4 track tape record. The color copier produced these really thick oddly tinted color copies which I used to make the fold over for the FREE tape. I also glued a label to the tape with Elmer's.. which I guess was all I had on hand and is not only a terrible glue for plastics but again thick.. so thick label and thick glue. Eventually I found out that several people had taken my tape as offered for "free" and then got in their car and put it in their car stereo then shortly thereafter realized the tape was stuck in their tape deck because it was so thick. Fortunately nobody seemed especially mad about this. Shortly thereafter there was a Beaux Arts festival on campus and several bands played including mine. I was watching the resident jock band who had taken one of my FREE tapes and then destroyed it in front of the audience. What a bunch of assholes.. lol

I have always wanted to do something like that again where I leave tapes or CD around for free where people wouldn't suspect any funny business but these days I don't think the average person pays any attention to tapes and CDr's so it'd be a waste of time... although I suppose disguising them or droplifting is a better way to catch people off guard.

Indeterminacy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:01 am

Fucker, did you SAVE any copies?! I wouldxe2x80x99ve loved one!