Violent Space Beat (Modern TV)

IMPROVISATION
Meandering thoughts pulsate through the dark filter of my scattered brain as I hit "record" on a microcassette recorder intended to collect professional dissertations at the push of a button and a loosening of the throat. Three instruments fill a room formerly inhabited by a bed that occupied the entire floorspace. Two grown people with furniture too large for their 2 bedroom 1920 cottage, unwilling to relent in their self motivated task of filling every millimeter of this house with markers of vacations and better times. They look in from the past, a recent history of giving up on America and fleeing the current education dump. No looking back. The guitar, bought in the northernmost corner of the continental US, buzzes with excitement. Borrowed drums and a cassette player purchased from a dead man's estate sale filled with a tape that hit me in the neck a few years ago.

Transitions Art Gallery, 2007ish:
A whirlwind of sound mixing voices, rewinding, noise and hiss fills the air at the punk art space. Tapes chucked into the audience by experimental auteurs Hal McGee and Andrew Chadwick. A high velocity cassette collides with my neck and I choke on my own laughter and short breath. "Ironing Folk," says the tape.

Present Day:
Mind blank with anticipation, I turn the ceiling fan on for some extra background noise. We set a timer to give the improv one of two concrete reality cornerstones: Time must have a stop. 3 movements. Go.

Download the track Violent Space Beat here:
http://www.box.net/shared/tpsks61ak6

No Clear Radio episode 1

Brand new podcast radio show of recent and upcoming releases! this set is a little Mess Folk heavy because I am very excited about their cd-r that is about to come out soon!

mess folk-graveyard
blast and the detergents-not disposable
ghost hospital-head is gone
mess folk-nothing to me
chitter chatter
hal mcgee-small font lower case cracked improvisation
mess folk-black heart
the bay mayfields-doesn't matter
otolathe-ignore the mimes
blast and the detergents-maybe if i were a man
mess folk-hunt you down

Apartment Show # 7 part 1

Hal Mcgee has curated 6 minimalist experimental improvisation shows at his flat in Gainesville, Florida. He brought the circus to St Petersburg this month and we put together an early afternoon show of improvisation at varying volumes in different rooms of my apartment. We drew cards randomly to choose partners in order to support the cut and paste burroughs environment we cling to in order to sculpt some sanity into our slapdash lives. Here's the first three videos from that show:
Kat Magyar and Christopher Nadeau

Hal McGee and Otolathe

Hal McGee and Christopher Nadeau