cassette tape #1

this is the first thing i ever recorded. it was recorded with a small cassette tape recorder and a radio.  the majority of it was recorded on joyce's farm several years ago (there's another post about joyce somewhere on here; she's awesome). basically a sort of noise collage.  i think i had been listening to a lot of the music tapes around the time probably. fuzzy-banjo-on-a-porch-with-dogs-around kinda stuff. oh and the tape recorder gives it an extra boost of twang.

side a

side b

resonator heart

i'll start this all off with an older one.  "resonator heart" was a sound collage-type project i did a few years ago.  primarily banjo and organ, all instrumental.  i started off with an idea in my head, but naturally got distracted and strayed from that.


to me, this was [supposed to be] a rustic, american recording. i have an obsession with the american west. not that this is really the american west. it was just something i had in mind when i was recording it.  the instrumentation also isn't quite that of the american west, but i have limited access to sound-makers.

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