Last night during the St Rainbow Show, we performed an homage to the Animist Orchestra. We used only natural materials trying not to purposely make beats or music during this improvisation. The idea is that all the sounds made using natural materials and the sounds made from the environment (wind, cars, birds, chairs squeaking) become a part of the sound and ultimately create a composition of music. Here is the performance in full:
This week (April 22nd 7pm PST and April 26th 3pm PST), we will be airing an amazing treasure that Jacob Smigel found: a little cassette tape he’s dubbed “Band Nerd Love”.
He explains:
This full-length break-up/love-letter-cassette is straight out of the mid-80s and steeped in the worst kind of self-absorbed, fanciful, sniffling high-school bullshit you’ve ever heard. I hope everyone can tune in to hear Martin’s last tape letter to his underclassmen sweetheart: Elizabeth. In it, Martin speaks mostly in cliches as he pleads for remembrance, gets really creepy, vividly recounts his pseudo-sexual dreams, and finally strives for the maximal emotional impact by playing (and talking over) some Lionel Richie. This find is sure to bring you back to the time when you were a young band nerd too. You’ll remember how grown up you felt, and how you hated everyone but at the same time wanted them to like you. Yes, you’ll grit your teeth, squirm, and curse Martin for this, but it’s not his fault. He was just having a bad summer.
Just to get a sense of how amazing this tape letter find is, you can listen to a sneak preview: Band Nerd Love Clip.
Jacob inspired us at Hollow Earth Radio to put together our own found sound album, so this is really special that we get to share one of his latest finds in it’s entirety! Don’t miss out! Oh, and since Lionel makes an appearance in tonight’s broadcast, I thought it appropriate to seek out this video for your viewing pleasure:
Garrett and I are releasing an album “Analog America: A Four Course Meal of Found Sound” on the noise | order label www.noiseorder.com March 11th. We are celebrating by hosting “Cabinet of Found Curiosities,” an art show & cd release party at Windows Art Gallery (Dearborn Show venue - 42nd/Woodland Ave N.) on March 7th during the Fremont Friday Art Walk.
KUOW, 94.9, our local public radio, interviewed me about our curious found sound hobby. This 13 minute story will be aired on Friday, Feb 29th at precisely 2:06pm for one of their Sound Focus stories! Tune in to hear a few sample tracks and hear me try to explain why the hell we do this sort of thing. It will be archived on their website for a short while. To find out more about this art show and other events during our first ever Hollow Earth Magma Festival, go to www.hollowearthradio.com.
Go here to listen to the archive of this show.
YEp. That’s right. Seattle Times felt it was important to tell the masses that we collect found sound from answering machine tapes we collect at thrift stores and yard sales. Read the article here. Isn’t that rad? If you happen to find tapes we would’ve gotten but you beat us to them, you should digitize them, and send them our way! We’ll air it on our radioo radioo.
New in the annals of Hollow Earth Radio’s Found Sound Archives comes : “Such is the nature of all associations …”. I found this tape in a bulky oversized recorder from the eighties that was calling my name. It was completely on a whim that I would choose to walk into the Goodwill that day, but I noticed the tape inside and listened. There appeared to be voices. I took it home.
On the walk back I listened to people riding in a pickup truck out to their farm and talking about turning on Aurora. So we can determine that it is local…
Later, and what appears here in mp3 format, a snippet from some sort of city meeting which I believe to have occurred in Ballard.
On the other side of the tape is a woman rehearsing an ordination for someone into the Order of the Eastern Star. Google that shit. And if you don’t see me again, this tape is why.
You will hear the woman talk briefly - rehearsing her lines when she interjects on accident over the city council meeting. It seems to be perfect timing.
One of my new favorites.
~Garrett (Hollow Earther)
Listen to the MP3: Eastern Star
This is a tape that Amber and Garrett found at the White Elephant thrift store in Ravenna.
Garrett’s take on the tape: I think it’s a mix tape of home recordings some guy did for a girl named “Cecilia” that he was trying to impress. The music ranges from killer riffage, to skinny puppy esque industrial, to ambient ambient, to Jonathon Richmond type sing songs. Freaking weird.
The back of the tape just says “Originals”.
Download all of them here:
We took a trip to the Olympic Peninsula in July, and we scoured the record and electronic sections of every thrift store we could on the peninsula. Unfortunately, the goldmine of a junk store that we’ve had a lot of luck at before is now condemned. We were soo sad about this, but it forced us to keep our eyes out for more rubies along the way. We happened to find a standard Goodwill in Port Angeles that had a really great Eskimo record amidst a stack of Disney recordings. The record is called “Evolution of Eskimo Music,” and has one traditional song on one side, and three modern (possibly Christian) songs on the other. We have no idea how old it is. Listen to Hollow Earth Radio into the early morning hours on the weekends, and you’ll probably hear it.
Boy did I (Garrett / Dj Splish Splash) win big tonight! My big find for the month - 6 answering machine tapes at the Goodwill, and a tape recorder with a creepy Order of the Eastern Star ordination!! Look forward to these being digitally converted and playing on the radio soon!
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