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Wednesday’s set will be the entirety of the White Elephant Record Exchange Project. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 38 tracks and at least 95 minutes of music (the votes are still out). This project (as is this blog) is hosted and sponsored by Beep Repaired a lovely group of individuals who make and support tons of great music and art in the Seattle area and beyond, many thanks to all of them. Also Thanks to Jason Kopec of noise | order for help developing the idea and putting together the site that is linked here, where all the tracks will remain for free download starting this thursday, 03/20. The cute lil’ elephant is by David Bratton.

The White Elephant Record Exchange Project was
undertaken by 20 individuals in the late part of
January 2008. The project involved sampling,
composition, and ultimately all kinds of editing and
manipulation of various original source material.
Participants were first to find the “worst” and “most
unusable” 12″ vinyl record possible and hand it off to
the curator. Those records were then distributed to
the participants insuring everyone received a
different record than the one they submitted. After
receiving this record, the first goal was to complete
one song.

SONG A
The point of Song A was to compose a piece of around 1
minute, 30 seconds through editing and creative
playback of the record alone. No pitch adjustment,
time stretching, compression, or any digital effects
were allowed in this phase of the project. This meant
that the participant could basicly just cut and paste,
do a bit of layering, and then adjust track levels.
It was essentially an exercise in composition to see
what each individual could create with supposedly
“unusable” source material and very limited
constraints.

Those songs were all finished and then given back to
the curator. Once all the songs were gathered, they
were then redistributed back to the original person
that submitted the 12″ vinyl. For example, if you
submitted Led Zepplin “III” as your album, you then
got the remixed, cut-up piece someone created from
that album. Then the Song B phase began.

SONG B
The creation of this song had no boundaries
whatsoever. The idea was now to allow each
participant total freedom (without the diffcult
constraints of the Song A phase) to create a remix of
someone else’s Song A piece.

This year at the 2007 Carousel Fest, August 24 - 26th join in the Hollow Earth Radio Field Recording project!!!

We want you to record all of your day to day interactions during the weekend of this spectacular event!

Get on tape your conversations with people on the bus on your way down to the Dog Park, gossip between cool kids out in front of S.S. Marie, or even the fart noises of people in the bathroom at Camp Nowhere.

Bring your own recording equipment, whether it be a digital mini-disc recorder, a small four-track, or even a shitty micro-cassette recorder. Hollow Earth Radio staff will loan out equipment on Friday at the festival while supply lasts.

If you don’t have anything else to record with, call into our phone line at 206 905 1250 and use your cellphone to record sounds.

We will compile the Carousel Fest sound blips you provide and air them at a later date! See you there!