Archive for the ‘archiving’ Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Swinging the pendulum from the ridiculous to the merely trite, the archiving project rears its desperate head this week with a glimpse at Verona, the predecessor band to Decora/A Spectre Is Haunting Europe. This recording comes from my days recording demos in the basement of The Abbey, the shared house ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
OK - daughter's asleep...continuing on with recordings of similar vintage (1987 and pre-), to ensure the oldest tapes I have are salvaged first.
More Bucket of Slugs, of course. Unlike yesterday's monochromatically raucous Carnival EP, the follow up LP, entitled Pacifism, oscillates between whispered and barked songs. It appears that parents ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Bucket of Slugs - Different Flavours of Birthday Cake [Sept 1987, 3min 0sec]
OK, the archive project has officially begun, with a warble. Apologies at the outset for the pisspoor quality of this one (the others are in much better shape). I've tried every DIY method I know, and I cannot ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I had another dream about my lost cassettes from 20 years ago (remember? I dreamed about this previously). This time, I was not in a pawn shop. This time, beleaguered campus radio station CiTR (which in this world has had to resort to fundraising in the face of UBC budget ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I made it through the holiday season without acquiring any new gadgets. I slept on it a number of times and realized that USB tape decks are for people who love the cassette medium. I'm not making that sort of emotional commitment here - this is about extending the life ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
The image above depicts the "A List": tapes that are clearly labelled and known to have original music on them. There are 100 more on the "B List", which are mislabelled but suspected to contain original works (e.g., they were recorded atop prior recordings on the blank tapes, but never ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Hey. I'm digging my head out from under a tense, transitional semester of research, teaching and baby-raising. I'm working directly in mobile media now, in a new job at Mobile Muse 3 (so expect more posts in this sorter space as we go). On that note, you can see a ...
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