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My name is Hal McGee. I have been making homemade recordings of my own experimental, electronic, industrial and noise music since September 1981. In Indianapolis, Indiana in the early 1980s I recorded several tapes of experimental industrial avant pop with Debbie Jaffe, as a duo under the name Viscera. In the 1980s I recorded about two dozen tapes of power electronics, industrial, and experimental electronic music under the name Dog As Master. In the mid-1980s Jaffe and I operated the Cause And Effect International Distribution Service. We distributed homemade experimental music tapes of artists from U.S.A., Canada, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Norway, The Netherlands and others. We sold, traded and gave away more than 5,000 tapes in three years from 1984-87. Cause And Effect was also a label, and in addition to our own tapes, we released tapes by Nurse With Wound, Merzbow, Borbetomagus, Controlled Bleeding, F/i, D.D.A.A., Negativland, John Duncan, Blackhouse, Haters, Vox Populi, Algebra Suicide, Jabon, Human Flesh, and more. In 1988 I moved to Florida, and within a few months I began a new project: Electronic Cottage Magazine, which took "an inside look at The Hometaper Phenomenon, Cassette Culture and Electronic & Experimental Music". I published six issues of the magazine from 1989 to 1991, and sold something like 5,000 magazines. In the 1980s and 1990s I collaborated with several of the best underground hometaper recording artists: Al Margolis of If, Bwana (under the name Bwana Dog), Chris Phinney (of Mental Anguish), Jabon, Dimthingshine, NOMUZIC, David Prescott, Brian Noring (EHI, 360 Sound), Phil Klampe (Homogenized Terrestrials), Charles Rice Goff III, L.G. Mair, Tom Sutter, Emil Hagstrom (Cock ESP), Keith Nicolay (Post Prandials), Dave Wright (Not Breathing), Big City Orchestra and others. In 1997 I published a few issues of a personal zine reporting on my music activities, called HalZine. In 1998 I produced the Tape Heads International Compilation Series, which consisted of eight 90-minute cassettes of recordings by more than 200 audio artists from all over Planet Earth. Over the last 25 years I have made recordings in a wide variety of experimental music styles. Recently I became a member of the Tapegerm Collective, the Internet's premier musician community.
| Location: |
Gainesville, FL USA |
| Hometown: |
Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Birthday: |
Jan 19, 1958 |
| Last Active: |
Feb 08, 2008 |
| Interests: |
cassettes (the ultimate audio art medium), coffee, collage, dada, improvisation, "random" and chance processes, Conrad Schnitzler, Maurizio Bianchi, Luis Bunuel, Kurt Schwitters, Smegma, tape hiss, Kill Bill, analog synthesizers, circuit bent instruments, the internet, urban decay, ditches, culverts, margins, selvages, organized accidents, dogs, cats, interpenetrative noncongruence, "mistakes", crust, static, controlled feedback, Casio keyboards, Bene Gesserit, Tapegerm, spaghetti westerns, Shogun Assassin, water, beans, tomatoes, Hard Boiled |
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