More Famous Than We Know

http://drinkify.org/

be one with Christ tuesdays 11pm to 1am (island time)

Nov 1

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111101.22.49-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111102.00.00-01.03.mp3

Nov 8

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111108.22.52-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111109.00.00-01.05.mp3

The backside

While anxiously awaiting the release of our 18th full-length studio album, many listeners find it soothing to download recent MCRH mp3s

MCRH - Oct 25 hour 1

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111025.22.51-23.59.mp3

MCRH - Oct 25 hour 2

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111026.00.00-01.05.mp3

Occupy the Ivory Tower! New Protest Music for the NOW Generation! No Pad Thai in the White Cube!

Juli Carson Hates Relational Aesthetics and So Do I by Mannlicher Carcano

Single from "This is Really Happening Volume 4: The Friendliness Sessions" featuring Kenneth Friendliness on vocals, The Missing Hyperlink on kalimba, and Really Happening on guitar and production.

Our Lady Commands: Download Now!

MCRH - Oct 18/2011 - hour 1:

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111018.22.49-23.59.mp3

MCRH - Oct 18/2011 - hour 2:

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111019.00.00-01.05.mp3

THEY ARE HUMDINGERS!

PLEASE FIND BELOW LINKAGE FOR THE LAST TWO RADIO BROADCASTS!

MCRH October 11, 2011

hour 1:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111011.22.52-23.59.mp3

hour 2:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111012.00.00-01.00.mp3


MCRH October 4, 2011

hour 1:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111004.22.50-23.59.mp3

hour 2:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111005.00.00-01.00.mp3

THANKYOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!

Last Week This Week (copiously illustrated!)

Here are links to the September 27th edition of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour: Hour 1 and Hour 2. At least I think they're the 27th. Porter said "last week's show" so I'm assuming. Perhaps this diagram will help.

1. Abasiophilia: attraction to leg braces or other orthopedic appliances
2. Harpaxophilia: sexual excitement from being a robbery victim might prevent a robbery.
3. Vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten whole
4. Hobophilia: sexual fantasies about hobos
5. Tripsolagnia: arousal from having your hair shampooed by someone else
6. Axillism: desire to have sex in the armpit
7. Symphorophilia: sexual arousal from witnessing accidents
8. Agalmatophilia: sexual attractions to mannequins or statues
9. Chelonaphilia: you like turtles
10. Apotemnophilia: arousal from the idea of amputating a healthy limb
11. Formicophilia: desire to have insects crawl on genitalia

The Missing Hyperlink, Flautist...

Clutching a bone between her knees! The LA feed for today's special Weekend edition show was such a scorcher that I had to upload an edited version of it to share with the People. That is Dr. Pityface stealing the halo of The Missing Hyperlink, making her debut on the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour. Here's the not missing hyperlink, it's about a 35 minute mp3 file: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8BAFRHT8. This is Really Happening.

Download the last 3 Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hours FREE!

Here are links to the last couple of MCRHs

Sept. 13:
hour 1: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110913.22.49-23.59.mp3
hour 2: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110914.00.00-00.58.mp3

Sept. 6:
hour 1:http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110906.22.50-23.59.mp3
hour 2: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110907.00.00-01.05.mp3

Aug. 30:
hour 1:http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110830.22.57-23.59.mp3
hour 2: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110831.00.00-01.00.mp3

Thanks to the Doctor, and Porter Hall!

Coming Soon!

This is an actual beer you can purchase in Salt Lake City, according to the dude at the Ventura dog show that was wearing it.

Radio /Tel/Art/Phone

Radio /Tel/Art/Phone Really and guests performed live at Tel/Art/Phone opening, combined live with other Mannlicher signals as part of the SOUNDS LIKE...AUDIO ART FESTIVAL, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.May 28, 2011

Simultaniety Unravelled! New RH Solo LP!

Tonight, May 28, 2011, as part of the SOUNDS LIKE...AUDIO ART FESTIVAL, Mannlicher Carcano will be performing a special 1 hour version of the Radio Hour from the AKA Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

aka gallery
424 20th St. W.
Saskatoon, SK
May 27- 28, 2011

2011 will mark the beginning of an annual juried audio art festival hosted by AKA. Sounds Like… aims to bring together artists from across the country and beyond to share their work and processes. The festival's title references both simile and charades, speaking to the performative and interdisciplinary aspects of the work to be examined here. Along those lines, the inaugural year of the festival will examine various ways in which the movement and actions of a performer relate to the auditory content.

Joshua Fraser - Calgary, AB
Lief Hall, - Vancouver, BC
Constantine Katsiris - Vancouver, BC
Alain Lefebvre – Montreal, QC
Ellen Moffat and Jeff Morton – Saskatoon and Regina, SK
Jeff Morton – Regina, SK
Porter Hall – St. John’s, NL
Erin Sexton – Montreal, QC
VYXSYMS (Jon Vaughn, Will Kaufhold, Mehta Youngs)– Saskatoon, SK

The Los Angeles portion will be broadcast from the opening of Tel/Art/Phone a group show at the Beacon Arts Building based on the communication breakdown party game Telephone, to which Mannlicher contributed a regrooved LP in a sleeve by hack artist Doug Harvey.

BEACON ARTS BUILDING
808 N. La Brea Ave.
Inglewood, CA


This event also serves as the release party for the new Really Happening solo double CD set (5th in a projected series of 10, in this case featuring Kenneth Friendliness and George Garrison) "This is Really Happening Vol 5: TQBFJOaLD" which is available for free download here.

It's a Party in Your Ear!

The archived transcription of Mannlicher Carcano's globe-spanning ear-party for NAISA's 2011 commemoration of Art's Birthday is available FOR A LIMITED TIME as a downloadable mp3 file here. Over 125 participants! Don't miss this one, folks - sure to be a collector's item. Once the internet's down.

Cloudknitter mando-bell solo

New Mannlicher Carcano adjunct member Cloudknitter braved the torrential rainstorms currently engulfing the City of Angels to record a Saturday session in the audio dungeon, simultaneously recording the performance for his own radio art program in Belgium. I'll get those mp3s encoded and uploaded as swift as I am able, but in the meantime, check out his website for more info on his show and other remarkable projects.

Update: File is now available for DL here. The excellent jam is sandwiched between two interview segments, the more interesting of which is the beginning segment in which Cloudknitter discusses his artwork and radio show. It will be available for a couple of weeks only, so grab it now.

New Los Angeles segment/Really Happening Solo CD

The LA elements of the weekly broadcast have been prerecorded for the last few weeks, including a 2-hour solo performance this last Saturday by Really Happening containing elements of "Dr Earl A Goldsmith Tells Your Daughter About Sex" which is available for free download for a limited time split into 2 separate files: Part 1: "Not the Cubbyhole!(TM)" and Part 2: The Words are Used.

The complete performance will constitute This is Really Happening Vol 2, which will be a two-CDR set, also available from Pleonasm & Redacted, and the second in a planned 10-volume Retrospective.

Pleonasm partnering with Free Music Archive in Synergistic Triumph!

Just an update that free online record label Pleonasm Music has been posting its wares on the prestigious Free Music Archive, including their slightly garbled (but more than complete) version of Crawl to Safety with Mannlicher Carcano, Solo tour de force This is Really Happening Volume 1, and occasional collaborator Nic Waterman's histrionic tirade My Majority. Longtime listeners will already have all these loaded on their portable personal stereo music players, but even first time callers will find that the great thing about the new format is that you can sample any track from the dozens of other sonic innovators on Pleonasm's roster before committing to a full download. Hooray!

New Time, New Station, Recent Pix!

OK, No time for chitchat. The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour has moved to a new timeslot for the first time in 12 years! Listeners and participants may now tune/skype in on Tuesday nights from 11:00 PM till 1:00 AM Newfoundland time (9:30 pm to 11:30 pm EST; 6:30 - 8:30 Pacific) at CHMR (That's MCRH spelled backwards! Mere coincidence?) 93.5 FM, campus and community radio in St. John's Newfoundland. Streaming online at http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/hi.pls

The Trent Radio iteration Dog Bites Mannlicher will move operations to coincide, and it looks like CFRU will be doing likewise.

As you can see, we have finally recovered our 2-hour format, and the show closes the broadcast day in NFLD, so it may go on from there even! The first broadcast is archived online in two separate files here and here.

Image: Our youngest adjunct member to date (sorry Lucky!) - Woodpity Pitywood @ 7 weeks, performing during our residency at Human Resources. More pix coming!

Satan Temporarily Welcomes Mannlicher Carcano to His Bosom

Our most recent art gallery gig has turned into a residency of sorts, it seems! After our performance on the evening of August 20th at Human Resources, artist Gustavo Hererra was so taken by the manner in which Mannlicher's debris -- multiple turntables, a bin of weird old records, a battered trumpet and toy piano, a dismantled portable 8-Track player and tape selection, a two-stringed child's electric guitar and amp, etc -- blended in with his installation The Birth of Satan, he invited us to leave our equipment in place, and perform the radio show from that locale for the duration of the exhibit's run!

Although the logistics have proven tricky -- the gallery has no land line for a telephone link, and with Porter's recent relocation to St. John's NFLD the tension is becoming less and less palpable -- the LA performances have been righteous and scintillating. The actual gig on the 20th added a dozen or so new collaborators to our constantly expanding roster, bringing the total to 665 - and wherever 665 are gathered in His name.... Our most recently recruited regular was christened "Kenneth Friendliness" and rocked the electric Pepperoncini jar, which he has done for each subsequent radio show as well.

This most recent Saturday Christ's Cumming II also brought in a modified 3-gallon plastic diddly-bow, Herr Schurdt graced us with the presence of his SKYPE-capable laptop (though unfortunately Porter couldn't get into the new radio station) and Buddy Holy, Barney Panicker, and The Jock all arrived five minutes after the show ended. I'll try and upload images of all this, but I left my camera, along with my glasses, both audio recorders (the one I dropped in the toilet at the Museum of Jurassic Technology last year was miraculously resurrected last week! So there's like a QUAD version of the most recent performance - a humdinger - in their collective memory) a fancy USB mic, and a bunch of other valuable electronics in a canvas sack in the basement of a nearby gallery. I'm going to retrieve it today - hope everything's still there! In the meantime, please enjoy these recently rediscovered images from our last North American Tour.

Live at Human Resources

In conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's Birth of Satan exhibition, Human Resources presents a performance of Ghost Assisted Drawings as performed by Christian Cummings and Michael Decker, and Mannlicher Carcano's record release for This Is Really Happening Volume 1 on Pleonasm Music. The evening starts at 9pm, and admission is Free! It is rumored that Gustavo Herrera will be elating us with some of his prosaic fineries...

Human Resources
510 Bernard St (in Chinatown)
Los Angeles, CA 90012

http://humanresourcesla.com/

First in an Anticipated 10-CD Series

http://www.mediafire.com/?4fpcqftp8fb261h
or
http://www.pleonasmmusic.org/

Mannlicher CarcanoPlex Mach 01

"Click on Image to Engorge"

"Mannlicher CarcanoPlex Mach 01"
Mannlicher Carcano is a collaborative improvisational audiovisual collage group who have been performing since 1984, and have appeared weekly on live radio since 1998 with The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour. Under the curatorial hand of Doug Harvey, the band’s collage-based aesthetic principle will be expanded to 3 Dimensions with the one-night-only Mannlicher CarcanoPlex Mach 01, including sound, performance, didactic elements, food and drink, sexy projections, and all manner of art objects at PØST (1904 East 7th Place Los Angeles, CA 90021) on Friday July 9th from 7 – 9 PM . Improvised audiovisual collage, a rediscovered pre-Firesign Theatre absurdist detective film, a one-man rock & roll band, Anne Frank karaoke, gray-water cocktail-making, an enormous naked man, and so much more!

Participating artists include Mannlicher Carcano, China Adams, Suzanne Adelman, Michael Arata, Josh Aster & Kristin Calabrese, Peter Bergman, George Budd, Ryan Callis, Caroline Clerc, Christian Cummings, Adrian de la Pena, Walpa d’Mark, Georganne Deen, Joe Deutch, Mark X. Farina, Gerry Fialka, Eamon Fox, Jill Giegerich & Mischa Mandel-Giegerich, Phyllis Green, Daniel Hawkins, Homegrown Evolution, The Keith Walsh Experience, Maya Lujan, Tina Marrin, Dr, Carl Nordstrom, M.D., Mary Anna Pomonis, Michael Q. Schmidt. Lily Simonson, Brad Spence, Laurie Steelink, Jim Sullivan, Young Summers, Don Suggs, Greta Svalberg, Lee Tyler Thompson, Esther Pearl Watson, Aaron Wrinkle and many more...

Awakening from the Nightmare of History to Find I Have Gum in My Hair

Well, that didn't work out so hot! I plugged in the wrong voltage adaptor and the damn thing blew apart like a land mine! There was ketchup everywhere! Seriously, I was concussed by the impact of the main body of the appliance (the bun section) up against my left temple and was out for some time. When I awoke, a gentle Doctor asked me "What is that Optigan thing? What the FUCK is that?" to which I replied "Please give me something for the pain."

And Gogo was there, and you... and you... and? Porter Hall was in Newfoundland, looking into real estate investment opportunities. And Crawl to Safety is finally out as a free download from www.pleonasmmusic.org and L'il Gogo has an album out on Pleonasm and Redacted Records, split between the two sites but a free download nonetheless.

And on July 9th - for one night only - a real rain is going to wash the scum from the streets... and right into PØST Gallery (1904 East 7th Place Los Angeles, CA 90021) for Mannlicher Carcano-Plex Mach 01 - a multimedia expansion of the Mannlicher Carcano template, including sound, performance, didactic elements, projections, and all manner of art objects! More data to follow.

There are too many old shows to log - the new one it to your right - go to the CFRU archive at http://www.cfru.ca/altarchive.php and root around for other recent episodes. Next week is Porter's final show in Guelph as host! Let's make it a doozy!

And COURTESY FLUSH VOLUME ONE is SOLD OUT, thankyou all (and please stop pestering us to burn more copies!) - the extra income earned will allow us to retire early, as soon as our BP stock dividends kick in. Ka-SPLOOH! Stay tuned for CF Vol 2.

May 15th? Wait a second.. the Nurse told me it was June 17th... am I awake or am I dreaming?

New Instrument!

Still a few kinks in the system, but grid willing w will debut this baby next Saturday. In the meantime, here are links to the last few shows:

January 16
January 23
January 30
February 06
February 13

Art is Getting On

No Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour tomorrow, January 16th -- but a special 2-hour simulcast on CFRU and Vancouver's CITR for their annual Art's Birthday celebration on Sunday, Jan 17 from 3 -5 PM Pacific time.

Here are links to mp3s of the last few Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hours:
December 19th
December 26
January 02
January 09

Image: Really Happening and Minister Altair-Five break out the froot jams on Boxing Day. Photo by Herr Schurdt.

Our Downward Spiral (it goes down other way in Australia)

Mannlicher Carcano - Courtesy Flush Vol 1
Available January 01 2010, nearly 16 hours of previously unreleased recordings of live improvised audio collage and radio art (May - Oct 2008, now minus the banter!) in mp3 form on a single, numbered, limited edition CDR. $10 postage included.

Here's the link to the November 21st show,
the November 28th show,
December 5th,
and last Saturday's show, December 12th.

I've been downloading our overflow into the PD Plate, and will put the edited sections up on a file share site soon.

PS: Jon Leidecker's third VARIATIONS podcast contains rare work by two of Mannlicher's most belovedly under-recognized forebears, Ruth Anderson and Bernard Parmagiani, as well as our spiritual uncle Glenn Gould.

New Dimensions in Spelling!

"My article on the LoK8Tr project took me to Guelph, Ont., last Saturday and live on the radio. I met Porter Hall, the host of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour, at the University of Guleph campus radio station. He arrived just after 3 p.m., a few minutes after the scheduled start time for his weekly show on CFRU. As the automated public-service announcements, commercials and eventually the show’s intro were being broadcast, Porter Hall hooked up a sound processor and unload his backpack. The bag held a bunch of cassettes, including a Musicworks compilation (No. 28); a Buddy Greene record called Praise Harmonica (”sappy Christian tunes,” Porter said); ukulele player Tiny Tim’s 2nd Album; CDs, some with spoken samples that Porter had compiled; and a collection of instruments, such as an electronic toy piano (Piano Fun!), a trumpet mouthpiece on a 1/4″ piece of PVC pipe, a McDonald’s Happy-Meal prize that went “boing” and other hose-y bits. There was an electric toothbrush in that bag, but Porter didn’t bring it out for the show.
“My bag of tricks changes over time,” Porter Hall said."

Read the rest of "An Afternoon with Mannlicher Caracno" here

Click here to download November 14th's show as described in Pixel Dripper's above quoted and linked essay

And here's November 7th

And here's October 31

Image from the forthcoming CDR Let's Paint TV (Twizzler Vomit)

Help Us Reach Our Gaols! I Mean Avoid!

Sorry for the lengthy pause, but things have been hectic. After last week's show, I picked up the mail and found a notice that a towing company was planning to sell our 93 Ford Exploder (acquired from an occasional MC participant) if we didn't come get it! It had been impounded 10 days earlier. We had left it in another occasional MC participant's yard but she had moved it onto the street without telling us, and I guess didn't notice that it got towed away? $640 to spring the motherfucker! Please, please send your pledges and donations today to Really Happening Credit Card Bailout, 1334 N Benton Way, LA 90026. And thanks for listening.

Some recent shows:

September 19

September 26

October 03

October 10

October 17 (Pledge Drive - actually pretty fine!)

October 24
And if you're really hardcore, we spilled over into the first 15 minutes of Proper Dub Plate, but you'll have to DL the whole hour, unless I get my shit together and upload an edit, but don't hold your breath.

Mannlicher's Cannon-ization and the Sirenity Prayer

Here's the first show of September, featuring Merry Hell laying down the rhubarb as pertaining to the B of the V and the Mystery of CB. 10-4 there, WT-Arthur-F! Also on board Herr Schurdt and Greasy Lightning. Looks like we got ourselves a Conrad.

And last week's program, on which your blogmaster RH did not appear, so it is of interest only to completists. Which you must all become if you are ever to truly meld with the Mannlicher Car-consciousness. As William Conrad has, from BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Image: MC performing "Sirenity" on the roof of Artspace, Winnipeg, 1989 (mp3 to follow)

Harry Ball Delivers the Content

After we fixed the gestetner and convinced Harry Ball to join us on the Electric Goosebum, we produced the RH end of the show with the following: Looped MC (ca 1990) sample on the Casio SK-10; Radio Flash Fudd cassette; 2 string First Act toy guitar, Casio SK-10 organ setting and clarinet setting; Herr Schurdt on iPhone samples and police scanner and Mannlicher Carcano's October 2008 appearance on Let's Paint TV! Image: Mannlicher Carcano's October 2008 appearance on Let's Paint TV: Host John Kilduff, back of Porter's head, painting of MC playing a sports stadium.

The Ballad of Indian Ned

Just trying out this embedded streaming audio thingy. If it works, this should be The Ballad of Indian Ned, the single from Crawl to Safety... with Mannlicher Carcano, featuring The Jock on vocals.

This Day in Improvised Audio Collage

Sound generation from RH's audio dungeon Aug 15th 2009: Casio SK-10 with looped sample of practice chanter; ultra rare RH solo 8-track noise tape 'Blossom' manipulated on modified 8-track player; cassette of unreleased 1990? MC performance 'Utterly Utterly MC', Casio SK-10 preprogrammed rhythm, altered; 2-stringed 'First Act' toy electric guitar; manipulated 8 track Gangbusters "Counterfeiters" old time radio show (Dec 1949), re-fed CFRU stream; Casio SK-10 default organ sound.

Gogo in Winnipeg, Porter jamming on a lawn with a dozen people in Nova Scotia (via SKYPE); Ken Cheesy OMIGOD! Another great show.

Download or listen to it here.

Plus here are the previous few shows:

August 08, 2009

August 01, 2009

July 25, 2009

Image: Still from the 1995 feature-length Mannlicher Carcano collage video You Can Start Again edited by Porter Hall

PS: Episode 2 of Jon "wobbly" Leidecker's podcast history of audio collage is a corker, and available online here.

If Mannlicher will not go to the Hill...

Busy times in the Mannlicher world. Porter, having worn out his welcome in Frogtown, headed back to Guelph and is now OMIGOD (Our Man in Guelph on Decks), a position ably held down by Curly Language, Ken Chesey, and others over the course of Porter's year-long exile. Hooking up just in time to join the last Porter-hosted Montreal leg of the show was fellow exile Rock Hill (above, the cover of his ultra-rare Redacted CD), who then will be joining the show regularly from the Morayeel with the Skype in his laptop. Welcome aboard Rock! We'll have to hook you up with MC adjunct Rock Pitts and see if there's some kind of leveling out. The July 11 & 18 shows linked below include Mr. Hill's contributions.

June 20 2009
June 27 2009
July 04 2009
July 11 2009
July 18 2009

Backlog A Go-Go

Wow, ManCarCan fans, sorry I've been neglecting the blogosphere, but I have - among other things - been compling our new album, which I already posted a picture of below, and isn't available on itunes yet, but I';m burning a few copies to send out to our most devoted followers and influential tastemakers in the improvisational audio collage community.

Here's what our label Pleonasm has to say about us:

Mannlicher Carcano is a pirate-radio sound-terrorist musical collective using improvisational audio collage techniques for mind control experiments. Formed in 1984 by those clandestine cryptonyms "Really Happening"(Los Angeles, CA), "Porter Hall" (Guelph, ON) and "Gogo Godot" (Winnipeg), Mannlicher's Anarchist-AvantGarde-Post-Punk-Classical-DIY-Plunderphonic-Experimental-ApocalypseMachine SLASH Analog-Acoustic Pop-Autopsy style is auralgasmic. MC creates a musical salad by combining home-made instruments (the Spring-Strung Bass, Ventor, and Cast Aluminum Cello), miscellaneous sound or noise producing vessels and conventional instruments in an ongoing quest to understand and expand the contemporary urban acoustic ecology. In addition to a weekly telephone-linked live radio program/webcast The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour www.cfru.ca, MC have issued hundreds of self-released titles, appeared on experimental music and radio art compilations, produced soundtracks for films, created installations for art gallery's and museums, and have tended the fires of their loyal cult-like following on the internet.

Crawl to Safety with Mannlicher Carcano is Mannlicher's 2008 live recreation of their 1984 debut album. Featuring guest musicians; "Ken Cheesy", "Gogo Breaks", "Christ's Coming II", "Buddy Holy", "Curly Language" and "The Jock", Pleonasm is excited to make this Orwellian mucical sci-fi classic finally available to you on itunes. Enjoy!

Here are links to the last bunch of radio shows (I think - I'll check them and fix as necessary)
June 13
June 6
May 30
May 23
May 16
May 9
May 2

Image: Detail from Mannlicher's performance "Boxer Shorts" at the Echo Park film Center, LA, 2002

Little Bits of History Repeating

Bay area sound collage maven and negativland collaborator wobbly has embarked on a 6-part history of the genre as downloadable mp3s from the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, entitled Variations. It promises to serve as a definitive once-and-for-all explanation of who do we think we're fooling. Part one - Transitions - runs from Charles Ives through James Tenney via John Cage, Buchanan and Goodman, Jingle Dogs, Hugh LaCaine, and more - and is available here.

No Show Today, as Gogo Now Knows

Been out to Chino making field recordings; come home to find forlorn Gogo voicemail: "Is there a show?" As we all now know, the annual CFRU PowerDown knocked us out of our audio socks, but as I have not yet posted last week's inadvertent 2 hour extravawhatsit, this tenders all beleaguered whining redundant. After a brief mysterious gap, the cfru archives are back online, so here are the links: Hour One and Hour Two, featuring Really, Gogo, NOMIGOD, Buddy Holy, Bunny Particle, and Sonny Day.

Also, we have a new e-album about to be e-released on e-label Pleonasm Music, artwork above. More info on their site.

Return of Buddy Holy & The Jock!

Sadly my handheld digital recorder shut itself down seconds into this week's show, so most of The Jock's vocals are lost in the aether. You can hear some of them in the mix of this week's broadcast though. Here's what was on deck in LA:

Jew's harp sample looped on Casio SK-10
rH song "Oh Lonesome Mimi" looped
Mouldy Dave's Keynote Auto-Rhythm
Pink bell
Jew's harp sample improv on Casio SK-10
Enter Buddy Holy & The Jock
BH on recorder & electric guitar
rH on practice chanter, trumpet, Casio SK-10 (various voices)
Casio SK-10 sampled electric guitar note, looped, & improv
The Jock on vocals, acoustic guitar, rainstick, recorder, Exercise ball air pumps

Image: Buddy Holy Wants to Save You!

Purp It Up

This week's ingredients from the rH FACTORy in Silverlake:
Looped Organ on Casio SK-10
Organ improv
Stuck record: Donna Summer "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" @ 16 rpm, @33 rpm
Casio SK-10 'Disco' rhythm
Sampled guitar improv on Casio SK-10
FOGWIT 4X
Stuck Record "Penny Arcade" @33 (player piano)
Piano Casio SK-10 improv
J&H Productions
Enter Christs Cumming II on ukelele & vox (whistling, fart noises)
Sampled uke (very distorted) on casio
Stuck Record "Penny Arcade" @33 rpm (music box) & @45 rpm
CCII on kazoo, recorder, Proll-O-Tone Organ
Exercise ball air pumps

Above: Christ's Cumming II, pumped with the purp, fully inflated, engorged with the blood of the vine, ready to blow. Blow man blow!
Here is the link to today's broadcast.

Today's Wreckage is Tomorrow's Souvenir

Here's what happened in Really Happening's Silverlake-adjacent audio dungeon today:
Jews harp sample looped on casio SK-10
Stuck record: Donna Summer "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" @ 16 rpm
Live improv on Proll-O-Tone Organ (pictured above)
Cassette of MC performance 93-08-13 on 4-track (double speed)(fragmented)
Party Fun with Recorders Vol 8 - Here is the News (fragmented)
Party Fun with Recorders Vol 8 - Closet Queen - I Will Survive
FOGWIT 4X
(Enter Buddy Holy & new adjunct member The Jock)
Recorder & amp; Proll-O-Tone
Indian Ned's Song + various improvisations and covers by The Jock
Accompanied by RH on guitar and casio (jews harp sample and organ voice)

And here is a link to the final broadcast.

Catching Up on Old Times for Now

Above: composite MC portrait by Gogo.

Thing have been hectic here in LA with the riots and all, so I haven't gotten around to posting much this month, but here are the current live links to CFRU archived shows. Get em while they're hot!

March 21 with Really, Gogo, Porter, Curly, and Fluffy
March 14 with Porter, Curly and Really
March 07 with Adolf Hitler looking very relaxed on vibes
Feb 28, with - who can remember that far back?!

In happiest news, adjunct member (and drummer for the legendary Tenacious Mucoid Exudate) Mr. So-Wrong-He's-Wright has provided software that has allowed me to rescue the lost MC files (amongst other crucial documents) from my 2 recently kaputen hard drives. It is with great pleasure that we therefore bestow upon him the MC Order of Merit (Non-Luddite Division). Kudos to you, our comrade in improvisational audio collage - this is truly a feather in your cap.

Valentines Day Anti-Massacre (1st movement)

So the archive appears to be working OK. Here's a link to last week's bumped-up Valentine's Day spectacular, and here's a link to this week's regularly scheduled extravaganza. In case you hadn't noticed, the most recent show is also linked to the top link at the right of your screen, under the heading "Hear Now"

Lost Signals

We have been inundated with calls here at MCRH Com HQ (pictured above) as regards the scheduling of the show and the sudden unavailability of the cfru archives. Rest assured our gifted technical staff are hard at work on rectifying this latter lamentable lapse in coverage. In the meantime, they have been so kind as to upload the Feb 07 2009 show (featuring seven live collaborators from the LA audio dungeon alone -- perhaps a record) to the file sharing site sendspace. Click here to go to their download page for this show. As for the scheduling, yes, that was a basketball game and not one of our intermittent conceptual audio doppleganger interventions... or was it? If you had tuned in 3 hrs earlier (9 AM LA time) you would have heard the more conventional MC sound, as documented in the aforementioned linked file. Listeners wishing to hear more basketball on our Valentine's Day special should tune in at the regular hour, or 3 hrs earlier (9 AM LA time) if the more conventional MC sound is what does it for you.

The Now + the Here = NowHere

Hal McGee's an inspiration in the DIY distribution department as well as for the breadth, quality, and idiosyncrasy of his work. I first found him on eBay of all places, searching for "audio collage" (though it turns out he was a mover and shaker in the cassette underground and was responsible for the excellent Electronic Cottage zine) and traded Mannlicher's Half Duplex Receive Only for his Maps of Nowhere, a great set of fucked-up field recordings that I've listened to many times. Since then he's made this disc and much more available on his site. Here's his description of MoN: Four long tracks distilled from 12 hours of field recordings made on a handheld cassette recorder - recorded August through October 2000. Lots of shortwave radio tones and static; surreptitious recordings from my work environment in a hospital; quotidian, found and trash sounds: alarm clock, Hare Krishna chanting, public transportation, street & traffic noises, toys, children, family, howling maniac dogs, mundane conversations -- audio ethnographic recordings from the streets, alleys, sidewalks, parking lots, and fields of Gainesville, Florida -- all blended, multitracked and contorted into big concrete music noisy cut-up collages. I employed chance process, aleatory and automatistic methods of dada and surrealism in the making of Maps Of Nowhere. Constructed on a Fostex XR-5 4-track cassette recorder.

Floating Down the Sound

Here's a link to listen or DL the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour from Jan 10 (Really, Porter, Curly) featuring the deconstructed Pink Floyd backing (sans Dhyana) for an unfinished 1990 Piper at the Gates of Dawn sound piece. The full version features precocious 9 (?) yr old Dhyana Justl reading that chapter from Wind in the Willows. Weirdly enough, just HOURS AFTER this performance, older sister Karen (cover artist for Mannlicher's first Level Best cassette) contacted me about Dhyana's imminent West Coast Tour, mentioning the VERY SAME audio project from 18 years ago!!! Surely these are the end times.