Will Michael Come Back?

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Will Michael Come Back?

September 18th, 2007

If you’ve been paying close attention this summer, you may have noticed I’ve alluded several times to a zine I’m working on. Well, after a few months of not working very hard at it, sliding between love and hate for my artwork and ideas and self, and just generally having no idea what I’d actually do with a stupid little paper comic book if I did manage to put one together, I think I’m finally closer than ever before to completing my zine.

Here’s a sneak peek at the Summer of the Shark mini-zine that will appear inside of the big zine:

That’s right, my debut book will feature a bonus tiny book of content that’s not even interesting enough to make it into the regular-size book! Self-effacement aside, the test prints were a rousing success, they actually came together into a silly little booklet, and I think I found a good way/place to print them. Tomorrow I think I’m planning on buying some paper and sitting around while a couple hundred copies are made, then I just have to put everything together! It’s all very exciting. If you haven’t tuned, you could start tuning now, and if you have begun to tune, keep doing that and don’t stop, because believe me you will want to remain in your current state: tuned.

In other exciting news, me and Mike made some sweet experiments tonight on Expansion Experiment on Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Basically, Mike figured out how to patch the signal that’s being broadcast back into the sound board, and since the broadcast is on a seven second delay, that’s basically everything you need for a huge seven second delay feedback loop. Ah! I was very pleasantly impressed with the results from our first try, a clattery percussion improvisation that built up cacophanously in the loop. Next was a short organ drone which we looped for a while before adding in some vocals and letting the whole mess break down. Both eventually degraded into cool noisy loops with very distinct high static-y parts and wicked throbbing basslines, like not just pulsing bass but actual complex, melodic, pounding rhythms. The fidelity of the repeats impressed me since I’ve mostly worked with more lo-fi devices, and Mike was surprised by the whole thing, I think, that it wasn’t just screaming feedback or noise. All in all, a great night of experimentation, I just wish we had recorded it…

Also, when I had my camera out I took a picture of the collection of cassettes I’ve accumulated over the past few months, mostly just to show off my tapes and the fact that I buy tapes and listen to them sometimes, and also to show off the badass red stripes on my bedroom wall.

ps that Sewer Election record I played is fucking awesome

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