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1. Mailbag: A week or two ago, DaveX of your favorite experimental music radio show and mine, It\'s Too Damn Early, used the newly released Simultaneous Translator application for a live performance on his radio program. I was very excited about this performance because I had been playing with the Simultaneous Translator and found it fascinating. Of course, not having access to a legal FM radio station that streams over the internet, the recombinant looping possibilities of the Simultaneous Translator didn\'t even occur to me. So, I was all the more excited about what might come about when DaveX announced his upcoming on-air performance.
Alas, there were problems. My 3rd-shift job, which had afforded me the opportunity to catch It\'s Too Damn Early for a few weeks running, had turned ugly that very week. The boss had dropped so many extra duties on me that by the time I came home, changed into comfortable clothes and reassured my family that they were at least as important to me as anything else, DaveX was well finished with his Simultaneous Translator performance.
My disappointment was deep. This was going to be one of those things that was strictly up my alley. Of course, the old \'day job\' interfered with my best-layed plans once again.
I was resolved to be satisfied with just downloading the mp3 of the show whenever Dave posted it. I even thought that I might load the mp3 up into an editing application and crop it out and then burn it onto a cdr. DaveX had better ideas, though. His Simultaneous Translator performance became the second release on his Naked Arrival label, "Improv for Folded Signals."
DaveX released this recording in a limited edition of three. Each of the three copies was somewhat different from the others, with one of them being the more deluxe of the three. Here\'s the description of the deluxe "A" version of the recording, from DaveX\'s Startling Moniker blog:
“A” is the most amazing of the bunch: Two CDs, spray-painted. The first contains the only physical copy I will issue of the “super-mix”, coming in at just over 26 minutes. The second disc is the “Air Mix,” a fantastic-sounding recording made direct from the board. This is exactly what listeners heard over the airwaves. This second disc also contains the audio from both microcassette recordings, which are “in-studio” recordings from different placements in the studio itself. One is somewhat near the monitors, the other is farther back– both emphasize strikingly different aspects of the sound, along with their own unique “flavor” imparted by the microcassette recorder itself. Total running time for the second disc is just past 75 minutes.
“A” also comes with all three original cassettes, distressed and hand-painted. The full-size cassette features a “hidden track.” The CDs are housed in a hardcover booklet with X-ray film cover art, inserts, and a set of X-ray liner notes. The cassettes are in cassette cases, also with X-ray inserts. It’s a really amazing set, very beautiful. I’m sure my pictures will not convey how super-cool it is– seriously– have you ever tried to photograph an X-ray?
(Yeah, I\'m trying to scan these X-rays, and I\'m not having any better luck.)
Well, long story short, I emailed DaveX and reserved the "A" copy of nrr02. The transaction was made and I got the thing in the mail just today.
Here are scans of the package\'s various parts, with captions.
The liner notes are printed onto squares cut from X-ray slides. Here are six of the ten squares.
Here are the other four.
There are three cassettes in the package. This is the standard-sized cassette, painted blue on one side, with its X-ray J-card.
This is the standard cassette, on its red side, with the two microcassettes, on their blue sides. At the bottom are the two X-ray J-Cards that from the microcassette cases.
These are the two microcassettes, on their red sides, with the very same X-ray J-cards.
The two CD-rs are hand-painted black with silver labeling. Disc 1 has one track and Disc 2 has three tracks.
The discs came in a very nice, and sturdy, black wallet-style case. Here it is, open. You can see the underside of a disc, and one of the two cut out X-ray slide pieces which are included with the wallet.
This is the wallet, closed. You can see the second X-ray here.
This is the black crocheted (I think) pouch into which everything was neatly tucked.
Here also, because I am that committed to the mailbag scanning concept, are the other items which were in the package. That sticker\'s going on my laptop and I\'m fixing to spin them three inchers right now.
... while I lay down.
(Perhaps our next post will include our preliminary findings from this Experimental Music Blog Blogging Experiment.)
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