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Hal McGee
Deep Space Search Engine
Album US 2002 on HalTapes label
Electronic (Abstract, Noise, Experimental)
Notes by Hal McGee: My method of composing the music on this CD was exceedingly (and deceptively) simple. Mostly using a cheap polyphonic synthesizer with a sustain pedal (and also a Moog synthesizer), I set up long drones of just two or three notes. These sounds were processed through a delay unit, with just a little tweaking and twiddling of the controls. I recorded the tracks on a 4-track cassette recorder. As I laid down each new track I never listened to what I had previously recorded. I was fascinated by the interplay of the tones, and of the track layers, and how they phased in and out with each other in a myriad ways. I just love stuff with a lot of details. If you listen to this CD at a fairly low volume it will work as an ambience, a general atmosphere. Turn up the volume, past where you would normally listen to music -- and you will hear a whole world, perhaps a whole galaxy of sound worlds. Macrocosmos or Microcosmos?
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Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Travel In Space You Must Leave The Body | Hal McGee | 7:48 | |
| 2 | Comet Ikeya-Zhang | Hal McGee | 12:28 | |
| 3 | Algal Bloom In The Waterdrop Nebula | Hal McGee | 13:10 | |
| 4 | Suspension Bridge | Hal McGee | 5:00 | |
| 5 | Wormeaten Moon | Hal McGee | 8:12 | |
| 6 | Oscillating Universe | Hal McGee | 9:53 | |
| 7 | Radio Interference Grid | Hal McGee | 10:25 |
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