Dada, surrealism, fluxus, Eno, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, my dogs, Henry David Thoreau, schizophrenia, psychedelia, Stockhausen, John Cage, Kurt Schwitters, Brian Noring, Chris Phinney, Kraftwerk, Conrad Schnitzler, early Alien Planetscapes, Bob Moog, Throbbing Gristle, early Cabaret Voltaire, Kill Bill, krautrock, Captain Beefheart, cassettes (the ultimate audio art medium), coffee, Luis Bunuel, tape hiss, the internet, urban decay, ditches, culverts, margins, selvages, organized accidents, interpenetrative noncongruence, "mistakes", crust, static, controlled feedback, Situationism, Jean-Luc Godard, audio ethnography, Andrew Chadwick, aleatoria, positive anger, depression
I have been making homemade recordings of my own experimental, electronic, industrial and noise music since September 1981.
I have made recordings in a wide variety of experimental music subgenres and styles (and have crossed and mixed these styles to make new creations): electronic, free improvisation, space music, electroacoustic, tape cut-ups, tape collage, industrial, power electronics, deconstructed rock, spoken word, "noise", ambient, abstract sound sculpture and painting, etc.
Jamison Williams (alto saxophone) and Hal McGee (two handheld cassette recorders processed through Moog MF-107 FreqBox and Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi distortion plus two 10-watt Marshall amplifiers). Free improv recorded Saturday afternoon, October 17, 2009, at Hal McGee's apartment, Gainesville, Florida. Recorded by Mark McGee. Stereo sound recording. Listen to it loud.
Part One of Action Sound Painting Orchestra at Solder VI Electronic and Experimental Music Fest, Saturday, October 17, 2009, Common Grounds, Gainesville, Florida. Improvisational orchestra conducted by Hal McGee (handheld tape recorders), Jamison Williams (alto saxophone), Christopher Nadeau (electric guitar), John David Eriksen (cello), Mark McGee (tubanos), Jay Peele (trumpet, cornet, cracklebox, misc.), James Bess (digital sax), Don Butler (theremin). Solder VI was produced by Christopher Miller of Electronic SubSouth. Videography by Adam Batley. Candles by Rachel Lindsey. Listen to stereo sound video LOUD!
Part Two of Action Sound Painting Orchestra at Solder VI Electronic and Experimental Music Fest:
Call the Automatic Confessional answering machine at 352-336-7915 and leave a one minute message of any words, thoughts, sounds, and noises. Anybody and everybody can participate! Leave as many messages as you want.
Three excerpts from the performance by Deep Trench at Action Research show 39, Thursday, June 25, 2009, at Story House, Gainesville, Florida. Deep Trench is Dave Armitage (No Limit Cycle), right; Andrew Chadwick (Ironing), center; Hal McGee, left. Videography by Christopher Miller.
Excerpted footage of Hal McGee (Moog MF-107 FreqBox and Moog MF-105B Bass MuRF in a no-input mixer feedback loop) recorded in live performance at Action Research show 42, Saturday, July 24, 2009, at Spagandyland Studio, Gainesville, Florida. Minimal free improvisation experimental electronic music. Videography by Christopher Miller. Free high quality mp3 download of the entire performance is now available at http://www.halmcgee.com
Thank you again for organizing such a spectacular and sonicular event! You are my President ♦
p.s. Tonight I've recorded this new song inspired by this weekend! The piece is a crazy clip of me playing a piano, recorded on my microcassette player. The final version you hear on myspace is me playing a casio keyboard over the distorted layer of dictaphone drone. It's called 'noviembre'.... :) i hope you like it! ♥
71 minutes of experimental noise jazz.
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|˟˟| (pronounced 'gate') is a Tokyo-based experiment in solo improvisation on multiple instruments simultaneously. The project’s music is influenced / inspired by among others free jazz, noise, drone, industrial, and Mongolian and Japanese traditional music. See profile page for more information and links.
Greetings from Greece mr McGee. I have heard you from various mp3 and saw many videos on Youtube and i truly believe that you can make noise with anything you've got in your mind. With other words, you and your sounds are awesome. Take care and all the best.
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