matmos: quasi-objects CD Track Listing

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matmos quasi-objects
Drew Daniel + M.C. Schmidt\n2710 20th Street, SF CA 94110\nmcess@slip.net
This misc cd contains 7 tracks and runs 41min 11sec.
Freedb: 4d09a507
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1. matmos - Stupid Fambaloo (04:55)
   baloons, whoopee cusion, synthesizer. Title courtesy of Karl Force
2. matmos - Cloth Mother/Wire Mother (05:08)
   slide guitar by M.C. Schmidt; phone guitar by Tim Furnish
3. matmos - Schwitt/Urs (05:05)
   composed entirely from samples of the human voice. \nConsonant clusters orginally take from a typographer's \nblock by Raoul Haussman, adapted by Kurt Schwitters, \nperformed by Eberhard Blum and jacked by our samplers.
4. matmos - Always Three Words (05:14)
   samples take from "silent recordings." The set up is as \nfollows: a 4 channel tape recorder, with nothing input to it,\nrecords. Two walkie-talkies are held above the reorder and \nboth are placed in "transmit" mode - the resulting waves of \ninterferenc
5. matmos - The Banjo's Categorical Gut (06:07)
   composed entirely from samples of improvisations on a five\nstring banjo. Title from Wallace Stevens' "The Comedian as\nLetter C"
6. matmos - The Purple Island (06:59)
   source material gathered entirely from the human body.\nFeaturing the bodies of M.C. Schmidt, Drew Daniel, \nKalonica McQueston, Robeena Diet Biscuit and Katie \nWilliams. Slowed down whistles and kisses.
7. matmos - Latex (07:38)
   all sounds generated by manipulating a wet latex t-shirt.\nTapes of latex estranged through re-recoding at \nCandlestick Point Bird Sanctuary.