sonic adventures: Dead Ex

 At one point in my life about a decade ago (yikes) I was living in Seattle. It had some of the best record stores that I've ever been to. One of the stores I used to frequent was Wall of Sound. It was a super small place in the University District that was highly curated with all kinds of music that I had never heard of, or at least explored at the time: dub techno, acid jazz, free jazz, ambient, industrial, noise, etc. It was one of the few record stores that I could still go into and just buy things to listen to because the album covers looked interesting.

At some point, after frequenting Wall of Sound and perusing their wares like a lost traveler in Skyrim, I ended up getting into noise music somehow. I also picked up a few (free!) copies of a print magazine called Tape Op. I was pretty immediately engulfed in the idea of tape machines (cassette tape recorders) as a means to create music. I already had a guitar and some pedals. I also had a loop pedal, which allowed me to loop sounds over and over again.

I decided to give it a whirl and make some loops with a tape machine that I had lying around. My friend Kyle, who also had interest in making loops and noise music, worked together with me on these two pieces which he posted on his bandcamp account a few years ago. And now, here they are for you to listen to. Maybe I should drag out the Tascam and all of my old tapes and see what I can conjure up...