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These were done around 1995 using an Akai S900 sampler (R.I.P.) and live and MIDI triggering. All tracks were originally recorded on plain old cassette tape, so quality is variable.

Lubdub (6:53)

For heartbeat, microphone, and FX. I was in a deep state of despair when I recorded this.

In the Room (5:07)

A random walk through a line in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Vowel Movement (4:26)

Phoneme meditation

Donkey Warts (6:03)

Swarming of a seven-second sample.

Update: August, 2006: It's been five years since I put this site up, and no one has yet identified the source (it's not Cocteau Twins), so I'm increasing the prize. Ten dollars (paid via PayPal) to the first person to identify the source of the sample used in "Donkey Warts".

Right to the Dove (5:11)

Taped a commercial for Dove moisturizing cream off the TV, loaded it into the sampler, and went nuts. First heard on an episode of Negativland's weekly program, "Over the Edge". I won't say which episode, because it doesn't matter!

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