ENDLESS FASCINATION VIDEOS

Here's some footage of the "making of" Sea is for Cookie and Crictor, part of the Endless Fascination series of releases. Nice.

ENDLESS FASCINATION, VOLS. 1, 3 & 4

A new series of CDR releases from Marshall Avett - each limited to 26 copies, lettered A to z - featuring nothing but the sounds of skipping records.

VOLUME 1: Gospel Pet Fat
Recorded around 1997, this one features a wide range of records that might play for a bit but then start skipping, natural skips, forced skips, warped LPs, you name it. One track, 45 minutes. Orange spray painted case and disc.

VOLUME 3: Sea is for Cookie
Features Bella Avett in the background on keyboard and toddler talk. Heavy on the Sesame Street Live, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Erik B. & Rakim, TGT, Phil Collins, Lil Jon, etc. One track, 45 minutes. Blue spray painted case and disc.

VOLUME 4: Crictor
Was going to spray paint over this story book seven inch then started listening to it. Sheesh! Weird story, weirder skips. Down right creepy in places. One track, 36 minutes. Red spray painted case (with google eye on snake) and disc.

$5 each. Please specify which volume or volumes you want when ordering.

Quantity

One disc $5.00 Two discs $10.00 Three discs $15.00

More volumes on the way, including VOLUME 2: Another Brick in the Head and VOLUME 5: Beach Stones.

LUCKY WAFFLES

Stewart Voegtlin and Marshall Avett were invited by Todd the Werewolf to do whatever they wanted in an old warehouse before it was converted into - guess what? - lofts! So they dragged a drum kit, some horns, other percussion items, a reel-to-reel machine and some microphones and hit it. The result is this recording, which shows the depth of the space they invaded and just how cool nails sound when hurled across a cement floor towards a shitty microphone. Is it jazz? Is it metal concrete? Uh...
Edition of 50, color inserts, $5 each, and named after their cats (circa 2001).

"The strangeness of this artifact may derive from the fact that it was recorded in an empty warehouse... you wont know where to put yourself as you spin this blarting oddity and succumb to its acoustical conundrums." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector



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SVRDHDS2

SPRING 2009 issue with 24 pages of black and white imagery from Andrew Coltrane, Ben Young, Steve Pomberg, and Marshall Avett. Comes with a cdr that includes 30 photos by Stewart Voegtlin. An edition of 50. $5 each. Take a look see...


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OUR TEAPOTS ARE BROKEN

Double three-inch cdr set by Marshall Avett with one disc containing something like 92 clips from spoken word-type records, and the second disc featuring a 20-minute jam-packed collage of layers of all the clips. Which is more psychedelic? Bad question with a good answer.

Edition of 15 in hand-stamped paper covers. A few left. $6 each.



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SUN RATTLER/HER MUSIC

Two sidelong pieces from Marshall Avett.

The first, either titled "Sun Rattle" or "Sun Rattler," reaches a large metal fist into outer space and knocks that big ball of fiery gas around the milky way. Large, crusty electronic sounds produced with junk/damaged equipment and fed through tiny headphones into a drooling microphone. The guest room was never the same again.

The second is called "Her Music," and was recorded in the house Avett used to live in. It remained vacant for a weeks following move-out, he knew where the key was, and the only thing left in the house was this big female spider with a web in the glass of the front door window. She had two huge eggs sacks ready to pop, too, so she must have had it pretty good in there. Anyway, different sound sources set up in five different rooms and left to their own devices while the recording devices were moved around throughout. LIke being wrapped in delicate silk threads under the full moon - delicious, delirious and devoured.

Edition of 8 tapes released in August 2008 for a show, but still a few around. $5 each.



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SVRD HDS #1

First issue of visual/audio mayhemics from November 2008. 24 pages (8.5" x 11") of collage, enlargements, commentary, drownings, and a nude model on a church altar. Seriously. Works by Steve Pomberg and Marshall Avett. Edition of 50. First 25 copies come with CD featuring sounds by ZANDOSIS, WILSON & HEATH, FREEBASS, and M. AVETT (each labeled with a different adult female Halloween costume model). $5 per copy cdr or not.

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