"Lasting Moments"

"Lasting Moments" Tape [90 minutes]

Experimental Mixtape / Audio Collage


Side A

Side B


"When I was small...
I was a cowboy...
I shot at Indians...
When I wasn't a fireman!"

This is another audio collage / mixtape effort following my work with "Channels", "Unsubstantiated" and "Aluminum Riding". This one was recorded as a live mix using three tape players and a keyboard, all of which were sent into a small mixer, which then sent the sound into another tape player to be recorded.

Side A is mostly darker, atmospheric tracks, many of them from experimental or electronic musicians, while Side B is made up more of pop and rock songs. The pacing of either side is very different - on Side A, there is a lot of space between the songs (a la "Channels" and in some parts of "A.R.") where I toggle between the two tapes of soundbytes, whereas on Side B, the "breaks" are for the most part shorter and by the second half of Side B, most only utilize one tape.

I think following "A.R.", with this mixtape, I tried to continue to ask questions of "boundaries" - what are the boundaries between what is socially permissible or "ordinary", and what is extra-ordinary or deemed as existing outside the sphere of what is acceptable. Sometimes, this is attempted with subtlety (i.e. Martin Landau's song followed by a disturbing sermon later on that refers to the "Texas Rangers") and other times I try to execute it much more overtly (Charlton Heston in "The Planet of the Apes" or Liza Minelli on Daytime TV). I noticed, too, in listening to this again, there is a very clear preference to a feminine voice in this tape, as opposed to a masculine one or a balance of the two - over and over again, between the songs and sometimes during them, we find women discussing their daily routines, expressing themselves to someone they feel they can confide in, and even recording an audio diary. I think one of the reasons why I preferred women speaking or acting over men is well, first, because it's more intriguing to me, as a man. And second, as a film student and someone who is trying to write screenplays, I often struggle to understand the perspectives behind the choices of the women in my scripts, so I think in some odd way, I was trying to put these voices out there so that in turn I might better hear them when listening.

For those who are interested, I am more than happy to make a copy of this cassette tape and send it to you.



Here is the playlist:

[Side A]

1. Cluster - "Hollywood" - Zuckerzeit (1974)
2. Catharsis - "Poemes Du 17 eme Siecle" - Les Illuminations (1971)
3. Ian Boddy - "Sundance" - Integration ICR (1983)
4. Pi Corp - "The Dirge" - Lost in the Cosmic Void ('73-'76)
5. Anar Band - "Side 2" [Excerpt] - s/t (1977)
6. Decibel - "Orgon Patafisico" - Contranatura (1978)
7. Rimarimba - "California + Guitars" - In the Woods LP (1985)
8. Gino D'eliso - "Track 3" - Il Mare (1976)

[Side B]

9. Aquelarre - "Yo Sere El Animal, Vos Seras Mi Dueno" - s/t (1972)
10. Roky Erickson - "Creature With The Atom Brain" - I Think of Demons (1980)
11. Jorge Mautner - "Olhar Bestial" - Para Iluminar A Cidade (1972)
12. Karamoko Keita - "Gnani Magni" - Super Sound SS-87 (198?)
13. Limonada - "Pasteles Verdes" - s/t (1970)
14. Os Novos Baianos - "Caia na Estrada e Perigas Ver" - Caia na Estrada e Perigas Ver (1976)
15. Topić, Dado i grupa Tajm - "Kad jednom odkrijem čovjeka u sebi" - Kad jednom odkrijem čovjeka u sebi (1973)
16. Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - "Paix" - Paix (1972)
17. Jean-Claude Charlier et Son Orchestre - "Tarzan, L'Ami Des Elephants" - Sssh.... (1983)
18. Colin Potter - "Hear" - Here (1981)


[Below is a very nice video of Karamoko Keita]