From Jason J. Tar Sent Sat, Jun 5th 1999, 17:15
From Jason J. Tar Sent Sat, Jun 5th 1999, 17:15
(NOTE: While this may seem like complete parody, I'm 97.3% serious, so....)
Hello,
!ooT,eviLnaCskcuD is proud to present their first, and probably last,
release...
Artist: WWJD?
Release: DIH!
Catalogue #: The Mirror Image 001
Ltd to 2 copies on Hello Kitty MD + Pig Ceramic.
Note:Listeners to experimental/IDM read part A, Professional Artists skim A
and read part B. Thanks.
A) After waiting ages (and ages and ages) for Mild Man Jan's fabled boxes,
we asked ourselves "What would Jason Do?". The response: "Do it
HIMSELF!". With that in mind, we said "Well do it then!". So, we'd like
to present _DIH!_. Due to the artists (sic) love for pigs (he even has
pictures of pigs in his honeymoon photo album taken at a zoo in Vancouver),
and an inability in carpentry, plus his wife's insistence that he paint
pottery with her, we forgo the boxes to present instead a ceramic pig
handpainted by the artist and "music" formed from the sounds recorded on
that date. All sounds recorded with a Sony R50 MD, on a cheap microphone
given by a "favorite e-mail friend". Processed using the software found on
Ios Smolder's _Dub Zap Standard_ double CD.
In efforts to reduce the delays of one ill-timed V/Vm, we have the project
50% completed and will be issuing the release on August 20th, 1999. This
date will not go unnoticed as it marks the artists (again, sic) 4th year
wedding anniversary.
Due to the limited nature of this project (2 copies, the artist reserves
the right to keep one for himself), potential buyers must act NOW. The one
copy for sale will cost $20 postage paid in the US, $25 elsewhere.
Considering the MD costs $5, and the Pig $14, we at !ooT,eviLnaCskcuD feel
this to be a fair cost.
Bootleg copies are smiled upon, and will be done by us after the initial
copy is sold (we expect due to public apathy to new ideas, this may not
occur until the year 2001 but you never know). They will be on standard
Sony MD and include pictures of the pigs. Price to be set, but will be no
more than costs of materials and shipping.
The artist SWEARS to return to his un-famous, but HAPPY, life of child
care and teaching after this release and will not submit you to any other
projects thereafter.
This release was to be completed with a bonus track of WWJD? reworking a
rendition of his favorite song, "Do Your Ears Hang Low?". Unfortunately,
LuckyKitchen must have been peeping his ICQ as just announced was their
release of basically the same aesthetic. Either that, or they are drinking
from the same cup of collected unconsciousness as WWJD?. Regardless, that
idea is potentially scrapped but may be supplimented by a rendition of "Ode
to Strand One" by the Post BA-AA of MSU.
Style Over Practicality.
Peace and Hugs,
Jason J. Tar
Part B: Professional Artists. (note: if not interested, please forward
to any who might be).
It has always been a theory of ours that experimental music comes best
from those without knowledge of the machines. When one has such knowledge,
their understandings cover up their ideas and routine sets in. We would
care to examine this theory further.
We are asking for remixers to rework the source material, and then see if
it stands up to our artist's rendition. Your experience will be put to the
test against WWJD?'s lack. Unfortunately, our test is slightly tainted as
WWJD? has heard music before and will thus be somewhat influenced, but we
feel that his lack of software knowledge will keep it fair. He promised to
spend only 8 hours working on the project, from the time the software is
loaded to the time the finished sounds are done.
If interested, we can unfortunately probably not offer you large sums of
money. Simply a Thank You, the Thrill of Participating in This Scientific
Experiment, and a Finished Copy of Whatever Comes Out.
We forsee this finished copy being a CD-R, complete with a 3 minute edit
of WWJD?'s work followed by the professional remixes. Also to be included
will hopefully be an MP3 of the source material and JPGs of the pigs.
Negotiations are in effect with SWFD Productions for the release of this
material.
Thank you for your time.
Jason J. Tar (WWJD?)
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Peace Hugs and Unity Jason J. Tar
W. W. J. D?
(What would Jason Do?)
http://pilot.msu.edu/user/tarjason
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