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THE NEW VAST INEPTITUDE (SOUTHERN NORTHEAST WESTERN BBQ DINNER DANCE @ THE HYPER DIMENSIONAL SPACE​-​TIME BOUNDARY NORTH OF HEAVEN / MAGNETIC SIGNATURE OF A HIGHER LEVEL STATE​-​SPACE)

from BEST OF NOISE by LIK ROPER

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The term ‘vast ineptitude’ was one which senator Dick Gephardt used to describe something a few years ago. It is also an answer to the question “Where is Jim? "Southern Northeast Western (SNEW) BQQ Dinner Dance" was originally the antithesis of Northern Southwest Eastern (NSEW) Post-Rebellion Ritual. This was just wordplay describing the nature of the tracks; which each had two forward and two backwards tracks; 4-tracks altogether, originally done on a Tascam 246 as an experiment...

One night I saw an Asian lady on the Discovery channel making music by bouncing what looked like ball bearings on the top of a piano, so I figured I would try a similar experiment with golf balls on my dad’s old baby grand piano. After running 5 or 6 separate previously unconnected drum tracks out of my old Tascam 246, through a compressor and onto a DAT machine, I then ran the strung-together drum tracks back into the Tascam 246…

I placed a microphone on the piano with the 246 unit, and then proceeded to bounce golf balls on the piano strings forwards and backwards over the taped drums. I would simply record over one side of the tape, then flip it over and record over the other side etc…

I thought this was the biggest mess of noise anyone had ever made, like I was playing a joke on everyone - but once college radio got it, some stations were playing it for up to a year after!?! Adding to this; some deadhead who worked at a record store in Palo Alto said it sounded like a Grateful Dead "freakout section" -- he said it would 'melt some walls' -- which I took as a compliment. (It is also very purposefully Yoko Ono-ish because I actually enjoy her artistic audacity).

The term ‘Hyper Dimensional Space-Time Boundary North of Heaven - Magnetic Signature of a Higher Level State Space’ is something that Richard C. Hoagland said in the 1980s documentary “Monuments of Mars” in reference to the nature of electromagnetism and/or magnets (go to: www.enterprisemission.com) and this was supposed to be a follow-up to Music from Outer Space’s "SNEW BBQ Dinner Dance & NSWE Post-Rebellion Ritual".

It started out as a 40 minute click track which I laid down over one track, then played over that click track with Pro-Mark ‘Thunder Rod’ drumsticks with a sort of jazzy paradiddle approach. Then I went to the piano and strummed the strings lightly like a harp as opposed to the golf balls like i used last time.

(Since the VS-1680 does not have the capability of recording backwards or inverting tracks to get the same effects that i got on the old Tascam 246, the piano track was done forwards only this time).

At the time i recorded this track; i had just been massively "head gamed" by some chick, so I decided to just record whammy bar guitar noise all over the track, and then a meandering piano note to make it an even bigger mess. In the end, I mixed out the click track and just kept the drums, guitar and piano parts. I then got a big idea to mix both of these tracks together by recording them into my VS-1680 and pan them to separate sides as a entirely new track.

This is the sound of managed chaos...

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from BEST OF NOISE, released January 1, 2004

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