Hors d'œuvre?
While the faithful (eight) pace their garrets, carving into thighs and foreheads rude ideograms symbolizing the passage of the remaining hours (decades?) until TLASILA rarities skulk into view, please accept this humble appeasement.
They fell to earth as the half-devoured fruit of a favorite game of mine, one I've named Pulling-Out. It's dead simple, really - you insert an mp3 data disc into your CD-ROM drive, start your soundcard capture utility (I like TotalRecorder), fire up Winamp (or whichever player you prefer), give your box a moment to craft a sweet lil' cache, and then eject the disc. After a second or two, you're flying above the Glitch City landfill.
Most of 'em are semi-tepid. Other attempts fare, uh, less well. The point of the game is to plug away, regardless.
No editing (save clicking "start" und "stop"); no sonic treatments splooged over the tracks (save normalization, to balance overall volume)...
These pull-outs (others might deign to call them expulsions, evacuations, withdrawals, freedom jags, etc.) were recorded in August, 2004 and (earlier today) on February 11, 2006.
(Uncertain if p'ing-out would work on a Mac. Prob. not.)
Systems with insufficient memory return the coolest results. In mid-2000, TLASILA recorded a 75-minute album (entitled Other Criteria) for the woeful Freedom From imprint (which we ultimately decided not to deliver) consisting solely of the background music from a pop-up ad recorded off a Windows 98 system pulling a mere 48 megs of RAM. It was really fucked-up...
Anyhow, nothing amazing afoot, but enough of a lark to justify the many seconds expended on the effort.
Don't dig these? Try it for yourselves, devise your own time-snuffing activities, etc. No innovatory leaps intended - in pulling-out I wring cheap laughs from the gloom of stormy days, university overload, and the usual grim minutiae of privileged existence... Stardom is pain.
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Tom Smith - Pull-Outs Vol. 1-2 (2004/2006)
TT: 11:28 / each file 320 kbps / total download 26.5 MB
(Note: the download period for these files expired February 26, 2006. We thank you for your participation.)
Volume 1 (recorded TS 08-04)
101 The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
(this one's kinda ropey and way too obvious, but its incongruity repels torpor - in other words, it sounds nothing like its source...)
102 Mr. Airplane Man - LRRH
103 Spirit - Right on Time
104 Black Flag - The Bars
105 Carla Bley - Fast Lane
106 Detroit Grand Pubas - Definition of Sick
107 Elmer Bernstein - Tree Treasure
108 U-Roy - Flashing Whip
109 Steve Lacy Trio - The Door
Volume 2 (recorded TS 02-06)
201 Ed Kuepper - Little Fiddle
202 John Lindberg Revolving Ensemble - Arenas
203 Lou Reed - I Can't Stand It
204 The Cynics - Get My Way
205 Alec Empire - Make 'em Bleed
206 George Jones - You Comb Her Hair
207 I Am Kloot - Strange Without You
208 Olivier Messiaen - Les Sept Anges...
209 Suppa Micro Pamchopp - Darkstars
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Regards,
TS
They fell to earth as the half-devoured fruit of a favorite game of mine, one I've named Pulling-Out. It's dead simple, really - you insert an mp3 data disc into your CD-ROM drive, start your soundcard capture utility (I like TotalRecorder), fire up Winamp (or whichever player you prefer), give your box a moment to craft a sweet lil' cache, and then eject the disc. After a second or two, you're flying above the Glitch City landfill.
Most of 'em are semi-tepid. Other attempts fare, uh, less well. The point of the game is to plug away, regardless.
No editing (save clicking "start" und "stop"); no sonic treatments splooged over the tracks (save normalization, to balance overall volume)...
These pull-outs (others might deign to call them expulsions, evacuations, withdrawals, freedom jags, etc.) were recorded in August, 2004 and (earlier today) on February 11, 2006.
(Uncertain if p'ing-out would work on a Mac. Prob. not.)
Systems with insufficient memory return the coolest results. In mid-2000, TLASILA recorded a 75-minute album (entitled Other Criteria) for the woeful Freedom From imprint (which we ultimately decided not to deliver) consisting solely of the background music from a pop-up ad recorded off a Windows 98 system pulling a mere 48 megs of RAM. It was really fucked-up...
Anyhow, nothing amazing afoot, but enough of a lark to justify the many seconds expended on the effort.
Don't dig these? Try it for yourselves, devise your own time-snuffing activities, etc. No innovatory leaps intended - in pulling-out I wring cheap laughs from the gloom of stormy days, university overload, and the usual grim minutiae of privileged existence... Stardom is pain.
---
Tom Smith - Pull-Outs Vol. 1-2 (2004/2006)
TT: 11:28 / each file 320 kbps / total download 26.5 MB
(Note: the download period for these files expired February 26, 2006. We thank you for your participation.)
Volume 1 (recorded TS 08-04)
101 The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
(this one's kinda ropey and way too obvious, but its incongruity repels torpor - in other words, it sounds nothing like its source...)
102 Mr. Airplane Man - LRRH
103 Spirit - Right on Time
104 Black Flag - The Bars
105 Carla Bley - Fast Lane
106 Detroit Grand Pubas - Definition of Sick
107 Elmer Bernstein - Tree Treasure
108 U-Roy - Flashing Whip
109 Steve Lacy Trio - The Door
Volume 2 (recorded TS 02-06)
201 Ed Kuepper - Little Fiddle
202 John Lindberg Revolving Ensemble - Arenas
203 Lou Reed - I Can't Stand It
204 The Cynics - Get My Way
205 Alec Empire - Make 'em Bleed
206 George Jones - You Comb Her Hair
207 I Am Kloot - Strange Without You
208 Olivier Messiaen - Les Sept Anges...
209 Suppa Micro Pamchopp - Darkstars
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Regards,
TS
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