Where Are My Cigarettes?

Direct mp3 download or play:  Where Are My Cigarettes? – Part 1

Part 1

Direct mp3 download or play:  Where Are My Cigarettes? – Part 2

Part 2

Here are the original recordings that I made with my mother in the early 1980’s. I used my Superscope C-104 monaural cassette recorder. This recorder has a line input and automatic record level only, so the sound is quite compressed and noisy. Also, the room (my bedroom in Martinez, California) didn’t have much to absorb the sound, which accounted for the reverberant sound quality.  I think I used Sony F-98 dynamic microphones and an inexpensive older RadioShack mixer with no level meters. I may have had my dbx 161 compressors in line as well and as far as I know there was never a stereo version of these recordings. You can hear how Part 2 was used on the third Negativland release “A Big 10-8 Place” in the piece called “180-G: A Big 10-8 Place Part Two.”