This drawing is another of a series of “geese”creatures that I have created throughout the years, starting in 1966 with the “Original Super Cosmic Goose.” I’m really not sure when I made the drawing, but I would guess sometime between 1970 and 1990. In this one, I gave names to the anatomy of this creature. Of course, it is quite juvenile and I feel a little embarrassed, but I know some of you will laugh, and that’s what matters. Be sure and click the picture to see a larger image for all the silly details!

There was up to 4 more inches of snow overnight in Seattle from December 23rd to December 24th. Everybody thinks I’m nuts, but I am starting to wonder if my roof could collapse.

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As requested, the other side of the 78 rpm record “You Cooked Your Goose With Me (updated).” The recording technique (no processing) is the same as well.

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Me and my grandfather’s rototiller in 1958

Another shot of me and the rototiller

Here is a recording I made in the 1980s, which was played several times on Over the Edge and in particular an episode called “The Starting Line.” I would usually announce that while I was recording, the rototiller would hit a rock and the person operating it would cuss. That never actually happened. With that in mind, this “field” recording seems to be well liked. As a matter of fact, it is a field recording and of course I used my Sony TC-D5M cassette recorder with a one point stereo condenser microphone. I have for you the entire “Rototiller Tape,” plus a couple of pictures of myself and a rototiller at my grandparent’s home in Santa Rosa, California, most likely in 1958.

A few scenes around my home and neighborhood after more than a foot of snowfall.

Seattle Snowstorm

Frost Car

Bamboo and Snow

Light Post

Icicles

Little Mountain of Snow

Back Deck and Rain Gauge

Not Isis The Cat

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Here is the other side of the tape. Details are the same as “Christmas 1984 Scrabble Part 1.”

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Quite often my family liked to play scrabble when visiting during the Christmas holidays. I recorded this in stereo on my Sony TC-D5M cassette recorder using metal tape and Dolby B noise reduction. The microphone was an ECM-939LT one point stereo condenser. The voices of my mother, my father, my grandmother, and myself can be heard. I am presenting this unedited and with no audio processing.

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Here is something that will smack you! It consists of a tape loop played on my Roberts 192FT tape recorder, featuring a children’s song about safety. The artist is Frank Luther, who recorded nursery rhymes and children’s songs and stories throughout the 1940s and mid-1950s. I have intentionally made this too long. That’s where the “torture” comes to mind.

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Here is a recording from Christmas, 1981, when I had a talkback speaker set up where my mother and grandmother were talking. This is their reaction to “Bicycle Horn Underwater.”

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You Cooked Your Goose With Me (original capture)

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You Cooked Your Goose With Me (no processing)

Here is a 78 RPM record from a thrift store that I think might be a good addition to the “How Dare You” kind of thinking. I recorded it again with no audio processing. A Newcomb TR-1625M turntable with a General Electric variable reluctance magnetic cartridge played the record. The signal from the cartridge bypassed the built-in amplifier and was fed to a UREI (United Recording Electronics Industries) 1122 preamplifier. Since the UREI is a professional unit, it is known as a “transcription preamplifier.” Then I connected a balanced (3 wire) line from the 1122 to my Yamaha MG10/2 mixer with the controls at flat (no frequencies boosted or cut).

Capitol Americana

UREI Model 1122 phono preamplifier

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This is the original recording, which was transcribed and used as an insert for the first Negativland release “Negativland” in 1980. Keep in mind it was not recorded and only presented as printed material. Also the recording actually starts after the dotted line and then goes to bottom of the page, then jumps to the top of the page and ends with “Ehh-hemm,” which is my grandmother clearing her throat. At the time, we felt the text would look better if it was rearranged. If you would like to follow the text with the recording click on the text to get a larger, clearer image. The other side of the same insert has the “Coffee Desserts” recipe.
I made this recording in the early 1970s on my Norelco 1530 cassette recorder, most likely using the dynamic microphone supplied with this machine. The quality is somewhat poor, mainly because of something this recorder was doing before I realized it was happening. Quite often I would set the controls in ‘record’ and ‘pause’ at the same time to check the record level without rolling the tape, and I would do this anywhere on the tape including parts I had already recorded. Little did I know, doing that would make a noise where the record head was resting on the tape. I realize now the record head was operating and recording even when the tape was not moving.