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Weirdo Collage (An Audio Experiment)

from Katwalk by The Stray Katz

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For a time, the Stray Katz rented space above a towing shop for their four-track analog recording studio, Midnight Productions, and the place was awful (but cheap). With thick carpeting swatches stapled to the walls as cheap soundproofing, and with a complete lack of ventilation for all the equipment packed into an extremely small space, the studio would regularly reached brain-melting temperatures in the daytime (but drop to freezing at night). Add to that the cacophony of Monday-to-Friday towing-shop sounds and an ever-present, pervasive funk from a rancid kitchen infested with mice and Midnight Productions was the kind of place where one could easily go nuts, which might explain the audio experiment called “Weirdo Collage” (simply the file name I came up with when I transferred the thing from analog to digital). Bassist Gord Bell and I began toying with the idea of coming up with strange sounds to run in the background of a song (much like the fairground organs and calliope music that George Martin created for the Beatles’ “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!). So we started recording random things before randomly slicing and re-splicing tape, sometimes forward and sometimes backward. We just went with however the heat melted and influenced our thoughts. We never wound up using the thing and I wouldn’t classify “Weirdo Collage” as anything ground-breaking, but it was completely fun—something that I’m happy just to throw out to the world for whatever future use it may find.

P.S. If you do use this thing in some song or other production (and you’re free to do so, royalty free), shoot me an email at xrisville@yahoo.ca to let me know and I’ll in turn let people know about it on the Xrisville Facebook page.

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from Katwalk, released December 8, 2012
Xristopher Bland: recording, slicing, dicing, general noodle-ness

Gord Bell: recording, splicing, de-splicing, general free-wheelin’-nogginness

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