Label Description: Dylan Houser and Hal McGee recorded the sounds of Stipulations Without Frontiers from January 1-23, 2025 with Sony ICD PX-470 stereo digital dictaphones in Lakeland and Gainesville, Florida. On January 27th we created a dictaphone assemblage by playing our 274 recordings on four PX-470s in random/shuffle mode, and we recorded the mix directly into Audacity with no post production.
Dylan Houser: voice (demonic or otherwise), percussion, HiChord pocket synthesizer, door harp, wind chimes, oversized Christmas bell, blowing bubbles in a beverage with a straw, celebrity impersonations, automobiles passing by, foot steps, sprinklers, the air, fm radio, shortwave radio, not needing AI, button pressing, NOINPUTMIXER app, Koala app, TikTok samples, running water, unidentified clanging, pocket shuffling, and various assorted outdoor field recordings (and some indoor, too)
Hal McGee: sounds of my daily life, spoken words, my dog Stanley, neighbors and family, sending postal mail, conversations with Charles Rice Goff III and a former co-worker and Trevor Luke, crows and whippoorwills, Yamaha ReFace CS synth, airplanes and helicopters, Steinway baby grand piano, Yamaha Reface YC mini-organ, two string pink dumpster guitar, medical staff and hospital sounds, flowing water, circuit bent Casio SK-1, leaf blowers and garbage trucks, transparent plastic ukulele, Casio VA-10, Casio VL-Tone.
This album is dedicated to the immortal memories of Harold McGee (June 13, 1936-January 9, 2025) and Chef Jakether Black-Houser (ca. 2014-January 28, 2025).
