Hal McGee – October 2025 Report (HalTapes)

Label Description:

October 2025 Report
was recorded October 1st through 31st 2025
in Gainesville, Florida
with four Sony ICD PX-470 stereo digital dictaphones
dictaphone assemblage audio folk art
with spoken words by Hal
co-starring Stanley
rain, kazoo, frog clicker, circuit bent Casio SK-1, various harmonicas,
stewed tomatoes canjo, cigar box diddley bow,crows, aircraft, two string (then one string) pink dumpster guitar, transparent plastic ukulele, in ostrich tuning, smoke alarm signal, emergency vehicles, my mom’s dog Bailey, KQ Unotone iPhone and iPad synth, Stylophone CPM DS-2 analog synthesizer, SUPERFREQ built by Ryan Stanley, miscellaneous sounds and conversations from Apartment Music 58, wooden train whistle, sounds from Mark McGee’s 2025 Halloween Extravaganza, Finley McGee’s second birthday, conversations with neighbors, gaseous emissions from my asshole
— the voices of Dylan Houser, Trevor Luke, Alex Smith, Mark McGee, Finley McGee, JoAn McGee, and Kyle McGee
— thanks to Rafael González, who contributed numerous dictaphone recordings of him speaking, singing, playing the trumpet, Casio SK-1, crickets, and sounds from his daily life.

my beloved two string pink dumpster guitar has finally attained its true potential and destiny! it is now a one string pink dumpster guitar, and is now perfect. it always had one string too many! the “bass” string broke during my performance at Apartment Music 58.