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Hal McGee – October 2025 Report (HalTapes)

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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.

BLOOM & Christopher Nosnibor – Journeys Through Inner Space (Petroglyph Music)

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Some words from Christopher Nosniborr regarding the release:

Journeys Through Inner Space

Art, in all of its many forms, often helps us to understand the world, and, indeed, ourselves. It’s also true that works which are the most personal for the creator have a wider resonance, in that they have the capacity to articulate for others something that reaches beyond art as entertainment, and that often, in the personal lies the universal. For a long time, I have found the act of writing has helped me navigate some of the most challenging times, and particularly recently, I have come to discover the catharsis of laying bare some of my most innermost thoughts on the page, and bringing these to performance.

The texts which form the narratives of Journeys Through Inner Space are taken from my novel The Deserted Island, and work in progress, Reflections on a Life, and explore themes of anxiety, bewilderment, and bereavement. These are not light or easy topics, and are topics we often shy away from. Because they are uncomfortable. But they are realities of life, and while we may wish otherwise, the stark fact is that they will likely affect us all in some way or another at some point. In these pieces, I speak only from my own experiences of my journeys through inner space.

‘Am I Really Having This Conversation?’, and ‘A Slew of Likes and Handy Hints’ – original texts appear in The Deserted Island (Clinicality Press, 2022).

All other texts from Reflections on a Life (unpublished).

The words to ‘Last Days’ appeared on a track bearing a variant title on the Last Days EP (self-released, 2023) 

 

released October 31, 2025

Christopher Nosnibor – Vocals
christophernosnibor.bandcamp.com

Deborah Fialkiewicz – Synthesizers
grahamfialkiewicz.bandcamp.com

Dan Dolby – Synthesizers, Sound Manipulation
dandolby.bandcamp.com

{AN} EeL & Lezet – Gummy (Pan Pan Pan Avian Distress Call)

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Editorial Stance
Love at first Glance
C’mon, Baby
Let’s Dance
And Shuffle
The Night Away
Down The Swans,
They Shiver
By The River
By The Lake,
Near The Shore
J’tiem Adore
Not To be a Bore,
But For
Ever More
Forevermore
You Dig ?

credits

released February 24, 2025

Sounds & Noises = Lezet & {AN|} EeL
Track # 6 = ( ft. Dj Odraz )
Text & Image = {AN} EeL

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Dylan Houser – Your Personal Swarm (Self-Released)

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Cold night on Valencia, the only spirit drifting throughout. A long-lost companion is feral yet lurks in the shadows still.

Recorded between December 2023 – January 2025

Instruments used: voice, keyboard, shortwave radio, rumble of ancient times, livestreams, running water, tiny plastic guitar, acoustic guitar, steel drum, wind chimes, synthesizer and sampler apps, outdoor field recordings, various assorted percussion, Chef Jakether speaking

Thank you to Bowman, Bevis, Bishop, and Billingsley

Is this phase two of a light that always goes out?