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VOICE OVER
Commisioned by the Art Gallery of York University and hosted there, Voice Over is a script composed from over 5000 film taglines* then performed by voice over artist Scott Taylor.
Taylor is only reading 6 pages. The original edit of the script is 23 pages which can be downloaded as a PDF from UBU.com here.
YESTERDUH
"Oddly haunting." Salon.com
During April of 2006, I ran a recording studio at Mercer Union. Passersby were stopped and asked to sing, from memory and with no practice, the Beatles’ Yesterday. They were given headphones with an instrumental track to help them out. If they couldn’t remember the words, they were told to “just make it up.” Everyone was paid a $5.00 performance fee. I then took all the versions recorded and created several different mixes including:
-A mix featuring 60 layered individual tracks of people trying to remember the words to Yesterday.
-Several solo versions featuring the most unique and made up lyrics.
Download Yesterduh (All together now)
Listen to WYNC's segment on Yesterduh
Limited to 200 copies, CD is packaged in a 3 color silk-screened LP sleeve with a 12 x 16 metallic ink print and a copy of the exhibition essay. List of everyone who sang...here.
Some copies still available from Art Metropole (click here).
Yesterduh is also available on The Definitive Host
"Record of the Year." -Alex Ross
"Serious hilarity..." FRIEZE #91
MINIMA MORALIA
OUT OF PRINT....Available on The Definitive Host
Download "They the People" and "Every Work of Art is An Uncommitted Crime."
It’s just a bad idea, and it began when I was mentioning to a friend about how funny it is that all those old anti capitalist punk albums with the “PAY NO MORE THAN $3” warnings can now be Ebay-ed for a $100. For some reason, we then both thought of Greil Marcus’s book Lipstick Traces. How he made a glib aside about Marxist theorist Theodore Adorno and his exhiled-in-1940s-America memoir, Minima Moralia. With its bleaker-than-black humour and dismantling of modern life, Marcus said it would have made an excellent punk album. Why not take this pop wish and make it come true?
2 editions of 50, 2004
Greatest Hit
"[An] info-blizzard. Frail, but tenacious." —Pitchfork
Greatest Hit included in Wired’s Playlist for January, 2006
“The six tracks on this meta-mix were each made by smashing together the entire selection of songs from a different album. It turns everyone from the Rolling Stones to Kenny G into an eerily familiar cacophony.” Wired Magazine
This is a collection of single tracks composed from entire “Greatest Hits” albums. Ever imagine all 22 songs of The Carpenters’ 1968-1983 playing simultaneously? Now you don’t have to just imagine. Whitney Houston’s The Ballads starts sharing sonic space with Sainkho Namtchylak. Every track on The Police: Greatest Hits combines for a rhythmic freakout not unlike recent Boredoms. In this busy, hectic world, who has time for an entire album?
90% of this limited edition digipack is made from recovered album material.