Check out Scared Girl’s barrage of sock monkey movies. She got tons of movies up on her youtube station. You can also check them out on her blog. Everything from mummification to Law and Order.

The second in our inaugural year of quarterly musical games/projects. The first being the Harry Candy game that became Ball of Wax no.11, This one is a two CD free download.

The White Elephant Record Exchange Project was undertaken by 20 individuals in the late part of January 2008. The project involved sampling, composition, and ultimately all kinds of editing and manipulation of various original source materials. Participants were first to find the “worst” and “most unusable” 12″ vinyl record possible and hand it off to the curator. Those records were then distributed to the participants insuring everyone received a different record than the one they submitted. After receiving this record, the first goal was to complete one song.
SONG A
The point of Song A was to compose a piece of around 1 minute, 30 seconds or longer, through editing and creative playback of the record alone. No pitch adjustment, time stretching, compression, or any digital effects were allowed in this phase of the project. This meant that the participant could basically just cut and paste, do a bit of layering, and then adjust track levels. It was essentially an exercise in composition to see what each individual could create with supposedly “unusable” source material and very limiting constraints.
Those songs were all finished and then given back to the curator. Once all the songs were gathered, they were then redistributed back to the original person that submitted the 12″ vinyl. For example, if you submitted Led Zeppelin “III” as your album, you then got the remixed, cut-up piece someone created from that album. Then the Song B phase began.
SONG B
The creation of this song had no boundaries whatsoever. The idea was now to allow each participant total freedom (without the difficult constraints of the Song A phase) to create a remix of someone else’s Song A piece.

All March long Hollow Earth radio will be putting on events to cover their operating costs. There are tons of ways to get involved and help support this totally indepent, totally open format, community radio. If you haven’t listened to Hollow Earth yet… well you’re the only one, check them out here.
The best way to enjoy the Magma Festival is with a Magma pass that gets you into all of the shows for one low price.
See you there.

In 2001, some musicians in Seattle started a musical game using my name. ?Harry Candy? is a game or process of writing and recording one song or piece of music in an evening or 24 hours. The only other rule is that there must be more than one person involved, collaboration being a key element.

On November 17, 2007, 35 people met up in the morning at Dearborn on Woodland, Seattle, and split up into 11 randomly selected bands to participate in the largest round yet, and to create the first Harry Candy album. The only rule in the selection was that no one who was already in a band together could end up working together.

Over the next 24 hours, each band wrote and recorded a song and came up with a band name, and the results will be Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly Vol. 11, which will be released very soon. A week later, some adventurous souls in New York took up the challenge and produced track 12, which was deemed by all concerned to be a fine bonus addition.

Frankly, I don?t quite understand all of this, but I?m honored to have been the namesake for such a bizarre undertaking. I do hope you enjoy it.

-Harry Candy

The most recent installment of our friend Jason Kopec’s Ground Up Series, “Release the Cheerfulness, China - Ground Up 2″ is officially being released February 12, 2008 along with Mark Johnson’s “Big Metal Boxes”.
For those of you not familiar with Noise Order please check them out.
A ton of work and love has gone into all of these projects. Jason takes trips half way around the world for the Ground Up series, spending months in countries who’s languages he can’t speak and carrying a recording studio on his back… oh plus dysentery, Tamil tigers, and communist governments. Here’s what some other folks think.

Corespondents played Jack Straw Studios for the Sonarchy Broadcast back in November. It’ll be airing for the first time on Saturday February 23rd at Midnight on 90.3 FM in Seattle and streaming at kexp.org. They played for an hour nonstop and even improvised because Olie broke a string. The show will be archived at kexp.org for two weeks afterwards. Corespondents also applied for a residency at Jack Straw, wish them luck!

Two of our very own Beep bands are in Three Imaginary Girls’ top NW albums of ‘07 Reader’s Poll. Congrats to Joy Wants Eternity and Smile Brigade check it out!!!

Under the category of “Cutesy Bullshit”, our very own Smile Brigade gets worst band name of 2007 on A.V. Club Please do congratulate them on their special achievement.

35 of us got together on this past Saturday and split into 11 groups. The groups were drawn out of a hat, no bandmates could be in the same group. Then we went our separate ways to record a song in 24 hours. The result was 45 minutes of music composed, performed, edited, and mixed in one day!
The serendipitous matches were fruitful to say the least, the music is Awesome! It will be released as Ball of Wax vol. 11, due to be released in February or March 2008 sometime. The “bands” that were created will perform the song they made as well as some others? The release party and the cd itself will be a benefit for Hollow Earth Radio, as part of their fund-raising drive happening all through march. Tune into hollow Earth to hear some of the songs we made as well as music from all the musicians involved. Purple Ether Molasses and The Heat Lamps have made myspace pages too! Stay tuned, This is not the last you’ll hear about this.

The Curious Mystery will be on KEXP’s Sonarchy at Midnight on Saturday. Tune in to 90.3 or stream it on line at kexp.org

This Friday, October 12th, Smile Brigade are doing an in studio @ 107.7 The END to promote their new album and CD release show that night. Tune in @ 6pm. thanks.

Smile Brigade’s song LWB from their new album “Take the Precious Edge off This Treacherous Ledge” was featured as demo of the week on 107.7 the End’s Young and the restless. Good job guys.
Here’s a link if you want proof. click me
by the way. Their new album is out October 16th with a CD release party on the 12th. go see them.

We’re sad to report that the SS Marie Antoinette has lost their lease.  They’ve had very little notice and all the artists are trying to find new work spaces.  Help them out if you can.  They’ll be having two more shows before they are completely moved out.  One on Sunday Sept 2nd that is with tons of bands who are not to be missed.   The very final show will be on Wednesday September 5th.  Come out and join us and we send her off on her final voyage.  We’ll miss you.  You have been a much needed service to the community.

You should go to The Carousel Festival. We can’t take any credit for this event. We just want you to go to the festival and support the Seattle area creative/DIY community. Plus all the money they raise is going to Home Alive which is a good cause. See you there!
$15 3 day passes available @ Wall of Sound, Left Bank Books, Singles Going Steady, and 2nd Time Around. $5 per venue DOS. All ages, of course! All proceeds go to support Home Alive! For more info go to Carousel Festival or Seattle DIY

Megan Seling at the Stranger wrote a nice article about us in last weeks issue.
Read the whole article in their archives here.