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On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 01:02 PM, Richard Zvonar wrote: > At 11:55 AM -0800 11/24/02, Mark Landman wrote: > >> [Plunderphonic] falls into the category of things I've wanted to hear >> for a long time and never quite got around to. > > It's available: > > http://www.negativland.com/nmol/seeland.html Thanks, I'll check it out... > >> I used to do a lot of illustration for Mondo 2000 > > What became of M2000? A big ugly implosion would be the best description, squabbles and divisions between key players, poor business practices, some highly suspect characters brought in to replace some of the original talent. It's a shame because as silly as M2 could be, they really had something interesting happening for awhile. Vaguely Loop oriented content: My personal favorite Mondo illustration was done for Pamela Z.'s interview w/ Brian Eno, which featured Eno converted to an immense ancient statue, half buried in the desert. An "Enomandias" kinda thing... > At first it seems a fairly simple transformation of the original > recording - the pitch wanders erratically all over the place, as if > the turntable were about to expire (it gives new meaning to the > "groaner" epithet sometimes applied to Bing and his emulators). Then > the backup singers come it behind him, and they're dead on pitch while > Crosby's voice continues to wander. Quite a clever hack. Sounds interesting, I'm curious how he'd separate the voice from the backing singers, perhaps the original recording was stereo and allowed him to use phase tricks to isolate components? Mark