Hal McGee recorded live at the Shamrock Irish Restaurant and Pub, 1017 West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, on Monday, October 23, 2006, as part of The Tom Miller Show. An interesting example of what I like to call an "organized accident". As I was setting up my equipment (after Microwave Windows played) several audience members came up to the edge of the stage and started talking to me and asking questions about my gear. While I was pleased with the very friendly and enthusiastic attitude of the audience, I also got very distracted and didn't set up my gear properly! Early on in the performance the loop players (loaded with Tapegerm loops) failed, as did the circuit bent Casio SK-1, which has a tendency to be unpredictable and crash any way. My audio works often spring to life at the juncture where my intentions meet my technical failures, at the place where my plans collide with mistakes. I was forced to change my performance midstream, and so it became something different, a new creature. Ah! - the joyful chaos of the unexpected - the happy and fortuitous happenstance of improvisation. Emergent music. Dada fluxus free form improvisational collage. After the performance one audience member told me that it was like watching a philosophy professor delivering a lecture in a science lab with a lot of weird experiments going on. The words I read were taken from random text generators, and from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC. My thanks to Tom Miller, Christopher Miller, Andrew Chadwick, Brandon Abell, and the audience!
