New for Tuesday July 8, 2008

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♪ New music added ♪

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8-second piece: "Dinger" (loop) cc.2008, Ethan Persoff http://www.ep.tc/ ++++ http://www.ep.tc/music/

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"DINGER" is an eight second piece of looping music, intended to repeat perpetually as a background sound, or to be played with directly as a toy with other mixing equipment. Main ingredients include voices, machinery, melody, and a bell. Add anything to it you'd like, or just download the Aif file and play in Quicktime on loop. Stereo or headphone set-up preferred.

Commissioned by Dublab for their Into Infinity project.

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LISTEN TO A ONE-MINUTE DINGER (mp3)

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DOWNLOAD THE DINGER LOOP
(hires Aif file and mp3 example)

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Horse #006

DISNEYLAND SINGLE
(October 10 2007)

To a new life, and in memory of a good friend. Seven self-pressed 12" acetates, single side. mp3 available at link.

Click Here for
the DISNEYLAND PAGE
Link contains mp3 and three additional pieces

Horse #005

SPREE: An Escape from Reality

Dedicated to Alger Hiss and Ernie Kovacs

Album art folds out to form a Las Vegas stage with small stand for disc.

Click for an enlarged image

Produced in three limited pressings of ten copies each time in early 2005, mid 2005 and late 2006 - vinyl LP forthcoming.

CD is thirteen tracks, covering the album's four sides. Special SUPRAPHON Czechoslovakian Label. Out of print.

To Listen to/Download:

Click Here for
the SPREE PAGE
Link contains mp3s of the entire album,
along with many images

tracklisting:

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LISTEN TO: "..and goodbye"
(track is from the
forty minutes album, see below)

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2003
January CDR

Title: January CDR [Horse# 004]
Release Date / Recording Date: January 2003

Two tracks: "I Stayed Home..." and "Side B"
40 copies, small 3" CD, out of print. For a while this was my favorite album, both for the recording and for the time of life it captured, etc.

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LISTEN TO: "I STAYED HOME..."

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To Listen to/Download:
CLICK HERE FOR THE 25 LESSONS PAGE
Link contains mp3s of the entire album, and addtl images

2001
"SNAP!"

Title: "SNAP!" [Horse# 002]
Release Date: May 2001

Recorded September 2000 through April 2001

A dedicated hand-spliced effort. Many consider this their favorite (or second favorite) recording of ours; others prefer the later work. Our last use of splice tape and other analog editing methods, like manipulating a reel-to-reel for pitch effects. No computer used. Title refers to a state of mind, but is also a structural description of how sounds in this piece pop together like puzzle pieces; no overdubbing.

Album tells a story.(notes)
Released and created in conjunction with Teddy.

100 copies, out of print. CD shown below. Worked as a hypnodisc with instructions for listeners to place their hands on CD case and their thumb on the disc, and work like a toy. More information.

To Listen to/Download:
CLICK HERE FOR THE "SNAP!" PAGE
Link contains mp3s of both sides one and two of album

1999
Forty Minutes Forty Memories

Title: "Forty Minutes Forty Memories:
Horrible Music by Ethan Persoff" [Horse# 001]
Release Date: January 1999

The saying goes, "You had to be there". Recorded one night at Harry's Loft, 1999 and issued for sale on CD four days later, this is our first album under the Horse Imprint -- and it is a clear break from the work made beforehand. There are some that think this is the single finest album they've ever heard (seriously), and others who demand to know what kind of asshole joke is being pulled on them. That was the question from the store owner who sold this for me. I have no answers, except to say the farther I get from this recording the more I really enjoy it. I'm not kidding. Most importantly, this is the first album where we stopped making boring art school sound sculpture and jumped right into a bigger pool of water, which we're still swimming through, some eight years later. Raw and Bent as it gets. The listener is justly cautioned. Perfect for heavy drug parties, or pissing off the entire neighborhood when played at maximum volume. Thus, please play on maximum volume, and while bending on heavy drugs.

35 copies produced, 1999, and 15 copies produced in conjunction with SNAP in 2001 -- this 2nd version issued on CD re-writable disc with "It's a VALUE, You Can Erase" purple factory sticker. Both editions out of print.

Re-issued as a limited digital edition in 2007

DOWNLOAD ENTIRE ALBUM
(Link goes to a zip file, includes album art jpegs)
Download limit exceeded, will be posted again soon in 2009

track listing:

1993-1997

DESCRIPTION: Sound work, noise sculpture, pranks, hysteria, experiments, smart assing, etc done while living in Chicago, 93-97. Our earliest sound work. Despite our snub at this work above, there's some really good stuff here, alot of it with a good sense of humor, too.

200 copies, produced as a collection, December 2003. Out of print. We'll release a few mp3s here from time to time.

For Download / Our Sentimental Favorites:

DO YOU HEAR THE FROG? (1993)
Produced during my first exposure to any recording equipment (I was 18, first time in a real studio - and this was years before you could download software or have affordable mixing equipment on a home PC), as such this odd track is completely unrecreatable for its mayhem and loud good feeling. I'm just having too much fun. Play this one at high volume when visiting the folks for Thanksgiving, I did. Remarkably similar to how I still record with regard to sampling and self-created sound, but the lack of structure makes this all its own early thing, and was a great start for years to come. Instruments include: four See and Says, a Mickey Mouse toy telephone, and screaming (both live and sampled). Completely hand-spliced, over 400+ cuts on recordable 1/4" tape. Mixed to four-track and presented in three sections. Our first recording. Received a very positive response from Chicago's noise community. Got played on Radio DaDa and was included in a couple art events around the city at the time. A good early feeling to continue making work.

CHIRP (1994)
Chicago is depressing as it gets, and makes you miss nature (or hills, or trees, or sun, etc) - and I started making electronic friends to compensate. This features early examples of the mechanical and electronic birds. Also some self-made instruments, a big metal rotating drum, reel-to-reel tape loops, four small battery-operated tin cups, other props. Live recording at a performance gallery, later edited down to 4:50 for this recording. First use of computer for post-mixing.

...And that's about it.

- More early mp3s will be posted at a later date -

Thanks - Ethan

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