WEEKLY BLENDING of extremely rare and often unheard music from government offices…self-help gurus…awkward 1970s cult sermons…educational albums, other miscellany — PAIRED WITH, EDITED, AND PROCESSED THROUGH: vintage and modern electronics, samplers, manual tape-cut edits, turntable mishandling, pitch loops, field recorders, analog delay boxes, control voltage noises, other instruments. (See box at right for current playlist)
2013 - "I WANT TO MAKE YOU HAPPY TONIGHT" (Your Head Weighs Ten Pounds)
2010 - "LIVE AT HARRY'S LOFT" (music for the young, restless, undisciplined, and barefoot)
Title: "SNAP!" [Horse#
002]
Release Date: May 2001
Recorded September 2000 through April 2001
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.
Title: "SAVE THIS FOR LATER,
it's not music"
1993-1997, chicago [Horse# 000]
Released as a collection: December 2003.
FULL TRACK LISTING:
DISC ONE:
01 Do you Hear the Frog?
02 Horror Film (they're at the door)
03 Part One
04 Part Two
05 CHIRP
06 Flying Saucers (flying saucers)
07 Chimney
08 Roof
09 Oh Yes
10 Loop
11 clackCLACK
12 static
13 voice
14 abstract A
15 abstract B
16 abstract C
17 Short Diddy
18 Sad Saw
19 Ripping Off John Cage
20 Epilogue
DISC TWO:
01 clicksaw
02 dumbo
03 sketches
04 Bass Loop
05 Miss Amanda Jones
06 3:15 a.m. on the Highway Bridge
07 WIN!
08 Clatter
09 classical music
10 Pop Organ Trio
11 Tumblin' Dice
12 Saw one
13 Saw two
14 Saw three
15 Saw four
16 Oscillate
17 DING
18 Grasshopper
19 Saw five
20 sssssLLLp
21 a night out
22 untitled #1
23 untitled #4
24 untitled #17
25 untitled #6
26 Ending no. One
27 Ending no. Two
28 Ending no. Three
DESCRIPTION: Sound
work, noise sculpture, pranks, hysteria, experiments, smart assing, etc done while living in Chicago, 93-97.
200 copies, produced as a collection, December 2003.
Compilation CD distributed at NYC MOCCA Festival when Pogostick was up for a Harvey Award. 50 copies produced - each of these folded into a pocket made from a different sheet of aging newsprint from 1950s porno/exploitation magazines. Sample pages contained headlines like "CAN A MAN BE RAPED" and "SEX BINGE BINGO".
Here's one of the few ones of these left:
Here are few other examples:
tracklisting:
LISTEN TO:
"..and goodbye"
(track is from the
forty minutes album, see below)
Horse #001
1999 - Forty Minutes Forty Memories
Title: "Forty Minutes Forty
Memories:
Horrible Music by Ethan Persoff" [Horse# 001]
Release Date: January 1999
First album. Recorded one night at Harry's Loft, issued for sale on CD four days later. Live recording. WFMU recently called it "outsider art" and a listener commented "makes sadism almost understandable."
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.
