Seizure
14 August 2002
Collage Techniques
Kenneth Gaburo, John Oswald, Paul Kotheimer, Rascal Reporters, The Tape Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Spike Jones, No Imagination, Negativland, They Might be Giant's "Fingertips," The Beatles' "Revolution 9", and featuring The Bran Flakes' new album "Bounces."!
Strange but this cassette from 1992: The Tape Beatles' "The Grand Delusion" from the Plagiarism label, contains lots of horrifying mixes of speeches about the War on Terrorism and Osama bin Laden. You would never recognize those speeches as not from this year. After playing side one (I think, since the sides aren't labeled) of that, I mixed George Bush (Sr.)'s "On The Commencement of the Bombing of Iraq" speech, mixed with some Naked City and Authentic Sound Effects Volume II. Although this point may have been lost on the poor listener, it was a strange reminder of how today's speeches were written a decade or more ago. In 2002 we are being fed a pumped-up revision of the policies we voted out in 1992 (the Eclectic Guy, 14.8.2002 9:30:59 PM CST).