Recently this site has been the recipient of a trickling of spam here and there. For a time I simply clicked on the “spam it” link and that was that. And then I thought: man, maybe I’m missing an opportunity here! Why not extract the content of the spam and save it for later audio pieces? So now before deleting the spam, I save it in a notepad file and plan to do some fun musical treatments with the often incoherent, insipid content. Interestingly, the tune “Don’t waste your weiner” gets the most hits! Nothing Freudian here…..
The name of my notepad file is: Teisha lives!
December 16th, 2007
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Mank’s track ‘Bored of spam’ was played on the ‘Eldorado’ show on swedish broadcasting radio last thursday. The host provided detailed information about the project and the collective for the listeners.
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December 8th, 2007
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I originally planned a musical rendition of Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” only using spam names as my fictional serfs, or “Spam Souls.” I recorded names of spam senders for a while and then read them all off as fast as I could. I incorporated that within a jumbled tapestry or voices and noises. The title “I Be Circuitous” was actually a subject from a spam email I received. I knew immediately it would be the title of my track….
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I Be Circuitous [4:53m]:
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November 15th, 2007
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I signed up for this song as it sounded like a great way to express some feelings on frustration. I was frustrated along with many other emotions when my wife left in June and would not speak to me…. but I could still get all the spam in the world whether I wanted it or not, frustrating…. I used a Roland Handsonic into a Gibson echoplex straight into my new Macbook. I played a Puerto Rican Cuatro made from Mango wood, along with some odd singing and whistling. I processed loops through an Alesis AirFX. I used some Garage band effects on some of the duplicate channels and some of the vocals.
November 15th, 2007
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“Spam, junk mail, telesales, muzak, TV, cellphone, carphone, don’tstop, shop til you drop, silence is banned.
Didgeridoo, native American drum, analogue electronic drone,transistor radio, electric guitars, softsynths, voice.”
Silence is banned [4:20m]:
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November 15th, 2007
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trivia - the vocals were recorded on a ship on the arctic ocean.
bored of spam [4:42m]:
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November 15th, 2007
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acoustic/electric guitar and spam phrases arranged and processed using Ableton Live.
www.looping.me.uk
www.myspace.com/nickrobinsonloops
don't waste your weiner [2:44m]:
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November 15th, 2007
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dco - guitars, voice, sonic manipulations, Acidification, loops etc;text selected from a sequence of spam messages received on June 22nd 2007 - any narrative flow is purely coincidental…
www.davidcooperorton.co.uk
www.myspace.com/ortones
A Teisha we all fall down [5:19m]:
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November 15th, 2007
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Process:
Used a few hundred subject and timestamps from my spam folder and had “Ralph” and “Victoria” read them using Mac OS X’s Text to Speech application, along with short “teisha” and “teisha has been banned” text files. Used Ambrosia’s WireTap Pro to record to QuickTime. Switched between the looped-in-QuickTime spoken word files fed into my multiple effects pedal signal chain, manipulated and captured loops as I went along creating layers.
Software:
Mac OS X Text to Speech
Ambrosia Software’s Wiretap Pro
QuickTime Player
Sound Soap
Hardware:
MacBook Pro
(loopers) Akai Headrush, Boss RC-20, RC-20XL, Digitech Jamman
(effects) Moog Moogerfooger lowpass filter, analog delay, super analog
delay, MuRF, bass MuRF
http://www.subscapeannex.com/
November 15th, 2007
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Description: Digital Organs + Smashing Things + Bruckner + Spam Text
November 15th, 2007
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In creating this piece I approached the concept of spam at a personal level.Every now and then I empty my hard-drive of folders containing sound experiments but nothing as extreme as actually deleting them completely, they make it to a CDR archive, were they remain in a digital deep freeze.By imagining these unused sound files as a kind of sonic spam, I’ve chosen files with specific atmospheres, which have been re-recorded in FFWD because when I was skipping through the tracks I thought this process resembled the way I navigate my inbox. So the results were deconstructed and rebuilt, mixing and looping the separate sounds to frame the lyrics, originally from spam mail ‘Subject’ lines that inevitably got elaborated and embellished upon.
November 15th, 2007
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With twelve variegated, compelling tracks, the Teisha is Now Banned CD is now complete. The packages have been created and will be mailed out to project participants tomorrow. The artists come from England, Germany, Sweden, Norway and the United States, making for an international creative effort.
The tracks will be posted here soon, and the whole CD will be available in non-lossy and lossy formats over at archive.org by the end of the week.
A big thank you and applause to all who participated in this project.
November 12th, 2007
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Initially I used TalkBackToBasics to create audio versions of the Teisha related emails. I processed and manipulated these as loops which were then remixed to form the finished track. The source materials created in this project were quite varied and some will definitely be used in future projects.
October 20th, 2007
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The lyrics in this piece are taken verbatim from comments left by a spammer on norelpref.com a few months ago. Does a person by the name of Mike Shit actually exist? According to the unrequested comments, he is someone to be reckoned with in the world of teh internets.
Mike Shit At 126 dot com [1:11m]:
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August 31st, 2007
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Creating audio (musical/spoken word,combination, etc) using "spam"(or "unsolicited electronic mail") email text as lyrical or thematic content.
Any genre, instrumentation or wacked-out treatment is cool, in fact encouraged. Let imaginations go wild.