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Ivan McEanany is a fictional sound artist, experimental musician, and sound designer based in Chicago, Illinois. Conceived at midnight on January 1, 1970, he is one of the founding members of Unix Epoch, and its homonymic twin band, Eunuch Zepach. When asked about the difference between the two bands, Ivan says “One of them plays louder.” His sound art installations typically involve percussive phase cancellation, producing pulses of unexpected silence in dense urban settings.
Ivan’s notes on TTMAKAMTT:
Museum Waltz:
This piece was recorded on location (without permission) at Chicago’s Museum of Science of Industry, on Good Friday, 2002. At the time I was working as a sound designer at the museum. The loops were created in December 2006.
Welcome To McDonalds:
Recorded on location (without permission) near a McDonald’s drive-through, East Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October-November, 2006. Loops, December, 2006.
Things the Mind Already Knows Already Mind the Things - 1 & 2:
For many years, I did sound design work for low-budget and no-budget Chicago storefront theatre productions, places like the Pataphysical Laboratory. Doing these shows I amassed a large collection of consumer-grade sound effects CDs—“Sounds of Nature,” “Sounds of Horror,” that kind of thing. Of course, as an audio geek, I was embarrassed by these SFX collections, and always tried to do my own original recordings—but often the director would prefer the canned sounds, with their campy directness—this is what the world was supposed to sound like, not what it really sounded like.
Ivan’s notes on TTMAKAMTT:
Museum Waltz:
This piece was recorded on location (without permission) at Chicago’s Museum of Science of Industry, on Good Friday, 2002. At the time I was working as a sound designer at the museum. The loops were created in December 2006.
Welcome To McDonalds:
Recorded on location (without permission) near a McDonald’s drive-through, East Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October-November, 2006. Loops, December, 2006.
Things the Mind Already Knows Already Mind the Things - 1 & 2:
For many years, I did sound design work for low-budget and no-budget Chicago storefront theatre productions, places like the Pataphysical Laboratory. Doing these shows I amassed a large collection of consumer-grade sound effects CDs—“Sounds of Nature,” “Sounds of Horror,” that kind of thing. Of course, as an audio geek, I was embarrassed by these SFX collections, and always tried to do my own original recordings—but often the director would prefer the canned sounds, with their campy directness—this is what the world was supposed to sound like, not what it really sounded like.
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selfsurprise My fondness for this mans work just keep growing. Adds a welcome interruption to the usual 'musicality' of my playlists :p
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sergulio Интересный саунд. Кто-нибудь ещё оценит эту музыку ?
