{"id":517,"date":"2007-07-18T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:23:11","slug":"disposable-guitar-play-once-throw-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/07\/disposable-guitar-play-once-throw-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found a digitised copy of that old cassette recording of the plank guitar I previously mentioned<\/a>. The cassette Disposable Guitar Play Once Throw Away<\/span> was made in a limited edition of half a dozen or so, as part of a fund-raising group exhibition for a small art space in Melbourne, back in 1999. Each copy was made on a very cheap cassette, with a unique handmade letraset cover (at the time I had a theory that, as it faded into obsolescence, the cassette would replace vinyl as the romanticised fetish medium of choice).<\/div>\n
Each side was 30 minutes long. An improvisation on the plank guitar filled up the A side, recorded directly onto cassette through a pair of cheap plastic microphones awkwardly placed on the floor (one mike lead was very short) of a living room in a terrace house in Carlton. The two excerpts given below beautifully capture the sonic limitations of both the recording means and the battery-powered 0.2 watt speaker built into the hollowed-out end of the plank.<\/div>\n