a new FTCRPS cassette, entitled "Hard On/Off Hearong," was released by Mind Skull Records on Sat. Apr. 16, 2011.
Lado 1:
"This File Is Corrupted"
(recorded by Margaret Cox on Jan. 22nd 2011 during Winter Void Fest 3 The Shop in Pgh, PA with two overdubs recorded by Edgar Um Bucholtz in March 2011.)
Lado 2:
"Viking Fireman Inseminator"
(recorded Apr. 11th 2007 at Modern Formations in Pgh, PA)
Stephen Boyle - fake guitar, ring modulator, microphone, telephone tap, tapes, percuss, junk, shirt and tie
Edgar Um Bucholtz - pigs, cdj, silence, beer bottle, pot, scrubs, paper, cornet, radio, voice, misc. objects
Matthew Wellins - electronics, clarinet
artwork by Josh Bonnett
an edition of 75 cassettes are available only via Mind Cure Records in Pittsburgh, PA. $5/each.
this audio cassette from 1992 (or 1991?) was the first self-issued Telecorps release--even though we called it a "bootleg." it was our attempt to make a live record as shitty as "Confusion Is Sex." we succeeded hugely. it is pure shit. it consists of audio edits of Telecorps rehearsing in the living room of the band house on Hobart Street in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. i made these edits using the shittiest tape decks available and without listening to the source material nor what i was editing.
our friend, songwriter/guitarist Gary Anderson who could never quite grasp what Telecorps was ever trying to do, commented on over-hearing these rehearsals that it seemed we were "really reaching out." hence, the title.
House of Duh was a conceptual and real noise and rock label run by Ray-C-Ray of the bands Propane Beef Dog, Salt Chunk Mary, Telecorps and Infinite Slab of Electric. this release is House of Duh 98.
the cover design and song titles are by Markus P. Spanglestein of Revo/O.R.I. (Edgar Um Bucholtz may have assisted.)
the only time Telecorps played State College (on the "Healthy Lifestyles" mini-tour with Fly Wallpaper a.k.a. Giorgio, Salt Chunk Mary, and Tiny Little Help featuring Duane Jones), we gave away or sold this fake bootleg cassette. Edgar Um Bucholtz's step brother, John Archer, was at a house party in State College a few years later and found one of these cassettes underneath a bathroom sink. or maybe it was a toilet.
Telecorps performed "99/33" as the opening act for a concert (organized and promoted by Manny Theiner) featuring The Haters, Caroliner Rainbow Oblivion and The Spo-its on August 13, 1991 at the Birmingham Lofts gallery in the South Side of Pittsburgh.
in this composition, Telecorps performed 99 songs in 33 minutes. the start and stop times of each song were pre-determined using chance operations. no individual song could be longer than 9 seconds. musicians followed a timed score and a clock. (due to the way that the score was composed, individual songs could sometimes overlap and create longer than 9 second periods of sound-making.)
various mics placed around the musicians fed the sounds of each song into a mixing console which was manipulated (per song) by a recording engineer who followed his own timed score (adjusting mic volume input levels, equalization and stereo panning.)
the (manipulated) sounds of each song were recorded to individual numbered cassettes (#1 - 99.) members of a volunteer assembly line packaged each song cassette as it was recorded into manila envelopes and used chance operations (via a program written in the BASIC language for a Commodore 64 home computer), local phone books and a Pittsburgh postal code book to determine mailing addresses in the greater Pittsburgh area for each cassette.
each cassette package also contained a photo-copied page (also selected using chance operations) from Jacques Attali's book "Noise: The Political Economy of Music" with a Telecorps 99/33 song chart on the reverse side.
immediately after the end of the Telecorps performance, 78 completed cassette packages were taken to the U.S. Post Office in the South Side and mailed.
21 of the 99 cassette packages were not completed at the end of the performance and were not mailed.
over the course of the following two years, 10 of the 78 cassette packages were returned due to various postal irregularities.
of the 68 cassette packages that were received at the selected addresses, Telecorps received no replies to the Telecorps P.O. Box return address listed on the packages.
for this performance, Telecorps was:
Edgar Um Bucholtz: voice, Atari 800XL BASIC programming, 99/33 scores, process, audience handout design Raq. V. B.: bass, bandages Ray C Ray: drum set Sam Ward: drum set, clock Oliver Kollar: electric guitar, fx, clock Bob Kollar: Commodore 64 BASIC programming, postal address divination Sarah Wilkes: address divination, addressing Kate Glicksberg: labeling, packaging Gary Miklusek: tape deck operator Marty Miklusek: tape deck operator Ky Kim: audio engineer Matt Marcus: asst. audio engineer Missy Galore: video documentation, costume design for Edgar Um Bucholtz Jen Saffron: still photographer
this is a 7 minute edit (made on March 28, 2009) of the original 50 minute video documentation master. this edit features approximately 20 songs (of the 99 performed.) the sound for this video was recorded in-camera and thus is not ideal.
the radio music that can be heard in the background during the latter half of this video edit is the result of members of the Spo-its who attempted to sabotage our performance with easy listening AM sounds.
special thanks to Manny Theiner and WRCT.
i plan to photograph and digitize the audio on the unsent and returned cassettes. i'll post it on here when i get to it.
Fuck Um Bucholtz "Tempelcorps Ass Rash 93" a.k.a. "(P)(r)(E)(A)(Z)(A)(N)(S)(e)" (2009 rough edit)
this is a 2009 rough edit of a live Edgar Um Bucholtz solo electronics performance on WRCT 88.3 FM in the wee hours of the morning of an unknown day of 1993.
instruments used: Casio CZ-101 (in system mode), voice, analog and digital delays, parametric equalizers, feedback, tape loops and misc. other FX boxes.
this performance was inspired by sounds on the "Kosmische Musik" compilation released in 1972 on the Ohr label of Germany. thanks to Dave Shim for turning me on to this compilation.
this recording is a cross between screeching power electronics and slowly-evolving Kosmische Musik. the original master is approximately 60 minutes. i edited out many of the transitional sections. i would like to cut it down more at some point.
listen to this the way it was created: at VERY LOUD VOLUME.
notes from the original cassette master (shown below):
"LIVE UP-UM SYNTH THESIS 1993 (NOSIED)"
"Cosmo Synth Musick (Please to Destroy)"
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April 27, 2009 update:
i re-uploaded this track. it should now be in stereo.
I make odd sounds in Fuck Telecorps, Cock Scene Investigator and sometimes solo. I play vinyl + digital records (DJ Edgar Um) and organize concerts and misc. events at the Shop (an all-ages art and performance venue in Pittsburgh, PA) and elsewhere.
