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Ball of Wax 18 is out now. Pick up a copy.
Levi and Emory put out a challenge to the bands all over the northwest to submit singles between 60 and 119 seconds long and they got more songs than they could fit on a disc. This episode of Ball of Wax takes you all over the musical map and flows together beautifully. The tracks are all great and you’re bound to find a band that you want to hear more of. Check out a random sampling of songs and more info at the official One Minute Singles Website.

Have you been interested in the goings-on of the Northwest’s community-based online radio Hollow Earth, but haven’t had the extra time or resources to put in volunteering? What if you could support the station while attending concerts you probably would be out to see anyway? Well, Magma Festival sounds like just the fit then!

Serving as a benefit for Hollow Earth Radio, this year’s second annual Magma Festival will be held in venues across Seattle every Friday and Saturday throughout March. HER has pooled together some of their favorite bands to represent a diverse line-up throughout the eight nights. Even the Beep Repaired collective has an entire day dedicated to the release of the latest compilation.

Each show has a different set price, but why not pick up a month-long pass from the Hollow Earth website for only $35 and pay almost half price for the whole festival? You could use the extra cash to buy your very own HER t-shirt at the shows.

Tune into Hollow Earth Radio direct from your desktop: www.hollowearthradio.com

The second in our inaugural year of quarterly musical games/projects. The first being the Harry Candy game that became Ball of Wax no.11, This one is a two CD free download.

The White Elephant Record Exchange Project was undertaken by 20 individuals in the late part of January 2008. The project involved sampling, composition, and ultimately all kinds of editing and manipulation of various original source materials. Participants were first to find the “worst” and “most unusable” 12″ vinyl record possible and hand it off to the curator. Those records were then distributed to the participants insuring everyone received a different record than the one they submitted. After receiving this record, the first goal was to complete one song.
SONG A
The point of Song A was to compose a piece of around 1 minute, 30 seconds or longer, through editing and creative playback of the record alone. No pitch adjustment, time stretching, compression, or any digital effects were allowed in this phase of the project. This meant that the participant could basically just cut and paste, do a bit of layering, and then adjust track levels. It was essentially an exercise in composition to see what each individual could create with supposedly “unusable” source material and very limiting constraints.
Those songs were all finished and then given back to the curator. Once all the songs were gathered, they were then redistributed back to the original person that submitted the 12″ vinyl. For example, if you submitted Led Zeppelin “III” as your album, you then got the remixed, cut-up piece someone created from that album. Then the Song B phase began.
SONG B
The creation of this song had no boundaries whatsoever. The idea was now to allow each participant total freedom (without the difficult constraints of the Song A phase) to create a remix of someone else’s Song A piece.

Corespondents played Jack Straw Studios for the Sonarchy Broadcast back in November. It’ll be airing for the first time on Saturday February 23rd at Midnight on 90.3 FM in Seattle and streaming at kexp.org. They played for an hour nonstop and even improvised because Olie broke a string. The show will be archived at kexp.org for two weeks afterwards. Corespondents also applied for a residency at Jack Straw, wish them luck!

We’re sad to report that the SS Marie Antoinette has lost their lease.  They’ve had very little notice and all the artists are trying to find new work spaces.  Help them out if you can.  They’ll be having two more shows before they are completely moved out.  One on Sunday Sept 2nd that is with tons of bands who are not to be missed.   The very final show will be on Wednesday September 5th.  Come out and join us and we send her off on her final voyage.  We’ll miss you.  You have been a much needed service to the community.

Megan Seling at the Stranger wrote a nice article about us in last weeks issue.
Read the whole article in their archives here.

Corespondents have just released a mighty two-disc album, with one disc being a DVD. Check out noise | order records for more info on this and other releases.

Ball of Wax 8 comes out May 17th and Levi Fuller has thrown a ton of beeps on this one. Joy Wants Eternity, Snowman Plan, Corespondents and Emory Liu are on this edition with 14 other great bands.

The End’s Young & The Restless invited the Falcons to play a couple explosive songs. Listen to Pretty Little Knife + The Smiler.

PRKR accepted this year’s RPM challenge and recorded his new record “The Felt City” completely in the month of February. There were some other great Northwest artists who got involved including our dear friend Levi Fuller.