vastlesssmudge

Listen to a track made with Toy keyboards.
The Casio SK-1 to be precise and sampled
television. It's called "Now boarding
Giddy-UP!!"

Listen.

Ok. One more.
This one will take you back.
Memories, pressed between the pages of
my brain. This is your brain? This is
your brain on vastlesssmudge.

The Tools. Photo by Boytoy

DID YOU?



DID YOU?

DID YOU?

Shakerman
Music by David Pohl
Lyrics by pingting
Vocals & Kazoo- pingting
Percussion- David Pohl

Recorded at House of Pingting

Copyright © 1997 Wakefulness Songs

Released on Nigh
1997
Castle Von Buhler Records

Shakerman was recorded during 1994-95 sessions for what became Microgroove.

Links
The KZSU Database
Anon
Romare Bearden

Above Image:

Shakerman
Dimensional Illustration by David Pohl
Used to illustrate the song. Included in
Art & Music sampler compilation:
Nigh, 1997 Castle Von Buhler Records.

Copyright © 1997 David Pohl. All Rights Reserved.
House of Pingting Archives

The Taos Hum
(407.84 seconds)
1999

Sampled sound manipulation created using Macromedia
Soundedit 16 & an Apple McIntosh PowerPC 8600.

This track was birthed from a post-vastlesssmudge recording project called Loop Yoga, which began in 1999. After finding it not quite suitable for that project, (too vastlesssmudge like) I decided to file under it under: vastlesssmudge. Hence, The Taos Hum joins a group of new (post-1995) recordings deemed to be smudge-like which now live on my ipod under the album title: 30 Years of vastlesssmudge and will slowly be released over the next several months on this vastlesssmudge blog.

vastlesssmudge lives on.

Copyright © 1999 House of Pingting Music


The Taos Hum is a mysterious low-pitched noise that some residents of Taos, New Mexico claim to hear. More generally, the phenomenon, referred to as the Hum , has been reported from all over the world, especially in Europe. Appearently undetectable by microphones, its source and nature is still a mystery. It is believed by some that this ultra low frequency originates from a covert hidden government research laboratory, whose existence has neither been proven or disproved. Other scientists ascribe this phenomenon to naturally-occurring geological events. A variety of theories that have been advanced are reviewed in the article the Hum . The lore of this phenomenon has become part of the appeal of this unique community.

Source: Wikipedia

Photograph by Rami T.F. Rekola

While not a political band, vastlesssmudge thought it important enough to take time
out from shopping at the Lazy Boy Furniture showroom to honor our President on
this President's Day.

Since the official release date (1.25.06) of the official
vastlesssmudge blog, literally hundreds (103) of visitors have flocked to the site to listen, learn and become enchanted with the band no one has heard of.

Congratulations to our 100th visitor Brad who was awarded a valuable prize package worth over $1.99

I was the Stu Suttcliffe of vastlesssmudge.

Really I was more like the guy from Hawkwind who stayed in Canada while they were on tour there - I think it was del dettmar ; it could have been dik mik, but that's obscure even for me.

In the early 80's under the name "Dunc" I performed on the following recordings:

Sitting with my baby on a boat (that floats) - backing vocals and kazoo
Downtown - clarinet
Barbara Ann - vocal and tape manipulation
We are going to talk to Ted - possibly percussion, but i may just have been present

I don't know if any were released.

Since leaving the band, I've become a regular on the vastlessmudge fan convention circuit and a well-known but secret source of pirated vastlesssmudge recordings. I am currently working on a tell all memoir of the early days of vastlesssmudge.

Sincerely,

Brian Peaslee

Jim
Nelson A. Shawn / Caesar Petrillo / Edward Ross / Milton Samuels

Jim doesn't ever bring me pretty flowers
Jim never tries to cheer my lonely hours
Don't know why I'm so crazy for Jim

Listen

Jim (1988)
from the compilation: vastlesssmudge from chariots to garbage cans volume 1

Instrumentation: Acoustic guitar and vocals
Recorded in Fall 1988 in Lisboa, Portugal.
Remixed in Pittsburgh in 1989.

Swap Shop (00:48) Download

Instrumentation: Manipulated field recording from an AM radio station
somewhere in the Midwestern United States, circa 1988.

from the compilation vastlesssmudge: from chariots to garbage cans volume 2

from The Golden Age of Vastlesssmudge (1983-1990)
Honkey Tonk Woman Feeling
Recorded circa 1989
Instrumentation: 2 cassette decks, Radio Shack mixer, bass guitar,
shakers, percussion, turkish flute, vocals, vocal overdubs, flanger, reverb.
1989 © House of Pingting Music

from The Golden Age of Vastlesssmudge (1983-1990)
The Euclid Tavern Blues
Recorded circa 1986
Instrumentation: 2 cassette decks, Radio Shack mixer, Casio SK-1,
33rpm record.
1986 © House of Pingting Music

(1987)

8 track
Recorded at The Cleveland Institute of Music

Instrumentation:
Yamaha DX-7, Tibetan sheep herder, rooster samples

Music by David Pohl
Lyrics by the Roosters

Wakefulness Songs 1995
Copyright © House of Pingting Music