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Ever Gold Gallery
October 11 - November 15, 2013Info
441 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Google Map »
Jocko Weyland
“Crackle, Hiss, and Scrawl”
Cassette Tapes, their Wrappings and Listings, 1980-2005
October 11th – November 15th
Opening Reception: Friday, October 11th, 7-10pm
An audio barrage of mixes, compilations, one band or one album exclusives, recorded onto Memorex, TDK, Scotch, Maxell and BASF 60 and 90 minute tapes off of phonograph records, playing continuously in no particular order on a fifteen year-old auto-reversing Sony boom box. Leaning towards an era-specific (i.e. they were made shortly after the original records came out) documentation based on a catholic definition of “punk,” from Amebix to the Zero Boys to the Birthday Party and X-Mal Deutschland, this surround sound experience also features mainstream inclusions such as Black Sabbath and The Who, with not-infrequent forays into the outer limits represented by the likes of Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects, Test Dept., and Charles Ives. Alternatively abrasive and soothing, some still radical after all these years, some embarrassing curiosities, a non-stop, unadulterated wall of sound. Visually, for the eyes while the ears soak it all in, every handmade and stor e bought cover of the approximately 200 cassettes “made” or acquired from roughly 1980 to 2005. These ‘3-panel’ 4×4” tape case inserts with their attendant folded lyric sheets and pleated pieces of paper listing bands and song titles will be arrayed on the walls of the gallery. Altogether, a riot of decorated and stickered card stock, resplendent with cursive, printed, typed, and drawn script, adding up to a now-historical semi-hieroglyphic index to the magnetically chronicled cacophony.