Issue 3#: GENERATOR SPECIAL EDITION

Tracklist

A1	–Frank Rothkamm	Kmarch
A2	–Don Campau	Titin
A3	–Das	cazonet
A4	–Brekekekexkoaxkoax	Kokopelmana
A5	–Istvan Kantor Monty Catsin? Amen!*	Red Armband Manifesto
A6	–If, Bwana	Nocrem 4
A7	–Rod Summers	JaKeN
A8	–Rick Potts	Funny Astronaut
A9	–Dylan Nyoukis	Ah Ken (I Know)
A10	–Marja-Meena Sillanpaa*	from darkness to darkness
A11	–Pedro Bericat*	Radioimán 2014
A12	–Lloyd Dunn	siren song
A13	–Dan Andreana	Magnus Beach
A14	–Dan Andreana	Moto Bike
B1	–Das	walzer
B2	–Willem De Ridder	Snuff
B3	–Uschi Huber	Mama song
B4	–AMK	weekender with a despondent king
B5	–David B. Greenberg	SquiNT
B6	–Black Humour*	hot cu t 4
B7	–David Lee Myers	Feedback Chains #12
B8	–Joseph Nechvatal	viral symphOny :: long excerpt
B9	–Hal McGee	i ride the city bus to avoid death
B10	–Leif Elggren	Soya
B11	–GX Jupitter-Larsen	traffic
B12	–Das	pomposo

Credits

• Curated By – Gen Ken Montgomery

Notes

Sound As A Form of Tranportation

Master Cactus presents a special edition issue curated by NYC sound artist Gen Ken Montgomery, founder of New York’s first sound art gallery, Generator, in 1989.

Ken’s audio roots run deep. For the last thirty years, his own experimental audio practice has involved synthesizers, cheap toys and, most notably, household appliances, such as an ice maker, radiator, refrigerator, muffler, and his beloved laminating machine. Ken was mega into the cassette and zine culture circulating the international underground via cassette zines and tape trades. Throughout the eighties and nineties, Ken forged penpalships spanning continents, eventually housing his ever growing cassette collection in what became New York’s first dedicated sound art space: Generator Experimental Music Gallery.

For the next two years, Generator hosted installations and performances from sound artists like GX Jupitter ­Larson and If, Bwana. whose most recent works you will find in this issue. Above all, Generator offered a stabilized, physically ­manifested supplement to the inherent placelessness of the cassette mail scene— tossing an anchor to a culture whose very essence was transitory in nature. For Issue 3, Gen Ken invited artists he’s been corresponding and exchanging music with since the Generator days.

"What you hold in your hand is the sonic work of artists who lived in the far away world before the internet: where if you wanted to share what you made, you put sounds on a cassette, took it to the post office, and waited two or three weeks or more to get a response. That's Sound As a Form of Transportation."

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Released in conjunction with the relaunch of Generator Sound Art Gallery by ALLGOLD at
MoMA PS1 Print Shop, Dec-Jan 2015.