Collaboramigos by Collaboramigos

Collaboramigos sounds like four friends sitting together in a virtual audio-chatroom, sharing thoughts and poems, conversing, playing random recordings of the sounds of their daily lives, telling jokes and stories, singing pop songs, and jamming on instruments in a playful, improvisational, free-flowing sound collage.

During the month of April 2025 Girls On Fire, Dylan Houser, Rafael González, and Hal McGee gathered recordings of various sounds. In early May they mixed their sounds together using a chance process.

The album is perhaps best experienced as a continuous one-hour piece, but we understand that in life there are many distractions & things to do - jobs, family responsibilities, the cat needs to be fed, the dog needs to be walked, meals need to be prepared, etc. - so we have indexed the recordings in four parts of roughly equal length. We encourage you to listen to this album while you are doing other things, if you want.

*Girls On Fire (Leslie Singer) sound sources & devices
Sony ICD-PX470 stereo digital dictaphone
Staples Easy Button
Keychain guitar
Cheap & Plastic pink keyboard
Black & White Monotron
Desktop fire extinguisher
Clips from:
- Narvon-Gainesville Time Capsule by Strattonpossum and Hal McGee
- Lectures by Laura Cottingham
- Featuring various sounds from the NYC subway and mean streets

*Dylan Houser recorded their dang recordings with a SONY ICD-PX470 starting on the very first day of the month of April (a holiday of utter damnation). Sound sources used: voice, birds chirping, bugs buzzing, alligators gromping, wading water, electric guitar, HiChord synth, rumble of ancient times, chained-up contact mic built by Michael Ridge, Roland Microcube, NADY mixer, KQ Unotone, NOINPUT Mixer app, Relic Wave, acoustic bass guitar, beach waves, conversations, bawk bawk bawking, other people talking, various assorted field recordings and other noise devices I may have forgotten to list here…now go and eat your dang ol’ chicken tikka masonna.

*Rafael González sound sources & devices:
my voice, field recordings, objects, appliances, furniture, metallophone, trumpet, manipulated tapes, radio FM & shortwave, Google translator app for smartphone, Casio SK1 Sampling Keyboard, sound box and toy megaphone.

*Hal McGee sound sources and devices:
my dog Stanley, my brother Mark, my mom, my sister & her family, various thoughts & words, neighborhood sounds, train whistle and bell, Behringer Poly D synthesizer, miscellaneous recordings from Apartment Music shows #52 and #53.

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