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Action and Reaction (Critique of Leisure Consumption)

by Audio Letter and Attrition

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1.
no ending 05:55
Side A - Audio Letter / Attrition Names in over-dub order. AL - Bob Jenkins - Guitar AL - Sue Ann Harkey - Bass ATT - Ashley - Synthesizer ATT - Martin Bowes - Synthesizer AL - Sharon Gannon - Vocals No Ending Things done before have no ending It is fireproof It grows so fast that any injury due to heat is re-paired at the same time The nervous system converses with itself begins to receive signals from within the individual neuron from the DNA-RNS dialogue The Schrodinger Cat paradox asks whether our physical models describe the Uni-verse objectively or just defines the limits of our own knowledge They were curled up, and did not seem to be either glad or sorry to be dead they were there like a couple of chairs in the hallway. The motion of quantities notion of quantities We cannot eliminate our-selves from 'The Picture' we are a-part of it when we study it it is studying itself Matter is momentary interaction momentary interaction of waves of fields of states of grains I'm glad to have seen you I'm trying to draw the clear light Things done before have no ending S. Gannon Jan. 83
2.
Side A - Audio Letter / Attrition Names in over-dub order. AL - Paul Hoskin - Bass-Clarinet AL - Jeff McGrath - Trumpet - Bass ATT - Chryss - Bass ATT - Martin Bowes - Synthesizer AL - Sharon Gannon - Violin
3.
I might bite 03:47
Side A - Audio Letter / Attrition Names in over-dub order. AL - Bob Jenkins - Guitar AL - Sue Ann Harkey - Bass and drums ATT - Chriss - Vocals
4.
Side A - Audio Letter / Attrition Names in over-dub order. AL - Bob Jenkins - Guitar and tape-loop AL - Sue Ann Harkey - Violin ATT - Chryss - Bongos and Bass AL - Deran Ludd - Vocals "The show is over. Theh audience gets up to leave their seats. Time to collect their coats and go home. They turn around. No more coats and no more homes. - V.V. Rosanov
5.
Side B Attrition / Audio Letter Names in over-dub order. ATT - Ashley - Sequencer ATT - Chryss - Synthesizer AL - Sue Ann Harkey - Vocals and Guitar
6.
talk back 09:43
Side B Attrition / Audio Letter Names in over-dub order. ATT - Chryss - Synthesizer ATT - Martin Bowes - drum machine AL - Cri - Sax AL - Deran Ludd - cut-up TV tape ATT - Chryss - Bass
7.
Side B Attrition / Audio Letter Names in over-dub order. ATT - Chryss - Bass and Keyboards ATT - Martin - Bongos AL - Jeff McGrath - Trumpet
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Side B Attrition / Audio Letter Names in over-dub order. ATT - Martin - Drum Machine ATT - Chryss - Maraccas and Voices AL - Erik Muhs - Bass's ATT - Ashley - Synthesizer

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This tape is a trans-continental collaboration project between Attrition from Coventry, UK and Audio Letter in Seattle.

Recorded on Tascam 144 and 244 4-track cassette machines. Tapes were posted back and forth to put over-dubs on each others tracks. The album was released in both countries, DIY, in Spring of 1983.

Produced and engineered by Sue Ann Harkey

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released May 5, 1983

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Seattle - New York - London | free improvisation | prepared guitar | folktronica | weird american | indie | alternative | singer | songs | instrumentals | underground | DIY

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