The musical projects completed as part of The
Philadelphia Spirit Experiment are
"clickable" in the guide below. All songs are written and performed live
( see
Handcrafted Music and
Chaos Theory for
more details on human acoustics.)
For help experiencing multimedia on the web, please visit
our Internet University.
Chronological Anthology
Pre-historic
In the 1986, several people happened together and proceed to jam
in their Philadelphia cave. Not a group of people getting together
for the purpose of fame and fortune, but rather an experiment in
spirit, mind and body. The spontaneous get-togethers are a
strange thing to try n' explain....
The band of minstrels becomes known as the Electric Slugs. As
Electric Slugs leave glistening trails, the organizational side of
the team formed Glistening Trail Records. After some
rites-of-passage,
the Force became stronger... and Glistening Web Communications
Corporation, whose sole purpose is to help mankind, was formed.
The First Internet Record Company
Though the history of the world wide web is muddy,
it appears through the murk that Glistening Trail Records was
the first record company to create internet albums. In 1994,
seven albums where released. Their album covers are web addresses.
The music was distributed over the internet, and because of bandwidth
and browser restrictions made available on
cassette, cd, CDROM, and mini-disc
at low cost or for free.
The concept of the internet album is a bit bizarre... it can change
with the times. The following list contains the original
1994 webpage, as well as the current version:
1994
1995
1995 brought many new information-age-music-projects, like
Industrial Noize Pollution,
Spontaneous Combustion,
The Soul Receptacles,
Crond and many more... but,
the most interesting development of the year was
the new multimedia team known as Glistening
Flick's Multimedia Movie Making Madhouse
and the corresponding soundtrack
group known as Snake Handling Immortal
Tongue Speakers.
The Ride debuted as the first
"made for the internet" multimedia single. It
continues to be one of the most
requested files.
A conceptual interactive work known as
The Labyrinth was
soon to follow... and the revolution grew strong.
Still, ASCAP and others did not
acknowledge our existence.
1996
Early in the next year, work started on the multimedia project
Yore
Killin' Me and the sound collection called
Smokin' Blue Grass.
Since the amount of memory required to store all
these projects was getting out-of-control, additional CDROM burners
and players were put to work to create a ROM
for on the internet.
Others were catching on to the activity at The
Membrane Domain. Outsiders were welcomed and turned into insiders...
a CDROM Jukebox was turned on...
Pandora's RomBox was born.
The new
components were blended together for storage and distribution purposes
on CDROM Volume I. Then
CDROM Volume II filled up in a hurry.
The additional archives from this period can be seen as
CDROM 3
The meaning to the archives can be found by exploring the
labyrinth of The Paradox of Pandora's
Rombox.)
1997
It was time for sum sort-a scientifical hypothesis at this point.
So called, "Serious Testing" needed to be documented and
Acoustics of the Chaos Theory came to life.
Volume V contains the details of
the study.
The third project undertaken by Glistening Flicks was unwrapped:
Requiem
for the Living Dead. The songs delving deeper into the
sound of the sound and the harshness of reality
were put together as an Industrial Noize
Pollution project entitled Caustic
Acoustics. The songs delving deeper into the
meaning of the sound and the beauty of reality were combined
to form The Snake Handling Immortal Tongue Speakers'
RomBox Paradox... and quite
a Pandora's RomBox it is turning out to be... old time rock n'
rollers (like Carl Gardner and
The Beatles) and a member of the original Bob Marley Band
(Richard Ace).
Now
So, what are you waiting for? Come on and open the RomBoxes....
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