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CTb Chapter 01

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Before there was CHANGES TO blind there was Pasteurized Ikons. Before that there was Phil Pill and the 4 Trojans, who had exactly one performance at Oswego State College, but who spent untold hours with a reel to reel tape recorder, a number of microphones, guitars, percussion devices, backgammon tables, and too many hits on too many bongs. It started something. It has been about 40 years that I've been serious about making sound, and if you count Phil Pill (I wouldn't) then it's been almost 45. From our college echoplex I have only this recording. We performed "Scum" at the college community bar, but this recording was from our dormitory.

"Scum" frames the pre-CTb works presented here, segments of early instrumental and vocal pieces that I recorded starting around 1985. Much of it was recorded on a Tascam PortaStudio and bounced to digital before the end of the decade. I was serious about creating music, and some of my earliest terrible habits will reveal themselves in the various sections presented here. Most of the pieces are incomplete, honing in on the essence of an idea and cutting the larger, often unfocused picture.

I hope that these pieces, segments and snippets of my earliest recordings were worth preserving for those who were there, and those who were not.

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Post-college I started working in Syracuse, and started accumulating audio gear. By the time I moved to the Albany area I was overwhelmed with the weight of my wires, which followed me to New York City for the next 18 years, taking too many breaks but also permitting me an immense amount of musical experience.

I'm surprised to find that many of the elements on these recordings are the same that I employ now, hopefully more effectively; and happy that many of the techniques heard here I would never subject anyone to again. For those unaware that I pursued songs in the earliest years, I apologize in advance.

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released November 3, 2023
Much of the music here is created on instruments I no longer have and no longer remember. What I do remember is:

Dr. T's KCS on an Atari ST computer, a Tascam Portastudio 424
A Casio CZ1
A Yamana mid-size FM synth keyboard
Some unnamed microphone
A stack of spoken word source records & sound FX CDs
Many too many rack effects
Far, far, too many cables, most of which maddened through buzz
A colony of ants attacking Mrs. Butterworth


Additional voices (Phil Pill): Pat B., Paul K., Rob K., Peter M., Glenn K.


Thanks to JM Mariani for accepting my obsessive music-making habits.
Special thanks to Len 37 "Bugs Black Blood" Siegfried for years of listening.

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CHANGES TO blind Wilmington, North Carolina

CTb was borne in Syracuse, NY in the mid 80s. Originally the trio of phil zampino, Mortimer deSquid & Heraldo deSquid, only zampino survives. Wires and boxes were dragged about and throttled, moving to Manhattan in 1992 as improvisation krept into the mix. Now in Wilmington, NC the kurrent state of affairs involves exposition, as CTb airs its dirty underdrawers for the listener's disdain. ... more

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