Mannlicher Carcano

R.I.P. Disco Mike

2012-02-01T14:55:00.000-08:00

Our new disco single, recorded the day (unbeknownst to us) that Mike Kelley, an inspirational noisemaker, killed himself. Goddamn! It's Time to Smash Things Up!

To the Rescue!

2012-01-25T10:56:00.000-08:00

MCRH downloads for the past 3 weeks...

2011-12-23T20:08:00.001-08:00

Dec. 6, 2011

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111206.22.49-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111207.00.00-01.05.mp3

Dec. 13, 2011

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111213.22.50-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111214.00.00-01.05.mp3

Dec. 20, 2011

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111220.22.51-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111221.00.00-01.05.mp3

links to the CHMR archive - the last three MCRHs (download before they go offline)

2011-12-01T19:16:00.000-08:00

November 15:

hour one

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111115.22.52-23.59.mp3

hour two

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111116.00.00-01.05.mp3

November 22:

hour one

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111122.22.49-23.59.mp3

hour two

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111123.00.00-01.05.mp3

November 29:

hour one

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111129.22.49-23.59.mp3

hour two

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111130.00.00-01.05.mp3

And Then Some

2011-11-27T19:31:00.000-08:00

This is pretty amazing - some one name of kengorsky made a video for the lead track off our Crawl To Safety album and posted it on youtube about a year and a half ago. I just stumbled across it, so check it out -- definitely stuck in the MC aesthetic groove!
http://youtu.be/K_5-RpcewYY

More Famous Than We Know

2011-11-27T19:13:00.000-08:00

http://drinkify.org/

be one with Christ tuesdays 11pm to 1am (island time)

2011-11-26T18:28:00.000-08:00

2011-11-14T12:58:00.001-08:00

Nov 1

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111101.22.49-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111102.00.00-01.03.mp3

Nov 8

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111108.22.52-23.59.mp3

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111109.00.00-01.05.mp3

The backside

2011-11-02T21:55:00.001-07:00

While anxiously awaiting the release of our 18th full-length studio album, many listeners find it soothing to download recent MCRH mp3s

2011-11-01T08:26:00.001-07:00

MCRH - Oct 25 hour 1

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111025.22.51-23.59.mp3

MCRH - Oct 25 hour 2

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111026.00.00-01.05.mp3

Occupy the Ivory Tower! New Protest Music for the NOW Generation! No Pad Thai in the White Cube!

2011-10-19T23:51:00.000-07:00

Juli Carson Hates Relational Aesthetics and So Do I by Mannlicher Carcano

Single from "This is Really Happening Volume 4: The Friendliness Sessions" featuring Kenneth Friendliness on vocals, The Missing Hyperlink on kalimba, and Really Happening on guitar and production.

Our Lady Commands: Download Now!

2011-10-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

MCRH - Oct 18/2011 - hour 1:

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111018.22.49-23.59.mp3

MCRH - Oct 18/2011 - hour 2:

http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111019.00.00-01.05.mp3

THEY ARE HUMDINGERS!

2011-10-15T16:16:00.000-07:00

PLEASE FIND BELOW LINKAGE FOR THE LAST TWO RADIO BROADCASTS!

MCRH October 11, 2011

hour 1:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111011.22.52-23.59.mp3

hour 2:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111012.00.00-01.00.mp3

MCRH October 4, 2011

hour 1:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111004.22.50-23.59.mp3

hour 2:
http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20111005.00.00-01.00.mp3

THANKYOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!

Last Week This Week (copiously illustrated!)

2011-10-02T10:53:00.000-07:00

Here are links to the September 27th edition of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour: Hour 1 and Hour 2. At least I think they're the 27th. Porter said "last week's show" so I'm assuming. Perhaps this diagram will help.

1. Abasiophilia: attraction to leg braces or other orthopedic appliances
2. Harpaxophilia: sexual excitement from being a robbery victim might prevent a robbery.
3. Vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten whole
4. Hobophilia: sexual fantasies about hobos
5. Tripsolagnia: arousal from having your hair shampooed by someone else
6. Axillism: desire to have sex in the armpit
7. Symphorophilia: sexual arousal from witnessing accidents
8. Agalmatophilia: sexual attractions to mannequins or statues
9. Chelonaphilia: you like turtles
10. Apotemnophilia: arousal from the idea of amputating a healthy limb
11. Formicophilia: desire to have insects crawl on genitalia

The Missing Hyperlink, Flautist...

2011-09-24T23:28:00.000-07:00

Clutching a bone between her knees! The LA feed for today's special Weekend edition show was such a scorcher that I had to upload an edited version of it to share with the People. That is Dr. Pityface stealing the halo of The Missing Hyperlink, making her debut on the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour. Here's the not missing hyperlink, it's about a 35 minute mp3 file: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8BAFRHT8. This is Really Happening.

Download the last 3 Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hours FREE!

2011-09-19T09:42:00.000-07:00

Here are links to the last couple of MCRHs

Sept. 13:
hour 1: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110913.22.49-23.59.mp3
hour 2: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110914.00.00-00.58.mp3

Sept. 6:
hour 1:http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110906.22.50-23.59.mp3
hour 2: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110907.00.00-01.05.mp3

Aug. 30:
hour 1:http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110830.22.57-23.59.mp3
hour 2: http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/20110831.00.00-01.00.mp3

Thanks to the Doctor, and Porter Hall!

Coming Soon!

2011-09-17T11:38:00.001-07:00

2011-08-03T21:32:00.000-07:00

This is an actual beer you can purchase in Salt Lake City, according to the dude at the Ventura dog show that was wearing it.

Simultaniety Unravelled! New RH Solo LP!

2011-05-28T14:10:00.000-07:00

Tonight, May 28, 2011, as part of the SOUNDS LIKE...AUDIO ART FESTIVAL, Mannlicher Carcano will be performing a special 1 hour version of the Radio Hour from the AKA Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

aka gallery
424 20th St. W.
Saskatoon, SK
May 27- 28, 2011

2011 will mark the beginning of an annual juried audio art festival hosted by AKA. Sounds Like… aims to bring together artists from across the country and beyond to share their work and processes. The festival's title references both simile and charades, speaking to the performative and interdisciplinary aspects of the work to be examined here. Along those lines, the inaugural year of the festival will examine various ways in which the movement and actions of a performer relate to the auditory content.

Joshua Fraser - Calgary, AB
Lief Hall, - Vancouver, BC
Constantine Katsiris - Vancouver, BC
Alain Lefebvre – Montreal, QC
Ellen Moffat and Jeff Morton – Saskatoon and Regina, SK
Jeff Morton – Regina, SK
Porter Hall – St. John’s, NL
Erin Sexton – Montreal, QC
VYXSYMS (Jon Vaughn, Will Kaufhold, Mehta Youngs)– Saskatoon, SK

The Los Angeles portion will be broadcast from the opening of Tel/Art/Phone a group show at the Beacon Arts Building based on the communication breakdown party game Telephone, to which Mannlicher contributed a regrooved LP in a sleeve by hack artist Doug Harvey.

BEACON ARTS BUILDING
808 N. La Brea Ave.
Inglewood, CA

This event also serves as the release party for the new Really Happening solo double CD set (5th in a projected series of 10, in this case featuring Kenneth Friendliness and George Garrison) "This is Really Happening Vol 5: TQBFJOaLD" which is available for free download here.

It's a Party in Your Ear!

2011-01-18T15:02:00.001-08:00

The archived transcription of Mannlicher Carcano's globe-spanning ear-party for NAISA's 2011 commemoration of Art's Birthday is available FOR A LIMITED TIME as a downloadable mp3 file here. Over 125 participants! Don't miss this one, folks - sure to be a collector's item. Once the internet's down.

Cloudknitter mando-bell solo

2010-12-19T19:22:00.000-08:00

New Mannlicher Carcano adjunct member Cloudknitter braved the torrential rainstorms currently engulfing the City of Angels to record a Saturday session in the audio dungeon, simultaneously recording the performance for his own radio art program in Belgium. I'll get those mp3s encoded and uploaded as swift as I am able, but in the meantime, check out his website for more info on his show and other remarkable projects.

Update: File is now available for DL here. The excellent jam is sandwiched between two interview segments, the more interesting of which is the beginning segment in which Cloudknitter discusses his artwork and radio show. It will be available for a couple of weeks only, so grab it now.

New Los Angeles segment/Really Happening Solo CD

2010-11-22T01:08:00.000-08:00

The LA elements of the weekly broadcast have been prerecorded for the last few weeks, including a 2-hour solo performance this last Saturday by Really Happening containing elements of "Dr Earl A Goldsmith Tells Your Daughter About Sex" which is available for free download for a limited time split into 2 separate files: Part 1: "Not the Cubbyhole!(TM)" and Part 2: The Words are Used.

The complete performance will constitute This is Really Happening Vol 2, which will be a two-CDR set, also available from Pleonasm & Redacted, and the second in a planned 10-volume Retrospective.

Pleonasm partnering with Free Music Archive in Synergistic Triumph!

2010-10-18T23:34:00.000-07:00

Just an update that free online record label Pleonasm Music has been posting its wares on the prestigious Free Music Archive, including their slightly garbled (but more than complete) version of Crawl to Safety with Mannlicher Carcano, Solo tour de force This is Really Happening Volume 1, and occasional collaborator Nic Waterman's histrionic tirade My Majority. Longtime listeners will already have all these loaded on their portable personal stereo music players, but even first time callers will find that the great thing about the new format is that you can sample any track from the dozens of other sonic innovators on Pleonasm's roster before committing to a full download. Hooray!

New Time, New Station, Recent Pix!

2010-09-21T14:33:00.000-07:00

OK, No time for chitchat. The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour has moved to a new timeslot for the first time in 12 years! Listeners and participants may now tune/skype in on Tuesday nights from 11:00 PM till 1:00 AM Newfoundland time (9:30 pm to 11:30 pm EST; 6:30 - 8:30 Pacific) at CHMR (That's MCRH spelled backwards! Mere coincidence?) 93.5 FM, campus and community radio in St. John's Newfoundland. Streaming online at http://mp3srv.munsu.mun.ca/hi.pls

The Trent Radio iteration Dog Bites Mannlicher will move operations to coincide, and it looks like CFRU will be doing likewise.

As you can see, we have finally recovered our 2-hour format, and the show closes the broadcast day in NFLD, so it may go on from there even! The first broadcast is archived online in two separate files here and here.

Image: Our youngest adjunct member to date (sorry Lucky!) - Woodpity Pitywood @ 7 weeks, performing during our residency at Human Resources. More pix coming!

Satan Temporarily Welcomes Mannlicher Carcano to His Bosom

2010-08-27T22:38:00.000-07:00

Our most recent art gallery gig has turned into a residency of sorts, it seems! After our performance on the evening of August 20th at Human Resources, artist Gustavo Hererra was so taken by the manner in which Mannlicher's debris -- multiple turntables, a bin of weird old records, a battered trumpet and toy piano, a dismantled portable 8-Track player and tape selection, a two-stringed child's electric guitar and amp, etc -- blended in with his installation The Birth of Satan, he invited us to leave our equipment in place, and perform the radio show from that locale for the duration of the exhibit's run!

Although the logistics have proven tricky -- the gallery has no land line for a telephone link, and with Porter's recent relocation to St. John's NFLD the tension is becoming less and less palpable -- the LA performances have been righteous and scintillating. The actual gig on the 20th added a dozen or so new collaborators to our constantly expanding roster, bringing the total to 665 - and wherever 665 are gathered in His name.... Our most recently recruited regular was christened "Kenneth Friendliness" and rocked the electric Pepperoncini jar, which he has done for each subsequent radio show as well.

This most recent Saturday Christ's Cumming II also brought in a modified 3-gallon plastic diddly-bow, Herr Schurdt graced us with the presence of his SKYPE-capable laptop (though unfortunately Porter couldn't get into the new radio station) and Buddy Holy, Barney Panicker, and The Jock all arrived five minutes after the show ended. I'll try and upload images of all this, but I left my camera, along with my glasses, both audio recorders (the one I dropped in the toilet at the Museum of Jurassic Technology last year was miraculously resurrected last week! So there's like a QUAD version of the most recent performance - a humdinger - in their collective memory) a fancy USB mic, and a bunch of other valuable electronics in a canvas sack in the basement of a nearby gallery. I'm going to retrieve it today - hope everything's still there! In the meantime, please enjoy these recently rediscovered images from our last North American Tour.

Live at Human Resources

2010-08-17T16:49:00.000-07:00

In conjunction with Gustavo Herrera's Birth of Satan exhibition, Human Resources presents a performance of Ghost Assisted Drawings as performed by Christian Cummings and Michael Decker, and Mannlicher Carcano's record release for This Is Really Happening Volume 1 on Pleonasm Music. The evening starts at 9pm, and admission is Free! It is rumored that Gustavo Herrera will be elating us with some of his prosaic fineries...

Human Resources
510 Bernard St (in Chinatown)
Los Angeles, CA 90012

http://humanresourcesla.com/

First in an Anticipated 10-CD Series

2010-08-16T23:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?4fpcqftp8fb261h
or
http://www.pleonasmmusic.org/

Mannlicher CarcanoPlex Mach 01

2010-07-03T15:28:00.000-07:00

"Click on Image to Engorge"

"Mannlicher CarcanoPlex Mach 01"
Mannlicher Carcano is a collaborative improvisational audiovisual collage group who have been performing since 1984, and have appeared weekly on live radio since 1998 with The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour. Under the curatorial hand of Doug Harvey, the band’s collage-based aesthetic principle will be expanded to 3 Dimensions with the one-night-only Mannlicher CarcanoPlex Mach 01, including sound, performance, didactic elements, food and drink, sexy projections, and all manner of art objects at PØST (1904 East 7th Place Los Angeles, CA 90021) on Friday July 9th from 7 – 9 PM . Improvised audiovisual collage, a rediscovered pre-Firesign Theatre absurdist detective film, a one-man rock & roll band, Anne Frank karaoke, gray-water cocktail-making, an enormous naked man, and so much more!

Participating artists include Mannlicher Carcano, China Adams, Suzanne Adelman, Michael Arata, Josh Aster & Kristin Calabrese, Peter Bergman, George Budd, Ryan Callis, Caroline Clerc, Christian Cummings, Adrian de la Pena, Walpa d’Mark, Georganne Deen, Joe Deutch, Mark X. Farina, Gerry Fialka, Eamon Fox, Jill Giegerich & Mischa Mandel-Giegerich, Phyllis Green, Daniel Hawkins, Homegrown Evolution, The Keith Walsh Experience, Maya Lujan, Tina Marrin, Dr, Carl Nordstrom, M.D., Mary Anna Pomonis, Michael Q. Schmidt. Lily Simonson, Brad Spence, Laurie Steelink, Jim Sullivan, Young Summers, Don Suggs, Greta Svalberg, Lee Tyler Thompson, Esther Pearl Watson, Aaron Wrinkle and many more...

Awakening from the Nightmare of History to Find I Have Gum in My Hair

2010-05-15T00:31:00.000-07:00

Well, that didn't work out so hot! I plugged in the wrong voltage adaptor and the damn thing blew apart like a land mine! There was ketchup everywhere! Seriously, I was concussed by the impact of the main body of the appliance (the bun section) up against my left temple and was out for some time. When I awoke, a gentle Doctor asked me "What is that Optigan thing? What the FUCK is that?" to which I replied "Please give me something for the pain."

And Gogo was there, and you... and you... and? Porter Hall was in Newfoundland, looking into real estate investment opportunities. And Crawl to Safety is finally out as a free download from www.pleonasmmusic.org and L'il Gogo has an album out on Pleonasm and Redacted Records, split between the two sites but a free download nonetheless.

And on July 9th - for one night only - a real rain is going to wash the scum from the streets... and right into PØST Gallery (1904 East 7th Place Los Angeles, CA 90021) for Mannlicher Carcano-Plex Mach 01 - a multimedia expansion of the Mannlicher Carcano template, including sound, performance, didactic elements, projections, and all manner of art objects! More data to follow.

There are too many old shows to log - the new one it to your right - go to the CFRU archive at http://www.cfru.ca/altarchive.php and root around for other recent episodes. Next week is Porter's final show in Guelph as host! Let's make it a doozy!

And COURTESY FLUSH VOLUME ONE is SOLD OUT, thankyou all (and please stop pestering us to burn more copies!) - the extra income earned will allow us to retire early, as soon as our BP stock dividends kick in. Ka-SPLOOH! Stay tuned for CF Vol 2.

May 15th? Wait a second.. the Nurse told me it was June 17th... am I awake or am I dreaming?

New Instrument!

2010-02-15T23:08:00.000-08:00

Still a few kinks in the system, but grid willing w will debut this baby next Saturday. In the meantime, here are links to the last few shows:

January 16
January 23
January 30
February 06
February 13

Art is Getting On

2010-01-15T16:21:00.000-08:00

No Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour tomorrow, January 16th -- but a special 2-hour simulcast on CFRU and Vancouver's CITR for their annual Art's Birthday celebration on Sunday, Jan 17 from 3 -5 PM Pacific time.

Here are links to mp3s of the last few Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hours:
December 19th
December 26
January 02
January 09

Image: Really Happening and Minister Altair-Five break out the froot jams on Boxing Day. Photo by Herr Schurdt.

Our Downward Spiral (it goes down other way in Australia)

2009-12-14T11:03:00.000-08:00

Mannlicher Carcano - Courtesy Flush Vol 1
Available January 01 2010, nearly 16 hours of previously unreleased recordings of live improvised audio collage and radio art (May - Oct 2008, now minus the banter!) in mp3 form on a single, numbered, limited edition CDR. $10 postage included.

Here's the link to the November 21st show,
the November 28th show,
December 5th,
and last Saturday's show, December 12th.

I've been downloading our overflow into the PD Plate, and will put the edited sections up on a file share site soon.

PS: Jon Leidecker's third VARIATIONS podcast contains rare work by two of Mannlicher's most belovedly under-recognized forebears, Ruth Anderson and Bernard Parmagiani, as well as our spiritual uncle Glenn Gould.

New Dimensions in Spelling!

2009-11-17T09:31:00.000-08:00

"My article on the LoK8Tr project took me to Guelph, Ont., last Saturday and live on the radio. I met Porter Hall, the host of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour, at the University of Guleph campus radio station. He arrived just after 3 p.m., a few minutes after the scheduled start time for his weekly show on CFRU. As the automated public-service announcements, commercials and eventually the show’s intro were being broadcast, Porter Hall hooked up a sound processor and unload his backpack. The bag held a bunch of cassettes, including a Musicworks compilation (No. 28); a Buddy Greene record called Praise Harmonica (”sappy Christian tunes,” Porter said); ukulele player Tiny Tim’s 2nd Album; CDs, some with spoken samples that Porter had compiled; and a collection of instruments, such as an electronic toy piano (Piano Fun!), a trumpet mouthpiece on a 1/4″ piece of PVC pipe, a McDonald’s Happy-Meal prize that went “boing” and other hose-y bits. There was an electric toothbrush in that bag, but Porter didn’t bring it out for the show.
“My bag of tricks changes over time,” Porter Hall said."

Read the rest of "An Afternoon with Mannlicher Caracno" here

Click here to download November 14th's show as described in Pixel Dripper's above quoted and linked essay

And here's November 7th

And here's October 31

Image from the forthcoming CDR Let's Paint TV (Twizzler Vomit)

Help Us Reach Our Gaols! I Mean Avoid!

2009-10-25T10:29:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lengthy pause, but things have been hectic. After last week's show, I picked up the mail and found a notice that a towing company was planning to sell our 93 Ford Exploder (acquired from an occasional MC participant) if we didn't come get it! It had been impounded 10 days earlier. We had left it in another occasional MC participant's yard but she had moved it onto the street without telling us, and I guess didn't notice that it got towed away? $640 to spring the motherfucker! Please, please send your pledges and donations today to Really Happening Credit Card Bailout, 1334 N Benton Way, LA 90026. And thanks for listening.

Some recent shows:

September 19

September 26

October 03

October 10

October 17 (Pledge Drive - actually pretty fine!)

October 24
And if you're really hardcore, we spilled over into the first 15 minutes of Proper Dub Plate, but you'll have to DL the whole hour, unless I get my shit together and upload an edit, but don't hold your breath.

Mannlicher's Cannon-ization and the Sirenity Prayer

2009-09-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

Here's the first show of September, featuring Merry Hell laying down the rhubarb as pertaining to the B of the V and the Mystery of CB. 10-4 there, WT-Arthur-F! Also on board Herr Schurdt and Greasy Lightning. Looks like we got ourselves a Conrad.

And last week's program, on which your blogmaster RH did not appear, so it is of interest only to completists. Which you must all become if you are ever to truly meld with the Mannlicher Car-consciousness. As William Conrad has, from BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Image: MC performing "Sirenity" on the roof of Artspace, Winnipeg, 1989 (mp3 to follow)

Harry Ball Delivers the Content

2009-08-22T11:51:00.000-07:00

After we fixed the gestetner and convinced Harry Ball to join us on the Electric Goosebum, we produced the RH end of the show with the following: Looped MC (ca 1990) sample on the Casio SK-10; Radio Flash Fudd cassette; 2 string First Act toy guitar, Casio SK-10 organ setting and clarinet setting; Herr Schurdt on iPhone samples and police scanner and Mannlicher Carcano's October 2008 appearance on Let's Paint TV! Image: Mannlicher Carcano's October 2008 appearance on Let's Paint TV: Host John Kilduff, back of Porter's head, painting of MC playing a sports stadium.

The Ballad of Indian Ned

2009-08-16T12:44:00.000-07:00

Just trying out this embedded streaming audio thingy. If it works, this should be The Ballad of Indian Ned, the single from Crawl to Safety... with Mannlicher Carcano, featuring The Jock on vocals.

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This Day in Improvised Audio Collage

2009-08-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

Sound generation from RH's audio dungeon Aug 15th 2009: Casio SK-10 with looped sample of practice chanter; ultra rare RH solo 8-track noise tape 'Blossom' manipulated on modified 8-track player; cassette of unreleased 1990? MC performance 'Utterly Utterly MC', Casio SK-10 preprogrammed rhythm, altered; 2-stringed 'First Act' toy electric guitar; manipulated 8 track Gangbusters "Counterfeiters" old time radio show (Dec 1949), re-fed CFRU stream; Casio SK-10 default organ sound.

Gogo in Winnipeg, Porter jamming on a lawn with a dozen people in Nova Scotia (via SKYPE); Ken Cheesy OMIGOD! Another great show.

Download or listen to it here.

Plus here are the previous few shows:

August 08, 2009

August 01, 2009

July 25, 2009

Image: Still from the 1995 feature-length Mannlicher Carcano collage video You Can Start Again edited by Porter Hall

PS: Episode 2 of Jon "wobbly" Leidecker's podcast history of audio collage is a corker, and available online here.

If Mannlicher will not go to the Hill...

2009-07-19T17:06:00.000-07:00

Busy times in the Mannlicher world. Porter, having worn out his welcome in Frogtown, headed back to Guelph and is now OMIGOD (Our Man in Guelph on Decks), a position ably held down by Curly Language, Ken Chesey, and others over the course of Porter's year-long exile. Hooking up just in time to join the last Porter-hosted Montreal leg of the show was fellow exile Rock Hill (above, the cover of his ultra-rare Redacted CD), who then will be joining the show regularly from the Morayeel with the Skype in his laptop. Welcome aboard Rock! We'll have to hook you up with MC adjunct Rock Pitts and see if there's some kind of leveling out. The July 11 & 18 shows linked below include Mr. Hill's contributions.

June 20 2009
June 27 2009
July 04 2009
July 11 2009
July 18 2009

Backlog A Go-Go

2009-06-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

Wow, ManCarCan fans, sorry I've been neglecting the blogosphere, but I have - among other things - been compling our new album, which I already posted a picture of below, and isn't available on itunes yet, but I';m burning a few copies to send out to our most devoted followers and influential tastemakers in the improvisational audio collage community.

Here's what our label Pleonasm has to say about us:

Mannlicher Carcano is a pirate-radio sound-terrorist musical collective using improvisational audio collage techniques for mind control experiments. Formed in 1984 by those clandestine cryptonyms "Really Happening"(Los Angeles, CA), "Porter Hall" (Guelph, ON) and "Gogo Godot" (Winnipeg), Mannlicher's Anarchist-AvantGarde-Post-Punk-Classical-DIY-Plunderphonic-Experimental-ApocalypseMachine SLASH Analog-Acoustic Pop-Autopsy style is auralgasmic. MC creates a musical salad by combining home-made instruments (the Spring-Strung Bass, Ventor, and Cast Aluminum Cello), miscellaneous sound or noise producing vessels and conventional instruments in an ongoing quest to understand and expand the contemporary urban acoustic ecology. In addition to a weekly telephone-linked live radio program/webcast The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour www.cfru.ca, MC have issued hundreds of self-released titles, appeared on experimental music and radio art compilations, produced soundtracks for films, created installations for art gallery's and museums, and have tended the fires of their loyal cult-like following on the internet.

Crawl to Safety with Mannlicher Carcano is Mannlicher's 2008 live recreation of their 1984 debut album. Featuring guest musicians; "Ken Cheesy", "Gogo Breaks", "Christ's Coming II", "Buddy Holy", "Curly Language" and "The Jock", Pleonasm is excited to make this Orwellian mucical sci-fi classic finally available to you on itunes. Enjoy!

Here are links to the last bunch of radio shows (I think - I'll check them and fix as necessary)
June 13
June 6
May 30
May 23
May 16
May 9
May 2

Image: Detail from Mannlicher's performance "Boxer Shorts" at the Echo Park film Center, LA, 2002

Little Bits of History Repeating

2009-04-29T11:05:00.000-07:00

Bay area sound collage maven and negativland collaborator wobbly has embarked on a 6-part history of the genre as downloadable mp3s from the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, entitled Variations. It promises to serve as a definitive once-and-for-all explanation of who do we think we're fooling. Part one - Transitions - runs from Charles Ives through James Tenney via John Cage, Buchanan and Goodman, Jingle Dogs, Hugh LaCaine, and more - and is available here.

No Show Today, as Gogo Now Knows

2009-04-25T20:12:00.000-07:00

Been out to Chino making field recordings; come home to find forlorn Gogo voicemail: "Is there a show?" As we all now know, the annual CFRU PowerDown knocked us out of our audio socks, but as I have not yet posted last week's inadvertent 2 hour extravawhatsit, this tenders all beleaguered whining redundant. After a brief mysterious gap, the cfru archives are back online, so here are the links: Hour One and Hour Two, featuring Really, Gogo, NOMIGOD, Buddy Holy, Bunny Particle, and Sonny Day.

Also, we have a new e-album about to be e-released on e-label Pleonasm Music, artwork above. More info on their site.

Return of Buddy Holy & The Jock!

2009-04-11T12:19:00.000-07:00

Sadly my handheld digital recorder shut itself down seconds into this week's show, so most of The Jock's vocals are lost in the aether. You can hear some of them in the mix of this week's broadcast though. Here's what was on deck in LA:

Jew's harp sample looped on Casio SK-10
rH song "Oh Lonesome Mimi" looped
Mouldy Dave's Keynote Auto-Rhythm
Pink bell
Jew's harp sample improv on Casio SK-10
Enter Buddy Holy & The Jock
BH on recorder & electric guitar
rH on practice chanter, trumpet, Casio SK-10 (various voices)
Casio SK-10 sampled electric guitar note, looped, & improv
The Jock on vocals, acoustic guitar, rainstick, recorder, Exercise ball air pumps

Image: Buddy Holy Wants to Save You!

Purp It Up

2009-04-04T12:02:00.000-07:00

This week's ingredients from the rH FACTORy in Silverlake:
Looped Organ on Casio SK-10
Organ improv
Stuck record: Donna Summer "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" @ 16 rpm, @33 rpm
Casio SK-10 'Disco' rhythm
Sampled guitar improv on Casio SK-10
FOGWIT 4X
Stuck Record "Penny Arcade" @33 (player piano)
Piano Casio SK-10 improv
J&H Productions
Enter Christs Cumming II on ukelele & vox (whistling, fart noises)
Sampled uke (very distorted) on casio
Stuck Record "Penny Arcade" @33 rpm (music box) & @45 rpm
CCII on kazoo, recorder, Proll-O-Tone Organ
Exercise ball air pumps

Above: Christ's Cumming II, pumped with the purp, fully inflated, engorged with the blood of the vine, ready to blow. Blow man blow!
Here is the link to today's broadcast.

Today's Wreckage is Tomorrow's Souvenir

2009-03-28T12:18:00.000-07:00

Here's what happened in Really Happening's Silverlake-adjacent audio dungeon today:
Jews harp sample looped on casio SK-10
Stuck record: Donna Summer "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" @ 16 rpm
Live improv on Proll-O-Tone Organ (pictured above)
Cassette of MC performance 93-08-13 on 4-track (double speed)(fragmented)
Party Fun with Recorders Vol 8 - Here is the News (fragmented)
Party Fun with Recorders Vol 8 - Closet Queen - I Will Survive
FOGWIT 4X
(Enter Buddy Holy & new adjunct member The Jock)
Recorder & amp; Proll-O-Tone
Indian Ned's Song + various improvisations and covers by The Jock
Accompanied by RH on guitar and casio (jews harp sample and organ voice)

And here is a link to the final broadcast.

Catching Up on Old Times for Now

2009-03-23T12:13:00.000-07:00

Above: composite MC portrait by Gogo.

Thing have been hectic here in LA with the riots and all, so I haven't gotten around to posting much this month, but here are the current live links to CFRU archived shows. Get em while they're hot!

March 21 with Really, Gogo, Porter, Curly, and Fluffy
March 14 with Porter, Curly and Really
March 07 with Adolf Hitler looking very relaxed on vibes
Feb 28, with - who can remember that far back?!

In happiest news, adjunct member (and drummer for the legendary Tenacious Mucoid Exudate) Mr. So-Wrong-He's-Wright has provided software that has allowed me to rescue the lost MC files (amongst other crucial documents) from my 2 recently kaputen hard drives. It is with great pleasure that we therefore bestow upon him the MC Order of Merit (Non-Luddite Division). Kudos to you, our comrade in improvisational audio collage - this is truly a feather in your cap.

Valentines Day Anti-Massacre (1st movement)

2009-02-21T14:57:00.000-08:00

So the archive appears to be working OK. Here's a link to last week's bumped-up Valentine's Day spectacular, and here's a link to this week's regularly scheduled extravaganza. In case you hadn't noticed, the most recent show is also linked to the top link at the right of your screen, under the heading "Hear Now"

Lost Signals

2009-02-13T09:52:00.000-08:00

We have been inundated with calls here at MCRH Com HQ (pictured above) as regards the scheduling of the show and the sudden unavailability of the cfru archives. Rest assured our gifted technical staff are hard at work on rectifying this latter lamentable lapse in coverage. In the meantime, they have been so kind as to upload the Feb 07 2009 show (featuring seven live collaborators from the LA audio dungeon alone -- perhaps a record) to the file sharing site sendspace. Click here to go to their download page for this show. As for the scheduling, yes, that was a basketball game and not one of our intermittent conceptual audio doppleganger interventions... or was it? If you had tuned in 3 hrs earlier (9 AM LA time) you would have heard the more conventional MC sound, as documented in the aforementioned linked file. Listeners wishing to hear more basketball on our Valentine's Day special should tune in at the regular hour, or 3 hrs earlier (9 AM LA time) if the more conventional MC sound is what does it for you.

The Now + the Here = NowHere

2009-01-30T16:05:00.000-08:00

Hal McGee's an inspiration in the DIY distribution department as well as for the breadth, quality, and idiosyncrasy of his work. I first found him on eBay of all places, searching for "audio collage" (though it turns out he was a mover and shaker in the cassette underground and was responsible for the excellent Electronic Cottage zine) and traded Mannlicher's Half Duplex Receive Only for his Maps of Nowhere, a great set of fucked-up field recordings that I've listened to many times. Since then he's made this disc and much more available on his site. Here's his description of MoN: Four long tracks distilled from 12 hours of field recordings made on a handheld cassette recorder - recorded August through October 2000. Lots of shortwave radio tones and static; surreptitious recordings from my work environment in a hospital; quotidian, found and trash sounds: alarm clock, Hare Krishna chanting, public transportation, street & traffic noises, toys, children, family, howling maniac dogs, mundane conversations -- audio ethnographic recordings from the streets, alleys, sidewalks, parking lots, and fields of Gainesville, Florida -- all blended, multitracked and contorted into big concrete music noisy cut-up collages. I employed chance process, aleatory and automatistic methods of dada and surrealism in the making of Maps Of Nowhere. Constructed on a Fostex XR-5 4-track cassette recorder.

Floating Down the Sound

2009-01-19T10:43:00.000-08:00

Here's a link to listen or DL the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour from Jan 10 (Really, Porter, Curly) featuring the deconstructed Pink Floyd backing (sans Dhyana) for an unfinished 1990 Piper at the Gates of Dawn sound piece. The full version features precocious 9 (?) yr old Dhyana Justl reading that chapter from Wind in the Willows. Weirdly enough, just HOURS AFTER this performance, older sister Karen (cover artist for Mannlicher's first Level Best cassette) contacted me about Dhyana's imminent West Coast Tour, mentioning the VERY SAME audio project from 18 years ago!!! Surely these are the end times.

God Rest Ye Collagey

2008-12-23T10:06:00.000-08:00

Curly missed the Dec 13th show, but thanks to Sound Magic's Michael Doleschel, Porter and I were able to produce a serviceable jam without any actual in-studio host whatsoever! On the 20th, we couldn't get through at all, and I went to walk the dogs, but then Curly showed up and he and Porter finished the hour together. All's well that ends well, but you'll want to fast forward to about the half hour mark on this one unless you dig the BBC World Service.

Image: Mannlicher Carcano debuting Rhizomatic Transmission live at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Oct 2008, photo by Cathy Ward

Curly Language, Living Skin

2008-12-10T13:35:00.000-08:00

Our last two programs have featured all three members of the group performing from remote locations - first with Porter joining re-emergent probationary Old Gogo in his Winnipeg studios and then via SKYPE from Montreal. Hosting the show in Guelph on both occasions was Curly Language, who has an out-of-the-box distinctive mixing signature that is well worth auditing:
Here's the link to the show for Saturday Dec 6th
Here's the link for Nov 29th

Image: Gogo Breaks at MC's Riverside Art Museum performance "Next Time", Oct 2008

A connecting principle linked to the invisible

2008-11-24T11:20:00.000-08:00

Well, as anyone who tried to tune in Saturday knows, that was a washout. Radio station politics are so viscous precisely because the stakes are driven through the hearts and minds of a generation lost in space! Andro-GenX/Y plotting re-entry even as we speak. Until such time, feast upon this report from recently recruited adjunct member Rock Pitts, whose work with the disturbingly Mannlicheresque Solid Eye and Dinosaurs With Horns goes without saying.

"Yesterday (a morbid anniversary) I looked up the JFK assassination on Wikipedia and discovered the Mannlicher Carcano reference for the first time. Aha!! Moments later I was researching a movie scheduled for latenight broadcast on KOCE, an inland empire PBS affiliate who shows public domain commercial free movies in the early AM. 'McKlintock,' a John Wayne western comedy known for it's extended comedic mudpuddle fistfight and the spanking of Maureen O'Hara, was to be shown. No, I wouldn't bother to tape it. IMDB research lead me to find the movie premiered in 1963. In the viewer comments I read that in photos of the JFK's funeral procession the word 'McKlintock' is seen on a theatre marquee. It was a weird moment when all the connections were revealed.

My weirdest JFK moment came in 1964. As a five year old Jackie and JFK were popstar icons for me, especially after I got my parents to buy me a pair of bobble-head dolls at a liquor store/truck stop on the way home from a dove hunting expedition in the Imperial Valley. They had magnets located behind their pursed lips and kissed when situated next to each other. I thought it was the funniest most wonderful thing. I remember JFKs funeral. I was recuperating from a skinned chin caused by a Flexi Flyer mishap, and watched from the couch with my grandmother. The strange thing happened a month or so later when my brother Joe picked up the JFK bobble-head on my dresser. The right side of the dolls head was smashed. Joe said "Whoa, Ricky what happened to this?"
and I said "Oh yeah, I knocked it off the dresser and it broke".
"When did that happen?" I didn't know way he was so concerned.
"I don't know a long time ago...a few months ...I think before Halloween." Joe stared at the doll shaking his head with his eyebrows raised and made his trademark 'shhhhsh' sound of disbelief. Maybe the world has my carelessness to blame!"

Future Epics and True Pastry Love

2008-11-19T18:58:00.000-08:00

Just a heads up that this Saturday November 22 - the 45th anniversary of the so-called JFK assassination - the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour will once again be manifesting in a temporally extended mode: a four hour audio collage running from 9 AM to 1 PM Los Angeles time. Join us!

Click here to download the first single derived from "Rendezvous with Density" - a double-tracked rendition of Canada's national anthem entitled No (noise) Canada. All rise!

This is a picture of the wall-mounted vitrine dedicated to Mannlicher Carcano ephemera included in Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey, which will close the day after a Moldy Slide Show with soundtrack by Mannlicher at LA Valley College on Nov 25th.

"Rendezvous with Density" Now in DIM Quad

2008-11-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

Never mind - I Did It Myself! Click here to download The Simulated Quadrophonic Condensation of yesterday's 4-hour Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour, boiled down to a CD's-worth of more-or-less arbitrarily layered aural confections by Really Happening, now entitled "Rendezvous with Density." Enjoy! (PS: The singer at the end is repeating the phrase "Our table food is not Jesus, it is only a gift" from the record Religion for the Retarded - which I probably got off Otis Fodder.)

MCRH Now in DIY Quad!

2008-11-09T14:03:00.000-08:00

Here are links to the four 1-hour mp3s from yesterday's marathon radio show. We don't actually get hooked up until about halfway through the first hour, and the sportscasters never quite disappear, then towards the end there is an extensive audio vérité section chronicling disconnected Porter's unbeknownstly successful attempt to get on the air via SKYPE. Best to set up 4 discrete sound sources and listen simultaneously. Educational radio at its most!
Hour 1
Hour 2
Hour 3
Hour 4

Now That the Buffalo's Gone... Crazy!

2008-11-06T21:00:00.000-08:00

The band's limited edition commemorative GMC20A"NT"WCM-T08 tee-shirts -- destined for a co-branding with the Nader/Gonzalez 08 campaign (in alignment with the FDMS bloc of course) -- arrived today - November 6th - slightly later than expected. Our crack team of reverse engineering tee-modifiers will get to work immediately nevertheless. In the meantime, a heads-up that this Saturday's show will be an epic 4 hour extravaganza beginning at 9 AM Los Angeles time - with any luck it will include a radically deconstructed version of longtime Mannlicher collaborator Madonna's Dodger stadium gig, which at press time has traffic backed along Sunset Blvd all the way to the Prop 8 protests in Westwood. What a woild! Next weekend, listen for our first SKYPE link-up with Peas Porrigiott, Our Man Now In Czechoslovakia On Classical Keyboards.

The Whole Enchilada Catalog

2008-11-03T10:10:00.000-08:00

Here we see Let's Paint TV's John Kilduff in front of his almost-complete prophetic oil painting depicting Mannlicher Carcano performing in a celebrity-packed sports stadium, created during the group's October 21st live performance on his daily webcast during the GMC20A"NT"WCM-T08, which is now uploaded in its appointed-timeslot entirety (BBQ sequence omitted) to Youtube. Click here to view. The single is clearly the "extraordinary rendition" of La Bamba, occurring around the 26 minute mark. Could use more cowbell though.

Two recent radio shows "Now with Twizzler Vomit!"

2008-11-02T11:25:00.000-08:00

Gogo II enjoys some of the 21 pounds of Twizzlers that were specified in the group's rider for the Museum of Jurassic Technology gig, while Porter documents. Here is a link to last week's Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour (bumped up again - but the Gryphons were spanked by the Ottawa Gee-Gees, ending the season with a 4-5 overall record, and no more postponed shows for a while.)

The side of the tour van christened with Twizzler vomit. Here is this week's show: Really, Porter, and Ken Cheezy OMIGOD - featuring the newly relocated Stylophone and newly repaired (after nearly a decade of valvular incoherence) thrift store trumpet.

Mannlicher Carcano on Let's Paint TV

2008-10-29T12:27:00.001-07:00

Mannlicher were guests on an epic episode of John Kilduff's Let's Paint TV webcast out of his UNDISCLOSED LOCATION home during the GMC20A"NT"WCM-T08 -- we ended up with 3 hours of audio, which seems to have finished off our portable digital voice recorder once and for all. But we got the file off there and will edit it down and post it in due time. Similarly, Mr. Kilduff has begun excerpting what he considers the most compelling segments of the episode and posting them on Youtube. Click here to see the first.

And in case you missed our first appearance on the show, in the Eagle Rock then-Adelphia cable access studios, the full show is on Youtube, broken into three parts here, here, and here. The above resultant portrait in oils is currently on view in the hallway display case dedicated to Mannlicher as part of the exhibit Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey through November 26th at Los Angeles Valley College. MC also provided a new audio installation for the main gallery, entitled Tri-Corps 2008.

Mannlicher Carcano Political Endorsement

2008-10-26T08:16:00.000-07:00

Los Angeles, Oct 19, 2008 - Experimental "audio collage" musical group Mannlicher Carcano have formed a coalition with the Filthy Discarded Mattresses of Silverlake to endorse the Nader/Gonzalez ticket in the upcoming United States presidential race.

"The FDMS bloc was flip-flopping in an alarming manner," observed MC Minister of Information Really Happening "So we decided to step in and 'clarify' the issues. You'd be surprised how much a filthy discarded mattress still has to lose, if you get my drift."

Patriotic junior member Gogo Breaks, pictured here in action, was quick to add "I WANT YOU to change my pee-pee diaper!"
Click here to download the historic Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour from October 18th 2008, featuring Porter Hall and Gogo Breaks' first visit to Really Happening's Los Angeles audio dungeon!
More documentation from the historic Gala Mannlicher Carcano 20th Anniversary "Next Time" West Coast Mini-Tour 2008 coming shortly!

Gala Mannlicher Carcano 20th Anniversary "Next Time" West Coast Mini-Tour 2008

2008-10-12T21:34:00.000-07:00

Yo ma peeps. Mannlicher Carcano will be performing live in the flesh, on the radio and on web TV from Los Angeles between Oct 15th and 23rd. Porter Hall and Lucky Breaks are flying down from Montreal and Gogo Godot SAID he was coming but we haven't got a confirmation yet as he has the mental craziness and the unreliable. Nevertheless, we will persist with a line-up of at least 2/3 of the core and various adjunct members in the following venues:

October 15th 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM mini-set in the art gallery of Los Angeles Valley College, 5800 Fulton Avenue, Valley Glen, CA 91401 as part of the opening rituals for the exhibition 'Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey,' which also includes a sound installation by MC and a vitrine displaying Mr. Harvey's collection of MC ephemera. Followed by a panel discussion and musical performances by Nic Waterman and Wounded Lion.

October 16th 8 PM - 9 PM PRIVATE live improvised soundtracks to a moldy slideshow screening at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. If you would like to be on the list for this event, email us at dghrvy@hotmail.com

October 17th Riverside Art Museum 3425 Mission Inn Ave. Riverside CA 92501 Mannlicher will play a set sometime between 7 PM - 11 PM as surprise guests at EARWAX at RAM, also featuring Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Tim Cosner (of Circuit Scarecrow), Choreographers Hannah Schwadron and Laura Vriend presenting “Premises For A Yellow Manifesto” plus "special Performances by UCR Gluck" $5 admission

October 18th tune in for a special 2-hour version of the radio show at www.cfru.ca at Noon L.A. time or drop by the audio dungeon to participate in you are in the area.

At some point we'll be appearing on the web version Let's Paint TV - probably the 21st

We're scheduled to be guests on Professor Cantaloupe's beloved GLOSSOLALIA show on October 22nd at 10 PM on KXLU Radio at 88.9 FM in L.A. or streaming live at www.kxlu.com

We've had offers of a couple of other venues, but we may be tuckered out from these - if anything new is scheduled, we'll keep you posted. Hope to see you all out there!

R. Happening, Minister of Information

The Name of this Band is...

2008-10-05T19:20:00.000-07:00

...derived from the weapon allegedly used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1963. As regards the implement itself, we learn from Wikipedia that the 6.5x52mm Carcano or 6.5x52mm Mannlicher-Carcano is actually an Italian military 6.77 mm (.266/67 cal.) rimless bottle-necked rifle cartridge, developed from 1889-1891 and used in the M 91 Carcano rifle and its successors. In US parlance, the moniker "Carcano" is frequently added to better distinguish it from the rimmed hunting cartridge 6.5x52mmR (US version: .25-35 Winchester). Ballistically, its performance is very similar to that of the 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer.

Under the direction of the "Commissione delle Armi Portatili" (Commission for Portable Weapons), instituted in 1888 to develop a smokeless-powder rifle for the Italian Army, the "Reale Laboratorio Pirotecnico di Bologna" (Royal Pyrotechnical Laboratory of Bologna) developed and tried several different cartridge designs, with a bullet diameter from 8 mm to 6 mm. Finally, due also to the influence of Maj. Antonio Benedetti, of the Brescia Arsenal, Secretary of the Commission and strong supporter of the advantages of smallbore cartridges, the 6,5X52 cartridge was definively adopted in March 1890, first than the rifle that had to use it (it will be the M91 Carcano rifle).

Since the adoption of the cartridge, the Arsenal's technicians worried about the characteristics of the original ballistite load, since that propellant was considered too erosive (flame temperature of 3000-3500 °C) and not stable under severe climatic conditions. Several other loads were tested, including the British cordite but without good results, until the Reale Polverificio del Liri (Royal Explosives Factory of Liri) developed a new propellant called "Solenite", composed of trinitrocellulose (40%), dinitrocellulose (21%), nitroglycerine (36%), mineral oil (3%), and shaped in large tube-like grains. The new propellant, that reduced the flame temperature (2600 °C) and proved to be very stable, was adopted in 1896 and never changed until the end of the military production of the cartridge.

The 6.5x52mm Carcano was designed as a full-blown infantry cartridge, in accordance with the tactics of the time, the adjustable rear sight of the rifle allowing for volley fire up to 2000 metres. It was the first to be officially adopted of a class of smallbore military rifle cartridges such as the 6.5x50 Arisaka (Japan), 6.5x53R Mannlicher (Romania / Netherlands), 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schönauer (Greece), 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser (also Norwegian Krag-Jörgensen), 6.5x58 Portuguese, of similar ballistic performances.

A comparison with other cartridges of the 7.62mm and 8mm caliber class (starting in 1886 with the French 8x50R Lebel, continuing with the German 7.92x57, the Austrian 8x50R, the British .303, the Russian 7.62x54R, the Belgian and Argentine 7.65x53, the .30-40 Krag, and the much later .30-03 and .30-06) may make all these 6.5mm rounds appear "underpowered" on paper though, and lacking of stopping power, compared to other military cartridges and rifles of the time. On the other hand, they seem to have a long list of advantages, as the flatness of trajectory, outstanding penetration at distance, less weight, less recoil, smaller dimensions, less material required to produce them.

Its short-lived intended successor cartridge, the 7.35x51 Carcano, is sometimes identified as the first intermediate round, before the German 7.92x33 and the Soviet 7.62x39.

The original 6.5x52mm Carcano barrel design, developed by the Brescia Arsenal at the same time of the cartridge, and first than the M91 Carcano Rifle, used a gain twist barrel with deep rifling to reduce wear, extend barrel life and give consistent accuracy. Gain twist has a slow initial twist in the barrel progressively getting faster until the full twist rate is attained at the muzzle, resulting in less torque being imparted to the bullet during the highest stress phase of the interior ballistic cycle, and thus less barrel wear in the throat of the barrel.

The 6.5x52 Carcano is an effective and easy-to-shoot deer cartridge out to 200 m (220 yards), with properly-bulleted ammunition. Its main drawback in military use was that the standard Italian service round had a round-nosed bullet and was highly stable (did not usually tumble unless it hit bone), giving many narrow-channel straight-through wounds.[citation needed] This characteristic is due to the high sectional density of the round (the extreme bullet length compared to its diameter).

Handloaders should note that the currently available factory ammunition may lack accuracy due to use of a 6.7 mm (.264 in) bullet instead of the 6.8 (.268 in) as originally loaded.

Under the heading "Notable Uses" Wikipedia adds: The cartridge achieved some notoriety as having been the choice of Lee Harvey Oswald, who used a World War II Italian Carcano rifle in this chambering to allegedly assassinate President John F. Kennedy.

Here is a link to this week's MCRH Broadcast, hosted by the Temporarily Sane Ken Cheezy - welcome back aboard the bus, Ken!

From Contented Cowbells

2008-09-27T16:26:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to this week's show - another all-telephonic Happening/Hall duet, with a couple of minutes of premature discojaculation from the jungle buddy that follows. In memory of devoted Mannlicher fans Allan Kaprow and Manny Farber, we have added more cowbell to our less than two-minute reduction of a 100-minute-long recording from our 1993 performance Regicide and Dispersion at UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts entitled Condensed Cream of CRCA.


	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

Above, Porter Hall's schematic diagram for the reduced recording. Click on image for larger view.

As Promised, the Meeting of Two Great Canadian Musical Legends

2008-09-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

This one didn't turn out so well as the last one; you can almost hear the software crying...


	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

...though "Once my pants are on I make gold records" should be the title of a Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hit anthology! If this recording actually finishes him off, does it still count as a prophetic dream?

PS: If anyone knows an easy way how to download and save this kind of audio file, make a comment!

Ciao Leo, Howdy Porter

2008-09-20T11:22:00.000-07:00

I dreamt this morning I was saying Goodbye to Leonard Cohen, and that he was dying. It was a weird-feeling dream so I googled him to see if he had died at the exact moment of my dream or what. Found out he's 74 tomorrow. Go Lenny! I'll see if I can add more cowbell to MC's cover of Suzanne and link it up here for the occasion. In the meantime, this week's show is available for download here -- if you look for it on the cfru archive page, it's the 12 noon - 1 PM slot usually occupied by Sound Magic, as we were bumped forward by the Gryphons game. Just Porter and Really on this one, kids.

Cover Story from MUSICWORKS #84

2008-09-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

Click on each image to see a large screen-res version.

Mannlicher's Cover of Late Beegees Classic 'You Win Again', Now with More Cowbell!

2008-09-10T12:51:00.000-07:00


	Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj

Porter Hall in Montreal (not Ottawa)

2008-09-01T12:26:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to the first radio show after Porter Hall's recent relocation to Montreal. As such, it is a landmark in the group's history, as no member was actually present in the radio station for the broadcast, though of course adjunct MC faculty Fez & Boston Carlyle worked the board and threw in their two bits.

Funny thing about the above picture. I typed "Porter Hall" in for the google image search, and this was one of the first things that came up, with a caption reading "Porter Hall at Carleton University in Ottawa Friday, September 13th, 1985." At first I thought it was a Canadian band named Porter Hall, but quickly surmised that it was, in fact early 80s Ottawa punks the Randy Peters and that "Porter Hall" is a building on the campus of Carleton.

The funny thing is, our Porter is supposed to hook up with a couple of old friends who now host the Harvey Christ Radio Hour (a live weekly radio show heard every second Tuesday night 11-12AM EST on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal) but were also among the lucky few who witnessed the very early days of Mannlicher Carcano. I am referring of course to Reverends Norm (Jan) Desrosiers and... Randy Peters! These are the kinds of amazing coincidences that Improvisational Audio Collage is all about!