Myeck WatersJune 9, 2005
*Name: Myeck Waters
*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: The project is called myeck's big waste o' time, but in the past I also called it Attack of the 50-Foot Robin Hood.
*Do you use a pseudonym? Myeck is a nickname, my legal name is Michael Waters.
*Members: I work alone.
*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: "Digital Deconstructions" works for me. When my brothers and I first started messing around with this in the 1970s, of course, it was tape manipulation, or rather tape recorder manipulation.
*Location: New Jersey
*Original Location: I grew up in Wisconsin.
*What is your creative/artistic background: I have no artistic training, aside from a year or two or guitar lessons from some totally disinterested geezer in the cellar of a music store. I have always been fond of altering existing things to be funny and/or unsettling, starting when I realized I could erase the text in My Weekly Reader in grade school. In the early 1980s, an older brother, his girlfriend and I made two 3-song singles under the name Vibrant Fiasco. No use of pre-recorded materials though, just instruments and voices and a TEAC 4-track.
*History: I've been messing with recorded sounds since the early 1970s.
*Born: I was born in 1958.
*Philosophy: If there is a philosophy, it's that taking things out of their original context makes them interesting in new ways.
*How would you like to be remembered: As Angelina Jolie.
*Web address: http://home.att.net/~myeck.waters/myeck/myeck.htm
