Casey Hallas Art

Here Lies Pool Boy, Vol 5

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Mango Sticky Rice
Color Is a Crayon
Safety First (Boise Mix)
One Foot in the Universe
The Dying Schools
Like the Bird
A.C.O.D.
I Won’t Learn to Lie
Meow Power (Instrumental Mix)

This is the folksiest of the volumes – produced closer toward my time in Boise.

Casey Hallas & David McKelvey – Space Jazz

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Space Jazz Pt. 1
Space Jazz Pt. 2
Space Jazz Pt. 3

I took drum samples from my Uncle John’s records when I went up there to visit one summer in Ithaca. I put these on the Kaos pad sampler and then jammed with David McKelvey in my apartment. Always liked these jams so in 2022 I added some extra synth parts to the third one and released it. What the heck.

S.O.S.

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Rings
Planet
God
Moons

I wrote this music around the theme of Saturn. For example, the frequency of tones on Moons is based around the periods of orbits and the chords derived from math I did regarding the spacing of the largest moons relative to each other in distance. God takes sample at/about the deity – using David Icke. Somehow I accidentally made him say “twerking” – which, come on people – is maybe one of the coolest things that’s ever happened! My friend Leif says it doesn’t sound finished. Nothing’s finished Leif, unless you decide it should be.

Never

A Ken Kesey kind of thing – Never – this cart carries my art supplies and can hold 2 of my projection screens. Some Catholics helped me build it – it was SO expensive! The voile screen on the right swings out to 90 degrees. I’ll get this out into the wilderness with some projectors, a sound system and throw down post-modern like I do. This installation incorporates the Bold Jumper mask I used at Paseo as well. You can dance on the top level and there’s room for a DJ booth at the front.

Songs for Magnus

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Intro
Magnus (Theory)
Station Squared
Salt Pillar Walk
Station to the Fourth
Nacho Cheese
Boozy Loon
Commercial Break
Snake Charming
Salt Pillar Crawl
Magnus
Interlude
Salt Pillar Boogie

I improvised this music for a show with Mark Gualtieri at the Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh. The segments I liked from each jam were looped and layered together in Logic and mixed live using my DJ setup. I played viola and banjo on these.

Damage

I produced this audio recording and edited the music video.