go outside. shut the door.

I think this is one of the first things I recorded. It’s the first track on the 8.81 – 1.83 cassette.

This was done in my bedroom at my parents’ house in Lakewood, CA in 1981. The title is taken from an Oblique Strategies card, as I was fixated on Eno’s “Discreet Music” at the time.

The found recordings were obtained by hanging a mic outside the window.