background corn is about seals and about childhood. i put it together in a 3 month fever after finding a tape at my childhood home in NH of my 11 year old self narrating a “seal watch” boat ride in Maine in 1997. there were no seals on the boat, only advertisements for lobstah restaurants but I feel like i finally got to be amongst the california sea lions in sf. The overarching sense of wonder gets to the marrow of what I’m trying to discover in the materiality of sound as an adult, and the pieces formed sort of quickly and organically.
released July 11, 2025
solo drumming reamped through battery amps and 11 years old narration
mastered by Nathan Corder
nathancorder.com
released as a wristband with a phone number on it 1(888) 409-5815
and soft sculpture cassette edition of 30 and HTML on call waitin
callwaitn.com/backgroundcorn.html
by Cal Fish
calfish.land
re-released in a cassette edition of 100 by Already Dead
https://www.alreadydeadtapes.com/