Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

Chapter 10: A Bright Red Electric Guitar

The author performing Pea Soup inside an installation of Water Works (1980) at PS1, Long Island City, NY, September 28, 1980. Photo by Mary Edwards.

Video documentation of Water Works at PS1, Long Island City, NY, Fall 1980. Video by Shalom Gorewitz.

Tot Rocket and the Twins, Security Risk, Trace Elements Records EP 1981, the author's first record production credit. Tracks can be heard HERE.

Nicolas Collins & Ron Kuivila, Going Out With Slow Smoke, Lovely Music LP (1982).
(Click on cover image for pdf of both sides of the jacket.)

TRACKS

Killed In A Bar When He Was Only Three

Little Spiders
Performer instructions for Little Spiders

Second State
Performer instructions for Second State

Is She/He Really Going Out With Him/Her/Them?

Nicolas Collins, Let The State Make The Selection, Lovely Music LP (1984).
(Click on cover image for pdf of both sides of the jacket, with guitar images that irritated John Cage.)

TRACKS

A Letter From My Uncle

Vaya Con Dios

A Clearing Of Deadness At One Hoarse Pool

The most recent version of the backwards electric guitar (2002): a lap steel built from two Home Depot levels, with amplifiers and other electronics built in. The instrument still works as a level. Photos by Simon Lonergan