MPA bio:
Medroxy Progesterone Acetate began in 1999 after the official termination of tape-junk combo BFP. All I can remember about why I chose the name is it was better than Zombie Monkey Corpse and slightly easier to spell than Ha-Hitsonim. Wandering around Iowa (with occasional sabbaticals in Texas and Minnesota) collecting field recordings of storm drains, rural graveyards and abandoned barns, primary MPA member D. Bauler began treating these tapes with magnets, solvents and modified recording equipment, adding homemade signal-damaging circuits and empty synth drones to create a string of albums on the vanity label Midwest Death Cult, most of which were then given away to strangers or left in public places. Occasional live performances took place in an empty machine shed called the Hudson Machinery Network (now dismantled) and endless anonymous basements. Collaborated with Chicago hoodlums Number None for the Damp and Damned cassette on Sloow Tapes in 2005. Any questions, email at mpa at cryptonarrative dot com. Thank you and good night.
Equipment includes the following:
- Sleep Generator
- Sucklesynth (dual XR2206-based oscillator/LFO/MS20-style filter)
- Skulleater Synth (modified Triwave Picogenerator with waveshaper plus SN76488-based VCO/LFO/noise generator)
- modified Casio MT240
- Teraphim Recording Array (a daisy-chained series of heavily modified cassette recorders/dictaphones/reel-to-reel machines)
- Akai AX80
- Poisine generator
- various chord organs
- Ensoniq EPS sampler
- various modified toys/keyboards
- Wurlitzer Theater Organ
- Hammond M2 Organ
- various transistor organs
- Kawai K1m synth
- modified Wurlitzer Music Learning Module
- too many homemade, modified and standard effects pedals
- Fender Jaguar guitar
- Korg Electribe ES1 sampler
- Amiga 3000 computer
- Yamaha SY22 synth, TX7 synth and RX21L drum machine (modified)
- modified music boxes
- found tapes
- The Abbadon Device
- Roland JV-1080 synth and SP808ex e-mix studio
- homemade VLF reciever
- modified and standard shortwave, am, cb radios and scanners
- modified Sears Silvertone tube amplifier
- Sansui Reverb amplifier
- homemade dual-circuit feeback delay
- telephone, intercom and closed circuit networks
- software: Audiomulch, Pure Data, Keykit, Mr. Alias Pro, VVVV, Cakewalk Sonar
- Banjo, accordion, acoustic guitar, trombone, violin, oud
- various bells
- field recordings from (among others): Mars Hill Cemetery, Oakland Cemetery, unnamed drainage canals, sewers and powerlines, steam tunnels beneath Hawkeye College, Waterloo West High School and the University of Iowa, Rath Packing Company, IBP, Villisca IA, the Victor IA I80 rest stops (west and east), various churches, the swamp behind the Black Hawk Rollerdrome and a series of places which cannot be named
Synth circuits and ideas by Thomas Henry, Juergen Haible, Peter B., Rene Schmitz, Dave Wright, Daryl Groetsch, Ray Wilson and various people on the Analogue Heaven mailing list.