Having burned through many names through the years the one that seems to have stuck is Collective Media Project.  A close second perhaps being Sectioned and Sugared.  Regardless of names and naming Andrew Cole and Steve McClure unknowingly began an anarchistic practice of creating music in 1997 as a weekly radio program on 88.7 WXDU Durham, NC.  In the beginning the station's broadcast tower had been destroyed by Hurricane F.  Listeners to the program received nothing but static until a new tower was functioning in 1998.   Unburdened by listeners, we began soberly and very obsoletely by using homemade cassette recordings, Dictaphones, discarded thrift records, turntables and mixing boards provided at the radio station. 

 

This organic approach to its subject, a fascination with the idea of recorded music from it's inception focused on and exploited obsolete and new technics of recorded music and sound as a means in and of itself for creating  'music'.   We also explored and experimented with the underestimated problem of listener and creator and live and recorded events.  One of our conscious purposes throughout our endeavor was cathartic; an attempt to clean the ears of the predictable tropes of made music and reinvestigate the possibilities of music. 

 

Our weekly performances produced over 300 hours of original material.  Much of it is chaotic, difficult and ungainly. Some has focused clarity and intentional raw energy. Other samples were humorous celebrations.