Snakes & Ladders, by Slaw

Snakes & Ladders

by Slaw

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1.	God Told Me to Eat Your Furniture 00:31	buy track
2.	A Passing Phase 00:29	buy track
3.	Turtles All the Way Down 00:31	buy track
4.	Byte Me 00:15	buy track
5.	Events in Hilbert Space 00:11	buy track
6.	Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts 00:19	buy track
7.	Spelled the Way It Sounds 00:27	buy track
8.	The Emperor’s New Nose 00:12	buy track
9.	Wash and Wear 00:37	buy track
10.	Military Precision 00:39	buy track
11.	Beanie Baby 00:34	buy track
12.	Cinderella 00:49	buy track
13.	Hissyfit 01:04	buy track
14.	Monkeybars 00:08	buy track
15.	Axle Grease 00:48	buy track
16.	Rope Bridge 00:28	buy track
17.	The Child is Father to the Man 00:14	buy track
18.	Monster Movie 00:36	buy track
19.	All the Girls in France 00:27	buy track
20.	Dream Number One 01:45	buy track
21.	Examine 00:43	buy track
22.	Gog and Magog 00:13	buy track
23.	Patent Pending 00:35	buy track
24.	Coral King 00:23	buy track
25.	Scatterscan 00:34	buy track
26.	Original Sin 00:36	buy track
27.	Peek-a-boo 00:31	buy track
28.	Lighter Music 00:45	buy track
29.	Percussive Theme 01:12	buy track
30.	Wash and Wear 00:45	buy track
31.	The Nine Warning Signs of Christmas 00:32	buy track
32.	TV All Day 00:48	buy track
33.	Jordan and the Wolf 00:12	buy track
34.	Please Do Not Feed the Damned 00:56	buy track
35.	Slipstick 00:32	buy track
36.	Piñata Punch 00:41	buy track
37.	Funky Broadway 00:09	buy track
38.	Comet 00:15	buy track
39.	My Life as a God 00:45	buy track
40.	Empire Winter 00:56	buy track
41.	Cellar 02:24	buy track
42.	Silent Night 01:17	buy track
43.	Axle Grease 00:48	buy track
44.	The Kid’s Okay 00:25	buy track
45.	Jingle Bells 00:52	buy track
46.	Yippy Skippy 00:13	buy track
47.	It’s Always Bowb-Your-Buddy Week 00:34	buy track
48.	Lovable 00:30	buy track
49.	Practice Your Scales 00:29	buy track
50.	Extend and Rotate 01:00	buy track
51.	House Absolute 00:21	buy track
52.	Wiggle 00:36	buy track
53.	This One’s for the Quiet-Your-Dog Man 00:08	buy track
54.	Argument Machine 00:55	buy track
55.	Abernathy 00:45	buy track
56.	Insects Inherit the Earth 01:48	buy track
57.	Lex’s Mess 00:58	buy track
58.	Events in Hilbert Space 00:24	buy track
59.	Cymbolik 01:29	buy track
60.	Jingle Bells 00:53	buy track
61.	Happy Coat 00:46	buy track
62.	Rik Rak 00:41	buy track
63.	Vexed Party 01:04	buy track
64.	Hands and Knees 00:20	buy track
65.	Cool Groove of Alarm 00:19	buy track
66.	Freak Flag Fly 00:17	buy track
67.	Battle Hymn of the Third Grade 00:39	buy track
68.	Slipstick 00:16	buy track
69.	Great Wall 00:44	buy track
70.	The Child is Father to the Man 00:07	buy track
71.	Phonics Lesson 00:16	buy track
72.	A Kiss is Still a Kiss 00:29	buy track
73.	Astroturf 00:51	buy track
74.	Fear Take Flight 01:42	buy track
75.	Jabberwocky 01:46	buy track
76.	Santa Cow 00:28	buy track
77.	Axle Grease 00:11	buy track
78.	On Top of Old Smokey 00:32	buy track
79.	Unload 00:36	buy track
80.	After-School Special 00:41	buy track
81.	Driving and Dancing 00:40	buy track
82.	Tonight, Tonight, Tonight 00:45	buy track
83.	The Age of Steam 00:22	buy track
84.	Miss Lucy 00:44	buy track
85.	Blame It on the Casanova 01:03	buy track
86.	Tricksters 01:18	buy track
87.	War Beneath the Tree 00:23	buy track
88.	Mummified 00:53	buy track
89.	Metal Hits 00:29	buy track
90.	Events in Hilbert Space 00:12	buy track
91.	Jingle Bells 01:28	buy track
92.	Wash and Wear 00:30	buy track
93.	Ebi Nigiri 00:15	buy track
94.	Another Mysterious Heirloom 00:24	buy track
95.	Slipstick 01:04	buy track
96.	Happy Pretty Candy 00:23	buy track
97.	Campfire Farewell 00:39	buy track
98.	Get Well Soon 01:11	buy track
99.	I Can Feel the Itch Beginning 00:37	buy track
100.	Victory at C 00:10	buy track

about

Snakes & Ladders is a bizarre yet fascinating interactive construction with 100 tracks (one virtual) on one CD, each track linked to the appropriate square on the well-known board game. The game board represents the individual’s psychic growth pattern, either climbing a ladder toward perfect mental balance or sliding down a snake’s gullet toward the abyss of base animal instincts. Roll the dice, move your mice, and program your CD player (remember them?) to follow and support your halting progress as you slink rat-like through the ever-shifting topography of life’s maze toward the smelly cheese of enlightenment.

Slaw’s music is scientifically designed to provide listeners with a wholesome personal growth experience, and has been rigorously tested at solo slumber parties and dubious self-help retreats nationwide.

“This might be the strangest demo yet – good strange, that is.… More than just clever presenters, Walters and Perkins are also expert sound manglers. This is truly a must-hear-to-appreciate piece of work.” —Keyboard

“I guarantee you’ve never heard anything like Slaw and never will.” —Jim Santo's Demo Universe

credits

released October 13, 2001

Slaw is Heather Perkins and Tim Walters.

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Tim Walters Oakland, California

Tim Walters is a sonic and visual computer artist. Over the last couple of decades, he has bleeped and blooped with Circular Firing Squad and Slaw, researched artificial stupidity with Shalmaneser, and played bass guitar with Reconnaissance Fly. He has released six albums of electroacoustic music, most recently Neither Here Nor There and Austerity Measures. He hopes someday to be a real live boy. ... more

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