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"For years, I’ve utilized the age-old soundcheck trick of asking my interview subjects, “What did you have for breakfast this morning?” I’m often delighted by the nature of their responses, ranging from the mundane to the wondrous. Soundchecks can provide unique windows in which interviewees hover between the skin they occupy and the persona they aim to project. This liminal state allows for fleeting utterances to slip onto tape.

I’ve clipped and catalogued many of these soundcheck responses as a batch of Breakfast Leftovers (listen). My appreciation for the collection lies in its unguarded spontaneity. Here, you’ll find an offering of unfiltered culinary recollections and ramblings from musicians, sound engineers, record producers, visual artists, and filmmakers. When digested as a continuous string, these recordings provide snapshots of unveiled artists. Those downtrodden from one-too-many soggy sandwiches consumed on the road sit alongside others radiating full-bellied bliss and if the adage, “You are what you eat,” holds true, then Breakfast Leftovers proffers that many luminous, creative humans embody oatmeal in motion." - Mark “Frosty” McNeill
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In 2020, the Palais des Beaux Arts acquired Breakfast Leftovers for its collection in the form of an audio collage. These clips were recorded between 2017-2020 in the dublab.com radio studios in Los Angeles for McNeill’s Celsius Drop radio program and on shores far beyond as part of varied, sonic explorations. The voices appear in the following order:
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1. Ibon Errazkin 2. Akiko Yano 3. Wally Badarou 4. John Carpenter 5. Allison Wolfe 6. Matmos 7. Bennie Maupin 8. Popcaan 9. Jon Hassell 10. Katie Gately 11. Lonnie Holley 12. Miho Hatori 13. Floria Sigismondi 14. Bear Bones Lay Low 15. Xylouris White 16. Iztok Koren (Širom) 17. Madame Gandhi 18. Carla Bley 19. Yuka C. Honda 20. Waajeed 21. Jennifer Herrema 22. Midori Takada 23. Jenny Hval 24. Devendra Banhart 25. Yoshi Wada 26. Chancha Via Circuito 27. Bernie Grundman 28. Michael Rother 29. Ali Shaheed Muhammad 30. Doreen Shaffer (The Skatalites) 31. Ikue Mori 32. Sudan Archives 33. Mario Caldato Jr. 34. Eli Keszler 35. Yasmine Hamdan 36. David Behrman 37. Ed Michel 38. Vanishing Twin 39. Annie Hart 40. Mouse on Mars 41. Gaye Su Akyol 42. DJ Haram 43. Craig Leon 44. Jupiter and Okwess 45. Alsarah 46. Geoff Mann 47. Elon Katz 48. Kelman Duran 49. Chico Mann 50. Delroy Edwards 51. Allison Anders 52. Estevan Oriol 53. Josephine Foster 54. Mdou Moctar 55. Ka Baird 56. Meredith Monk 57. Alvin Curran 58. Julia Holter 59. Melissa Dueñas 60. Marissa Nadler 61. Matthewdavid McQueen 62. Linda Perry 63. Asmara 64. Khruangbin 65. Arp 66. Rick Potts 67. Jessica Pratt 68. Idris Ackamoor 69. Julia Wolfe 70. Linda di Franco 71. Roscoe Mitchell 72. Shabazz Palaces 73. Judith Hill 74. My Brightest Diamond 75. Meshell Ndegeocello 76. K. Leimer 77. Mitski 78. Kaitlyn Aurelia-Smith 79. Monalisa Murray 80. Ann Magnuson 81. Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers) 82. Pete Swanson 83. Mileece 84. Dave Smith 85. Julie Byrne 86. Gregg Kowalksy 87.  Shirley Manson 88. Vitamin Wig C. 89. Todd Edwards 90. Dwight Trible 91. Tropicaza 92. Greg Anderson 93. Wu Fei 94. Zackey Force Funk 95. AshTreJinkins 96. Peaking Lights 97. Scott Gilmore 98. Gudrun Gut 99. Marc Weinstein (Amoeba Music) 100. Mary Lattimore 101. Helen Money 102. Amber Mark 103. Capitol K 104. Penelope Spheeris 105. Gerard Meraz 106. Mark Nieto/COMBAT! 107. Don Bolles 108. Vincent Moon