XOXO is one of those avant-garde musique concrète albums that simply defies categorization or deconstruction: it's part science-fiction, part neo-Dada, and part assembled sound collage, but with any category defined by its process of creation such as this, it becomes impossible to define. The album -- which is being touted in some circles as "the Sgt. Pepper's of noise records," though it's certainly not as buoyant and upbeat -- was crafted from a variety of instrumentation, samples, loops, prepared guitars, even a dildo. Yes, a dildo. Paul McCarthy's vocalizations are truly improvisational in nature, with a scattershot nightmarish quality that has to be heard to be believed. Joe Potts, meanwhile, contributed sounds created on "Chopped Optigans," which are instruments reconstructed from dismantled '70s optical samplers made by the Mattel toy company. The album was assembled over a period of more than three years by the four members who called themselves Extended Organ. Tom Recchion, Fredrick Nilsen, McCarthy, and Potts originally came together in 1997 after their longtime association with the Los Angeles Free Music Society, where they supported each other's art and music and even performed separately and in various combinations for more than two decades. This release, however, marks their first time as a foursome (they have performed live shows on rare occasions since coming together). ~ Bryan Thomas, All Music Guide
Gary L. Todd (Telephone Voice), Tom Recchion (Guitar), Tom Recchion (Percussion), Tom Recchion (Sound Effects), Tom Recchion (Engineer), Tom Recchion (Kurzweil Synthesizer), Tom Recchion (Editing), Tom Recchion (Mixing), Tom Recchion (Package Design), Tom Recchion (Wah Wah Guitar), Tom Recchion (Radio), Tom Recchion (Electric Percussion), Tom Recchion (Effects), Tom Recchion (Recording), Fredrick Nilsen (Organ), Fredrick Nilsen (Guitar (Acoustic)), Fredrick Nilsen (Noise), Fredrick Nilsen (?), Fredrick Nilsen (Korg Synthesizer), Fredrick Nilsen (Photography), Fredrick Nilsen (Effects), Fredrick Nilsen (Roland XP 80), Paul McCarthy (Vocals), Paul McCarthy (Cover Art Concept), Paul McCarthy (Effects), Extended Organ (Main Performer), Joe Potts (Package Design), Joe Potts (Optigan), Joe Potts (Effects)
"XOXO" is also a symbol for Hugs and Kisses. For the OLPC notebook see XO-2.
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XOXO (eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines) is an XMLmicroformat for outlines built on top of XHTML. Developed by several authors as an attempt to reuse XHTML building blocks instead of inventing unnecessary new XML elements/attributes, XOXO is based on existing conventions for publishing outlines, lists, and blogrolls on the Web.
The XOXO specification defines an outline as a hierarchical, ordered list of arbitrary elements. The specification is fairly open which makes it suitable for many types of list data. E.g. the more semantic version of the S5 presentation file format is based upon XOXO.
The ordered list and unordered list are the root elements of XOXO. They may contain the class attribute with the value "xoxo". They are also used as containers for outline items. They may have the attribute compact="compact" to indicate state of whether child items are visible or not.
<li>
Represents an item in the outline. May contain an ordered list or unordered list element to contain child items which themselves may do so as well.
<a>
Represents a hyperlink for an item in the outline. May have a "title" attribute to indicate additional information, a "type" attribute to indicate the MIME type of the resource at the destination of the href, a "rel" attribute to indicate the relationship of the resource at the href to this outline (e.g. using XFN), and/or a "rev" attribute to indicate the relationship of this outline to the resource at the href (e.g. using VoteLinks).
<dl>
May contain any number of arbitrary properties using <dt> (definition term) and <dd> (definition description) elements.
