October Update October 31
Hey folks,
Just to serve as a fair warning, I’m participating in NaPodPoMo. I know it’s last-minute, but, hey, that’s how I roll. For more information on NaPodPoMo, click the link.
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All hail the Podcast Overlords! October 23
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve started a thing.
Podcasters, being a rather silly lot, have been bequeathing titles on each other since forever. I was having some fun with twitter folk earlier today over these titles, and, well…
It became a Canonical List of All Silly Titles of All Podcast Overlords, Ever.
Am I missing someone obvious? Like you? That can be fixed. You can comment here with the relevant information, or tweet me at @braindouche, and the list will get updated as I can get to it.
Braindouche! Radio: The Silver Book, by Gunter Adler October 14
Noise! Delicious, yummy, avant guarde noise.
I’ve been in the mood to do a BD!Radio for a week or so now, and just never quite got up the focus to dive through my archives to find stuff to play. Tonight, I was wandering through Archive.org (now with a working keyword structure!) and I found this short, experimental album. I love it. I want to be a tenth as awesome as this. I can share it with you!
Hey, it’s out of character, but I don’t have to always be a big stinky pirate, right?
Gunter Adler says about his EP, The Silver Book:
“For some years I have been carrying a small silver book along with me. It serves as a note book for sketches, ideas, thoughts… These rarely are palpable or brought to conclusion. Thus they are not suited for any direct use. The silver book is an unlimited repository for inspiration, makes me feel contemplative
or amuses me. At times I wonder whether somebody who comes across the book should be able to discover a use for it or might find some meaning in the nonsensical words and sentences. This EP consists of material I collected and archived messily in the years 1999 to 2005. Call it IllMuzak, Illbient or an experimental audio book, the designation is without relevance. It is a personal and humoristic work, appropriate before a sumptuous dinner or in order to calm down passengers during the take off of an airplane.
My intention was to find blurred, yet nevertheless dense sound qualities offering sufficient room for private associations to the listener, however, simultaneously being powerful enough to carry him away. Although silver is the fairest of colours, the sounds of this EP are rather the opposite…”
Track listing:
1. Angeltone
2. I feel for you
3. The Silver Book
4. Zeitnaht
5. Rohrpost revisited
The music in this podcast is released under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
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Trance Number 2 October 11
For the last little while now, I’ve wanted to try making loop-based electronic music. This, unfortunately, meant I had to run around and find some software to do it on.
Many megabytes later, and I’ve found something l like. Here’s the first “finished” piece to come from that, and the awesome part? It only took me an hour or so to complete. The fact that it’s not very good is completely beside the point. It’s called Trance 2 because… it’s the second one I made, and I’m unoriginal. And, it’s worth noting that I don’t know if it’s actually trance or not, electronic music genres baffle me. I thought it sounded appropriate.
In case you were wondering, I declare this track to be a part of the public domain. Use it, sell it if you can, podcast it, remix it, whatever you like. I’d really love it if you leave a comment if you do use this track for something, because I’m always curious about those sorts of things, and it’s a reliable way to discover New Awesome Things. Twice now, people have taken entire episodes from my feed and played them on their show without letting me know first. The only reason I found out about that is that I happen to be subscribed to those shows — who knows where my stuff has landed? I don’t care if you play my stuff elsewhere, but I’d love a little warning. I’m nosey and like to be supportive.
So yeah, while you’re driving by for the download, leave a little love in the comments, or come back with your final product. You’ll be rewarded in heaven, honest.
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