Here’s HV’s first contributions to CPB’s new My Source community “to increase recognition of public broadcasting.”
“My Source- All Americans” (1:00 mp3):
“My Source- Iraq Vets” (0:30 mp3):
“My Source- Poetry” (1:00 mp3):
Commisioned by a Burnley Council, England as part of the Big Art Project; created by the architects Tonkin Liu for a hilltop at Crown Point, Lancashire, England, is the “Singing, Ringing Tree:”
via JFK-KGLT.
Turns out that a French recording from 1860 may be the oldest known recorded human voice, “Au Clair de la Lune” (mp3):
Here’s the New York Times article on the First Sounds project.
WFUV-NYC, one of my favorite stations on the planet, just added our weekly series of HV Hours to their Saturday morn sked. Very happy to be on in da apple.
Radio stations broadcasting the HV weekly hour series:
| Station | City | State | Day(s) | Time(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMXT-FM | Kodiak | AK | Wed | 11pm |
| KAZU-FM | Pacific Grove | CA | Sat Sun |
3pm 9pm |
| KWMR-FM | Pt. Reyes Station | CA | Sun | 10pm |
| WGCU-FM | Fort Myers | FL | Wed | 7pm |
| WEPS-FM | Elgin | IN | Fri | 12pm |
| WVPE-FM | Elkhart | IN | Sun | 6pm |
| WZAI-FM | Martha’s Vineyard | MA | Sun | 7pm |
| WNAN-FM | Nantucket | MA | Sun | 7pm |
| WCAI-FM | Woods Hole | MA | Sun | 7pm |
| KGLT-FM | Bozeman | MT | Sun | 4pm |
| WFUV-FM | New York City | NY | Sat | 6am |
| WHSS-FM | Hamilton | OH | (TBD) | |
| OPB Access Net | Portland | OR | Thu | 5pm |
| KUT2-HD | Austin | TX | Sun | 8pm |
| KXOT-FM | Seattle | WA | Sat | 12pm |
| KUWA-FM | Afton | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KBUW-FM | Buffalo-FM | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWC-FM | Casper | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KDUW-FM | Douglas | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWG-FM | Gillette | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWJ-FM | Jackson | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWR-FM | Laramie | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWN-FM | Newcastle | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWX-FM | Pinedale | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWP-FM | Powell | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWZ-FM | Rock Springs | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KSUW-FM | Sheridan | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWD-FM | Sundance | WY | Sat | 5am |
| KUWT-FM | Thermopolis | WY | Sat | 5am |
This video shows a “pack animal” robot designed to crawl up mountains, on ice, through snow, carrying 340 lbs. The way this “animal” adapts to terrain is unbelievable. Created ( by Boston Dynamics, an engineering company “Dedicated to the Science and Art of How Things Move.” If you have no interest in futuristic army technology or the replacement for Sherpas, then have a nice day; otherwise, brought to by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, here’s The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth, “Boston Dynamics Big Dog:”
The video for the song (in this week’s HV hour) with comedian Greg Giraldo and musicians Lazyboy, from their 2004 CD TV, “Underwear Goes Inside the Pants:”
On this afternoon’s NPR Day to Day another ZBS series, 2 Minute Noir, “Even Rattlesnakes Get the Blues” (2:13 mp3):
Had to check out Hulu.com after reading about it. It’s kind of like YouTube Pro. Given that they’re doing limited commercials and putting things on there that people actually want to watch without being hunched over the screen, the TV industry might avoid the RIAA’s fate. The video quality is pretty good. At full-screen, I could sit back six feet and it looked fine. Want to watch Saturday Night Live clips or full-length The Simpsons or whole movies like “The Big Lebowski” or “The Usual Suspects.” Hulu is “joint venture owned by NBC Universal and News Corp [Fox]:”
Hulu offers U.S. consumers a vast selection of premium video content, on demand, free and ad-supported: full episodes of TV shows, both current and classic, full-length movies, thousands of clips, and much more.
There’s also short films, like from the Sundance series The Art of Seduction, “Not Pretty, Really:”
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
004 Comedy with a Beat—
Comic Bits with Music Beats
Host— David Ossman of Firesign Theatre
Airs week of— 2009-04-08 (Originally: 2008-03-26)
Comedy with a Beat (54:00 mp3):
Laughs and lyrics:
Wally Cox yodels. Peter Sellers sings while shaving.
Jack Kerouac croons “Ain”t We Got Fun.”
Charles Mingus jazzes up Jean Shepherd”s “The Clown.”
Comedian Greg Giraldo is layered over Lazyboy.
“Lenny Bruce Gets Busted” in Jonathan Mitchell“s documentary.
And we hear rare and classic sketches from host David Ossman’s Firesign Theatre.
“Underwear Goes Inside the Pants” Lazyboy fea. Greg Giraldo:
It’s already had 1.7M views and was the YouTube 2007 Best Short Film, but I hadn’t seen it so maybe you haven’t either. If you know someone who has… well, you’ll see, “My Name is Lisa:”
HV doubled down with two pieces on NPR Day to Day, the first— There’s history and politics hidden in the songs of Tibet, which has been under Chinese control for half a century. A music recordist visits during Losar, the Tibetan New Year, looking for traditional music (produced for KGLT-Bozeman), “Song of Tibet” (3:30 mp3):
A masters hands plays the Danyen; a Tibetan type of banjo:
Photo © Jack Chance, March 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal
Another HV on this afternoon’s NPR Day to Day was their second from the ZBS series, 2 Minute Noir. An angel wants to walk on the dark side in “Say ‘So Long’ to Shangri-La” (2:25 mp3):
Yesterday on StoryCorps®— Pinky Powell could pick 100 pounds of cotton by lunchtime. Her great-granddaughter tells her tale of life on an Alabama plantation. This one hurts, “Mary Ellen Noone” (2:15 mp3):
To demonstrate our WY-centric station carriage, mentioned in post prev, our graphics team has prepared this map:
That’s right, there’s a new toy in town, Google Charts: online generation of graphs, charts, and data-driven maps. Thanks, Jon, for telling me about it and making me waste my morn — you know I can’t resist to trying new tech. Or as Jon graphically points out:
The 14-station Wyoming Public Radio network just added our weekly hour to their sked. Which means we now have more stations in WY than all other stations in the universe combined. Our thanks to the Cowboy State for more than doubling our carriage.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
003 Her Stories: For Women’s History Month
Host: Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org
Airs week of: 2012-02-29 (Originally: 2008-03-19)
“Her Stories” (52:00 mp3):
The Kitchen Sisters go to “Tupperware®” parties.
A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS‘s radio soap Saratoga Springs.
Jenifir returns “Home From Africa” with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal, produced by Jake Warga.
Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about “Sisters.”
In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of “Ruby” and her husbands.
And Sonia Sanchez (produced by Steve Rowland of Shakespeare Is), Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems.
Music from Tara Key’s Ear & Echo.
John and Abagail Adams played by Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. Nuff said, no? Parts 1 & 2 of the HBO 7-week mini-series “John Adams” rocked, rolled, tarred, feathered, cannon fired, and created a nation. “He United the States of America.” Based on the David McCullough 900-pager, “John Adams (HBO) full-length trailer”:
From the March/April 2008 Issue of The Believer, a conversation between two great filmakers: “Errol Morris talks with Werner Herzog.”
I was a private detective for years after I started as a filmmaker. I like to think, of course I could be completely wrong, that there’s this detective element in everything I do. My movies start from interviews. Everything that I’ve really done. —EM
Wait for the afterthought. Be patient. Don’t say, “Cut.” Just let them do it. The unplanned, the unexpected, the afterthought. —WH
via Zak Rosen- WDET.
Author Charles Bowden on the border, © 2008 Julián Cardona:
The Thermopolis transmitter of Wyoming Public Radio was off-air. To fix it they needed to get up past three feet of snowdrifts, over three inches of ice, and into 40-mph winds blowing snow sideways across a cloud-covered hilltop. A four-wheel drive wouldn’t make it; a rental Sno-Cat would have taken days to find; and snowmobile travel would have been dangerous with the weight and bulk of the gear and parts needing transport. So how did Chief Engineer Reid Fletcher and Program Director Roger Adams make their mid-winter ascent? Hint: “Giddyup.”
