TouchRadio is the webcast (iTunes subscribe) of Touch Records, the label of field recordists and audio artists, including Chris Watson. Try one— step into this “9-Sided Room,” by Steve Roden (27:00):

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This week’s HV cast: John Cage was born 95 years ago, September 5 1912. Here’s a quasi-Cage-ian sound portrait with voxpop featuring folk answering “Who’s John Cage?” A story by Barrett Golding, “Who’s John Cage (Silence)” (2:24 mp3):

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Chicago Public Radio goes 24/7 with its new :Vocalo, and it’s sounding pert-fuqn-kewl; streaming it now: good conversational DJs, good groovin’ music– what a concept for a radio station. Sez they: “Vocalo is a gathering place, on-air, on the web, and in the community. It’s also a new broadcast format that celebrates the cultures and communities of the Chicago region.” Feel the :V.

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An beta vers of an NPR Station Coverage Map. Roll over transmitter icons and it shows the areas covered and signal strength.

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From This Just In via Funny or Die, “Bullies Vs. Sissies:”

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Stumbled on this while trying to do something more useful: deactivatedon.com - lists of domain names that have expired. The page I came across had ones that obviously were just meant to be short-lived like nicola-and-karls-wedding-album.com but then there are just some that make you wonder, like nicotinesoda.com and organicorgasm.com or the perhaps reformed (or cured) onecrazybitch.com…and how could anyone give up allcello.com or americansagainstillegalimmigration.com? And so much for the so-called “long tail” effect, where any niche market could be fulfilled. Obviously, there just weren’t enough fetish seekers interested in bigbosomsandsquarejaws.com. Or maybe there was just too much info in infotites.com, as in you really shouldn’t wear something that revealing at your age.

If you have any particularly macho Spaniard friends, here’s their opportunity to grab iberianbull.com. Was mydotcomwebsite.com just too obvious? She was my girlfriend until she found out about mygirlfriendshotpussy.com. I may have been turneddownelsewhere.com but I’m sure not admitting it. And why the hell would I want to do wirelesswithwires.com? victorianideals.com was so two centuries ago. But we should still raise a toast to volksbier.com.

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The LA Weekly article, “Night of the Living Dead,” is an unflattering portrait of Pacifica station KPFK, “where North Korea meets North Hollywood,” and its outgoing GM. For those who enjoy heavy doses of bile and vitriol with your journalism:

During her more than five-year tenure, Georgia has plunged the listener-run station into a dark hole, alienated its staff, pared down its already marginal audience, allowed its signal to decay, and filled the airtime with loonies, ranters and fringies… Not that any of the above made much difference, as Georgia’s bosses – those who run the local station’s board as well as the Pacifica network’s national board – are even loopier and less competent than she is. They’re a crew of slogan-chanting zombies, nary a one with any professional understanding of radio.

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An hour from BBC Radio 4 Archive Hour: Saving the Sounds of History. “The BBC Sound Archive, one of the most important collections in the world, began almost by accident one day in the 1930s when Marie Slocombe, a temporary secretary, was told to clear out some old records. The first batch included recordings by George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill. Slocombe held on to them and spent the rest of her career developing the collection, from the great and the good to the experiences of ordinary people.”

Slocombe: “First, a pilot on the wing of a burning plane in mid-air…” Next week’s BBC Archive Hour is The Sound of America: The Story of NPR.

via Rich Halten.

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