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Fulton’s Frogs
The ZBS Foundation has long been at the forefront of the dramatic radio arts. Their podcast is a great survey of their audio excursions, mixing flights of fancy with real sound effects.
Check Podcast #8, “Weird Frogs” (7:55 mp3):
“Meatball Fulton plays really weird frogs he recorded in the Amazon, Bali, Lombok, Mexico, and the Brazilian Pantanal.”
There’s more “Singing Frogs of the Pantanal” in this story produced by ZBS for us and Living on Earth (3:54 mp3):
HV074- Bloody Hell
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Ginna Allison · David Greenberger · Kevin Kling · Tom Lopez · The Professor · ZBS
Hearing Voices from NPR®
074 Bloody Hell: For Halloween
Host: Tom Lopez of ZBS Productions
Airs week of: 2011-10-26 (Originally: 2009-10-28)
“Bloody Hell” (52:00 mp3):
An hour of horror for All Hallows’ Eve, the first half is bloody, the second goes to hell:
Based on a conversation with Edna Wofford about ESP, dreams and intuition. From the 2003 CD, Mayor of the Tennessee River. Artist David Greenberger of Duplex Planet has been collecting the thoughts, memories and stories from elderly Americans for more than a quarter century.
From birth, a young Native American has been bleeding from his chest. The government keeps him locked in a cell, refusing to heed his uncle’s warnings. A 3D ZBS adaptation of Cherokee writer Craig Strete’s short story from The Bleeding Man and Other Science Fiction Stories.
La Llorona — the weeping woman — is the Mexican equivalent of the bogeyman. The man she loved rejected her, in madness she drowned her children, then herself. Now she roams the night wailing “Aaay, Mis Hijos;” a scary story that keeps children from wandering at night: “La Llorona will get you.”
Gene Moss’s 1964 Beatles parody mixed w/ SFX by MP3J. Full vers at Mashuptown, “I Want to Bite Your Hand”" (2:50 mp3):
From a cassette tap found by The Professor of WFMU (mp3) & TheAudioKitchen.net. A video vers with images added by Kenneth Salt: More…
HV107- Strange Days
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Erica Heilman · Paul Kiernan · Larry Massett · John Rieger · ZBS
Hearing Voices from NPR®
107 Strange Days: Paul Bowles, Coyle & Sharp, Ayahuasca
Host: Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2010-12-29
“Strange Days” (52:00 mp3):
Way beyond the norm:
Host Larry Massett has an audio essay on the life and literature of Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) on his 100th birthday.
Includes the ZBS 1967 conversation “A Time in Tangier,” readings of The Sheltering Sky
HV006- Radio Dial
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Scott Carrier · Barrett Golding · Douglas Grant · Larry Massett · Art Silverman · Jake Warga · Myke Weiskopf · ZBS
Hearing Voices from NPR®
006 Radio Dial: Signals from the Sky
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2010-05-26 (Originally: 2008-04-09)
“Radio Dial” (52:00 mp3):
Radio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories:
These “Dueling Transmitters” are an atmospheric found-sound un-manipulated mix of Spanish ham-radio operators, slow Morse code, data squalls, and the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the Shortwavemusic blog post “The Effects of Radiation.”
An FM radio station in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, is called Urbana. It’s hip, bilingual, plays music from all over the world, and is famous in Uruguay for its 30-second sound portraits featuring the voices of famous people mixed over avante-garde music.
The Cuban a-capella ensemble approximates a radio dial with their vocal chords. From the group Vocal Sampling’s (site | space) CD Una Forma Mas.
Shortwave/music mixes by LA sound artist Myke Dodge Weiskopf, off his 30: a Retrospective 1976-2006
The government’s all-time all-the-time radio station goes commercial, voiced by former WWV announcer John Doyle.
HV056- An Hour of Earth
HV/Series/Episode/ Work by: Jay Allison · Scott Carrier · Andrei Codrescu · Matt Lieber · Sarah Vowell · ZBS
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
056 An Hour of Earth— For Earth Day
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of— 2009-04-15
“An Hour of Earth” (52:00 mp3):
Walk on the wild side with earthly tales of animals, environments, and outdoor adventure:
We canoe Wyoming’s “Green River” (1994) with Scott Carrier.
Tom Lopez of ZBS records some samba “Singing Frogs” in Brazil, or are they toads?
Poet Andrei Codrescu, of The Exquisite Corpse, composes a microcosmic “Environment” based on burgers (from No Tacos for Saddam 1992
“Subtext: Communicating with Horses” is Jay Allison‘s inter-species conversation, part of his 1985 series Animals and Other Stories.
And Sarah Vowell has subterranean supper in the Carlsbad Caverns’ “Underground Lunchroom”, from a 2001 This American Life.
ZBS Noir Vids
The ZBS series 2 Minute Film Noir are radio dramas, inspired by a film genre, which has inspired a series of video versions, starring 2MNF’s Joe and Moe. The first is “When Little Girls Come Out To Play:”
HV on NPR
Had a slew of HV stories on NPR recently, and no time to post ‘em. We’ll put up photos and more info soon, but for now…
The first of Scott 3-part Juarez stories:
A couple by Jake Warga:
And this ZBS 2 Minute Film Noir:
2MFN: Trailer Park Trash, Recycled
Bernice was bad; she used to date Biker Bob. She beat him up one day… Another ZBS 2 Minute Film Noir. Aired on NPR Day to Day; by producer Tom Lopez of ZBS, “TitleOfMP3″ (3:02 mp3):
