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Six Years of Sound Collages
It was six years ago this month that I created and posted my first sound collage, the first episode of “Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand”, an episode I subtitled “A Step Out”. The subtitle came from the sprite-based comic series I made for five years and at least 500 episodes.
I’ve written about the genesis of my sound collage series, how I was inspired by the WFMU/WTJU/KOOP radio show Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, and to a lesser extent the radio show Over the Edge Radio. Back then I had recently discovered the Phone Losers of America. I wanted to do my own sound collages and wanted to include prank call references.
Also at the time I was still hosting the Marble Operator podcast, and it was my cohost Erica that encouraged me to do these collages. I shared edits and final collages with her and she offered feedback.
To be fair, though, “A Step Out” was not my first attempt at making a sound collage. Back in 2010 or so I made an audio project I called “Patrolling the Mojave”. I had noticed a thread on the /v/ section of 4chan where people were asked to post recordings of themselves reciting lines from a recent video game (“Fallout: New Vegas” or something like that). The key line was “patrolling the Mojave really makes you wish for a nuclear winter”. I noticed that the site people were uploading to offered downloads of each recording, so I grabbed as many as I could, opened Audacity, and started playing around with mixing those vocal recordings with backing music. This became the first sound collage that I posted anywhere online (I posted it to the old Radio Free Caemlyn feed on TalkShoe).
At the time, Radio Free Caemlyn was my experimental podcast. The idea was that I would try all sorts of ideas, do stuff that I couldn’t do on Cultdom (or even expand my own discussions beyond what I had time to say on Cultdom Collective). It was also partially inspired by the public radio program “This American Life”. Anyway, I posted this sound collage (though I didn’t really know that term at the time) to the RFC feed and moved on. (Blog post bonus: to celebrate the anniversary of SAFTWR, here’s that Patrolling the Mojave collage, newly added to my Internet Archive archives.
Later on I would make another collage, this one based off of the YouTube series “Marble Hornets”. This was closer to the style I would adopt for Super Awesome Fun Time. I made this as part of the Marble Operator podcast.
Anyway. Here’s to six years of sound collaging. Thank you everyone for listening to them. I mean that.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 105: From the Cactus Shack Archives
I’ve been planning this one for a while. This sound collage is entirely themed around the Phone Losers of America, and the Snow Plow Show podcast, crated by Brad “RBCP” Carter. This features clips from decades’ worth of prank calls. (As such, there’s a language warning, so, unlike most collages I make, expect some cursing. If that’s not your cup of tea, feel free to skip this collage)
Please enjoy and thank you for listening. Cactus, cactus.
Radio Free Caemlyn: From the Cliffs We Saw It All
Series 12 of Doctor Who concluded today, so I offer my review of its final episode, “The Timeless Children”.
Radio Free Caemlyn: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
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We’re less than 48 hours from Doctor Who changing forever (cue dramatic music), and Rand reflects on why they’ve liked series 12 so much, and anticipates the imminent plot reveals of The Timeless Children (while avoiding spoilers).
Please enjoy and thank you for listening.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 104: The Dreams In Which I’m Dying
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Here it is, a rainy, new sound collage, made at the halfway point of February, 2020 (or just past, rather).
Let’s get to the ingredients list. Check with your doctor to see if these fit in your diet or in case you have allergies or medical requirements, or if there’s any negative reactions with medications you may be taking.
Atmospheric/Weather Ambient Recordings, BBC Sound Effects Library
Gary Jules – “Mad World”
Blank and Jones ft. Francis – “Hey Survivor”
Miranda July – “Lena Beamish”
Belle and Sebastian – “Modern Love Song”
Arcade Fire – “We Used to Wait”
Intro excerpt from Cultdom Collective episode 362 reviewing Doctor Who 12.08: “Can You Hear Me?”
As always, please enjoy and thank you for listening. You can send feedback and/or ideas/suggestions to radiofreecaemlyn at gmail. Thank you.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 103: Half the Light of the World
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Here’s my latest sound collage, and this one features a listener request! Ian The6thDoctor from the Cultdom Collective Podcast requested loops from “Phat Planet” by Leftfield. That appears in the last quarter of this collage.
Samples used in this collage include:
Alan Parsons Project – “Siren Song”
Alan Parsons Project – “Oh Life (There Must Be More)”
Leftfield – “Phat Planet” [Listener Request!]
Blank and Jones ft. Francis – “Hey Survivor”
Evan Doorbell’s Telephone Tapes – Early ’80s
Doctor Who – TARDIS De/Materializing, Interior Ambient (circa series 10)
Various Petscop Tracks, SFX
Alan Parsons Project – “The Light of the World”
Alan Watts – “Beware the Melody”
As always, please enjoy and thank you for listening!
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 102: Are You Out There?
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February is upon us, and while the Academy Awards were on, I was busy both watching CometTV’s MST3K marathon and working on this new sound collage, while it was raining outside.
This collage combines the following:
Kraftwerk – “Radioactivity”
Police scanner recording, location unknown
“Only You” – Yazoo
Atonal pads, drones from Ghosthackery
Vangelis – “Chariots of Fire”
Kraftwerk – “Autobahn”
[Artist Unknown] – “Abstractions”
Alan Parsons Project – “Ignorance is Bliss”
Angelo Badalamenti – “Twin Peaks Theme”
David Wise – Various tracks from the NES game “Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II”
Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu – “A Premonition”, “Chrono Trigger” from SNES game “Chrono Trigger”
Kumi Tanioka – “Clouds Reflected on the River Surface” (from the Nintendo Gamecube game “Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles”
Poe – “Hello”
Aphex Twin – “Cliffs”, “White Blur”
Kenneth W. Arnold (?) – “Lord British’s Castle Theme”, “Overworld Theme”, “Exodus’ Castle Theme” from the NES port of “Ultima: Exodus”
Boards of Canada – “Farewell Fire”
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 101: To Far Away Times
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Episode 101 combines some of my random memories with Aes Dana’s “Haze” and “Iris Rotation”, Coldplay’s “Aiko”, Radiohead’s “No Surprise”, and Carbon Based Lifeform’s “Silent Running”.
Thank you for listening.
Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 100: The Truth Is All There Is
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Here we are, the big 100th episode milestone. Let’s get to the playlist.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – “White Mischief”, “Music For a Found Harmonium”, “Rosalosis”
Various BBC Sound Effects (Doorbell, Door Opening/Closing, Washing Up, Phone SFX, Cathedral ambience, Alarm Clock Ticking, Clock Striking 6, TV Being Crushed, Window Breaking, Brick Wall Destroyed)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps”
Alan Watts lecture – “What Did You Forget”
Cross Record – “Steady Waves”
Tangerine Dream – “Song of the Whale Part 1: From Dawn”
Joe Frank – “God”
Boards of Canada – “Music is Math”
Handsome Boy Modeling School – “The Truth (ft. Roisin of Moloko & J-Live)”
Tangerine Dream – “Song of the Whale Part 2: To Dusk”
Yuri Kane – “Right Back (Original Mix)”
Please enjoy and thank you for listening.
Radio Free Caemlyn 
