This is another attempt at an extra-long remix of just one song. This time it’s a remix of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You”. Slowly I make my way toward the song’s final fade out. I think it’s strange you never knew.
Maybe I’ll revisit this collage someday and bring some friends along.
Trying a new approach with this collage, inspired by something I heard on Shoutcast the other night: I was browsing the directory, and found a station called “Radio Emily”, only labeled as a college radio station. They were playing ambient sounds, of traffic and human culture, mixed with ambient music. That led to this collage.
Will add a playlist of music used at a later date.
I’ve just completed episode 62 of Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand. First of all, thanks to RBCP of the Snow Plow Show for playing an excerpt from SAFTWR episode 37. That was really neat to hear.
So here is episode 62. I started work on this this past Saturday evening and had a bunch of audio clips but not much in the way of music, so I put the project on hold until tonight, being the final night of April, 2018. I’ll close out the old month and open the new with a new collage.
Here’s a run-down of samples used:
“Lost for Words” — Pink Floyd
Excerpt from end of Snow Plow Show episode 459: “Sunday Night Homeowners”
From Jadusable/Haunted Majora’s Mask “TheTruth.rtf”
“Turn Down Day” — Cyrkle
“Stand Up Be Strong” — Shiro Sagisu (from a Bleach OST)
“Main Street Electric Parade” – Disneyland
“She’s a Rainbow” — Rolling Stones
DragNet intro
“Death is the Road to Awe” — Clint Mansell
Intro to the first episode of the radio show “Quiet Please”, episode called “Nothing Behind the Door”
“Hey Survivor” — Blank and Jones
Clip from episode one of the YouTube series “Petscop”
Interview clip from David Lynch, talking about ideas
Beethoven piece. Can’t find it in my folders again to put a name to it
I talk about discovering the Phone Losers back in late 2012
I talk about how I started doing podcasts back in 2005
“How to CB”, discussing Citizen’s Band radio
“Steppin’ Out” — Joe Jackson
Intro to an early Radio Free Caemlyn episode, back when it was called Radio Rand al’Thor and used the RaT Project Live intro. No full episodes of The RaT Project remain on the Internet.
“We Will Fall Together” — Streetlight Manifesto
Clip from Monty Python’s “Trivializing the War” sketch
Shortwave recordings
Loop of Unhappiness from Marble Hornets
“Only You” — Yazoo
“Mr. Blue” — Yazoo
Marble Operator intro
“A to Fade In (Adorable Cover)” — Broken Little Sister
Did you think this was finished?
This episode combines a newly made collage and something from the archives I don’t think I’ve officially released. Major themes of the first half of the episode include the closing of K-Mart, represented by old store recordings, and the YouTube series Petscop.
Samples used include:
Xyzqwa show intro (“Not Making People Cry” episode)
Madhouse Live intro, Carlito calls KMart (A Group of Like Minded Men, Feb. 3, 2018)
My Fair, My Dark – Ida
French Catalog (Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel) – Brian Eno
Together We Will Live Forever – Clint Mansell
Petscop Audio/Music (including Petscop Even Care Recreation by Fred Stoyva)
This may be my first sound collage for 2018, created here in the last half of February. This is the first sound collage I’ve made since migrating content over to the Internet Archive, where this episode will debut. This is a meditation. This is a pause to think, to consider, to rethink, to pontificate. To think in silence and solace.
A thank you to everyone who has been listening since the Great Migration to Internet Archive began.
A list of sources sampled, maybe not in a correct chronological order, follows. It’s an attempt to document what happened tonight.
Playlist:
“The Wider Sun” – Jon Hopkins (“Insides” album)
Jack Kerouac reads from “On the Road”
“From the Beginning” – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (“Trilogy” album)
“Away” – Gurban Abbasli
Japanese lesson, from Masafumi Takeda, my Japanese professor from Western Carolina University
“Tomorrow” – Chandeen featuring Anji Bee (“Teenage Poetry” album)
“Lena Beamish” – Miranda July (“Binet-Simon Test” album)
“Transcending Duality” – Alan Watts
Unknown file, simply titled “a thing”
“I Know You’re Out There Somewhere” – Moody Blues (“Sur la Mer” album)
“Question” – Moody Blues (“Question of Balance” album)
“Voices in the Sky” = Moody Blues (“In Search of the Lost Chord” album)
“An Attempt to Tip the Scales” – Bright Eyes (“Fevers and Mirrors” album)
“Kaze No Ne (Sound of the Wind)” – Kumi Tanioka (“Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles” (GCN) Soundtrack (Title Theme))
“Please switch off the TV” – old BBC bumper
The sound of two black holes colliding (via NASA)
“Refuge” – David Wax Museum (“Knock Knock Get Up” album)
“The Problem” – Lambchop (“No You C’mon” album)
“Ghost of Future a Future Lost” – Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet (“Requiem for a Dream” album)
“Who Knows Where the Time Goes” – Sylvie Simmons
“Steady Waves” – Cross Record (“Wabi-Sabi” album)
“There are No People in the Future” – Artist Unknown
“Gemini” – Boards of Canada (“Tomorrow’s Harvest” album)
“Earth People” – Dr. Octagon (“Dr. Octagonecologyst” album)
Dedicated to the mad ones.
The 58th episode of my sound collage series has been made and posted, although it isn’t really the 58th episode, that’s just a lie, as I start and never finish a lot of sound collages all the time; I make short segments, small collections of loops and layers and sounds and thoughts and ideas and everything, creations that never make it out of my computer except in my mind.
Loops include:
Cheap Trick – Say Goodbye
Various Nintendo eShop music
Miranda July — Lena Bearmish Binet-Simon Test
Cultdom Collective intro
Original CIA Intro
Original Friday Night Trivia Intro
2013 Friday Night Trivia Intro
Random Rab – Apparently [the predominant paint on the canvas this episode]
It’s my 56th sound collage, and my first for 2017. Please enjoy.
Playlist:
Playlist for SAFTWR 56
Mogwai – 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent) from Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Paul Harvey “The Rest of the Story”
Julee Cruise – The World Spins
Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay
David Lynch talking about ideas
Brian Eno – French Catalogues
Friends of Dean Martinez – The Warmth of the Sun
Coldplay – Trouble
“Bill Nye Challenge” from the No Agenda podcast (Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak)
Jack Kerouac “October in the Railroad Earth”
Brian Eno “2-2” from Music for Airports
Poe – “Fly Away”
stuff from my private recordings that no one will ever hear in their entirety
Lewd Sums by adb6gqpe
Aphex Twin – White Blur
Boards of Canada – Nothing is Real
Aphex Twin – Mould
Blue Velvet (movie, 1986) intro
Boards of Canada – Triangles and Rhombuses
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Air – Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi
Cisco Hold Music
Tangerine Dream Hyperborea
Cross Record – Steady Waves
Boards of Canada – Over the Horizon Radar
Boards of Canada – Kaini Industries
Boards of Canada – Collapse
Fen Swale – Circles and a Starry Sky
For this collage, I gave myself a simple challenge: using only a single song, make an hour-long collage. I chose Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle”, which I’ve heard collaged on KLERE before.
Truth be told, I got half an hour into it, maybe 40 minutes into it, and was bored and wanted to be done with it.
Should only have been half an hour.
Was still fun to make, though.
This terrifying edition of Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand is a mix of Philip Glass compositions and real life settings.
It all begins with the start of Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” looped, which transitions to Pascal Pinon’s “Why Can’t I Sleep”. We hear from Phil Lapsley on C-SPAN’s BookTV talking about his book “Exploding the Phone”. This is interrupted by a famous clip from John Carpenter’s movie “They Live”. Aimee Mann’s “You Do” is looped for a brief, fleeting moment, giving way to “Into the Night” from the Twin Peaks soundtrack, by way of Angelo Badalamenti. Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza is heard talking about gravity being another way for fate, life can be as simple as a fall, it’s all so easy once you let go. We’ve got a QSL check from the SWLing Blog. Then we get to the Philip Glass set, with tracks from the “Koyaanisqatsi” album, with some Einstein on the Beach. We briefly hear the theme from Richard Hoagland’s “Other Side of Midnight” radio show. We then have clips from Terry Gilliam’s movie “Brazil”. Couldn’t stand the paperwork. Hidden within all of this is audio from when I met with an old friend I’ve not seen in 12 years. It all crashes down into Boards of Canada and more Philip Glass.
I have created art in honor of an artful person.
It’s another exploration into the world of chaos and sound and layers and collaging.
Gemini horns from Boards of Canada.
Crackling noise from vinyl records.
Lewd Sums by adb6gqpe from SoundCloud.
Pitch-shifted Twin Peaks theme.
Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach
Einstein on the Beast by DJ BC. Mixes in the Beastie Boys.
Schoolhouse Rock talks about how Verbs are What’s Happening
Clips from THX-1138
Later on, Schoolhouse Rock sings about Electricity, Electricity
Somewhere in there is the Main Street Electrical Parade
Towards the end we hear from Andre Gregory from Some Girls. Mysteries going on all the time, right under our noses
Jon Hopkins with “A Drifting Up”
Drum roll from Antony and the Johnson’s “Kiss My Name”
Audio from the movie True Romance. You’re so cool.
Theme from “Joy of Painting with Bob Ross”
Please remember to turn off your television and unplug from the mains.
“Frog on My Toe” by Tori Amos
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