TONES FOR THE HEAD

INTRO
[modified audio excerpt from the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas starring Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson] [O]
[song during film excerpt is Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly] [O]

TRANSITION
[synthy soundscape music is from Tetsu Inoue - Low of Vibration] [O]
[ominous pounding is from Brighter Death Now - Pain in Progress] [O]

RISE
[lovely piano from Cluster & Eno - Ho Renomo] [O]

RUSH
[shoegazer instrumental from Southpacific - Soundbarrier] [O]
[hint of synth from Tetsu Inoue - Karmic Light] [O]

PEAK
[Heath Yonaites & KM Krebs - The Seed Project - The Subjugation Of Ghosts] [O]
[Thom Blum - Abstract Travelogues - Things Frankie Heard] [O]
[Dif Juz – Who Says So? - Tabla Piece] [O]

RUSH
[hint of sound from David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight (The Spiraling Of Winter Ghosts)] [O]
[Jon Hopkins - Circle] [O]

IMAGE

[ extract from cover of Weirdo # 16 by Robert Crumb] [O]
[ extract from 3Datelier.com image] [O]
[ BobCo font from Subgenius.com] [O]

Alex Reynolds - myc 00:04 - 02:07
the air turns bright and shiny
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oscillator707 - purusha - rabirabi 00:03 - 02:37
glitch and twinkle rip

Rose Knudsen - CICA1.2mix 02:25 - 05:24
the field trip begins

Cinemafia - Difference 05:06 - 10:05
observation at a lesser than safe distance
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AgentA - Woodshed 05:24 - 09:55
at the edge of the camp's perimeter

Sound ^ Bridge - Rain On The Leaves 10:05 - 11:01

400 Lonely Things - Jupiter's Eyebrow 10:10 - 11:34
just a hint of the manifold electronic craft from "She Blinded Me With Silence"

Biosphere - Hyperborea 11:14 - 16:48
Something rings true with the narrator recounting, "...in my vision..."
Popular ambient selection from "Substrata"

Formatt - N-s trA 16:32 - 21:00
from a four track EP released on Stasisfield,
"... a short set of stratified analog and digital textures,
exploring the boundaries of both noise and silence ..."

encomiast - reattach 20:56 - 25:11
minimal but rich with dark and light layers of slow attacks and long sustains

David Sylvian / Holger Czukay - Plight (excerpt) 25:03 - 33:32
from the album "Plight (The Spiraling of Winter Ghosts) & Premonition (Giant Empty Iron Vessel)."

Brian Eno / David Bowie - Moss Garden 33:30 - 38:28
This is one of the tracks Eno co-wrote with Bowie for the "Heroes" album.
Bowie on the Koto.

unknown artist - unknown title 38:27 - 42:14
pretty sure I got this from taping Echoes.
Traditional folk from somewhere in East Asia?

Steve Tibbetts - Going Somewhere 42:15 - 46:23
from one of my all time favorite instrumental albums "Safe Journey"

Michael Chocholak - Underworld Transit 46:23 - 52:35
it's getting dark but it's too late to turn back now

octorock - some new stuff track one 52:35 - 55:33
dancing with fireflies

Lovecraft's Adjectives - Eden Fair 55:34 - 61:00
metamorphosing soundtrack for a mystery

Blissscape - Ravenhair 61:00 - 62:56
piano music for jellyfish watching

Compilation: Retro-Faux-Passé-Noveau - Spoken Word and Music Mix
Running time: 57 min.s - vbr encoded at 128-192 kbps - [O] = web page in new window

[O] Artist - Album - Selection
[O] Der Plan - Two Zombies Later - Jungle Village
[O] Steven Curtin - Sounds From The Lab - Fomalhaut A Space
[O] A TOI (Ambient Temple of Imagination) - - Mycelial Networks (Pyromania Arts neuronal mix)
[O] Twentyagon - Luigi - Fog Whale
[O] Arthur Lyman - [O] Music of Hawaii - Pele
[O] Tipsy - Uh Oh! - Sweet Cinnamon Punch
[O] Firesign Theatre - Everything You Know Is Wrong - An Army Training Film
[O] Conan O'Brien - Late Night - Opening Patter
[O] Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim - Elis & Tom - Águas de Março
[O] Vince Guaraldi - A Boy Named Charlie Brown - Linus and Lucy
[O] The Citizen X Ensemble - Crawling From the Wreckage - Ignatious Bought A Hot Dog
[O] Mitchell Kriegman - Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat - In The Bathtub
[O] Andrey Kiritchenko - Sidartha - Child
[O] icotec - Catheii Persi - Venetathnis
[O] Anne Laplantine - - Last Summer
[O] LapTop Bogie - - Soaring Apples
[O] Polmo Polpo - Saturday Morning Empires - Dreaming Is Real

Early in the mix and midway are sprinklings of voice and effects samples from the following sources:
[O] Pee Wee Herman, [O] Shalabi Effect, [O] Manson documentary by Robert Hendrickson,
[O] Dr. John C. Lilly, and [O] The Chronicles of Narnia film.
After Arthur Lyman's "Pele", there is an excerpt of [O] The Reverend Mofo's "His Piano Is On Fire"
mixed with an excerpt of [O] Michael Nyman's "Decay Music"
and samples from [O] the double album, "The Medium is the Massage" by Marshall McLuhan and friends.
See Also:
[O] valleyofcapsules [metapsyphonic audio collages]
[o] M.NOMIZED: SHORT [excerpt from album that would fit in this comp]
[O] Coast to Coast am [discussions on consciousness, the paranormal and science]
[O] Dreamland [discussions on consciousness, the paranormal and science]
[O] ...find the others [coast to coast am interviews]
[O] i-am-that-i-am [multimedia library]
Etc.:
[O] Google tip to find mp3 files
[O] Link Generator

Jaywalk : Off and On the Beaten Path
(listening session compilation) various artists = electronic + >< mostly instrumental
16 tracks in 72 minutes - average track length: 4:27 - 99.6 mb - 256 kbps vbr

See also:
[O] formerly XStream Radio [O] Music for chill out [O] mondaymusic [O] earlabs [O] audiobulb
[O] [HTML Link Generator]

AgentA - The Bird Says Hello
1983 - tape manipulation

During her summer travels, Jacqueline visited a friend who was caretaker at a bird sanctuary in Florida. She brought along a cassette tape recorder and documented her visit. She lent me the tape to use as a source for my experimental tape manipulation process.

The process involves using a number of portable cassette player recorders, a foot pedal effects processor called the Memory Man and a a couple of microphones.

Lacking a mixer, I would create "multitrack" mixes or "bounce" tracks by playing a couple of decks at once while using another to record the output through the speakers of each.

One deck had buttons for rewinding and forwarding while in play mode so you could hear the cueing. I used these buttons to create a rhythmic effect during one segment of this piece. A sort of dj "scratching" effect but with cassettes.

With this process, I would also make a copy of the source tape and play back both the source and copy tape at once. Since the decks speed varied to a small a degree, a phase shifting effect would result.

Sometimes I would send the signal from the headphone jack through the Memory Man plugged into my home stereo system and record that.

This piece was originally aired on the University of Pennsylvania's WXPN back in 1983 during Thom Dura's "Experimental Radio Project" show.

Equipped with a pc, a decent sound card and Sonic Foundry applications, I fed the tape signal into the pc for further manipulation during August of 2004. This entailed ridding most of the tape hiss noise and editing the original 15 minutes or more down to 6 minutes.

Note that Jacqueline's source tape document was a spontaneous field recording aiming to record her friend's attempt to make one of the birds say, "Hello". During this time, a Robert Fripp and Brian Eno album was playing in the background and is quite audible in this piece.

Public Service Announcement
Peter Russell - What Do You Want? mixed over
Dagobah System - Sounds from the Philadelphia Low Orbit Lounge - Introduction

Public Service Announcement: William S. Burroughs - "When Did I Stop Wanting to be President" [Giorno Poetry Systems: Totally Corrupt, 1976]

All ages abrasions : rock 'n' roll foreground listening session : chock full of lyrical charms : 70s punk and beyond
58 min.s - 73.7 mb - 192 kbps vbr [track and link listing below]