Ethan Persoff

# 58-D: "The Difficulties of This Week" (Conclusion) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #57: TWENTY DOLLAR HELL and The Lost Emotional Sound of Dating on Landline Phones Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This last year (or two) has been a fun dip into Hell, and it's rekindled my interest in Televangelism. I used to record a lot of them on VHS tapes in the 1990s and so this week I thought I'd share my favorite one. I originally labeled it "Reverend H...

# 57-C, Side A: "You Might Be In Hell Today" (1990s UHF Televangelist) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 57-B, "The Gone & Beautiful Sound of Analog Phones" (Discussion) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Have you heard Abbott & Costello's 'Ten Year Old Child Bride' joke from 1941? Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we meander back to the more innocent times of 1941. Universal Pictures released a war film titled "Buck Privates" starring Abbott and Costello. It's mostly silly gags throughout but there's a slightly notorious joke hidden in there about a 40 year old man marrying a ten y...

# 56-C: "1960s Mail Order Psychiatry, Pt 2" (Raw Audio) by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 56-D: (Side A) "Anything That is Organic (is Neurotic)" by Spoken Word with Electronics

# 56-E: (Side B) "Your Analyst Has a Teal Aquarium" by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #55: Re-Entering Society After Fifteen Months In Isolation Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. A few weeks ago I received my second vaccine shot. Ten days later I knew I was largely free to re-enter much of the world. I'd taken self-isolation pretty enthusiastically for fifteen months, to the equivalent that it felt like a space station in our home. Parts of me rea...

Episode 55, RAW AUDIO: "1960s Mail Order Psychiatry Records" (Anxiety, Part 1) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 55, Side A: "All of Us Develop Patterns" (Tranquilizer Setting #6) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 55, Side B: "Instrumental Run Through a 2254 Diode Bridge Compressor" (AML 54F50 Demo) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #54: LAWN MOWER SEASON! — and Government Informationals on Mailmen, 1946. Listen to this 1946 informational on the wonders of post office work. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, the focus is on warm weather! Few things say spring or summmer to me more than the sound of lawn mowers. Lawn Mower season came in with a big bang (or buzz) this month, and it...

Episode 54, Side A: "This is Glen Tucker" (Our Mailman is Mr Dolan) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 54, RAW AUDIO: "Meet the Mailman" (1946 Informational, United States Postal Service) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #53: A Broken Appliance Buys You a Room Full of Synthesizers (Tutorial) How to turn a broken dishwasher into a synthesizer Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we remember Bob Fass, who passed away on April 24th (the first night we recorded this current episode, on a three week cycle this week) – Fass was an radio innovator, turning a regular control booth...

Episode 53, Discussion: "A Broken Appliance Becomes a Synthesizer" (Tutorial) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #52: A Tribute to John Wilcock! (Kickstarter Special) "Puff It, Swines!" A memory of smoking Hunter S. Thompson's favorite weed. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, we give tribute to John Wilcock, who was the subject of the properly titled John Wilcock comic here on Boing Boing for close to a decade. A collection of the book is on Kickstarter this month...

Episode 52, John Wilcock Special, Pt 1: "Smoking Some of Hunter S. Thompson's Favorite Weed" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 52, John Wilcock Special, Pt 2: "Other Scenes, Andy Warhol, and Story Structure" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 52, Conclusion: "Moth Words, Moth Pockets, and Acid Rights" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Check out the book, through April 2021: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949932289/john-wilcock-new-york-years-the-complete-series

Would Alan Turing even WANT to be on a £50 Bank Note? Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, we explore the wonderful world of Alan Turing, whose work in cryptography (i.e. code breaking) helped save the world in WW2. He then conceived the basic structure for computers and saw the future of artificial intelligence. He was celebrated in his lifetime by being condemned by the UK governme...

Episode 51, Discussion: "Alan Turing, Bank Note Symbiosis, and Turing Machines" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 51, Side A: "Turing Machine Music" (Eurorack Module Demo) by Spoken Word with Electronics