The Earth Hotel

In Phase 1 of NSAID (2015), the strategy was to draw from one news source per day for a weekly report. Here I read the resulting cut text from NSAID001 and the original source articles, in preparation for the upcoming analysis that will make up the 80-02 Report before we turn the year over in August. https://www.theearthhotel.org/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/theearthhotel Many thanks to the NASA/JP...

Guided exercise for rotation in mental space while maintaining cardinal orientation. Contains 250-256hz Binaural Beat. Do not use while driving, operating heavy machinery, or fixing state elections on behalf of deranged sycophants. This constitutes no claim or otherwise advice of any kind. Operator Jacquie Cotillard and the EH are not responsible for effects or results from this exercise. We eager...

My new friend and comrade from the Scott Walker subreddit which she co-moderates joins us for a delightful Zoom call in the foamy wake of the Zercon analysis. She's been absolutely wonderful to me and the folks there and her insights about creativity and process were an extra treat to hear. We get cut off near the end but she'll be back! This is a Patreon episode , uploaded here as a little peek i...

Previously our Zercon Pt. 1 Episode, enjoy a reworked stroll through the history and works of singer Scott Walker up to his album Bish Bosch, where our “Zercon” analysis takes up. More Scott talk to come, including a chat the lovely Jeanne Hospod of the online Scott Walker community. But for now we sleep! Bells and whistles on soonest. https://www.theearthhotel.org/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/thee...

Our redux and reimagining of the 2018 boondoggle review of Scott Walker’s epic 21-minute “Zercon: A Flagpole Sitter (SDSS 1416+13b),” a song equally about a Moorish dwarf of Attila the Hun’s late kingdom as it is a reflection on cynicism, striving, and the artistic struggle to not go up a tall pole and never be heard from again. There are jokes and moving moments throughout, and valuable lessons t...

My musical friend is here to tell y’all about her new album coming out on April 19, Play Place . It’s really great! We preview the song “It’s All a Dream” (call your local radio and demand it!) and take a look in her toybox of ambient amusements. Join the listening party on Bandcamp at 8pm Apr. 19 and follow her to hear and see more. Thanks everybody! Good job! (Also Dial Alaska, John Albea’s outf...

In which I read the source text (article “Comment and Correspondence,”) and the cut-render versions of the text before translation without sound cues to indicate cuts. Appendices A and B for NSAID Report 80-01: A: “Notes from Paris” from source text, The Antiquarian B: “Paris Notes”, Mark Twain, cut from A Tramp Abroad Appendix C, operator notes, are available for free on Patreon as part of our fi...

Cut-up performed on 1931 article in The Antiquarian magazine, regarding that year’s Colonial Exhibition in Vincennes, France which hosted an exact replica of Mount Vernon surrounded by pavilions depicting American imperial holdings. Cut was done in 2015, commenting on later events such as the attempted insurrection in South Korea and the 2026 Potomac Sewage spill. Extended annotation has been atte...

A kind message came to me which reminded me that this became unavailable when its mother episode was unlisted. Enjoy this re-visitation of Scott Walker’s (marital drama?) song about loss of some kind. I have my thoughts about what kind exactly, hypothetically. Stay around for a similar re-taking of ‘Zercon’ into one lovely chunk so we can add a second chunk after that and stay under 3 hours. With...

00:00:00 – cursed opening 00:00:36 – Operator’s Welcome (feat – “Dead Ice,” “Ascending”, “Dirty Trip”) 00:07:18 – Interview 01:09:14 – Through the Sparks “Meteors in Gorges” *Instrumental tracks by Shawn Avery from Music for the Earth Hotel It’s my esteemed joy to welcome the photographic talents and heartful brain of Shawn Avery to our desk to discuss his liminal visioncraft. There’s a crop of bo...

A few words in remembrance of our friend and collaborator who passed this week. Details for celebration and preservations of his work will be reported duly, but for now I share two brief writings from Johnny’s indelible chair of mind. Thanks going once twice and thrice for him, and movement onward with the Dao. I recommend checking out his work, especially his recent novel Huron from Sweet Wreath,...

Footage from EH 114-115 with james, Mika, and Jasper. I would love to know any responses you have from these qualia-queries. Send to operatorsdesk@protonmail.com , thanks.

“a bit of a personal lament with some Weird hope alongside. Thoughts for the pyre.” (pardon my pronunciations, I am still practicing) Video version here

An exploration of the sonic/magic/esoteric works of Sweet Wreath via a blessed conversation with founder Jasper Lee. We talk about the recent Vernal Scuzz album, his late friend Nancy Richmond and their collaboration, cut-up technology, transcendental-collective social activity, and many things besides. Be merry and explorative with links below for they contain many treasures of this most excellen...

Two friends of local music delighted me with their presence and fielded my questions with aplomb. Their Vernal Scuzz tracks will be sounded and beckoning fates re-beguiled. You can hear more from Vernal Scuzz in this interview with Sweet Wreath founder Jasper Lee , and at links below. ( Available as a video on Youtube ) 0:00:00 – Opening Flashback / Monologue 0:08:25 – “Song of Will” (Gale) - Moth...

A bit of guided experimentation with pleas for self-reported data. Email us at operatorsdesk@protonmail.com Studies consulted: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28701912/ … https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39414877/ Thanks to the Monroe Institute as invaluable inspiration and point of departure. A bit of guided experimentation with pleas for self-reported data. Email us at operatorsdesk@protonmail.co...

As part of our re-instituted NSAID word program, this introductory half-hour demonstration of the cut-up method of writing/divination/propaganda sieve/perspective-splitter at the heart of NSAID also serves as a general set of disclaimers, explanations, and political anti-Dixie-whistling (for people) that well-apply to our efforts going forward. Enjoy! You can find a visual aid on our Youtube chann...

In this circular return to form, Jacquie discusses Worst Spills’ new albums with bandmate Joel Nelson, among a weathered invocation for our new movement into method. Heart abounds here in the dark Yuletime. You’ll hear again before the year turns. Albums: Mister Sweet Whisper (out now) // Hum Death (available for pre-order) // Worst Spills (first album) // Press for Mister Sweet Whisper: KLOF Maga...

Joel Nelson / Brad Davis / Jasper Lee / Jacquie Cotillard (Saturn Scare Your Face-Off Fest 2021) Performing pieces by Throbbing Gristle as the outfit Worst Spills : 0.00.00 - “20 Jazz Funk Greats” 0.02.45 - ”Convincing People” 0.06.52 - ”What a Day” 0.12.00 - ”Slugbait (Texas Edit)” 0.20.00 - ”Still Walking” 0.26.33 - ”Discipline” Many thanks to our hosts, sound engineers, and battered audience. I...

Each word and countersign rings out with love and meta-wisdom. Welcome to Fall. Interview and travel-thru with Scott Bazar, progenitor of the Fork and Spoon creation house in Panama City, Florida and of a startling method of music-making that brought this operator to teary thanks. Music from collaborators and eldritch storage wars. 0.00.00 - Welcome to the Fall-ing / 0.03.34 - "Fauna" - Bad Calm Z...

Welcome to this Fall of All Things, in a season of somethings-new. Send your mp3s for a Nov. Music Mix to theearthhotel@gmail.com 0.00.00 - Welcome to Fall / 0.11.54 - "Buffet of Sabotage" - Tomato Face (PA) / 0.14.59 - "Kick and Scream" - The Williamson Bros. (BHM) / 0.17.35 - "Check Engine Light" - Past Fashions (WI) / 0.21.31 - "Call It What You Want" - Rude and True (BHM ) / 0.24.19 - "Curled...

Tonight: "a total observer of Southern culture," Johnny Coley is a poet and a gem in the heart of Birmingham, a lifelong practicioner of the quiet wei that jokes in the open air. He makes us feel like we might be alive, and we like that. Take this trip with us from one May Day, through one June afternoon, and into the recorded past in words and music. Bienvenus. Our interview was recorded by patro...

In which Keith gives plenty of firsthand accounts of power imbalance in Birmingham and we discuss what empowering the underserved communities here actually looks like. A City Council that serves the interests of the people first is very possible -- now it's time to advocate for that to happen and soonest. VOTE AUGUST 24TH. CITY COUNCIL, SCHOOL BOARD, AND MAYOR. District 6 includes: Southern half o...

In which we discuss the benefits of a new vision of Birmingham's City Council -- a collective effort to fulfill their obligation to the citizenry. Could ya even imagine that? Alice and I certainly can. She gives her platform and I try not to talk too much. Enjoy! VOTE AUGUST 24TH. CITY COUNCIL, SCHOOL BOARD, AND MAYOR. District 3 is: Glen Iris, Forest Park, South and East Avondale, Highland Park,...

A long blessed week, one Monday to next, and a Thursday betwixt, music hours to digest. More sonic from May of a spoopier kind, having two sets of three under languid design. Welcome back to this house. There's some doors in this house. There's some doors in this house. 0.01.47 - "Met a Witch" - Vericose 0.09.25 - "Meth Addict at Midnight" - Oyster Guard 0.14.58 - "I Still Forget Your Fuck'n Gone"...