Ethan Persoff

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #50: TOOL FIGHT! and 1970s VINYL DECAL REPAIR Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we look back at the finest era in car design: The WOOD AND FAKE WOOD PERIOD. This is when most family cars had wood paneling – or, if you were sporting, fake wood paneling. The transition from 1960s real world materials into the 1970s dealt with numerous synthetics, and the...

Episode 50, RAW AUDIO: "Repairing Exterior Woodgrain Decals on Your Car." (Filmstrip, 1970s) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 50, Side A: "Caring for Your Domesticated Human in a Post-Covid Petting Zoo" by Spoken Word with Electronics

This week's show. Important news on MOUSE EARS. And a Ring Modulation cage match (a Moog MF-102 vs. a Rucci RingMod vs. a Metasonix RK3) Headline: MOUSE EARS! Does Mickey Mouse regularly use a Ring Modulator to sneak onto Air Force One? https://boingboing.net/2021/03/16/mouse-ears-does-mickey-mouse-regularly-use-a-ring-modulator-to-sneak-onto-air-force-one.html Hi, everyone, welcome back to the sh...

Episode 49, Discussion: "Ring Modulators!" (Shenanigans Bluff) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 49, Side A: "We Heard You Might Like Ring Modulators..." by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #48: Fruit/Vegetable Senses and Time Travel with the SSL FX Capacitor Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week's episode is a demo on a very peculiar reverb unit called the FX Capacitor from Synthetic Sound Labs. The SSL "FX Capacitor" is one of the oddest hardware reverb processors on the planet. SSL is known for modifying computer chips into odd musical uses...

Episode 48, Demo: Synthetic Sound Labs FX Capacitor / SSL FX Capacitor (Control Voltage Reverb) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 48, Side A: "SSL FX Capacitor Reverb Loops" (Birds and 2-XL) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SWWE Episode 47: The 1978 Mego 2-XL Talking Robot was a brilliant illusion of interactive computing, based on 8-Track tapes Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, the focus is on the Mego toy company and a wonderful toy robot they produced in 1978, called the 2-XL. There are lots of funny attempts at providing robotic toys in the 1970s and 1980s as a product, and most of them offered s...

Episode 47, Discussion: "The 1978 Mego 2-XL Robot" (How it worked and running it through a Vocoder) by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #46: The BRUCE HAACK SONGBOOK! (And the 2021 TX Power Failure) Hi, everyone, welcome back to SWWE. We're just now getting through an entirely wild week of weather and bureaucratic power grid failure here in Texas. Texas has been on its own power grid since 1935, or approximately since power grids existed in the United States. This isolationism on Texas' part meant that...

Episode 46, Discussion: "Mud Water From the Pond!" (TX Utilities Outage Story Continued) by Spoken Word with Electronics

WEATHER DELAY THIS WEEK! Posting the show a day late due to odd weather and predictable Texas Politics. Will discuss next week. Enjoy this week's show, part one of a tribute to Bruce Haack.

Episode 45, Discussion: "The Stolen Runaway Fire Truck Story" (A Live Reading of Police Transcript) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 45, Side A: "Ethan Explains - WHY THERE IS NO SIDE A - This Week." by Spoken Word with Electronics

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #44: "A Group of Over 100,000 Emails Walk Into a Bar…" It took some effort, but I have finally achieved over 35,000 Unread Work Emails. (and 100,000 Personal Ones) Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. Bit of a fun one this week. Depending on your personality type, the phrase "I have over 130,000 unread emails" will either place you in one of three or four personalit...

Episode 44, Discussion: "Making Your Own Unique Sounding Oscillator for FREE" (Instructions) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 44, Side A: "This Is Music with a Strictly Electronic Beat" (Vocal: THE FUTURE IS NOW, 1950) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Unusual Audio Hallucinations: Do you ever hear bubble wrap in your pockets? SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #43: Do You Ever Hear Bubble Wrap In Your Pockets? Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the show. This week we get down to the serious question of the day: Do you ever hear bubble wrap in your pockets? Happened to us this week, and it very likely might have been a complete audio hallucination. Fortuna...

Episode 43, RAW AUDIO: "Relax and Reduce to New Beauty and Better Health" (1960) by Spoken Word with Electronics

You Are Relaxed. You Feel So Well.

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #42: Listen to Hundreds of Butterfly Wings, Run Through Hardware Samplers Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. Really, a calm and simple one this week. Biden's in office, hooray, and the peace of mind and decompression from that is TANGIBLE, isn't it. So this week, I thought to look at a collection of audio files I've compiled from field recording in Austin and Chic...

Episode 42, Discussion: "Hardware Samplers... with Butterflies, Moths, Cicadas, and Peacock Chirps" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 42, Side A: "Teaching a Parakeet to Talk is Fun" (Learn the New VOICE Method, 1951) by Spoken Word with Electronics