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 Amendments" 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

Episode 51, Side B: "A Visit to Electronic Village" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 33) by Spoken Word with Electronics

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

Episode 50, Side B: "The Sunday Morning Cartoons" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 32) 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

Episode 49, Side B: "Marie, At Twilight" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 31) 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

Episode 48, Side B: "Four Momentary Eights" (Charlie Pickle, Pt 30) by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 47, Introduction: "Tankless in Texas" (Tankless Water Heaters vs Normal Hot Water Heaters!) by Spoken Word with Electronics

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

Episode 47, Side A: "That Good Ol' Bruce Haack Ghost Took Control of the Midi Player Tonight" by Spoken Word with Electronics

Episode 47, Side B: "Clutter, Sunlight, and Time Travel." (Charlie Pickle, Pt 29) by Spoken Word with Electronics