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There seems to be an area inside my house where this meter which is totally passive (no battery or active electronics, only a 4 foot whip antenna) can be deflected more than half way. Only electricity can do that. I made sure anything that can produce electromagnetic energy was switched off or as far away from the meter as possible. Devices include a baby room monitor, cordless or cell phones, and wi-fi. I’ve known about this ever since I moved into this house in 2002. It is probably the cause of poor radio reception I’ve been plagued with, as some tuners can become “desensed” when bombarded with strong electromagnetic fields. It’s kind of creepy and I wonder if it is slowly driving me out of my mind. I originally posted this on FaceBook about three months ago, but rest assured this phenomenon is still happening!

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Here is an episode of The Doris Day Show from December 1970 and the name of this episode is “It’s Christmas Time in the City.” This was another favorite of Richard Lyons and more information is available on IMDb.

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This video shows the latest technology for radio receivers. It’s software – defined radio. There are two receivers operating, picking up communications like a police scanner. One of the receivers called Airspy can be programmed as a scanner and I set it to receive two banks of frequencies. One I named “other” for general communications like taxi drivers, tow companies, contractors, heating and cooling companies, plumbers, trains, and general public services that are radio dispatched. Since Seattle is in a building boom, there are a lot of crane operators, too. The other bank of frequencies are exclusively school bus drivers. I picked school bus drivers because like the “other” category most of those radios are analog and need no special decoding software to hear them. The software for Airspy is called SDR# or SDRSharp. SDRSharp will operate different types of hardware, such as some of the many “dongles.” The other receiver called SDRplay RSP2 doesn’t scan, but it can receive everything that Airspy can and more, such AM and FM broadcast and shortwave. SDRplay uses software called SDRuno which can be set to have audio on left or right only and I selected audio out left channel only. While Airspy scanned I manually changed frequencies on SDR Uno (later in the video) and sometimes both radios would be on the same frequency creating an echo or  phase shifting effect.

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Made at Televents Cable TV Public Access Studio, Martinez, California.

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The Egg People

Nothing lasts and the Egg People are no exception. I just stepped on them (just kidding). For more on “The Egg People” go here. Facebook doesn’t seem to have an audio-only upload function so I made this dumb video to just allow for the sound to play. Originally this was posted only on Facebook.

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This video shows a typical day at the Televents Cable TV warehouse in Martinez, California. I think this was probably from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Every morning at 8 AM, myself and co-workers, the installers and service technicians arrived here. We had until 9 AM to discuss the day’s work, and stock our trucks with parts and cable boxes. Occasionally we had meetings (sometimes with coffee and doughnuts) where safety and technical issues were reviewed.
I apologize for the dumb, primitive special effects. My VCR, a JVC had built-in effects and I just had to use them. I realize that was definitely a mistake! At the end of the video, the word “Dispatch” appears as a reminder to view the other video about my former employment.

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Here’s a glimpse into the office in Martinez, California sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s where I would receive service calls to repair cable TV. All of the installers and techs had vehicles equipped with radios, similar to the police. And yes I would get calls for problems with The Playboy Channel. Once I was assigned to the senior citizen’s community of Rossmoor Leisure World in Walnut Creek, California there weren’t so many service calls for the Playboy Channel for me. I’d get more calls for problems with FM radio on cable, American Movie Classics, and Turner Classic Movies. Rossmoor had their own TV channel where I would sometimes help out in the studio when they televised Bingo games. I have several videos of those Bingo sessions I may share with you. For years Richard wanted me to share those tapes as there are some funny, goofy moments during the Bingo games.
Maybe you recognized the music I used and no surprises its from Eraserhead and it is Fats Waller performing “Stompin’ The Bug” on pipe organ. Now I can never get enough of Fats Waller and his pipe organ solos from the 1920s. I remember going to the UC Theater in Berkeley repeatedly for the midnight showings of Eraserhead with my friends before Negativland existed.

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I cannot remember making this video of “The Playboy Channel” with Mark Hosler coaching me. It was only discovered because I’m playing old videotapes on Facebook live and just stumbled onto it. It may only exist on VHS tape and I’m glad it has now been digitized. We likely made this in the 1980s and it may have been used in a live performance.

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A sex education film for developmentally disabled individuals.

Direct mp4 download or play:  Party For Another Room Magazine
This is home video I shot in 1987 for a fanzine called “Another Room.” I used my Sony CCD-V110 8 millimeter camcorder. I was actually afraid the guests wouldn’t appreciate being videotaped. It turns out this group didn’t mind my antics and being treated like my mother and grandmother.
I’m hoping to get Mark Hosler to help identify all of the attendees and comment on this event.
Here is a link to a blog post about Another Room Magazine.
http://punks-on-acid.blogspot.com/2016/09/another-room.html

Direct mp3 download or play:  My Eviction – Text To Speech Play
This is something I made quickly, so it’s a bit sloppy. I do have an (unreasonable) fear this could actually happen to me since I live alone  (do not go to doctors) and likely will do so for the rest of my life. Seattle has become the hottest housing market in the country and I have a feeling people have their eyes on this house. There are lot’s of wealthy bright young newcomers that can’t wait for the inevitable. It could be sooner rather than later, but I do seem to be inspired about my blog, at least for the moment. Twin Peaks is helping, too.
Some of this audio could end up on a Negativland release, but everyone I know is very, very quiet right now, maybe thinking about North Korea.

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Here’s some noise I made really fast, for no special reason other than just to have fun with free VST plugins. I didn’t even bother to come up with a title other than the file name from VSTHost. Maybe I did this just because I watched Twin Peaks, episode number eight. Or not. I’m not sure. Oh well, I don’t know! Just dumb, I guess. By the way, what are those gauges?

Here are my favorite workplace training films. They are all from 1958 and 1959 and produced by the same company, “The Calvin Company.” All are from Prelinger Archives and A/V Geeks on The Internet Archive. Be aware the audio is much louder on “Enforcing Rules And Procedures” and “The Bright Young Newcomer,” the last two on the list. By the way, “The Bright Young Newcomer” is my favorite because of the “sassy” interaction between the women. I noticed also at about :34 on “The Trouble With Women” there appears to be a Hewlett – Packard audio oscillator  (possibly a 200B) sitting on the top shelf, just left of center. I own one of those units and hope to put up a post about it soon.

Sometime in the 1980s, Negativland used this educational film in a performance at a small planetarium in Oakland, California. I actually own a 16-millimeter copy of the film, but it is in such poor condition, I decided to present it courtesy of The A/V Geeks on The Internet Archive. I don’t remember much about the performance, but I’m quite sure my mother was in the audience. Maybe I can get Mark Hosler to comment on the film and performance. I definitely think some of my own obsessive compulsive behavior can be attributed to this film.

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Here are a couple highlights from an unexpected, impromptu performance at Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle, the afternoon of Saturday, July 15th, 2017. I didn’t decide that I would participate until about an hour before the show. My OCD really kicked in. The tracks feature Wobbly, myself, and Quite Eyes Of Air (Alissa DeRubeis & Yasi Perera).
On “Family Radio 2017” I have a Funcube Pro Plus software defined radio running SDRSharp on a laptop computer tuned to channel 1 (462.5625 megahertz narrow FM) of the family radio service walkie talkie band. I switch on my hand held family radio walkie talkie and proceed to walk around the studio and into other rooms at Hollow Earth Radio saying dumb things and reporting on what I see. Then I walk outside of the studio onto East Union Street in Seattle and turn left onto 21st Avenue and pass the Central Cinema.  About a block further I turn around, still reporting by radio back to the studio when I feign being attacked by a plastic vegetable bag from QFC, a grocery chain in Seattle. This isn’t new to me, as back in the 1990s I did a similar act at a college radio station in the Bay Area (KFJC) with Wobbly where the offending bag was a plastic vegetable bag from Nob Hill Foods. Interesting thing is, both stores, I believe are owned by Kroger of Cincinnati, Ohio. When I get back inside the studio at Hollow Earth Radio, We Like to Party. Later, the show ends with very low-frequency radio noise coming from a receiver in northern Italy and I say 10-7. By now I’m sure you know I’m nuts!

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This woman’s rants are some of of the strangest I’ve ever heard on the internet or anywhere. Some of what she says is quite disturbing, shocking, and profane. One of the weirdest and not profane things she says is “Someone says David Geffen is Hal 2000” at about 28:35. To see all of her posts go here. Many of the files have poor sound quality and just by chance, I found this recording with clearer audio. There are videos of her, as well. In addition, I’ve put a couple posts up previously featuring this individual here and here.

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For the last two weeks, Wobbly has been visiting my house in Seattle to mix some of the music for the next Negativland record. During some moments, extra keyboard and booper performances were overdubbed on top of the tracks which had been recorded in Bisbee, Arizona with Markers Hoslex (in the early eighties, I used to call Mark ‘Markers Hoslex’, especially during concerts, but also at most other times. Markers no longer has long hair). Wobbly has been enjoying playing my vintage Klipsch Cornwall speakers at a much greater volume than would ever be tolerated in his San Francisco apartment. The Cornwalls are highly sought after in the audiophile community. Here are two videos recorded with Wobbly’s iPhone during this process.
The drums in the second piece were performed by Prairie Prince of the Tubes, who was also the drummer on the album ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’, with a gated snare being sent through ring modulation, phasers, and gated reverb. Wobbly just yelled ‘Zero Set’ for some unknown reason. I hope that it’s not an insult to the entire musical community that this is happening.

A few years ago Don Joyce did an Over The Edge radio show, where the theme of the show was “failure” and anything that could go wrong. He asked me if I could create some sounds or spoken word that conveys the idea of failure. I went a bit further and included short sentences or phrases about death and being just an overall bad and selfish person. I don’t think Don used very many of these bits and a lot of them are quite nasty, to say the least. Maybe someone remembers that show and could post a link in the comments. Here is what I came up with.

Stand by, for failure. – version 1

Stand by, for failure. – version 2

Failure – version 1

Failure – version 2

Failure is imminent. – version 1

Failure is imminent. – version 2

Failure must happen. – version 1

Failure must happen. – version 2

I depend on failure of others.

I get off on failure.

I am a smarmy man. – version 1

I am a smarmy man. – version 2

I always get my way. – version 1

I always get my way. – version 2

I am failure.

I am failure. I’m death too! How do like that?

I guarantee you don’t wanna know me!

I guarantee you do not want to know me!

I smell bad.

You can’t stop me.

Failure is coiled about me.

You absolutely haftuh fail.

Definite failure!

I am a functionary of failure.

And I’m gonna get off on that.

I am the absolute worst!

Absolute failure!

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Where there’s failure, there’s death. – reduced bass and compressed

You must fail!

You’re going to die.

Yep, you’re gonna die!

You are going to die tonight.

Yuo’re going to die, absolutely.

You’re gonna go down like you’ve never gone down before!

And I get off on it, thinking about it.

I need you to fail and then I need you to die.

The messenger never fails, but you’re going to fail in very big way.

I look bad.

I am everything that’s mediocre!

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I am a certain man and I always get my way.

I am a smarmy man and I will continue to get my way, always!

I am a smarmy man and I am failure.

I’m the worst thing you could ever imagine.

You will (repeated 8 times) and then you will die!

And that’s what failure is all about!

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Direct mp3 download or play:  433 Megahertz
I made this recording using my Airspy software defined radio with a small ground plane antenna, suitable for UHF (with 2 additional VFOs, all very wideband AM) and VSTHost. The VST plugins used were Argotlunar, MFreqShifter, DtBlkFx, Sanford Reverb, and LoudMax. Think of the VFO (variable frequency oscillator) tuners as tracks, except instead of microphones and musical instruments there are radio signals. There was some additional audio processing done in Adobe Audition for restoring some dynamic range and adding fades at the beginning and ending. I don’t believe my modest Windows 10 computer could have done a screen capture in real time with all of the processing already happening, so I made a short screen capture video (without additional audio processing) of the signals that can be received. This video shows SDRSharp (the software that runs Airspy) running with the main VFO tuner set to 433.873 megahertz with the only audio option as mono, left and right. Aux VFO tuner number 1 is set to 433.905 megahertz, left channel and Aux VFO tuner number 2 is set to 433.950 megahertz, right channel.  The auxiliary VFO tuners are operating extremely wideband AM 40,000 kilohertz with squelch at 37. The main VFO tuner with the settings not visible is at the maximum bandwidth of 32 kilohertz with the same squelch setting.

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What are we hearing? I’ve found a variety of links that explain.
Wikipedia LPD 433
Using 433 MHz for wireless connectivity in the Internet of Things
433 MHz interference – causes?
SIGIDWIKI.COM – Signal Identification Guide – 433 MHz
Nazi Mind Control 433 Megahertz Radio Frequency