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Here is a recording made by a deceased member of Negativland, Richard Lyons, years before there was any thought of a performing group or band. It was during the time I first became friends with Richard, possibly in the mid-1970s. Richard told me later he made this using his Craig model 212 (two-twelve) portable tape recorder. Richard was even able to make a crude echo effect on this machine. Along with several “takes,” we hear Richard experimenting with recording bits from top 40 radio station KFRC in San Francisco.

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Here is another radio commercial from my original collection of tapes I found at a radio station transmitter site in the late 1970s. The original box and the tape are missing at this time and the name “Silvera” has been spelled “Silviera” as the digital audio file name. There are several websites indicating the company “Silvera Lumber” in Antioch, California has been “dissolved.”

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Lately, I’ve been having dreams where I can hear similar sounds. I made this entirely in my computer using VST plug-ins.

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I made the video using a Winamp visualization that is a little like an old analog television having very bad reception problems.

These are in no particular order and more may be added in the future. Click or tap pictures for higher resolution images.

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This was captured several years ago when Richard Lyons was still living and I recently posted it on Twitter and Facebook. As requested, here is a high-quality, audio-only version. I’ve misplaced the original tape box and the original capture required substantial audio processing (mostly boosting of higher frequencies) for improved fidelity.

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New Year’s London, UK, 2019 recorded from an open microphone in Kilburn, London. I used the built-in audio recorder in Potplayer to capture the audio as a wav file from the URL on Locus Sonus Soundmap. Some clipping was fixed using iZotope RX. I recorded from approximately 11:56 PM, December 31st, 2018 to 12:15 AM, January 1st, 2019, London time.

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New Year’s New York, 2019 recorded from an open microphone in Queens, New York. The same technique was done for this recording as for London. I recorded from approximately 11:56 PM, December 31st, 2018 to almost 12:20 AM, January 1st, 2019, Eastern Standard Time.

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New Year’s Chicago, 2019 recorded from an open microphone somewhere in Chicago. The same technique was done for this recording as for London and New York. I recorded from approximately 11:56 PM, December 31st, 2018 to almost 12:11 AM, January 1st, 2019, Central Standard Time.

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New Year’s Seattle, 2019 recorded using my Audio Technica model AT825 stereo microphone and a Focusrite 2i2 computer audio interface. Be careful! The sound of fireworks is very loud compared to the background noise. I recorded from approximately 11:56 PM, December 31st, 2018 to almost 12:17 AM, January 1st, 2019, Pacific Standard Time.

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I recorded this on Christmas Day, 1985 using my Sony TC-D5M cassette recorder with my Sony ECM-939 LT electret condenser microphone. It was recorded at my parents home in Martinez, California and features my grandmother, my mother, father, and myself.

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I used an Audio Technica AT825 stereo microphone with a Rode “synthetic fur” windscreen. A Focusrite 2i2 audio interface with my inexpensive Dell laptop computer was used to capture the audio. Listen on headphones for a better stereo effect.

Audio Technica AT825 microphone with Rode “synthetic fur” windscreen

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This was recorded on my iPhone 6S Plus using a Shure MV88 stereo external microphone while dining at a Thai restaurant in Seattle.

Shure MV88 Stereo Microphone for IOS Devices

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Here are videos made by Collide-O-Scope from my appearance on Monday, September 10th in Seattle.

Buddy’s Videos

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This was sometime in the late 1960s at my home in Martinez, California. I recognize a Knight Kit KM-15 monaural amplifier at the lower right.

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Here is my recording of the 4th of July for 2018. Microphones are inexpensive electret capsules encased in facial tissue. I used phantom power to electret plug-in power adapters from Naiant Studio to connect the electret condenser microphones to balanced XLR inputs.
This is a wide stereo recording. One microphone was placed outside a window facing west in my living room and the other outside a sliding door on the east side of the living room. The metal window frame of the living room window has a wire running from it to my Mackie Blackjack audio interface to reduce hum pick-up. This time there’s no additional audio processing other than hard limiting to -.1db. The input microphone gain was set at about 30db (about halfway on the Blackjack) which is considerably lower than past recordings.

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This is an internet phenomenom that went viral and it all started here according to this website.

The audio file signal was played and processed in SDRSharp and outputted through a virtual audio cable.

Then the audio was received from the virtual audio cable software and processed with multiple effects in VSTHost.

I didn’t put much thought into which effects were used or what settings were used on SDRSharp. Normally the SDR (software defined radio) software works with receivers like Airspy and Funcube, but it can also process audio files and treat them as if they were radio signals.

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Spot 3, # 3 Rhythm & Blues

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Spot 7, #11 T-40

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Spot 4, # 4 Rhythm & Blues

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Spot 8 # 12 T-40

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Mashup: Spot 3, # 3 Rhythm & Blues left side and Spot 7, #11 T-40 right side.


This is from my collection of open reel tapes. I can’t remember if this tape is from my original collection from the late 1970s or Ian Allen’s collection of tapes given to KPFA. My understanding is the collection that Ian acquired was from tapes that were to be erased and reused. Luckily, a lot of those tapes were saved thanks to Negativland.
There’s part of an instrumental version of this ad on Negativland’s third album from 1983, “A Big 10-8 Place” at about 3:10 on Part 2 (side 2) of the LP or about 16:32 on the CD.
I believe the term “Rhythm and Blues” means the ad was marketed toward African Americans and “T-40” likely means “Top 40.”

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Here is another of Richard Lyons’ 16-millimeter films. This is likely from the 1970s. After doing some online research, the line “You Get a Big Delight in Every Bite” started in the early 1970s. A couple of websites that attracted my attention about Hostess are here and here. I didn’t know there were Hostess ads in comic books!

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Here are two radio commercials from my original collection I found at a radio station in the late 1970s. More information about Fry’s is here and here. The music in these ads is by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Harry Breuer. More about these artists can be seen here, here, and here. The tape is now missing, but luckily when Richard Lyons and myself were beginning to digitize and archive our collection of old radio commercials in 2012 this ad was saved. I’m guessing these commercials are from the early 1970s.

Here’s the music featured on the commercials.

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Here is a promo for Saturday morning cartoons from the mid to late 1970s. This is 16-millimeter film from Richard Lyons’ collection. Go here for more information.

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This is one of the original open reel tapes a friend and I found in 1978 at the transmitter building of radio station KKIS in Collinsville, California. Go here for more information about these tapes. This article I found online I’m guessing may be the only information of Rev. Max Flickinger, referred to on this recording. There was nothing about “American Standard Time Company” online. This could be totally wrong. Comments are welcome.

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This is one of the original tapes I found at the transmitter site of a radio station in California in 1978. We (members of Negativland) are quite sure the interviewer is American character actor Vance Colvig. Here is a YouTube video from a friend.