View or download medium size: Weatherman Phonographer Part 1
View or download medium size: Weatherman Phonographer Part 2
While I was sorting though Negativland junk in my garage this little cartoon showed up. The author of this little gem is none other than Don Fields of thatDonOguy and Don-O’s Dump.
Here’s a link to a rototiller I recorded. By the way, clicking on the pictures should show a large high resolution image.
Direct mp4 download or play: Birthday 1988 – Part 1
Direct mp4 download or play: Birthday 1988 – Part 2
Here is the home video of my 34th birthday, April 3rd, 1988. It was recorded at my grandmother’s home in Santa Rosa, California on my Sony CCD-V220 8 millimeter video camcorder. Near the end of Part 2 one of “The Egg People” is shown. My mother made these likenesses sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Three of them exist today. They are my mother, myself, and my father. The “egg person” of my grandmother shown in the video was broken and lost years ago. Just for fun I’m showing Egg Mother and Egg “Bear” Weatherman. There will be more about “The Egg People” in another post.
A couple of The Egg People
Egg Mother
Egg “Bear” Weatherman
Direct mp3 download or play: 4th of July Ambience 2017
Direct 24 bit flac download or play: 4th of July Ambience 2017
Normal – no processing or editing other than fades at the beginning and ending
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Direct mp3 download or play:2017 Fireworks Loud Parts Layered 5 Times
Direct 24 bit flac download or play:2017 Fireworks Loud Parts Layered 5 Times
Layered – parts chosen by Wobbly and layered 5 times
Here is my 4th of July fireworks in Seattle recording for 2017. This year probably has the best sound quality as electronic muscian Wobbly allowed me to use his Pro Tools rig to record. His gear consisted of a MacBook Pro laptop and a Focusrite 6i6 audio interface. I connected two of my very inexpensive electret capsule microphones through my Naiant Studio Electret to phantom power adapters. One microphone was placed through a west facing window in my living room and the other through the sliding glass door on the opposite side of the living room. This is the same microphone placement as in “4th of July Ambience 2016.” In addition, a wire from the metal window frame where one of the microphones was placed was connected to the metal case of the Focusrite interface to prevent AC hum from getting to the microphone. This year for the first time I’m offering a 24 bit lossless flac file for your listening plaesure. This could be considered close to audiophile quality. I’m not calling it definite “audiophile” quality because the sampling rate is only at 44.1kHz.
Focusrite model 6i6 audio recording interface
Naiant Studio phantom power adapters
cheap condenser microphones with facial tissue windscreen
Periodically, I blurt out the names of streets I think up. I don’t know why. Maybe someday the rest of Negativland will turn these into an art project of some sort. I’ll add more here as I think of them.
I’ve added a new feature to Street Names Update. In addition to the text, I will be adding the sound of my voice pronouncing the names the way I think they should be vocalized. To give my voice quite an irritating strident sound, a Radio Shack electret condenser microphone was placed into a crock pot with a towel. Occasionally, I will add sound to a street name in no particular order. I added some more streets and vocalizations of the names on August 30th, 2009.
I got out the crock pot and recorded a few more street names today on February 13th, 2012. This time, I placed the microphone that was used for “My Stomach (Updated)” and “More of My Stomach” into the crock pot. The new recordings start at “Elric Avenue.”
I added some new vocalizations of street names today on June 7th, 2013. They are at the bottom of the list starting with “Sweeper Queen Road.” Again, I used the “My Stomach” microphone and the crock pot for recording.
This is The Weatherman and I’m 10-7 at 02478 Sewerage Street onuh “no orgasm” on the Playboy Channel (I deliberately spelled “on a” as “onuh”.)
Vlax Street
Multiplication Avenue
Ridgewater Way
South Spitchulum Circle
Instrox Street
North Expelladapper Street
Prunawip Drive
Autopium Way
Subtractage Road West
Destructorite Road
Sponsanorma Plaza
Remote Boat Way
Waudogaudophine Boulevard
Butylene Plaza
Regular Garbage Court
Dockular Avenue
Gunmeat Street
Badapple Place
Old Battle – Ax Road
False Avenue
South Voederoeder Lane
The Cellagutchian
Hotoven Drive
Wacadelioprude Street
North Zenorex Place
Elric Avenue
Valchris Turkey Boulevard
Upper Poodaloop Circle
Botchitt Court
Useless Seedless Throughway
Sweeper Queen Road
Dewisant Place
Plate Fly Road West
Treatment Plant Court
Heitmeyer Beef Road Southeast
Pressure Avenue
Cheap Street
Below are street names yet to be spoken. As I vocalize these, they will appear in an audio player and disappear from the list. One can only imagine the dumbness!
Mangled Metal Boulevard, Sensory Perception Place, Hellzipper Lane, Bitch Street, Seatlight Plaza, Organeater Avenue, South Axis Street, The Saint Lawrence Slip, West Gas Street, Spudknuckler Lane, Mufumptious Street, Squeaker Toad Court, Porktree Way, Soap Street, Allcrunch Road, West Perpat Place, Fustellation Avenue, East Dart Road, Hittapitchulum Avenue, North Drepulate Street, Megaplexure Boulevard, Snugular Place, Fandrick Road, Dralowprude Circle, Searabutt Street, East Anger Road, Slickurge Street, Squirrelchew Circle, Pissamois Road, West Insipiot Street, Mygopopchelup Court
This is a new version of the post using the WordPress player. The player may perform better. The old version (Street Names Update(updated)) with all of the comments, which is somewhat broken is still up. There’s an older, even more, broken version which can be linked to, as well. Let me know if this is better. I will eventually eliminate the broken versions and hopefully, save the comments.
Direct mp4 download or play: Lists 59, 23, 72, 42, 31, 32, 33, 30 and 57
While tuning my Airspy software defined radio (SDR) at my location in Seattle, I stumbled onto this broadcast on a band meant for two-way radio communications such as police, fire departments, taxis, Family Radio Service (FRS), General Mobile Radio Service(GMRS), both analog and digital. I listened closely to the poor sound quality and managed to type in a Google search and came up with “Harvard Sentences.” After listening for awhile I noticed certain lists of sentences were playing in a certain order and then looping. At approximately 4 minutes and 43 seconds list 59 begins “Every word and phrase he speaks is true.” Then after list 57 “Prod the old mule with a crooked stick.” at about 11 minutes and 12 seconds, the groups of sentence lists repeat in the same order. I guess a beginning and ending could be anywhere in the groups of sentences, but to me, it seemed like “Every word and phrase he speaks is true.” is a logical starting point. Here’s an interesting article about the “Harvard Sentences.”
I don’t know why this is being broadcast, but in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I recall 454 to 455 and 152 to 153 megahertz being used by the telephone company for mobile phone calls. This, of course, would have been before cellular. Here is a full list of sentences. Any thoughts on this matter?
Direct mp3 download or play: Harvard Sentences April 20th, 2017 at 1:57 AM PDT on 454.650 Megahertz
The first recording was made on April 19, 2017, 2:39:11 PM and this last sample aaudio-only recording was made over 11 hours later. This recording shows the loop point where list 57 ends and list 59 begins. I think “085709Z” in the SDRSharp file name is the universal time. In other words, 8 hours, 57 minutes, 9 seconds is 1:57 AM and 9 seconds pacific daylight time. The “Z” is for Zulu, which is another name for universal time.
Direct mp4 download or play: Ford Pop Option Sale
Here is another film purchased online by Richard Lyons with two three-minute skits promoting “Ford Pop Option Sale” for 1969. The first skit features Jo Anne Worley and Henry Gibson as customers who were regulars on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.” The salesman is played by McLean Stevenson who played Lieut. Col. Henry Blake on the television series “M*A*S*H” for three seasons. The second skit has Jo Anne Worley as the nutty lady and McLean Stevenson as the salesman.
The film was captured using the same setup and technique as in my post “The Impact Of Television.” In addition, the film was quite red in color and I applied color correction.
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