E026 Mixmaster Satan 07/05/2010

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Jul 052010

This one goes way back. Actually, it’s the second episode EVER, recorded and broadcast October 22nd, 1998 on ~ORE~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations, WIDB Radio, Carbondale, Illinois. My ~ORE~ co-host DaveX had yet to join me. In studio with me (if memory serves) were Tom Denney, Mike Meyer, and Wil Bernal. You can hear them calling in as various characters. (Usually they would just go to the station front room and call in on the other station line.)

Mixmaster Satan is a dark portal through pre-9/11 American television. In these pre-digital days, I recorded television sound bites and field recordings directly from the speaker into a cassette recorder and playing back on the station cassette deck live. When I wanted to repeat a section, I had to rewind, watch the counter, and playback, hoping I timed it right. When you listen to these early shows, you’ll be able to tell we were VERY inspired by Negativland. Although I still like these early episodes, it was the over-reliance on sound bites and tv samples that made me want to make the next incarnation (Theatre Intangible) sample-free, created entirely by the performers in-studio. But this episode takes me back.

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E015 Prefab Audio Extrapolations 04/04/2010

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Apr 042010

On tonight’s episode, we bring you the very first episode of ~ORE~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations, broadcast October 15th, 1998 at SIU’s student station WIDB in Carbondale, Illinois. Self-titled simply as “Prefab Audio Extrapolations,” the episode features years and years of field recordings and audio experiments by myself, my brother, and my cousin, crystallized into 48 minutes and combined with television recordings, dorm-banter, unscreened-calls, and warped-up beat records. Featuring myself, Wess Youngblood, and Jacob Riley in the original tapes, and myself, Tom Denney and (possibly) Wil Bernel live in the studio. DaveX would first appear on the second episode of ~ORE~ P.A.E., coming soon to this podcast. Enjoy.

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E010 Menial 02/22/2010

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Feb 232010

Lest you think it’s all trophies and roses here at Theatre Intangible, we bring you an episode from our original incarnation, ~ORE~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations.  Tonight’s episode is called Menial.  Our idea was to interview various workers and pontificate about what it means to work menial jobs.  Somehow, the point got muddled by “investigative” journalism on how my roommate Jason and I were gay.

I know.

We recorded this episode way back in 1999 on the campus of Southern Illinois University at the student station WIDB.  It is not one of ~ORE~’s proudest moments.  But what can I say?  I’m a masochist.  And a sadist.  Which is why I’m offering it up for you fine people.

Enjoy.

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"Weirdos, makers, noise-enthusiasts, record collector scum, freaks… our people."

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Dec 212009

~ORE~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations – The Seeds of Theatre Intangible

DaveX over at Startling Moniker and I have been a little wistful lately about our old radio show  ~ORE~ Prefab Audio Extrapolations, broadcast at WIDB from 1998 to 2000.  I wrote this post about Dave’s experimental music blog and wound up reminiscing about the show we created together.  Dave fired back with a most excellent history of ~ORE here. Follow that link now and then come back.  It’s really an amazing read.  Here’s a particularly vivid excerpt.  The notes in underline are mine.

SocialistOreTony and I had apparently soaked up Wu-Tang Clan’s greatest lesson, too– make it a franchise. Thus, the original ~ORE~ was endowed with “Prefab Audio Extrapolations” as a tagline. Even while fighting to keep up with a one-hour weekly broadcast, we were thinking of the future! (Now accepting franchise applications.  Who wants “~ORE~ Miami”?) At times, it seemed like anyone who was listening was actually AT the broadcasts, or helping make them. (Some things never change) Although we were doing something amazingly different on the SIU campus, we didn’t exist in a bubble.  Flyers and chalk were our outreach. Wednesday nights, we’d gather under the dim yellow lights of Faner Hall, and begin our amazingly huge chalk runs. We got our friends and family into it with us, making teams to cover as much of the 900-foot length of the breezeway as possible before the chalk bucket ran out. By morning, Faner was a pastel mess of dogs and cows spouting absurdist essays extolling the virtues of experimental radio, mixed with the inevitable Xeroxed flyers cooked up special for the occasion. Although the flyers rarely made much sense, we knew that they would reach others like us– weirdos, makers, noise-enthusiasts, record collector scum, freaks… our people.

Takes me back!  More photos and stories from the old ~ORE~ coming soon.  Stay tuned for one of the Prefab Audio extrapolation episodes to come out as a Podcast in the next few weeks.

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