131: Before they would return again

An old song on a computer generated piano; a theme from a 1950’s instructional video; miscellaneous bits, clicks and static; unintelligible voices; a river; a slow bell.

This episode continues to collage together samples and sounds as an accompaniment to a melody based on the folk songs, this episode features The Avondale Mine Disaster.

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130: Oh, life is toil and love is trouble

An old song on a computer generated piano; field and foley recordings; miscellaneous bits and pieces of digital sounds; a sine waves; the ocean; a train.

Episode 130 of the podcast re-edits past episodes as an accompaniment to collaged piano based on the folk song The Housewife’s Lament.

129: Does the Golden Record have an high quality inner sleeve?

The Golden Record! Gravity! Cassette tape navigation! Sound waves! old voicemails! hair care advice! Proper care for vinyl record! and more! stopGOstop presents Does the Golden Record have a high quality inner sleeve?, a new sound collage.

128: The Float

After the destination has been set, after the engines have cut off, as the computers go into hibernation, you are in the void, the vast nothing. Space is big, mind-bogglingly big its…. nothing to do but wait. Episode 128, The Float, is part two of a multi-episode journey from Earth to the beyond, featuring field recordings, miscellaneous NASA sounds, and a few digital instruments.

127: To the Future! To the Stars!

Part one of an odyssey from Earth to the beyond. The episode starts with a pre-launch check, liftoff, the melody of space flight, and continues with the sounds you thought you left behind, or are they memories, maybe you just need more vitamin B….what is it like to dream in space… does weightlessness effect the unconscious mind… No Praeterita! Ad Posterum! Ad Astra!

 

125: 10-20-30

Episode 125 is a new sound collage featuring Gregory Peck, Richard Feynman, a manipulated recording of mowing the grass with a hand mower, a binaural recording of the Hillcrest Farmers Market (San Diego) and the scientific method. Continue reading