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Dread_Rat DFM Broadcast Archive 2004
Birds of a Feather,
(Un)familiar soundz by Dread Rat
December 26th: X-Mess SpecialBroadcast sunday the 26th of
december 2004 - 60 minutes X-Mess Special In this special X-mas edition I played a selection from A Singular Christmas made by MIT student Brian Whitman, a spoof on These Boots are Made for Walking by Missiledickchicks, some generative dub from the Genomic Dub Collective, a snippet of sounds of underwater insects by David Dunn and finally two tracks by Lisa Walker, a recording of a humpback whale chorus, recorded in a long, narrow channel that influences the sounds, and a track that was inspired by the incredibly rhythmic winter (mating) song of the Humpback Whale, a serious inquiry into the tangled weave of rhythm, music and the joys of sex ... Birds Of A Feather playlist December 26th 2004
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(Almost) Every sunday live on DFM RTV
International from 22:00 to 23:00 CET and archived on this site
for a week afterwards.
December 19th: This was not a test: DFM DBBSBroadcast sunday the 19th of december 2004 - 106
minutes DFM Distributed Backup Broadcast System - This was not a test This weekend DFM main studio temporarily lost its broadband connection, so we had main studio connected over dial-up modem, and Habologic and me working together keeping the DFM streams running. Some of the consequences were that this week's archive recording is in a lower bitrate and mono, but it is almost twice as long as usual (106 minutes). A wide variety of sounds, amongst them Native American peyote songs, Tuvan throat singing, traditional Ethiopian music, Jamaican dub, songs by El Queso All Stars, mixes from the madonna remix project using the Madonna - WTF do U think U R doing? - soundsnippet that she had put on P2P networks, some randomly sequenced/mixed sounds made with The Great Kazoo (see previous week), some songs by Dutch troubadour Armand and I probably forgot to mention some of the things in this week's cast, but if you haven't heard it yet and you're curious, have a listen please. |
December 12th: The Great Kazoo shuffles and mixes sound samplesBroadcast sunday the 12th of december 2004, 60
minutes The Great Kazoo - multi-channel randomized sound snippets A more or less random shuffle mix of sound snippets, made with Bitmaps and Waves and Coagula Light and wave files I use with bwgen and samples from the Flat Four Radio sample challenge. |
December 5th: Take a bow, take a cigar box
Broadcast sunday the 5th of december 2004 Cigar box instruments, bowing and twanging This was what I had in mind for last week, cigar box fiddle played with violin bow and with slide and plectrum as cigar box slide guitar, cigar box monochord mouthbow, played with chopstick, fingers and violin bow, bamboo and guitar string mouthbows, throat singing, a small fragment of reggae that happened to be at the end of a cassette I used. Moving between Mongolian/Siberian inspired improvisations, hints of Amazonian rain forest ayahuasca music and screeching bluesy sounds. |
November 28th: Analog synth meets cigar box instrumentsBroadcast sunday the 28th of november 2004 Analog synthesizer with cigar box instruments twanging The thing I had in mind for this webcast didn't work out due to some technical issues that messed up recordings I tried to make for the webcast, so I ended up hooking up my synth and patching up a sample/hold pattern as a background to improvise over with voice, cigar box monochord mouth bow and home made two string cigar box fiddle, which is finished by now. |
November 21st: Old Hippies and Cyber ShamanismBroadcast sunday the 21st of november 2004 60s Hippy Songs, Cyber-Shamanic journey Before the jingle, the backgound layer that continues for most of the cast on a low volume level, a CD with gong and didjeridu by Masters of the Dreamtime ((Nanak Dev Singh Khalsa, Margreet Singing Spirit Bakker, Ralph Dancing Thunder Oquendo) mixed with an old test recording made before a webcast. After the jingle some songs from the Songbook of the California School of Herbal Science. Next and final part is a soundpiece with brainwave entrainment binaural sounds, humpback whale song, shaman's drum and, added live during the webcast, a not yet completely finished, but already playable two string cigar box fiddle, played with a violin bow. |
November 14th: Cosmic NoisegasmBroadcast sunday the 14th of november 2004 Cosmic noises and sneak reviews Mix of three streams with cosmic noises, NASA's Inspire stream, Meteor radar and the radio astrononomy project by radioqualia. On top of that, MP3s of old cast were played on 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x on a DVD player and added to the mix of astronomical noises. |
November 7th: Bowed Cigar Box MonochordBroadcast sunday the 7th of november 2004 Makeshift monochord, a piece of piano string fixed to a wooden beam, with two cigar boxes acing as soundboxes and two small tin cans and bolts acting as resonators and bridges, the string was divided in the middle where one of the cigar boxes sat, so that the string halves were in unisono. This setup was played with two bows and with a pair of chop sticks, one layer pre-recorded, a part of it a small loop processed with granular synthesis (Granulab), a second layer added during the cast. |
October 31st: Patterns in noise: PIBroadcast sunday the 31st of october 2004 Patterns emerging from noise Mix of sounds from Inspire (NASA) and Navspasur Meteor radar, the soundtrack of the movie PI, Dutch police scanner stream, some ELF radio and number stations sounds. |
October 24th: Spinning some 80s vinylBroadcast sunday the 24th of october 2004 Spinning some 80's vinyl Mainly 80s vinyl, LP tracks, 12" singles and Flexidisc. |
October 17th: Sounds from inside a didjeriduBroadcast sunday the 17th of october 2004 Sounds from inside a didjeridu A microphone was positioned inside the mouthpiece end of a didjeridu, sound levels were adjusted to be just on the edge of feedbacking. An electric fan was blowing an airstream across the mouth end, creating a fundamental drone and sound were made with voice, shaman drum, rattles, singing bowls, tapping the didjeridu with sticks, mallets, hands/fingers/nails, breath/blowing, whistling, etcetera. |
October 10th: Granules and snippets from vinylBroadcast sunday the 10th of october 2004 Granules & Vinyl snippets Granulated sound files and snippets from vinyl |
October 3rd: Grains of a FeatherBroadcast sunday 3rd of october 2004 Grains of a Feather logged from #DFM on IRCNet: |
22:07 <@oiio> granular feathering |
September 26th: Various MP3sBroadcast sunday 26th of september 2004 Varied collected MP3 tracks |
September 19th: Varied vinylBroadcast sunday 19th of september 2004 Varied tracks and fragments from my vinyl collection. Ecclectic collage of punk & dub and more. |
September 12th: Conjunction Sun, Mars and Jupiter and analogue bubbles.Broadcast sunday 12th of september 2004 Download: Download Sun-Mars-Jupiter_conjunction.bwg Bwgen preset file We experienced some problems with the live cast on sunday night, the main stream server was down so we had to improvise with DFM running a local stream server, stream links on the web page took some time to update, so some might have missed the program all together, or in any case missed the beginning. The program consisted of combination of planet tones and binaural beats based on the rotations and orbits of the planets mars and jupiter and the synodal rotation of the sun (they all fall within the tones D, F#, and A#) reflecting the current sun-mars-jupiter conjunction. Mixed into that a cassette I made in the early nineties with bubbly analogue synthesizer sounds. |
September 5th: Recordings from 80's cassette archive.Broadcast sunday 5th of september 2004 Some almost random fragments from my cassette archive from the 80's - home recordings, remixes and some stuff I made in the AKI audio studio. |
August 29th: In Memoriam Wouter Schuiling - part 2 - Hip Young Doctors (1980) and Frits van Egters Asfaltbloemen.Broadcast sunday 29th of august 2004 Two weeks ago I heard that Wouter Schuiling (also known on the Internet as VoorDeWind and vdW) passed away on july 17th. Back in the early 80s we played together in the band Hip Young Doctors (Wouter on guitar, I played bass). In this week's program the remainder from the 'Hip Young Doctors Live' cassette (actually a recorded rehearsal with a 'live' feel to it). This is followed by a recording of a concert by Wouter's later band 'Frits van Egters Asfaltbloemen'. |
August 22nd: In Memoriam Wouter Schuiling (13 juni 1959 - 17 juli 2004)part 1 - Hip Young Doctors (1980).Broadcast sunday 22nd of august 2004 Last week I heard that Wouter Schuiling (also known on the Internet as VoorDeWind and vdW) died on july 17th. Back in the early 80s we played together in the band Hip Young Doctors. A good reason to dig into my cassette archive and give some more people the opportunity to listen to those recordings. In this week's program first some home recordings Wouter made, after that the Hip Young Doctors cassette 'Fast Forward', a couple of stray recordings and the first two tracks from a live(?) recording. To be continued next week. |
August 15th: Echoed sounds, shaman drum, overtone voices, yidaki/didjeridu.Broadcast sunday 15th of august 2004 Desert sounds soundtrack, DFM and other Internetradio streams and MP3s played with a delay DSP effect, with improvisations on mouthharp, shaman drum, overtone singing, yidakis/didjeridoos. |
Previously: Echoes of earlier DFM stream, Shaman drums, overtone voices.Improvisation on shaman drums, with overtone singing, fragments of Shamanic Invocations Live at the Amuse Theatre CD. |
Previously: Singing bowls, Shaman drum, Moring Khuur, entheogenic CD.Improvisation on singing bowls, tingshas (small Tibetan cymbals), shaman drum, overtone voice, moring khuur (Mongolian horsehead fiddle), fragments of CD with compilation of entheogenically inspired music mixed in. |
4th of july 2004: Moon tone, Mouth harps, Yidakis, singing bowls, Shaman drumImprovisation on several yidakis, mouth harps, singing bowls, tingshas (small Tibetan cymbals), shaman drum, overtone voice, bells, kalimba, bamboo flute. Moon planetary tones as intro and outtro. |
Previously: Yidaki, MS20, sounds from DFM stream, TV, singing bowls, test tonesBroadcast sunday 4 / 7 / 2004 Two layers of MS20, microphone connected to ext. signal in. Pre-recorded and live yidaki by myself. Here and there sounds from the previous program on the DFM stream (PingFM) were mixed to the cassette with pre-recorded material as well as some sounds from TV, filtered trough the MS20 and test tone sweeps. |
Previously: Recycled recordings, AM radio and outside soundsSound from cassette which had parts that were used in the previous three webcasts was connected to the external signal input of the MS20, combined with sounds from an AM radio and a microphone outside. |
Previously: Vintage Korgs, MP3 artifacts and sounds from outsideThe broadcast was delayed this week, and streamed at monday morning june 14th from 0:38-1:38 CET. One layer of Rhythm33, MS20, bamboo flute, didjeridu, miked outside sounds including dripping water, dogs, birds and traffic noises mixed with mp3 stream with wrong bitrate artifacts that were sounding a bit like gurgling water, prerecorded on casette. Live in the mix during cast: Mike outside, Rhythm33, MS20. |