Dread_Rat DFM Broadcast Archive 2006

December 31: New Years, Eve

Last show of 2006.
Loops of cw-code (Morse code) DFM station identifications,
sweeping through shortwave and medium wave AM bands,
Recycled material from older episodes and Air Traffic Control messages from Sydney, Australia.
CW-code instruction track by unknown maker, that is around on many radio-amateur websites. Bamboo flute.
Fireworks both live sound from outside and recorded.

December 24: Broadcast Radio Birthday

Christmas evening 2006 marks the 100th birthday of broadcast radio.
This year DFM has been doing streaming internet radio for 10 years.
This week DFM made a debut in the 3D chat environment Second Life,
playing at the land of DJ Vent Rust. I edited the reporting this
adventure by Jce Emoto and Pally Nakamura to a short radio play.

December 17: Strange Charm Loops

Loops of khen and snake charmer flute, recyceled layers from
older episodes, cut-ups of message about switch to digital TV in the
Dutch aether and from the NoMusic X tournament.
Sounds from the control tower of Schiphol airport Amsterdam were coming in
over a scanner stream.

Khen, shaker, hand drum, flutes, overtone singing and mouth harp
were added live during the broadcast.

December 10: Hop Along with Fractal Music

Recycling of fractal music compositions, some parts stretched with PaulStrech software.
Overtone singing and cigar box string instrument (bowed and plucked) were added live during the broadcast.

December 3: Double Tongue Icaro

A solo on a low pitched Vietnamese double-tongued jewsharp, stretched with PaulStrech software
and slowed down, reversed and filtered layers sequenced and mixed together.
Mouthharp, breath sounds, whistling, voice, flutes and drums were added live during the broadcast.

November 26: Vietnam Trance Mix

Sounds of Vietnamese double-tongued jewsharp and singing bowls, stretched with PaulStrech software
and slowed down loops mixed together.
More mouthharp sounds and voice were added live during the broadcast.

November 19: Tibet Mantra Wheel

Mashed up sounds of Tibetan prayer chant and DFM stream fragment, stretched with PaulStrech software
Another layer in the mix was a percussion and sound-effects track made with the VSTi plugin X-Wheel-of-Fortune.
Flutes and mouth harps were added live during the broadcast.

November 12: Mescalito Prayer Song

Mescalito Prayer Song

recycling an older audio fragment, sonification of a molecular visualisation of a mescaline molecule, regarded as the main active molecule in the Plant Teachers Peyote (Hikuri) and San Pedro (Achuma, Auguacolla). PaulStrech software was used to stretch out the short sonification into a larger time domain, making the sound more spectral.
An other layer in the mix was a percussion track made with the VSTi plugin X-Wheel-of-Fortune.
Shuar overtone flute and didjeridu were added live during the broadcast.

November 5: Mind the Molecules

Mind the Molecules

Because of technical failure of my mixing console I had to mix everything in software, using an old free version of mixvibes, and recycling some older audio fragments, mainly some sonifications of molecular visualisations of molecules that play an important role in the properties of several shamanistic plants and plant combinations that are being regarded as Plant Teachers. PaulStrech was used to stretch out the short sonifications into a larger time domain, making the sounds even more spectral.
An other layer in the mix was an only slightly stretched X-Wheel-of-Fortune percussion track.

October 29: Space Elevator

Space Elevator

Mix of soundstretched layers of last weeks program recycled by speeding up, reversing and stretching the sound again, a reversed and slightly slowed down recording of an extra show I did in one of the open nightly time slots last week and radio interference from Orionid meteors, slowed down and looped and a stretched version. Another journey to outer space and back.

October 22: Celestial Escalator

Mix of four soundstretched layers of recordings from the DFM stream, mixed with other internet radio streams and found materials, stretched beyond recognition to a sonic texture, traveling to the stars and back.

october 15: Stretched and Layered

Mix of four soundstretched layers of recordings and stream rips from the DFM stream, some mixed with other internet radio streams, stretched beyond recognition to sonic textures, with some live drumming and other sounds added.

october 8: Trance Journey with Birds and Hang

Mix of soundstretched layers of tropical bird calls and hang, plus percussion made with tabla samples.

october 1: Stretched Mouth Music

Soundstretched layers of mouth bow and didjeridu, combined with live drumming.

september 24: Chaos Moment ReMix

Remix of Remote performance during the thursday early evening Chaos Moment at Robodock 2006 with the parts that didn't get broadcast. Bird song recordings from Mexico (Petr Myska) and Costa Rica (Gerardo Obando Calderón) found at Xeno Canta and some African jungle elephant rumblings, soundstretched versions of those with random/algorihtmic remix of the (non-stretched) sound fragments. Other ingrediens were recordings from the DFM Live Event stream from Robodock and some archive recordings from earlier shows.

september 21: Robodock 2006 Chaos Moment

Remote performance during the thursday early evening Chaos Moment at Robodock 2006.

september 17: Birth of the Feather

Found some good quality birdsong recordings from Mexico (Petr Myska) and Costa Rica (Gerardo Obando Calderón) through the Xeno Canta website, and some African jungle elephant rumblings, mixing soundstretched versions of those with random/algorihtmic remix of the (non-stretched) sound fragments. The stretched fragment of four people (including me) chanting AUM, from the Ecodo Mama-Ger Landjuweel 2006 Ruigoord shamanic sound-massage session recordings that I used in the previous show was also mixed in in the background.

september 10: Super Stretch Mix

This show is a mix of some results I got experimenting with PaulStretch Extreme Sound Stretch software. The ingredients of the mix are two sound fragments of around one to two minutes, stretched out to around an hour. One fragment was four people (including me) chanting AUM, from the Ecodo Mama-Ger Landjuweel 2006 Ruigoord shamanic sound-massage session recordings. The other fragment, a recording of Jim Nollman playing cello with a pack of wolves was linked to in the September 2006 Interspecies newsletter by Jim Nollman. Please note: in the announcement I made a mistake, the interspecies website is interspecies.com and NOT interspecies.org.

september 3: 250 Bird Sounds Mix

250 sounds of bird songs and bird calls found online through a link mentioned in the Interspecies newsletter by Jim Nollman served as the starting point for this dubby mix with bamboo flute and bamboo rasp and some recycled recordings of previous shows..

august 27: Relax Remix Dub

Remixing and overdubbing sounds of previous episodes featuring jews harps and recordings of a shamanic sound massage session by Ecodo in the Mama-Ger during the Landjuweel festival 2006 in Ruigoord with live instruments (thumb piano, bamboo flutes, bamboo jews harp, lighter gas can, rasp, didjeridu, pluche toy orca) and (overtone) voice.

august 20: Mama-Ger Session in Dub

Remix-Overdub of the recordings of a shamanic sound massage session by Ecodo in the Mama-Ger during the Landjuweel festival 2006 in Ruigoord.

first half of august: no regular casts

During the first half of august I was at Ruigoord for the yearly festival annex artist meeting. The first sunday i could get a chat link going just in time to start up something to replace my show, as I could not get a good enough internet connection to stream something, the second sunday a live relay from the Landjuweel festival internet stream replaced my show.

july 30: Mouth Music Special

Inspired by the 5th Internertional Jews Harp Festival, this show features improvisations on mouth harps and mouth bow, also using the voice and breath and some delay effects applied.

july 23: Journeyman Sound System from Ruigoord Future reggae festival

Being away from home I streamed sounds from the Journeyman Sound System from the Reggae festival in Ruigoord. No recording/podcast was made available of this show.

july 16: Recycling Archive Recordings

An old cassette with among other things sounds made with a Commodore64, combined with live improvisation with voice, instruments and delayed feedback through a VST effects (buffer skipping effects). Live instruments include several bamboo flutes, mostly self made, African standing drum, small ballophon and Vietnamese mouthharp.

july 9: Hot Harmonics Improv

Layers of older and newer recordings and prerecorded sounds of bamboo flutes and gourd rattles, combined with live improvisation with voice, instruments and delayed feedback through a VST effects chain of delay and buffer skipping effects. Live instruments include several bamboo flutes, mostly self made, yidaki/didjeridu, African standing drum and Vietnamese mouthharp.

july 2: Hot Bamboo Winds

Background layers of older and newer recordings and prerecorded sounds of bamboo flutes and percussion combined with live improvisation with instruments and delayed feedback through a VST effects chain of delay effects and skipping and stuttering buffers. Live instruments include several bamboo flutes, mostly self made and 2-string cigar box fiddle annex slide guitar.

june 25: Dubby Soundscape

Background layers of older and newer recordings combined with live improvisation with voice and instruments and delayed feedback through a VST effects chain of delay effects and stuttering buffers. Live instruments include bamboo flutes, flexible toy piano, steel bowls with water, hand drum and singing bowls.

june 18: Another Audio Extravaganza

Combination of a background layer of earlier recordings and some prepared tracks with live improvisation and delayed feedback through a VST effects chain of filtered echo and skipping buffers. Live instruments include bamboo flute, flexible toy piano, cigar box guitars and African bamboo reed wind instrument.

june 11: Dubbing in the Echo Chamber

Combining a background layer of sounds from singing bowls and crickets with live improvisation and delayed feedback through a VST effects chain of filtered echo and skipping buffers. Live instruments include bamboo flute, two string cigar box guitar, yidaki and African bamboo reed wind instrument.

june 4: Mixing for Mind Expansion and Education

Condensed educational ideas and suggestions for mind expansion and exploration,
fragments from Psychedelic Salon podcasts,
mainly from episode 038: Mind Machines, Entheogens, and the Expansion of Consciousness,
a presentation by Zoe7, and from some episodes of Welcome to Mars by Ken Hollings.
Incorporates reworked material of earlier episodes, containing layers of audio from my
cassette archive from the 80s and 90s and miscellaneous audio material
found online on the web and in podcasts.

may 28: Mashups and CutUps for Fun and Entertainment

Reworked parts of earlier episodes, touched up experiments from my
cassette archive from the 80s and 90s and miscellaneous audio material
found online on the web and in podcasts. Lots of noisy fun.

may 21: Imaginary Soundscapes of Novelty

Reworked parts of earlier episodes and material found online,
mixed to represent psychedelic experiences presented as electronic art.

may 14: Peace Skin Phone Thunder

The cast starts off with some 20 years old recording made in London
at the opening ceremonies of the Peace Pagoda
in Battersea Park in May 1986. This memorial pagoda was built to remember the victims of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The recording includes chanting of sutras, devotional music from India
and chanting of the mantra of the Lotus Sutra, Na Mu Myo Ho Renge Kyo.
This is followed by some recordings/mixes with a similar atmosphere,
made as soundtracks for a slide show about skin,
interspaced with two mixes of a project that involved exploring a range of free phone numbers.
The cast concludes with a recording of thunder, birds and traffic noises made very recently.

may 7: Time Traveling

Some new recordings and some old material
from my cassette archive and some more mash-up experiments.
During the cast I played along with shaman drum,
singing bowls, jewsharp and ting-shas.

april 30: Improvs and Mash-ups

Improvisations with X-Wheel Of Fortune Singing Bowls remixes
with shaman drum, rattle and ting-shas
and some mash-up experiments.

april 23: A Mixed Bag

Ingredients:
Sonified map of microwave background radiation from the infant universe;
mix of sounds from several Matrix theme freeware screen savers,
with orb sounds and soundbyte of Morpheus saying:
Welcome to the real world.
Hallo-hallo, Mix/collage of some inexperienced webcasters.
Electronic Music - thanks for all the white noise - collage/mix
Wendy Carlos Moog demo/advertisement and stretched excerpt from the
legenday album White Noise and orb-c-quence. Singing Elron Hubbard.
Ecoshock independent net radio mashup remix - OT III in a minute (BBC).
Radioactive teeth. www.radiation.org
interview with Dr. Janette Sherman
X-WOF Singing Bowls remix
Recordings made with Omid/Larrpan on yidaki.

april 16th: Sonic Prayer Wheels in Dub

Dub-Mix of improvisations with
X-Wheel of Fortune (XWOF) VSTi by H. G. Fortune,
using home recorded sounds of of my singing bowls,
drums and percussion instruments
and a soundfond with animal sounds (crickets and birds).
Acoustical instruments layer was added live during the cast
(shaman drum, tingshas, singing bowls).

april 9th: Turning the Wheels of Vibration

Improvisations with one and two instances of
X-Wheel of Fortune (XWOF) VSTi by H. G. Fortune,
loaded up with sounds of some of my singing bowls,
my own recorded drum/percussion sounds
and a soundfond with animal sounds (crickets and birds).
An acoustical instruments layer was added live during the cast
(tingshas, singing bowls).

april 2: X-Wheels of Fortune in Dub part Three

Improvisation with chained VST plugins using one or more instances of
X-Wheel of Fortune (XWOF) and
the X-Wheel of Fortune II (XWOF-II) VSTi by H. G. Fortune,
one with my own recorded percussion sounds and with found
tabla and arabic percussion soundfonts,
chained effects: Waterfall by SYNTHEDIT LABO JAPAN,
Whirlpool VST effect by Audiose and MDA Dub Delay
running on the free VSTHost by Hermann Seib.
Acoustical instruments layer added live during the cast
(mouth harp, cigarbox fiddle, tingshas, singing bowl. rattle).

March 26: X-Wheels of Fortune in Dub part Two

Improvisation with chained VST plugins using 2 instances of
the X-Wheel of Fortune II (XWOF-II) VSTi by H. G. Fortune,
one with my own recorded percussion sounds and one with a found tabla soundfont,
chained effects: Whirlpool VST effect by Audiose and MDA Dub Delay
running on the great free VSTHost by Hermann Seib.
Acoustical instruments layer added live during the cast
(tingshas, singing bowls, shaman drum and Indian hand drum).

march 19: X-Wheels of Fortune in Dub

Improvisation with chained VST plugins
using 2 different free versions of
the X-Wheel of Fortune (XWOF) VSTi by H. G. Fortune,
XWOF-I and XWOF-II and Whirlpool VST effect by Audiose running on VSTHost.
Acoustical instruments layer added live during the cast
(shaman drum and Indian hand drum, singing bowls).

march 12: Electro Shamanic Sounds

Improvisations with chained VST plugins
X-Wheel of Fortune VSTi by H.G. Fortune, DFX Stereo Buffer Override 2.0 and MDA Dub Delay running on VSTHost. Acoustical instruments added during the cast (shaman drum and Indian hand drum, rattles, didjeridu, singing bowl, mouth harps).

march 5: Cassette Archive Remix

Mix of fragments from cassettes from my unsorted tape archive, live digital treatment with
DFX_Scrubby 1.0 and DFX Stereo Buffer Override 2.0 running on VSTHost.

februari 26: Cassette Snippets Remix

A mix of fragments from cassettes from my unsorted tape archive with speech synthesized text snippets out of the DFM text chat channel, with live digital treatment with DFX_Scrubby 1.0 and DFX Stereo Buffer Override 2.0 running on VSTHost.

februari 19: Shamanistic Sound Collective Subtle Remix

Segments from a recording made early sunday afternoon of a Dreamtime Healing Concert by the Dreamtime healing Circle NL - Almelo. The (mono) recording was remixed live with subtle reverb and buffer-overrun/glitching effects made with DFX Stereo Buffer Override 2.0 running on VSTHost.

february 12: Jamming with Raw Bit Noises

A mix of raw binary linux and windows program data concatenated to /dev/dsp with me jamming along with live sounds, some of the audio changed with digital effects in audacity. Live instruments (ting-shas, Yoruba talking drum, shaman drum, singing bowl) and overtone singing. Live buffer-glitch effect: DFX Stereo Buffer Override 2.0 running on VSTHost.

february 5: Buddha Machine Hard Drive Noises

Buddha Machine Hard Drive Noises

A semi-random mix with two layers of the same soundpieces in different sequences, most of the audio fragments treated and changed with digital effects in audacity. Some cut-ups of a NASA podcast about resonance are also part of the mix. Most of the soundpieces were made from the droney minimal sounds of the FM3 Buddha Machine and from sounds of failing harddisks, combined with live instruments (ting-shas, shaman drum, bamboo flute, singing bowl, crackle box) and chanting.

January 29: Recycling collected audio

A partly randomized cut-up-mix-jam, with a couple of mp3 players on shuffle play recycling fragments from streams, free sound FX samples from The Recordist, most of them treated with digital effects in audacity, and found tapes, combined with live instruments (ting-shas, mbira, shaman drum, talking drum, sound from tv-set and voice.

January 22: Recycling DFM Mix-Jam

A partly randomized mix-jam, with foobar2000 on random play and noiser 1.0 recycling fragments from DFM programs including Willem de Ridder, Ping-FM and JT, and some of the sound recordings used in the week before, combined with live instruments (ting-shas, singing bowls, mbira, zube tube, yidaki, Indian hand drum, shaker) and voice.

January 15: Randomized Mix with Live Improvisation

Glitching mix made with foobar2000 on random play and noiser 1.0 both using the same short recordings of several of my instruments and live improvisation on gourd rattles, ting-shas, bamboo rasp, singing bowls, hand drum, voice, bamboo flute with toy echo microphone, mbiras, bells, coffee grinder, mouth bow and jawsharps.

January 8: Rhythmix Improvisation

Rhythms from old Korg Rhythm33 beatbox with glitching mix made with noiser 1.0 and live improvisation on gourd rattles, ting-shas, bamboo rasp, singing bowls, hand drum, shaman drum used as ocean drum (with rice grains), voice, bamboo flute, African single reed woodwind instrument, mbira, bilma and 2 string cigar box guitar/fiddle and pitch shifting delay effect.

January 1: Relaxed New Year Improvisation

8 layers of looping sounds as a backdrop with live improvisation during the broadcast featuring gourd rattles, ting-shas, bamboo rasp, singing bowls, shaman drum, voice, didjeridu, jewsharps, bird imitating whistle, African single reed woodwind instrument, crackle box and shortwave radio.