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Audio Adventures: 555 Timer

Once again, Tim explores the sonic possiblities of everyday electronics:

“The 555 is an integrated circuit (chip) implementing a variety of timer and multivibrator applications. The IC was designed and invented by Hans R. Camenzind. It was designed in 1970 and introduced in 1971 by Signetics (later acquired by Philips). The original name was the SE555/NE555 and was called “The IC Time Machine”. It is still in wide use, thanks to its ease of use, low price and good stability. Still today, Samsung in Korea manufactures over 1 billion units per year (2003).

The 555 timer is one of the most popular and versatile integrated circuits ever produced. It includes 23 transistors, 2 diodes and 16 resistors on a silicon chip installed in an 8-pin mini dual-in-line package (DIP). The 556 is a 14-pin DIP that combines two 555s on a single chip. The 558 is a 16-pin DIP that combines four, slightly modified, 555s on a single chip (DIS & THR are connected internally, TR is falling edge sensitive instead of level sensitive). Also available are ultra-low power versions of the 555 such as the 7555. The 7555 has a slightly different wiring using less external components and less power.” – (Source: Wikipedia)

Epistaxis Time: The Self Help Show

Our hosts creates a “self-help tape” that will in time inspire him to talk more naturally with neighbors. A repetitive monologue about burgers and newspapers descends into hysterics.

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Hooting Yard: Tales of the Uncanny

They called him MacTavish, and he was the village wrestler. He lived in a room above the post office. No other living being ever set foot in the room until the day MacTavish died. They found him lying on his bed, as if he were asleep, but there was no doubt that he was dead, for hovering above his chest was a baleful phantom, emitting gruesome suppurations of foul-smelling extraterrestrial hideousness which it poured into a funnel inserted into MacTavish’s right ear. They closed up the room and nailed the door shut and it remained unopened for the next hundred years.

  • Three “Tales of the Uncanny”
  • More About my Bomba
  • Cosmic Friends – extracts from a pamphlet about extra terrestrial communication.
  • Norwegian Woll
  • Claude
  • Wedd Star
  • So you want to become a Haruspex?
  • Jarvis and Cubbit

Midnight Sex Talk – Media Massacre

Midnight Sex Talk – Media Massacre!
We had to turn on our own sooner or later, or at least give it a darn good going-over. In the company of Al Needham, live on the show for the first time, Midnight Sex Talk is taking a long hard look at the mainstream media’s influence over our sexual lives. Are celebrity shagfests, and tit jobs for girlfriends offered as prizes, taking us where we don’t really want to go? Or are magazines right in claiming, like certain rappers, that they’re simply reflecting back what we’ve been thinking all along? Do you believe that women’s magazines are really promoting sexual liberation, or just another set of rules for keeping your man?
Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us here.

You Are Hear Sessions: Bruno & Michel are smiling and Skipperrr

Bruno & Michel are smiling and Skipperrr played a live session on You Are Hear on Nov 21st 2005. ‘Once we used to be a two headed dog. Our heads then became divided on a dusky pasture beyond the famous Oceanos by a guy who called himself Heracles. He thought that he killed us, but the reality was that we were still alive. Since then we are two separated individuals and therefore we needed two different names.’

Oliver aka BRUNO & MICHEL ARE SMILING & Charlotte aka SKIPPERRR explain the reason for using two artist names…

http://bruno-and-michel-are-smiling.com
http://www.skipperrr.com/
http://www.adaadat.com

You Are Hear is produced by Magz Hall and Jim Backhouse and live sessions are engineered by Will Searl. More information about this show can be found at www.youarehear.co.uk. Tune into You Are Hear’s live sessions on Monday nights at 8:00-9:30pm on Resonance 104.4fm or pickup the webstream at www.resonancefm.com where you will also find our latest podcast sessions and programmes of interest.

 

Harmon e. Phraisyar: War Burgers & Friendly Fries

Another exciting lucky-dip into Harmon’s satirical pot; This week we join the charming Iraqui “freedom-fighters”, Chemical Ali and Chemical Sally in their bio-weapons research lab.

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Epistaxis Time: Humillation infront of somebody you are trying to impress

An incident in a library in which a stalker is forced to confront the boyfriend of his stalkee and ends with him throwing books at the object of his affection. First broadcast on the 7th July 2004.

  • A stalker observes the female object of his lust in a university library leading to conflict and self loathing. An unprovoked attack against the girl’s boyfriend lead to an escalation of violence.
  • An untitled melody that sounds like it was performed on guitar and bicycle spokes.
  • An untitled track that features moaning and buzzy-sounding percussion.
  • A hypnotic yet distressing electronic melody.

Hooting Yard: Scrofula and Penitence in the Middle Ages

Scrofula is the Latin word for brood sow, and it is the term applied to a tuberculous infection of the chain of lymph glands in the neck, creating swellings between the angle of the jaw and the top of the breastbone. It has been known to afflict people since antiquity, and during the Middle Ages was known as “the King’s Evil”, because it was thought that the monarch’s touch would cure it.

We may scoff at such naïveté, especially given the rather disturbing personal habits of kings and queens past and present. An early scoffer was Valentine Greatrakes (1628-1666), a Cromwellian soldier during the English Civil War. In the revolutionary mood of the time, he correctly surmised that God could act through himself as well as through the royal personage, and did his own scrofula-healing by gently stroking his patients. He also applied poultices made from carrots, although it is unclear whether these were divinely inspired.

  • Introduction: Scrofula
  • Dream: The Glove of Ib
  • Glib Hatter
  • Waxy Insensibility
  • Saint Mungo
  • Poppy Nisbet’s Music Tips
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
  • Stakhanov, Coleman (and Ronald Colman)