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Dan Wilson – The Philosophy of Mediadropping

Administrator — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:30:36 +0000

‘The Philosophy of Mediadropping’ is a relentless musing on the practice of mediadropping – the dropping of home-made CDs, DVDs, tapes, books, manuscripts, etc. in public places for random people to find.

Mediadropping is a pathological habit of mine. My old Resonance show, ‘The Exciting Hellebore Shew’, documented many mediadroppings in detail (or tapedroppings as I referred to them back then, as cassette was the weapon of choice). Special ‘music’ was consigned to cassette or CD-R and scattered hither and thither. Over time, an instrumentarium was built up specifically geared toward sonically shocking unsuspecting mediadropping recipients.

Mediadropping may be seen as a physical analogue of the ‘crapflooding’ and ‘trolling’ phenomena of the internet age, but this is a debatable comparison to be treated in a later posting here. In the meantime, tune in to catch ‘The Philosophy of Mediadropping’ and hear Luscombe’s voice fed through a sawn-off trolley and a garage door. Feel the cassette-grot erode your tolerance threshold.

Marvin Suicide: The Promo

marvinsuicide — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:04:46 +0000

Marvin Suicide is a weekly 30 minute programme that only plays music and sounds that have been found freely and legally on the internet.

It is available as a podcast at podcasts.resonancefm.com and is currently being broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM at 6:00pm on Sundays.

www.marvinsuicide.org

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The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Unlistenable Special

salimfadhley — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:20:21 +0000

Piping out unenlightened smog for the inverted jet nozzle of your sound perception to spray your brain internally with sweet anti-music… you guessed it, we present a compilation of deliberately unlistenable noise-musics.

Introduction, recounting the story of essex white-van lads who force passers-by to listen to happy-hardcore and gabba techno resulting in their arrest.
Sweet, Sweet Anti-Music.
Pulsar Cannon – an electro pop number simoltaneously boasting of Dan’s game-playing ability whilst bemoaning his own sense of social exclusion.
Tape made for George Webster’s Mum – Please do not let your son insult me in those ways. He casts doubt on my sexuality.
Untitled Track (Recorded on two tape-recorders in a bornmouth hotel. )
Jim’l Fix It

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Jumped Skywards

salimfadhley — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:28:53 +0000

So… you’ve jumped skyward, walked forward, stepped backward, looked downward, you’ve been in all directions but now it’s time to go awkward.

Life of Leylandii.
Helecopter Crash Fasions (harsh-sounding electro pop instrumental)
Uncomfortability introduction (crazy person on a train)
Uncomfortability
Lament for the demise of the casette – the Resonance Tape-Dropping project.
Mrs Shardenfraude (Performed on a barbed-wire guitar)
Story: Making the Animal Pretty
Mode of Transport (Partly recorded in an industrial water-barrel)
I Collect Plastics – Transistor Six, featuring Sexton Ming
Untitled mediochre tape-dropping noises.

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Rambling Special

salimfadhley — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:22:56 +0000

Pilfering through the voices of today’s logicians… First Broadcast on October 23, 2003.

Begins with nose-picking complaint, instructing listeners not to listen to the Hellebore Shew.

‘Bring me a hail of slow-motion on a plate please (followed by the aerial bombardment of your head)’ – Ray Stispozeille, an atempt to subvert the ‘think before you talk’ ethic. Unintentionally tedious.

Commentary: The rights and wrongs of tape-dropping fodder.

Ripe, Ripe Vegetable

Intermission by poet and musician Mr Legge, in which he interrupts his own performance with an ad-hoc poetry one-man convention.

Makeover – recorded betwixt the 20th and 21st centuries in Hertfordshire.

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Bush Special

salimfadhley — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:26:39 +0000

First broadcast on November 19th 2003, this episode of the Exciting Hellebore Shew celebrates George W Bush’s visit to London. It’s dedicated to the American president, and also to bushes in general. The highlight of the show is certainly “chemical attack”.

George Bush introduction.

A Recording made from within a bush.

Re-constituted tape found within a bush. A selection of distorted and garbled high-NRG tunes.

George W Bush poem (by George W. Bush)

Blunder Baby (Does anyone want a hamburger?)

Chemical attack on the underground

The Grandmother

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Strange music and post-boring stories

salimfadhley — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:16:19 +0000

“Strange music and post-boring stories for the next half hour”. The first ever episode of the Exciting Hellebore Shew. Originally broadcast on Sep 3, 2003.

* A love song about fleas (Start the show on a high-note)
* DJs of Unfairness
* The Hermit
* Leper in a Tumble-dryer
* Doug’s Piss-up

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Robot Shew

salimfadhley — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:54:40 +0000

Dan finds himself made redundant because a robot voice has taken over the Hellebore Shew.

* Introduction: Conflict with a some kind of robotic voice thing, leads to a lamentably shambolic fight in the studio.

* Catch the nail-bomber.

* Kerb Crawling in the 22nd centuary, interrupted with an actual act of wandering around.

* A high-brow link, interupted as the robot thing attempts to eat Dan’s notes as revenge for disconnection. On radio… nobody can hear you cry (except the engineer)

* Untitled Track – “Just a Load of Noise”

* The real Dan Wilson unmasks an imposter.

The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Audio Flyering Special

salimfadhley — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:04:08 +0000

A documentary on audio-flyering (or tapedropping): the unfine art of purposefully dropping a cassette of supposedly messed-up “distressed” music and sound as an affront to music retail. This episode was first broadcast on October 17th 2003.