Time to get our your hyper-text marker-pens and take copious notes on your internet server thingy as Professor L. Ron Breful explains one of the mysteries of this steam-driven age: The Internet.
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Audio Adventures: VLF
Very low frequency or VLF refers to radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3 to 30 kHz. Many natural electrical phenomena such as storms and lightning produce VLF emissions, and these can be recorded and enhanced using simple radio receiving equipmment.
The Exciting Hellebore Shew: Rambling Special
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.
Epistaxis Time: Overdose Pie
This episode begins with an exciting yet depressing techno number about alienation, arrest and imprisonment. Our host bakes and eats a pie containing miscellaneous prescription drugs. First broadcast on September 14th 2005.
Hooting Yard: Curd
Back in the days of Stalin, it was a brave soul who mocked the Comintern. Uncle Joe and his myrmidons tended to get attacks of the vapours when ridiculed. Svetlana B was not particularly brave, however. For one thing, she mocked the Comintern from the comparative safety of a radio shack hidden in a village in the English fens, which she pronounced “fence”.
This fun-packed episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 26th January 2004.
- A letter of complaint from an Aztec Fundamentalist.
- Five Tiny Birds
- Crime of the Century
- Blodgett’s Fiendish X-Ray Plot
- Bilingual Comintern Mocker
- Quotation from Ignatius Donnelly, “Atlantis : The Antedeluvian World”
- Mrs Gubbins’ New Publish Venture
- Curd