Second Rate Podcast Eighteen

It has been so long.

A large part of the original intent of this podcast was to put up a bunch of binaural field recordings. I have never done that, as I have never had a recording device. I got to borrow one this weekend, and I used it, among other things, to record this binaural recording of the DC Metro.

"DC Metro: 4/17/09"

Second Rate Podcast Seventeen

A moralistic tale about how when you don't brush your teeth at night, you have bad dreams. This one doesn't compress well, so you have to use a little bit of your imagination.

"Teethbrushery: the brushing of teeth."

Second Rate Podcast Sixteen

This is an episode from an old radio serial I used to write in the thirties. Also it was a serial with super short episodes. It only ran to thirty shows. Expect to hear a recording of the show soon.

"Barn MacDougal: Master Cartographer, episode twelve - 'The Island'"

Second Rate Podcast Fifteen

Once upon a last year I was applying for a job teaching English and History. They couldn't schedule an interview with me, so I made a video of me interviewing myself. It's probably five minutes long and boring, but I worked pretty hard on the backgrounds and the twist ending, so I ditched the dialogue edited it (fairly arbitrarily) down, and then improvised new dialogue onto it. It is now a video about a job interview for an office manager.

"Interview Ofiche"

Second Rate Podcast Fourteen

My sister recently told me of a piece of software called Puredata which is nearly identical to a program called Max/MSP which I used to use a bunch, but haven't lately. So I obtained it. I have been trying to learn how to use it, as I have completely forgotten. As a for of practice, I just spent a four hour planeride working on a patch that takes a short sample and then messes with it separately in two channels. I see this patch turning into something that is constantly sampling in the future. I just ran it twice (once with me humming and once with me scratching on the grill over the mic on my laptop) and stuck the two files together with no further editing (okay, I faded a couple things out). I just have to warn you, this is wicked obnoxious.

"Scritch and Twitter"

Second Rate Podcast Thirteen

Four stories told by four friends chopped up into one big story-mess; I did this a few years ago.
Featuring myself, Kevin Williams, Christine Hou, Anya Rose, and Ross Norman.

"Stories"

Second Rate Podcast Twelve

A very brief one-act play about Klezmer music. This was originally for a class I took on the Culture of Yiddish. It was my way of not writing a big final paper.

"the Spirit of Klezmer"