Wm S Burrough's mummy

This is appropriate news for his birthday: Someone's messing with a mummy!

The “voice” of an ancient Egyptian priest has been heard for the first time since he died and was mummified 3,000 years ago, researchers have said.  

Nesyamun lived under the pharaoh Rameses XI, who reigned around the beginning of the 11th century BC...Now a team of researchers have 3D-printed a reproduction of Nesyamun’s vocal tract to hear what his voice would have sounded like.

It's not digital.  They cat-scanned and 3-D printed his larynx, and they blow air through it.  It goes, "Hrrnhh".  (Are they sure it's not Jim Lehrer?)  There's sound at the above link.

Regarding making Burroughs speak-- yes!  His birthday.

He might have appreciated this.  He was good at exposing manipulative narratives, especially around the larger cultural issues.  One thing I've noticed about technology, a missing section of the curve as it were, is the stage we're in now: everything that used to work is cheapened down until it's unreliable dreck, and our Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow ("shining at the end of every day") keeps snagging on the same little things.

Like the next stream. My sound stuff has basically quit working.  Part of it has to do with Windows 10 being a poorly-designed program.  Windows 7, which Microsoft recently quit supporting, is actually better at things like uploading files and web-surfing (something else that doesn't work as well as it used to.  Seriously.  It's like being back on dial-up, sometimes.)

So, not to bang on it too hard, but interesting synchronicity: a more extensive Burroughs stream (at this point) is not possible because of technological breakdown on my PC.

However, there will be something, by tomorrow morning, as promised: "Real English Tea Made Here", a collection of his mid-1960s experiments which was released in 2007.  At least that, until his birthday on Feb 5th.  More, I hope. 

Yappy New Hear

No one's listening to the web stream, which isn't surprising-- it's not advertised, and has been more of an experiment to see if some kind of programming could be sustained.  It is ongoing.  Like this site, which will be 12 years old in Sept, although not much has been going on recently.

I put the rest of "Bob and Ray present CBS" from the Internet Archive on there just now.  7 hours.  Going to try listening to it myself once in a while.  Like I say, this internet radio thing is still pretty experimental.

New Stream: Bob & Ray

Audio streaming continues, thanks to the Internet Archive.  Bob and Ray used to be scattered all over that site, like a finely-marbled cheese.  Then came a purge-- and my impression is that their vast, dispersed B&R archive didn't come through unscathed.

But no matter.  This week's stream is from what seems to be a complete collection of "Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network", which ran for 15 minutes, 5 days a week from June 1959 to May 1960.  We'll be playing that, in one-month installments, every week or so until it runs out. 

New Stream: The Last Hours of Kennedy Radio

Click on a link to the right to enter a lost world; the last hours before our future was stolen from us.
JFK's final tour includes the following stops:

- He fights for national health care, Madison Square Garden, May 20, 1962. (17m)
- Steel executives take a beating in his press conference of April 11.1962. (20m)
- He answers the Birmingham church bombing with a call for civil rights, June 11, 1963. (13m)
- WBAP radio covers his Ft Worth visit on November 21, 1963 (aircheck) (2h 33m)
- The Presidential party arrives at Love Field, Dallas. (25m)
- WLW, Cincinnati OH: November 22, 5 AM to 1 PM (BIG aircheck) (7h 27m)

The WLW aircheck is a real time machine.  The station's format could be described as "AM News and Music", and it runs through its regular November 1963 Friday morning lineup, until things go haywire.  The reason the music sounds weird is probably because the aircheck was made at the slowest reel-to-reel speed of 1 & 7/8 inches per second.  It sounds wobbly as heck, but evocative in a way, especially with the Percy Faith nightmare music at the end.

I'm including Love Field as a separate file, linked here.  It was compiled from two different sources, radio and TV; the latter had the best account of Jack and Jackie breaking away to shake hands with people who were supposed to be fenced out-- the sounds of laughter and airhorns, the announcer saying, "They're coming right up here!"

And of course the President's travel plans for after the motorcade, and a big meeting on Vietnam later this weekend.

Stream: Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network, Part 1

The first month or so of their radio surreality on CBS.  6 hours of 15-minute programs, from the Internet Archive.

Program notes:
- The audio difficulties during Smelly Dave's appearance are on the original tape.  It's not the internet connection. 

Radio Soup, now playing!

10 hours of longer-form audio.
Links and playlist to your right.

davyforce: Jerry vs Jerry

I had to edit this post after looking at it for a while.  The Jerry v Jerry bit by davyforce is actually more whacked than his collaboration with Coldcut.  It's definitely more energetic.

(More of Mr force's work may be viewed on the fine DVD, "TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies".  Picture quality is a lot better too; all those Jerry Springer headlines-- "Holiday Hell-feast", "I want your lover", "I'm having a transsexual affair"-- start cutting and pasting on their own like bunnies!)

Video links by YouTube.  Sorry about the ads.  Adblocker works pretty well.