Firesign Theatre: Microorganism State Park

(10:19) Speaking of Mr Bretman and his cronies, here's a kind of cut and paste reader's play from their avant-garde religious radio program, Dear Friends.

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Andre Hodeir: Jazz et Jazz

(2:59) 1960.

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Here's how he did it, for those who want to try this at home:

Hodeir realized the work in three stages. 

During the first, he separately recorded a big band playing several composed passages and a rhythm section (bass and drums) playing along with a chord progression from the ensemble work. 

In the second stage, Hodeir transformed the recording of the big band passages using tape-editing techniques such as speed changes, tape reversal, filtering, and transposition (playing the tape upside down). He next added a rhythm section track, unchanged, to the electronically modified big band track. 

For the third stage, a piano player improvised “as indicated by the composer” along with the “composite tape background,” creating the final realization. 

The musique concrète treatment of the band included horns and drums in reverse, piano slowed-down and sped-up, chirping microphone taps, and a variety of comical percussive effects. The result was a carefully orchestrated crowd pleasure that could be performed live with a solo pianist exchanging passages with his or her mutated electronic doppelganger on tape.

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The Bran Flakes: Bubbles

Our first track from today's eponymous offering is Turn the Channel, It's Another Commercial.

The entire album is available at the Internet Archive.

And for dessert, a 54-50 video.

Mike Upchurch, et al: Greenboy, Prescription for Death

Dragnet meets the 21st century.

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Peter Bergman: cutups

Before Firesign.  The first is what's referred to as a "stutter tape", apparently from his college days in the late 50's,
Yale Distorts (8:33)

And a couple of group-written poems, from Radio Free Oz, on KPFK in 1966.
phone in poem #1 (0:46)
phone in poem #2 (1:19)
Presented just as they were broadcast for your mixing pleasure.

William S Burroughs: Towers Open Fire

(9:34)  Weird Movie Night.  For the old man's 101st birthday. A short film from 1963.

Towers Open Fire

...and more films on that same estimable site.

Noah Creshevsky: Highway

(8:53) ...that little picture at the center .  No, that's not Creshevsky.  Up a row.

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