(Spoken Word With Electronics is Ethan Persoff's podcast of spoken word recordings with unusual electronic instruments and sounds.) With words losing their meaning in politics and society, it seems useful… Read the rest of the article: How to spout gibberish with a phoneme generator

One of the most effective urban legends of the 1980s, the "Blue Star Tattoo Legend," led to millions of school children across the world on the look-out for strangers handing… Read the rest of the article: Remembering "Mickey Mouse Acid" LSD stickers of the 1980s

Hi. Welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. Heil, Caesar! Like most people here, the future for me is great under Trump America. I live in a perfectly white, ethnically… Read the rest of the article: A modest proposal to dunk our Cybertrucks in the water

Welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This month we're talking about distortion. Not just a tool of the GOP to alter our perception, distortion is also a great sound… Read the rest of the article: How to Distort Your Voice with a Wall Wart

Hello all, welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. If you've listened to the show for the last few years, you've likely noticed two tracks at the end of each… Read the rest of the article: Spend Thanksgiving with "The Recovery of Charlie Pickle" (Radio Play/Audiodrama)

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week we discuss the Moon. The silent glow-in-the-dark ball in the sky! The Moon is cool. Contrary to the Sun,… Read the rest of the article: How to Make Sound Waves from Moonlight

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week we discuss technology that should be in every garage: a mobile phone! I don't mean a cell phone. Put… Read the rest of the article: How to connect a landline phone to a car

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week we discuss a 1970's-era utility module that replicates a core concept in computing since the 1940's: Shift Registers. "SWWE… Read the rest of the article: The Role of Analog Shift Registers in Electronic Music

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week, we discuss 'The Upside Down' theme from Stranger Things, and how it was created — including a possible patch… Read the rest of the article: The Music of Stranger Things and "Universal Event Generators"

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week week, we highlight the work of Karl Ekdahl, who runs the small company KNAS. KNAS is best known for… Read the rest of the article: The Knas Quad Massager mixes sound with a joystick

Hello everyone, welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week, after a short stay through customs, a wonderful box arrived from Italy: the GRP V22, an all-analog vocoder. GRP… Read the rest of the article: A Beautiful Italian Robot Voice

Howdy, welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. As with all episodes, we submit the following report on urban life: This week my wife showed up at home with a… Read the rest of the article: Making Music with an Anti-Theft Device and a Hammer

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises Welcome back to the show. This week, the discussion is… Read the rest of the article: Metasonix as a Higher Power in Sobriety

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises Welcome back to the show. This week, our room is… Read the rest of the article: My Room Is a Mess

We have a lot of hysterical news right now. It might help simmer the nerves to leap back to 1951. It might also simmer the nerves to take a little… Read the rest of the article: HEAR: "Headlines Like These" — 1950's Spoken Word on 'Hopeless Teenage Dope Addicts'

Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week was a wet and cold one in local Austin news. But we kept warm with Samsung's new burning hot release: Up… Read the rest of the article: Samsung's Big Leak: "Up to 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid" spilled into an Austin TX tributary

Hello welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week we discuss candy mints, or Bit-Mint. Sometimes the most ordinary things in the world are pulled off shelves for their… Read the rest of the article: Since 2018, Certs Mints have outperformed Bitcoin as an investment, nine to one.

The Drug Enforcement Administration announced this week that emojis, once thought to only entice sex through peaches and eggplant, can now also be used to buy drugs. In a chart… Read the rest of the article: DEA releases chart of 'Dangerous Emojis' used to buy drugs

Happy holidays to you from us at Spoken Word with Electronics. Primary music in track two is goth santas Alien Sex Fiend, whose Stuff the Turkey should be sung around… Read the rest of the article: Hear Mariah Carey and Alien Sex Fiend sing a Xmas Duet

Was amused to find a small saxophone hiding in my bottle of kombucha this week. The small pressure of a barely open lid released a torrent of improvisational jazz. If… Read the rest of the article: Hear a kombucha bottle play a tiny saxophone through its lid.