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  • Ethan Persoff
    2:04 pm Tue, Nov 22, 2022
    Spend Thanksgiving with "The Recovery of Charlie Pickle" (Radio Play/Audiodrama)

    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)

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  • Ethan Persoff
    3:51 pm Thu, Oct 27, 2022
    How to Make Sound Waves from Moonlight

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    4:32 pm Thu, Sep 29, 2022
    How to connect a landline phone to a car

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    3:05 pm Thu, Aug 25, 2022
    The Role of Analog Shift Registers in Electronic Music

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    2:04 pm Thu, Aug 4, 2022
    The Music of Stranger Things and "Universal Event Generators"

    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"

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  • Ethan Persoff
    4:09 pm Wed, Jul 13, 2022
    The Knas Quad Massager mixes sound with a joystick

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    1:17 pm Wed, Jun 15, 2022
    A Beautiful Italian Robot Voice

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    1:52 pm Wed, May 25, 2022
    Making Music with an Anti-Theft Device and a Hammer

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    5:16 pm Wed, Apr 20, 2022
    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, the discussion is… Read the rest of the article: Metasonix as a Higher Power in Sobriety

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  • Ethan Persoff
    5:13 pm Fri, Mar 25, 2022
    My Room Is a Mess

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    9:41 am Tue, Mar 1, 2022
    HEAR: "Headlines Like These" — 1950's Spoken Word on 'Hopeless Teenage Dope Addicts'

    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'

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  • Ethan Persoff
    3:28 pm Wed, Feb 9, 2022
    Samsung's Big Leak: "Up to 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid" spilled into an Austin TX tributary

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    9:00 am Wed, Jan 26, 2022
    Since 2018, Certs Mints have outperformed Bitcoin as an investment, nine to one.

    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.

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  • Ethan Persoff
    10:24 am Fri, Jan 7, 2022
    DEA releases chart of 'Dangerous Emojis' used to buy drugs

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    4:04 pm Wed, Dec 15, 2021
    Hear Mariah Carey and Alien Sex Fiend sing a Xmas Duet

    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

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  • Ethan Persoff
    4:24 pm Wed, Nov 24, 2021
    Hear a kombucha bottle play a tiny saxophone through its lid.

    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.

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  • Ethan Persoff
    11:40 am Tue, Nov 2, 2021
    "I'm Terrified & Lonely" – Read this newly unearthed 1955 interview with Marilyn Monroe

    Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises — and, in this episode, rare archives of underground counterculture… Read the rest of the article: "I'm Terrified & Lonely" – Read this newly unearthed 1955 interview with Marilyn Monroe

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  • Ethan Persoff
    3:28 pm Thu, Oct 7, 2021
    Remembering the Wife Swapping Crisis of the 1960s

    Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we… Read the rest of the article: Remembering the Wife Swapping Crisis of the 1960s

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  • Ethan Persoff
    10:26 am Wed, Sep 15, 2021
    The Realist Archive Project launches a sequel: "The Other Scenes Inventory Report"

    Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises — and, in this episode, rare archives of underground counterculture… Read the rest of the article: The Realist Archive Project launches a sequel: "The Other Scenes Inventory Report"

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  • Ethan Persoff
    12:49 pm Wed, Aug 25, 2021
    ELECTRIC TOOTH! Hear a Synthesizer recreate getting a Dental Crown

    Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises. Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week the… Read the rest of the article: ELECTRIC TOOTH! Hear a Synthesizer recreate getting a Dental Crown

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