Ethan Persoff
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Austin, TX, United States
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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 episode, entitled … → Read More
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, you can stare at the Moon … → Read More
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 sheet &am… → Read More
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 a spring reverb called the Ekda… → Read More
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 on alcohol… → Read More
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 that is printable for your wall, they have posted an "emoji drug code guide." This informs parents that their child's use of emoji is very… → Read More
"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 countercultu… → Read More
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 discuss Wife Swapping. It's a book reviewed by John Wilcock in OTHER SCENES #2, 1967. You'll find a full PDF of the review, along with… → Read More
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 newspapers! Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. While this show is a podcast about electronics, it is also a sort of Audio Magazine where… → Read More
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 subject is dentistry. I've always been good about going to the dentist. Give me the chair, man! It's like getting a tattoo every six months… → Read More
Would you send $1000 to this 1990s Televangelist?
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This last year (or two) has been a fun dip into Hell, and it's rekindled my interest in Televangelism. I used to record a… → Read More
Have you heard Abbott & Costello's 'Ten Year Old Child Bride' joke from 1941?
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we meander back to the more innocent times of 1941. Universal Pictures released a war film titled "Buck Privates" starring Abbott and… → Read More
Re-entering society after 15 months in isolation
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. A few… → Read More
Listen to this 1946 informational on the wonders of post office work.
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, the focus is on warm weather! Few things say spring or summmer to me more than the sound of lawn mowers. Lawn… → Read More
How to turn a broken dishwasher into a synthesizer
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we remember Bob Fass, who passed away on April 24th (the first night we recorded this current episode, on a three week… → Read More
"Puff It, Swines!" A memory of smoking Hunter S. Thompson's favorite weed.
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, we give tribute to John Wilcock, who was the subject of the properly titled John Wilcock comic here on Boing Boing for… → Read More
Would Alan Turing even WANT to be on a £50 Bank Note?
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week, we explore the wonderful world of Alan Turing, whose work in cryptography (i.e. code breaking) helped save the world in WW2. He… → Read More
A 1970s tutorial on repairing vinyl wood decals for your car
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week we look back at the finest era in car design: The WOOD AND FAKE WOOD PERIOD. This is when most family cars… → Read More
MOUSE EARS! Does Mickey Mouse regularly use a Ring Modulator to sneak onto Air Force One?
The proof they don't want you to see: A completely undoctored photo of Air Force One from last month shows clear signs of Mouse Ears infiltration. Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to… → Read More
The SSL "FX Capacitor" is one of the oddest hardware reverb processors on the planet.
Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This … → Read More