Random Tape

Stop Terrorists

This song showed up right after September 11th at the college radio station where my friend was a DJ.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Election night 2008 at Sydney's Saloon in New Orleans.

Thoughts And Word 12/74

Listening to tapes on the roof with Matthew.

100th Episode!

That's a century in human years!

I Don't Know if This Counts as a Homosexual Experience

A poem by Jim Tascio.

After Life

This is what the world may sound like after the Apocaplypse.

Portraiture

William Stout is best known for his dinosaur paintings. But he also worked in radio, did the storyboards for Thriller, and Raiders of the Lost Ark and deisgned the characters for Pan's Labrynth. But he got his start drawing portraits and Disneyland. This is a story of those humble beginnings.

Dream School

This may be an infinite fatal reset loop.

Timbuktu Muezzin

Thanks to Myke Dodge Weiskopf for this recording of a call to prayer in Timbuktu

Radio Avalon

Late one night I picked up a strange signal on my radio dial...

Who is Chick Boyd?

The man they myth, no really the myth who is this guy?

Aldini's Beloved

It's Alive!

Undiminished Light

Frank Lloyd Wright recorded hundreds of talks in the living room of his desert compound, Taliesin West. In this talk Wright expounds on anarchy.

Accidental Music

Architect, 1 percenter and desert hobo David Doge didn't intend to design a musical staricase in his magnificant home on the outskirts of Phoenix. The song in this episode is My Xylophones Love me by Melodium

Die

Late on night Matthew Kielty got a mysterious call from an unkown number...

Rodney And The Taggers

What keeps the taggers tickin?

Stingo Bingo

We talked about it.

Dennis's Flying Lesson

On a recent trip to central America, Dennis Conrow wrote and recorded a short story and enlisted the help of some locals in San Pedro, Guatemeala to be characters in the story. This is some raw tape and an excpert form the porject.

English as an Unknown Language

This is what english sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it?

The Ice Boat

When Dan Newman 's ice boat crashed through the surface of the frozen lake he had no idea he was about to do something that had never been done.

Veritas Caput

The sound of the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.

Time Machine?

An awkward moment with Jeffrey Lewis.

A Calling Card for Friendship

A collection of field recordings made around the State of Colorado between 1982 and 1987.

Re-Neavus

I lent my friend Moose a tape recorder and he returned it with with tape full of interviews he had done with his friends. One of those interviews was with Herbie, an artist who collaborated with a couple bearded friends to make a sculpture called Re-Neavus. I cut it up and added some music by Barin Darnew.

The Flaneur

Speed Levitch giving one of his signature wlaking tours of Columbia, Missouri.

Gainsborough Creek

Luke Cumberland is a second-year student in the MFA writing program at Washington University.  He is editor of the anthology "Faces of Virginia Poetry", available on LuLu.com. His most recent poetry has been published on StatusHat.org. He is from Virginia; he lives in St. Louis and he has never lost an arm wrestling match in his life.

Candy's Hair Affair

I found this recording in a box of old tapes. I think I picked it up at a thrift store in Louisiana. It appears to be role playing excercises at a beauty school.

Fifty Miles from Tonapah

Nason Smith's nonfiction has appeared on NPR: Hearing Voices and his fiction has been published in The Pinch. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Robot Compliments

Welcome to Florida. You look great!

Cold Cold Wine Coolers

One of the great things about New Orleans is that you can set up a card table and sell booze in the street. This is what it sounds like.

This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

My friend Keaton was having some trouble working on a tandem bicycle at the bike shop he works at when a customer recommended a solution he found on the internet.

Detained

Film maker Karim El Hakim told this story at a live storytelling event at the True/False Film Festival.

All the Pretty Horses

This cover was performed by Walt McClement on banjo and Mary Go Round (the one time holder of the world record for spinning the most hoola hoops at once: 76 if my memory serves me correctly) on accordion and vocals. The song All the Pretty Horses is about the and the Army Corps of Engineers decision to dynamite the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana to save New Orleans. The breach caused a flood that displaced thousands and was later deemed unnecessary. Check out the book   I recorded this late...

Larry's First Beer

I was walking my dog the other night when I came across Larry Boutan sitting on a concrete wall drinking a beer. I bought some beers and joined him. This is the story of Larry’s very first beer.

A Single Moment

is the band director at O Perry Walker High school in New Orleans. He runs one of the best marching bands in the state along with a concert band and a Jazz ensemble. Rawlins doesn’t just teach kids to play an instrument though, he provides discipline for a lot of kids who live in a chaotic environment. He teaches them about commitment and the benefits of hard work and education. He puts in a tremendous amount of work at O Perry Walker. When you ask him what the reward is for the countless hou...

Chewie's Apnea

The Sound of Suffocation.

At Klipsan Beach

James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Narrative. He has received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. Charms Against Lightning, his debut poetry collection, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. During 2012 he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, Massachusetts. Photo by: Sean Hill

Where We're Going

I came across this piece of found tape today. I know nothing about it.

Spotless

A deleted scene from a story I produced for Marketplace Morning Report.

Socks!

They get fucked up in strange ways in Sweden.

Seek Shelter

A recording of a tornado siren in a park in St. Louis, MO.

Invite to the Pestulent

Thaddeus Conti reading an excerpt from his poem Invite to the Pestilent with live musical accompaniment by Josh Wexler and Sunny Metha. You can purchase Thaddeus’ book http://www.amazon.com/%C3%A6poetics-Thaddeus-Conti/dp/1935084011. And you can hear the full version of this piece http://www.prx.org/pieces/47733-invite-to-the-pestilent Photo by:

Christmas Bike

I can only assume Garrett was moved by the Christmas spirit when he left me this message. Or perhaps he was wasted on egg nog.

The Threesome

Ever wondered how a couple of straights can satisfy a lesbian? Look no further. A friend of mine sent me a CD of old radio porn that included this track titled The Threesome.

Radio

This poem appears in the October, 2011 issue of      Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis where he teaches at St. Louis Community College and at the Center for Humanities at Washington University. His poems can be found in upcoming issues of Denver Quarterly, The Journal, The Burnside Review, Sycamore Review, Juked, and online at , , and . He is currently poetry editor for .

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The Red Line

Andy Mills had a habbit of eavesdropping on other people's conversation during his commute on Chicago's Red Line. Sometimes he would record these overheard conversations. On today's episode Andy plays one of his favorite surrpetitious recordings and tells the story of this particulalry juicy piece of Random Tape.

Train Station Thingy

I’m not exactly sure what the purpose of this device is but it makes cool sounds. It was attached to the outside of a train station in a small town in northern Italy.

One for the Commandant

Edgar spends most of his days sitting on a five gallon bucket in downtown Seattle. One night I hung out with Edgar and his friends and recorded their arguments songs and pushup competition. This piece was the first place winner of the Big Shed Verite+1 audio competition.

Mongolian Street Musicians

I recorded this a few years ago outside the Pompidou in Paris.