A cautionary tale

Thanks to Scott Gurian for submitting this gem. You can find his work at farfromhomepodcast.org

Music by M.O.T.O.

#vanlife

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An exceprt from Katya Apekina's brilliant novel Mother Doll.

Get your copy of the book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mother-doll-katya-apekina/20351668

Music in this episode by Shida Sahabi, Russian brass Band and Vladimir Vyotsky

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A visit from James Braithwaite, the artist behind Random Tape's new logo.

You can find more of his amazing work at thebathwater.com

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Music in this apeisode by Preston Epps

"Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?"

-Fanny Crosby

We miss you 

Just some old tapes from the attic.

The life and music of a reclusive balladeer.

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Music in this episode by Charles Boyd

A trip to Pendulum Bob's in Columbia Missouri.

Read all about it here: https://www.voxmagazine.com/news/business/time-is-up-for-pendulum-bob-s-clock-shop/article_dcec7078-eb2e-11e6-acab-c34773031fce.html

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Thanks for listening

An obituary for the ages. 

Music by Professor Johnson & His Gospel Singers

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An experimental laundry project

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Music by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

Sweet calamity on the Father of Waters

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Nature takes its course.

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Music in this episode by Gia Margaret

A failed pilot for a weekly radio segment

Im performing live as a guest on Stagefright, hosted by Lolly Goodwoman at The Palms in Wonder Valley.

SatJune 20th   7-9pm followed by a 72-hour afterparty.

https://www.palmswondervalley.com/

Today we feature an episode of another podcast. 

anyone else missing the rain?

Happy 420 y'all

An old story that aired on WWOZ in 2011.

An iPOD voice memo recording of a tune I came up with at a piano in Newton, MA in 2012 at 11:11 AM.

A rough draft of a story about Roosevelt High School'd 2019 Prom.

This is raw tape of a phone call from somewhere in the depths of 2007

The begining of a great love story.

To hear the rest visit www.belowtheten.com

This tape came from a thirft store in the desert. Written with purple marker on the label was "To Ray from Mike 2/3/93"

Thanks to Steve Degroodt for sending me this recording he made of a bluegrass band playing during the 1978 earthquake in Santa Barbara.

Found Tape from the Cassette Library Album.

On December 22nd Hollywood Park closed after more than 75 years. This is the story of the rise and fall of one of America’s greatest horse racing tracks.

They rarely tlak to the media.

The Piano Van

Chris Stroffolino plays some tunes from inside the World Famous Piano Van.

This is a companion episode to a story I produced for Episode 7 of The Organist.

see the van in action at www.pianovan.com

Kenneth and Miriam ring in the New Year.

A found tape from the south by way of the desert.

Little Daddy sets the scene outside the King Eddy Saloon in Skid Row.

A voice mail and conversation with the one and onle--Lewis Greenberg.

A Story by Nason Smith.

Meet Steve Sharp. His mission: To spread love and celebrate peace every Friday from five to seven…

All the answers to last weeks cliffhanger are revealed...

This tape was made by Paul a man in New Jersey to let his family know that he didn't want them to interfere with his plans to go on a diet he hoped would cure him of AIDS. Logan Jaffe found this tape at a yard sale in Gainesville Florida.

My brother-in-law Matthew has perfect pitch. So we spent a day going around the house looking for objects that make sounds and determining their pitch.

Mastering the art of the followup quesiton.

A HUANTED Teddy Ruxpin Tape.

This man was killed by Drew Carey! (Sort of)

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

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

Listening to tapes on the roof with Matthew.

That's a century in human years!

A poem by Jim Tascio.

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

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.

This may be an infinite fatal reset loop.

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

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

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

It's Alive!

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

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

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

What keeps the taggers tickin?

We talked about it.

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.

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

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.

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

An awkward moment with Jeffrey Lewis.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to Florida. You look great!

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.

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.

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

This Mike West 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 Great Mississippi flood of 1927 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 Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America 

I recorded this late one evening in the upstairs of Mimi’s in the Marigny in New Orleans.

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.

Wilbert Rawlins Jr. 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 hours he puts into teaching he says it’s a single moment that lasts for one maybe two seconds.

This is an excerpt form a story I did a few years ago which you can listen to here. Wilburt Rawlins Jr. is also featured in the book Nine Lives by Dan Baum.

Photo by: Susan Poag / The Times-Picayune

The Sound of Suffocation.

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

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

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

They get fucked up in strange ways in Sweden.

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

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.

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.

This poem appears in the October, 2011 issue of SOFTBLOW    

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 Transom, Anti-, Sixth Finch and The Fiddlehead. He is currently poetry editor for The White Whale Review.

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.

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.

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

Philip Matthews is currently the Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared in Trapeze, Phati’tude, Poets for Living Waters, and Sonora Review. He is continually influenced by surreal visual and sound art, and works as a gallery assistant at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

I attended a fancy party where a beautiful woman modeled a dress that was hooked up to a garden hose. The dress sent streams of water into the sky and reminded my friend of this sad tale of enema addiction.

Today's episode of Random Tape features a song by artist Daryl Waits. You can find the track, Jennifer Love on the album Eastern Front & Digital Penetration at paradeco.com