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Audio Adventures: L’historie du Schaeffer

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:42:48 +0000

The bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer as presented in musique conrete form by Tim Pickup. This show is not worth missing, despite it being in a language i hardly understand. I wrote a quick introduction and translated it into French, then back into English to help maintain confusion:

the audio bibliography of the collection of tim of the stone schaeffer. presents at a music the concrete excursion on the father of the conrete of musiqe itself, schaeffer. wonderfuly hones it made and presented.

Well, either way, Pierre Schaeffer is a very important composer for the 20th century. He is one of the first composers to study recorded sounds as instruments themselves. His works were an inspiration to a generation of composers that were getting a little tired of do re mi.

Audio Adventures: Barney’s Guitar Effects Pedals

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:46:46 +0000

Tim Pickup takes the week off and hands the show over to his friend Barney who takes us on a grand tour of his homemade guitar effects pedals. If you enjoyed Tim’s previous show on the 555 Timer, then you’ll love this show which takes DIY audio electronics to the next level. With a little insight, and some schematics, you’ll never pay a hefty price for an effect pedal again!

Audio Adventures: Voyager Interstellar Outreach Recordings

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:44:11 +0000

As you go about your alien day on your far off alien world doing your strange extra-terrestrial things you look up to the many suns in the sky and wonder; is there life out there somewhere? In this installment of the ever-popular and interesting edition of Audio Adventures Tim Pickup puts us in that position, taking us through highlights of the Voyager Interstellar Outreach Program. Launched in 1977 the two Voyager spacecrafts held a golden record – an audio greeting from the planet Earth including cryptic instructions for alien lifeforms to play the record. Sit back, listen and imagine that you are the alien tasked with sorting out these strange new sounds from a little blue planet across the universe.

Audio Adventures: Ice Cream Van Music

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:57:30 +0000

Tim Pickup explores the low-fi world of Ice-Cream van chimes; the crudely synthesized ditties that herald the arival of the van full of frozen treats. Today’s show features a wide variety of anoying tunes, plus the perplexing legalities of the use of ice-cream chimes in public.

You might also be interested in this history of ice-cream van melodies courtesy of The Music Thing.

Audio Adventures: Fruit Machine Music

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:45:22 +0000

This week Tim Pickup explores the variety of noises, bleeps and melodies produced by the fruit machine.

Audio Adventures: Um

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:52:16 +0000

Speech disfluencies are parts of speech which are not generally recognized as purposeful or containing formal meaning, usually expressed as pauses such as uh or er, but also extending to repairs (“He was wearing blaâ€”uh, blue pants”), and articulation problems such as stuttering. Use is normally looked down upon in mass media such as news reports or films, but they occur regularly in everyday conversation – Wikipedia
This episode is a celebration of umming and ahhing, the bits between the words in our everyday language.

Audio Adventures: SID Music

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:27:15 +0000

An investigation into the sonic possiblities of the SID chip; that famous synthesizer used in the Commodore 64 and other 80’s 8-bit micro-computers.

Audio Adventures: The Golden Age of Video-Arcade death

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:33:52 +0000

Death through inaction: Tim pickup emulates a number of 80’s arcade games and records the noise of doing absolutely nothing other than inserting an emulated 10p. Frenzied beeping.

Promo: The Exciting Hellebore Shew

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:17:27 +0000

A Promo for Dan Wilson’s first series for Resonance FM: The Exciting Hellebore Shew. To subscribe to this series, visit the Hellebore Archive or pick up the highlights from the Resonance FM podcast collection.

Promo: Epistaxis Time

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:14:11 +0000

A promo for Epistaxis Time. If you would like to subscribe to Epistaxis Time, head over to http://epistaxis.aa.stodge.org (for the complete archive and RSS feed), or the Resonance web-site for highlights.

Audio Adventures: 555 Timer

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:01:29 +0000

Once again, Tim explores the sonic possiblities of everyday electronics:

“The 555 is an integrated circuit (chip) implementing a variety of timer and multivibrator applications. The IC was designed and invented by Hans R. Camenzind. It was designed in 1970 and introduced in 1971 by Signetics (later acquired by Philips). The original name was the SE555/NE555 and was called “The IC Time Machine”. It is still in wide use, thanks to its ease of use, low price and good stability. Still today, Samsung in Korea manufactures over 1 billion units per year (2003).

The 555 timer is one of the most popular and versatile integrated circuits ever produced. It includes 23 transistors, 2 diodes and 16 resistors on a silicon chip installed in an 8-pin mini dual-in-line package (DIP). The 556 is a 14-pin DIP that combines two 555s on a single chip. The 558 is a 16-pin DIP that combines four, slightly modified, 555s on a single chip (DIS & THR are connected internally, TR is falling edge sensitive instead of level sensitive). Also available are ultra-low power versions of the 555 such as the 7555. The 7555 has a slightly different wiring using less external components and less power.” – (Source: Wikipedia)

Audio Adventures: VLF

darren@resonancefm.com (Tim Pickup) — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:46:18 +0000

Very low frequency or VLF refers to radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 3 to 30 kHz. Many natural electrical phenomena such as storms and lightning produce VLF emissions, and these can be recorded and enhanced using simple radio receiving equipmment.