Experiments
Here in the Experiments area you'll find all the brow-furrowing, chin-stroking activities that The ECC has been up to. Mischievous MP3s, vituperous videos, cued and ready for instant consumption and sardonic satisfaction.
Note the categories to the left. If you want only music, click MP3s. If you want only videos, there's that too. You can also peek into our Testing Area to hear beta tests and unfinished experiments that we're playing around with. And if you're wondering just what the hell we were thinking when we made those experiments, you might find the answers in our blog. Recent additions to all four categories are listed below.
ECC dance finale at Bootie SF
Saturday, 13 June 2009 18:24
We've got some video from The ECC's great show at the DNA Lounge for the Bootie San Francisco mashup club night, which is syncing very nicely with DNA Lounge's audio archive of the show. For our first video clip let's skip to the end -- a coordinated dance routine by The Mashettes (Fancypants and Frillypants) joined by TradeMark G.!
A quote way, way ahead of its time
Monday, 04 August 2008 10:09
We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp; we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances.
- from “The New Atlantis” by Sir Francis Bacon, in 1623 AD
This quote was posted in the BBC?Radiophonic Workshop and the studio of Daphne Oram, the founder of the Workshop, and of the quote. I discovered it at the beginning of a BBC Radio 3 documentary about her.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Listener Requests X
Monday, 09 June 2014 13:40
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2014.06.09: Listener Requests X
One of our fave show themes this time: Listener Requests! But The Sound Of Plaid only takes vague requests, and this time that included Bacon, Robohormones, Newspaper Dolly, and Moss... it's up to TradeMark and Frilly to pick something to match. Thanks to everyone who made requests and suggested matches!
Download the episode, or listen to it now:
| Request: | Request By: | Song: | Band: | Matcher: |
| Broccoli brain | Tadpole Pigeontoe | Broccoli | Stock, Hausen & Walkman | TM |
| Broccoli Wars | Noisy Stylus | TM | ||
| A Good Year | jt | It Was A Very Good Year | Flaming Lips | Kayla |
| Backyard BBQ accidents | Fred/Kumquat | BBQ | Paristetris | TM |
| Bacon | Kail | Ice Ice Bacon | Trotters | TM |
| Bacon Fat from 7" | Larry Bright | TM | ||
| Sounds of/for cooking | DJ Empirical | Vincent Price - Yacht Rock Sailing Intro | Yacht Rock | TM |
| Dinner | The Evolution Control Committee | TM | ||
| Vincent Price | Erik F | Vincent Price - Yacht Rock Sailing Intro | Yacht Rock | TM |
| Dinner | The Evolution Control Committee | TM | ||
| Ostrich | Casio | David Crowe Rides an Ostrich | The Bob and Tom Show | TM |
| Ostrich Hunt | Les Baxter | TM | ||
| Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum | Moondog | TM | ||
| Ostrich War | Lotte Anker; Sylvie Courvoisier; Ikue Mori | TM | ||
| Pregnancy complications | Dokto Zirroneous | mic in track 5 | Christopher Sommers | TM |
| Pregnant Cheerleader Song | Kid606 | TM | ||
| Nuns Are Pregnant (The Medium is Born) | Alien Vampires | TM | ||
| Fecal transplants (yes, that is a real medical thing) | Kail | Emma on Fecal Transplant.mp4 | TM | |
| Robohormones | Erazuu | Bill Nye the Hormone Guy | TM | |
| My Robotics Project x 2 | Wisbey | TM | ||
| I Love You (Miss Robot) | The Bungles | TM | ||
| Worship the Robots | DJ Swamp | TM | ||
| Robot fail | Duke Decibel | My Robotics Project x 2 - mixed | Wisbey | TM |
| Charcoal | math | Charcoal #1 | Strangers Die Every Day | TM |
| For two weeks they only ate what they found in their beards | David Epstein | Man says he was forced to eat his own beard | TM | |
| Music to test atomic weapons buy | Tom Mansell | Atomic Platters v. 1-5 | The Atom Smashers | TM |
| Drunken karaoke | Duke Decibel | Forced Songs from Default's Greatest Hits | TM | |
| Newspaper Dolly | Whoette | How to Make Doll Newspapers | TM | |
| Moss | Lauri Lynnxe Murphy | Red Moss | Boards of Canada | TM |
| Moss Dance | Robert Rich | TM | ||
| Record setting twine-ball | Fred/Kumquat | World's Largest Ball of Twine | America's Heartland Series | TM |
| Drunken gondola ride | Fred/Kumquat | Pizza Party Played Wrong | TM | |
| Inflatable dinosaurs | Fred/Kumquat | Dinosaur Flatulence | norelpref | TM |
| Death of the Dinosaurs | Human Skab | TM | ||
| Petroleum supply curves 2010-2100 | Bezoar | Peak Oil | Canon Law | TM |
| Out of Gas | Modest Mouse | TM | ||
| Bat guano | KeNTKB | Batshit Crazy | Noizee | Kayla |
| Revenge | Babsy | Theme from the TV show Revenge | Kayla |
Want more? Pop on over to The Sound Of Plaid archives where you can find over a hundred full episodes of our radio show, ready for you to download or listen to whenever you want. Free.
Foibles Mench videos
Thursday, 28 May 2009 09:53
Finally got some videos uploaded of Foibles Mench:
FOIBLES MENCH
A Robot Opera
By Gary Xaoui
Music directed and performed by TradeMark Gunderson (The Evolution Control Committee), with singer Kerry Walsh, das and ninah (Big City Orchestra), percussionists Paba Phree and DreamEleven
Robots: Justin Gray
Humans: April Taylor and Gary Xaoui
Performed May 16th, 2009 at NIMBY Space, Oakland California.
More info: http://gxaoui.us/foibles.html
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