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.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Special Guest AUTHOR & PUNISHER (Tristan Shone)
Tuesday, 05 February 2013 12:38
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2013.02.04: Special Guest AUTHOR & PUNISHER (Tristan Shone)
Our guest Tristan Shone, better known as AUTHOR & PUNISHER, is a purveyer of a peculiar brand of industrial doom 'n' gloom metal through power electronics. It's his machines that caught our attention: first his line of drone machines followed by the more recent dub machines, all shiny machined metal that hides controllerist guts used to trigger years of distorted square waves. They've got a visceral beauty that's more at home on the assembly line than the stage.
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| Band: | Song: |
| Slim Goodbody | Protein Power |
| Tom Glazer | Nice |
| The Bran Flakes | Singing Dogs |
| The Bran Flakes | Do You Want Salad With Your Taco? |
| The Bran Flakes | What It's All About |
| Author & Punisher | Terrorbird |
| Author & Punisher | Fierce |
| Author & Punisher | Below and Above You |
| Author & Punisher | Magnetik |
| Author & Punisher | Flesh Ants |
| MSB (Esplendor Geometrico) | Very Gentle Strobo |
| Chessie | The Last Lie I Ever Told |
| Einstürzende Neubauten | Ein seltener Vogel |
| Otomo Yoshihide | Fuji Film |
| Doc Wör Mirran | Laughing At Nudity |
| DJ Scud / Nomex | Total Destruction |
| Give Up (Shizuo) | Fuck Step '98 |
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.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Listener Requests VI
Monday, 21 January 2013 17:22
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2013.01.21: Listener Requests VI
Our first listener request episode of the year! As usual, vague requests only -- no specific songs. So by request, we play songs about fuzzy math, papercuts, stewing moccasins, ironic haircuts, 70's cereal commercials, salami lotion, girls who like lunch and so much more!
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| Request: | Request By: | Song: | Band: |
| Yo-yo Tricks | Fred Church aka Kumquat | Yo-yo Champ | Frankie Smith |
| Jimmy Carter | Fred Church aka Kumquat | Jimmy Carter Says Yes | Jimmy Marshall |
| Ironic Haircuts | David Ettenger | A People's History of the Ironic Haircut | The Brokedowns |
| Hot Midget Tranny Clowns | DJ Manos | Clown Midget | Dumpster Juice |
| Bicycle | Dok Zirroneous | Bicycle Built for Two - Music From Mathematics | IBM 7090 Computer |
| Fuzzy Math | dAS | (same as above - one song satisfying two requests) | |
| Foods That One Must Light on Fire | Fred Church aka Kumquat | Twix Flambe | Hornheads |
| Outty Bellybutton | Kent Barnes | Bionic Bellybutton and Bellybutton (mixed together) | FantomenK and Sufjan Stevens |
| 70's Cereal Commercials | Fred Church aka Kumquat | Monster Adventures in Outer Space | Count Chocula, Frankenberry and Booberry |
| Food. Or Outer Space. | Steven Olaf | Food Rap | Buck 65 (from listener Kent Barnes) |
| Scotch and Asparagas | Aric Vance | Asparagas Next Left | Half-man Half-bisquit |
| Salami Lotion! | Reynard D. Fox | Wet Salami | Salami Brothers |
| Papercuts and hot sauce | Scotty BigStyle Lees | Papercutz | K-OS |
| Hot Sauce | Scotty BigStyle Lees | Hot Sauce Susie | Gene Sedric |
| Rainbows | Ezra Ismont | If You Want the Rainbow | Annette Henshaw |
| Knife Spy | Little Fyodor | Spy is Spy | Knife in the Leg |
| Mercy and The Government | justjohn | The Americans | Godon Sinclair |
| Sequelae | Ken Chasa aka Mathboy | Mishra-Sequela | Laszlo Hortobagyi |
| Science fiction, serious, no filk | Rock Roswell | Ten ET Tiwa | La Planete Sauvage |
| Deep Voices | dAS | Dyin' For a Dry Martini | Rick Maver and The Posse |
| Palilalia | Topher Brown | You're Nobody til Somebody Loves You | Shooby Taylor |
| Girls Who Like Lunch | Ezra Ismont | Lunchtime | Budget Girls |
| The Dark Side of the Toast | David Ettenger | Black Burned Toast | Ben Wild and The Wild Band |
| Vaugue Recollections of Days Gone By | Ezra Ismont | She's Gone | Superelvis |
| Sumo Wresling and Damaged Kittens | Lauri Lynnxe Murphy | Sumo Wrestling Tuxedo Cats | YouTube video |
| Toaster Oven | Kayla Pollnow | Rappin' With Gas | National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (thanks Steven Olaf) |
| Toe Jam | Ken Rinaldo | Toe Jam | Suger Blues / Alex Chilton |
| Jam | Ezra Ismont | (same as above - one song satisfying two requests) | |
| The Deindustrialization of Human Society, Now That We Have Passed Peak Oil | Mark Welch | Chapter 27 - From Deindustrialization to Globalization | Spoken by Frilly |
| Commet Music | Nilla Beer | Symphonies of the Planets | NASA |
| Blind Mirror Cleaners | Billy Lowe | Blind Mirror Surf | Can |
| Beryllium | Doug Wolk | Beryllium Clock - Bragg's Key and Was Ist Die Beryllium Barriere (mixed together) | John Debney / Dr. Who and Harold Lesch |
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.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Art's Birthday 2013
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 08:43
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2013.01.14: Art's Birthday 2013
Happy birthday, Art! It's the 1,000,050th birthday of art on Jan 17 so today's radio show is all ART! Audio collage, radio art from Deep Wireless, Harry Bertoia, Harry Partch, artists making music -- it's a big art world out there!
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| Band: | Song: |
| Simon Bookish | Portrait of the Artist as a Fountain |
| Mr. F. Le Mur | I Wanted to be an Artist |
| Joel-Aimb Beauchamp | Transtyle |
| Edit with vocals by The Grouch | Artsy |
| Local Color | Art 101 |
| The Meters | Art |
| Whale | The Artistic Integrity |
| Mortiz Eggert | The One Minute Piece That Took Me Ages To Do and Is Really Impressive |
| Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks | Orange Crate Art |
| Sifl and Olly | Performance Art |
| Impossible Theater | Parable (of the people who walked off the cliff) |
| Paul Burnell | Orange Juice |
| Leodie Lauten | Music for the Trine Part 4 |
| Sandeep Bagwati | All Over Again |
| Television Personalities | Little Works of Art |
| Solange Kershaw | Dididahdit |
| Willem De Ridder and Halfler Trio | Report |
| Mrs. Grossman and Marty | Industrial Arts |
| Eight Miles High | Art Gallery |
| Robert Filliou, mixed with "Glasscutter" Christian Banasik | Whispered History of Art |
| Harry Bertoia | Softly Played |
| Harry Partch | Daphne of the Dunes |
| Art Farmer | Soulsides |
| Art Linkletter | Civil Defense Spot |
| Co Real Artists | What About You (In the World Today) |
| The Art of Noise | Close Up |
| The Rip-off Artist | Broca's Area |
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.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Runaway Train
Monday, 07 January 2013 13:05
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2013.01.07: Runaway Train
Coming at you like a RUNAWAY TRAIN! The climax of this week's Sound Of Plaid episode gives you just that: the actual recording of a runaway train and the radio dialogue between the frantic engineer aboard and his line controller. There's also a great variety of other music, from electronic library music to sales records to Poe For Moderns, with our liberal live glitchy remixing style throughout.
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| Band: | Song: | Album: | ||
| We | Track 1 | As-Is | ||
| Drum Drops | Intro | Volume 2 | ||
| Genda | Pitch Dark | |||
| Negativland | Clowns and Ballerinas | A Big 10-8 Place | ||
| Jacknife | A Dog Named Snuggles | Jacknife Proudly Announce The Return Of The Golden Age Of The Showband | ||
| Ken Nordine | A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird | A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute | ||
| Patrick Moraz | Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos, Dance 1 | A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute | ||
| John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Georgia Stone | Ballet | A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute | ||
| Bootsy's Rubber Band | Stretchin' Out (In A Rubber Band) | Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band | ||
| Super Lovers | Let The Drummer Get Ill | Hurby's Machine | ||
| Supersoul | So Real, So True | Sound Clash (Champions) | ||
| The Commodores | Machine Gun | Motown Legends | ||
| Jo Basile and His Orchestra | Luna Rossa (glitched live) | Rome With Love | ||
| Dr. Kenneth McFarland | Side 1 excerpt | Leadership That Leads | ||
| DJ Design | B Boy Neck Check | Hookie & Baba's Flakes Breaks | ||
| Fabio Fabor | Parallelotropic 1 | Aleatoric Piano Collages | ||
| The Christian Science Publishing Society | The Truth About Adversity excerpt | Talking Book No. 2 | ||
| Electronic Music Research, Inc. | Tioli | Atlantis Revisited | ||
| James F. Lanahan | Exponents Or Powers | The New Math, Album No. 6 | ||
| Gaga | Track 4 | Gaga Redux 7-26-02 | ||
| Morrow, Buddy, and his Orchestra, vocal by The Skip-Jacks | The Bells | Poe For Moderns | ||
| Ted Heath and his music | I Got Rhythm | Gershwin For Moderns | ||
| Morrow, Buddy, and his Orchestra, vocal by The Skip-Jacks | The Raven | Poe For Moderns | ||
| Ferrante & Teicher | El Cumbanchero | Soundproof | ||
| Alfie and Wesley | Runaway Train | Runaway Train | ||
| Alan Lamb & David Burraston | 8:05pm Pt. 2 | Wired Open Day 2009 | ||
| Henning Christiansen | Symphony Natura OP.170 (1985) | Fluxus Anthology 30th Anniversary 1962-1992 | ||
| Fabio Fabor | Asteroidal | Aleatoric Piano Collages | ||
| Tipsy | Nude On The Moon | Trip Tease | ||
| Sukia | Play Colt | Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo |
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.
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