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Robin Hood - The Ordeal - with alternate soundtrack

http://youtu.be/1I_QKpaUFbM
Bought an old 16 mm print and created a soundtrack for it in 1977.

The Scruffy Video


http://youtu.be/b_gxOFLajeE
Brief video celebrating a wonderful canine buddy.

Grateful Dead - Nassau Coliseum - March 19, 1973 - silent home movie

http://youtu.be/4rm5tHIWi3Q
(Very amateurish) Silent Super-8 home movie of Grateful Dead performing at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island on March 19, 1973. Super-8 filmed on ASA 160 Ektachrome push-processed to ASA 400 so approach to Harbor Tunnel Baltimore and Maryland House on 95 are overexposed. During the first set the band wore sparkly sequined suits reportedly supplied by Bill Graham. Caught both times lights fade during Truckin' ('other times I can barely see'). Caught at least one of the warp-outs at the end of Eyes... Puffs of smoke on-stage as special effect during Casey Jones.

Grateful Dead - Williamsburg, VA -September 24, 1976 - silent home movie


http://youtu.be/w5SBLwflmaY
Silent Super-8 home movie of Grateful Dead performing at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on September 24, 1976.

Hike to Mt. Hitchcock - Silent Home Movie - May 1977

http://youtu.be/TL4HWBtumbY
Out for a jaunt with the Super-8 camera loaner from the library. Murky day for a trek to Mt. Hitchcock in the Holyoke Range, south of Amherst, MA.

Pushstarting Louis


http://youtu.be/X_ceG5tTmmY
Louis was a Renault R10. Typically it wouldn't start, so I would roll it downhill and put it in gear to start. This silent home movie of pushstarting Louis was filmed as we set out for a Grateful Dead concert in New Haven on May 5, 1977.

Commander Quackenbush

http://youtu.be/w0qZPM-krnI
WW2 'Buy War Bonds' ad from the end of a 16-mm wartime film "Photography Fights" produced by the Department of the Navy. Film respliced and audio track edited in parallel to humorous effect...

The Great Story of Corn


http://youtu.be/rhv0pjJxJpQ
Old documentary about our favorite grain - its evolution, role in history, and uses. Takes itself quite seriously... I could not find that this film had been posted on the web, so I'm posting it...

Photer

http://youtu.be/S0QSU7AxmWc
Visual Basic application to draw patterns of moving dots to the screen with user-controllable parameters. Not commercially available.


Audio Projects

Jen Joins the Green Musical Revolution - 2012
Jimmy Carter's Inauguration Speech - Respliced Audio - 1977
Audio Collages: Splicing and Recording Projects - 1974 - 1977
Rapkin and Zanger's Techie Time

Jen Joins the Green Musical Revolution - 2012

Audio piece intended for radio...
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Jimmy Carter's Inauguration Speech - Respliced Audio - 1977

"Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both nuclear weapons and the American family..."

This project was undertaken as an audio tape splicing exercise. The goal was to use Jimmy Carter's entire Inauguration Speech but to rearrange it in to a humorous, syntactically- and semantically-plausible collage. This is not intended to be insulting or disrespectful to our former President.

Transcription of Original Speech

Transcription of Respliced Speech

Listen to Jimmy Carter's Inauguration Speech Revisited:
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MP3ListenListen
Windows MediaListenListen
Real AudioListenListen

Audio Collages: Splicing and Recording Projects - 1974 - 1977


Various projects. Editing procedures generally involved cutting and splicing magnetic tape. Production of similar content would be faster and easier today using digital techniques.

Listen to Audio Projects:
FormatMP3 LinkWindows Media LinkReal Audio Link
Number 7 - Macchu PicchuListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Number 6Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Number 5Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Number 4Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Number 3Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Number 2Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Number 1Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
DreamygooListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Chester AceyListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Chester Acey (random)Listen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Willard Scott Weather ForecastListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
GD NY & TV CraziesListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Bubble ClimaxListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
The Oecumenical CouncilListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio
Work from GodListen using MP3Listen using Windows MediaListen using Real Audio

Rapkin and Zanger's Techie Time

In the early 1970s at an FM radio station in New York, WBAI, two audio engineers named David Rapkin and Peter Zanger created a radio program called "Techie Time". A friend of mine listened to the show and recorded a number of episodes at home as he listened. He later played them for me and we were inspired - by the masterfully crafted Techie Times - to create the various audio collage projects presented above.

My periodic Web searches have unearthed a few references to "Techie Time" and one (or two, see below) episode(s). I consider these to be clever, ingenious, and intricate creations devised in the pre-digital era of analog mixing and spliced magnetic tape. I believe these 40-year-old radio programs should be available, and have always hoped that someone would release a comprehensive set of high-quality audio versions of the program. Since this has not, to my knowledge, taken place, I am honored to offer my collection of Techie Time episodes by David Rapkin and Peter Zanger.

I have no information about the original broadcast dates or correct sequence of the various episodes.

Further investigation suggests that Episode 7 is the same episode as Episode 9, but a different recording of it; the audio character of one or the other may be preferable. Episode 5 seems to start the same way as Episode 14, but then the content of the episodes diverges. I don't know of any other duplications...

When I originally dubbed my cassette copies of Techie Time to digital, I am embarassed to report that a hardware(/operator) glitch rendered the audio files in mono rather than stereo. I did not notice when I prepped the files and posted them. The versions of these dubs originally presented here in Windows Media, Real Audio, and MP3 at the bottom of this page are, sadly, the mono versions.

Having recently (a/o February, 2019) realized that I have been offering MONO files instead of STEREO, I re-dubbed what I've got IN STEREO and present those below. (Again, the MONO versions in multiple formats are at the bottom of this web page.)

I was unable to locate 'Episode 6' when I re-dubbed and processed to MP3. Perhaps it was a segmentation error and 'Episode 6' is contained within one of the others; please feel free to let me know if you locate it. The link for Episode 6 points to the 'original' mono version.

Stereophonic Episodes: Rapkin and Zanger's Techie Time

MP3 Stereo
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14

Monophonic Versions of Rapkin and Zanger's Techie Time

Windows MediaReal Audio
Episode 1Episode 1 Episode 1
Episode 2Episode 2 Episode 2
Episode 3Episode 3 Episode 3
Episode 4Episode 4 Episode 4
Episode 5Episode 5 Episode 5
Episode 6Episode 6 Episode 6
Episode 7Episode 7 Episode 7
Episode 8Episode 8 Episode 8
Episode 9Episode 9 Episode 9
Episode 10Episode 10 Episode 10
Episode 11Episode 11 Episode 11
Episode 12Episode 12 Episode 12
Episode 13Episode 13 Episode 13
Episode 14Episode 14 Episode 14


My web searches over the years turned up this link, which presents an MP3 of an episode: http://www.thinhippo.com/techytime/index.html.
With my gratitude to thinhippo.com, the MP3 is re-presented here.

Another web search led to a streamable episode at http://wildfiles.tripod.com/TechieTime.html
The streaming link ("http://members.tripod.com/~wildfiles/TechieTime.rm") appears not to work any longer, but I had downloaded (or created?) a real media .rm years ago - perhaps that's it. It's the same episode as the Thin Hippo MP3. The Real Media file can be listened to here.

Pacifica Radio offers a CD entitled: Techie Time Retrospective / produced by David Rapkin and Peter Zanger. It is available here. For $17.95 (including shipping), I received a CD containing a clean recording of about 18 minutes of Techie Time, described as a "Review of the series for 1970" and originally broadcast on October 30, 1970. Very nice. I recommend it. It appears to be an episode consisting largely of content from episodes 5 and 14, which are similar to each other in most elements. There was no additional interview or other information on the CD.

I have never had communication with David Rapkin or Peter Zanger, but I am grateful to them for their inspired creativity. I hope the fruits of their ingenuity are fully preserved in some form that is made available. I would be interested in any relevant information. Please send an email.