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# 87-C: "Mean Choice" (Gallow Humor Drums)

# 87-D: "Final Thought"

SWWE # 87: "Post-Election Special!"
https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-87

Welcome back, fellow survivors. Hope you're well. This episode we recalibrate to America's sad decision. First up is a review of wonderful night. YOUNG GREG ABBOTT. Check out: https://www.tinpanpally.com/younggregabbott

As always, if you enjoy our show, please tell one good friend about it. You can pick up a record at: https://eptc.bandcamp.com/ and by get a book at: https://ep.tc/books

# 87-A: "FUGA one month before Election" (October 2024)

Nothing like a good coup to break up your sound journal mood! We're trying to recalibrate the same as everyone. A post-election sound journal, November 15 2024.

# 87-B: "Post-Election" (November 2024)

A small percussion opera in tribute to a very compelling act of public protest.

By Spoken Word with Electronics. Hear all our albums at: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/albums

# 88-C: "The Month of The Assassin!" (Dec 2024)

SWWE #88: "Let's Scare ALL the Billionaires!" (Holiday Episode, Dec 2024)
https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-88

Hi Ho Ho! Welcome to the end of year on these good end times! This month we revel in holiday parties. I hope this is a good December and a very happy new year from your's to our's at SWWE. As always, if you enjoy the show, please tell one good friend about us.

You can get music from SWWE at https://eptc.bandcamp.com/ and printed items at https://ep.tc/books

By Spoken Word with Electronics. Hear all our albums at: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/albums

# 88-A: "Rocky Road" (Feat: Rocky Rhoads)

Have an office party needing some music? Enjoy the SWWE Holiday Music Pack for 2024-2025!

By Spoken Word with Electronics. Hear all our albums at: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/albums

# 88-B: "Holiday Music"

HNY from Spoken Word with Electronics. 
Hear all our albums at: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/albums

# 88-D: "Let's Scare All The Billionaires!" (100% tax at $1B or leave the USA)

SPOKEN WORD WITH ELECTRONICS #34: Making Music with 2600 Hz Tones and Firmware Audio Update Files

Number-based trivia: 2600, the hacker quarterly, is named after this 2600 hertz tone, which is a single tone that can override a payphone's pricing controls with one single command.

Hi everyone, welcome back to the show. This week is about loud noises made by computers. Awful sounds like modems, faxes, and my favorite unbearable noise: The firmware update file. Firmware can be updated via an audio file and to demonstrate this, we discuss audio files from Korg's Monotribe, the W-slash sampler from Whimsical Raps, and Nanoloop.

I thought it would be fun to make comforting music from these noises, and you can jump to "The Roomba is Dreaming" to hear the end result. The discussion for this week is a demonstration of using envelope generators to smooth out the harsh tones of a firmware file. In particular, a trapezoid generator based on an EMS Synthi is used to pull out tonal rhythms.

Last week's Boing Boing post on "Booting DOS from vinyl" reminded me of cassette drive loading. We had an Atari 400 and an 800, and both of those used cassettes to load many of their games. I used to love that noise, and I expect Atari filtered the sound of the cassettes themselves, otherwise risk injuring the ears of kids who put the cassettes (intended for a computer) into their walkman (it would still play, after all). So you'll learn about Zaxxon, Frogger, and my favorite Atari cassette-based game: Salmon Run.

All of these sound files work to load data because a lot can be communicated in a tone. If you think about a phone dialer, it is twelve separate pitched notes (0-9, pound and asterix) – These tones are used for any number of aggravating automated systems when you call customer service lines, and they also connect your call. There are a few tones never intended for you to hear, however, including the 2600 hertz tone, which was a tone generated by a payphone when a call was concluded.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak unofficially began Apple Computers with a phone phreaking device called the Blue Box. It was a device that sent out a 2600 hertz tone to fake (or phake) the sound of a phone getting disconnected. The two callers would remain on the phone, however, allowing a free call without billing. So in our introduction this week I demonstrate the 2600 hertz tone using a wonderful iphone app called Phonal Tonal, which replicates a Blue Box, Green Box, and a Red Box.

Episode 34, Introduction: "Making Music from Modem Noises, Fax Machines, and Firmware Bootloaders"

Spoken Word with Electronics
Link to all episodes: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/albums

Stories and Sound Pieces by Ethan Persoff 

"Ridiculous Electronic Noise" - WFMU
"A Champion for our Collective Sanity" - AV CLUB
"A Kind of Word Jazz" - SYNTHTOPIA
"Uses Time Productively" - DAZED

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http://www.ep.tc/books

Thank you for listening.

"Are you a Listener. Find the Other Listeners." 

(AY!ALF!TOL!)

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Episode 34, Introduction: "Making Music from Modem Noises, Fax Machines, and Firmware Bootloaders"

Spoken Word with Electronics

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