“Biloxi Retrograde Phantasm” by @jasper-k-lee

There’s a lightness to the margin where light pools in your velveteen hairs. And how the felted feathers spill from the wounded wood in autumn! Oh, and what is a wound but a chance to heal? In her you can see a slow, enveloping primacy that rings like cut crystal across a pond. Sometimes I even see myself reflected in her. Satin shelves and soft fractals. So teach me to answer questions with questions. Let me find strength in softness. Let me be porous like wood.

Etymology: Trametes versicolor, roughly meaning the thin, multi-colored one.

Properties: T. versicolor is a cosmopolitan, saprobic to weakly parasitic, white-rot fungus found in forests all over the globe. It’s cap colors are variable, ranging from blue to brown to green to gray, but it often has a color and shape reminiscent of a turkey’s tail. These distinctive colors are determined in part by the mineral content of the wood they are decaying, and they can be used to create natural dyes with blueish-green hues. The texture of turkey tail is similar to suede, and its flesh is tough and fibrous. The surface of the mushroom is covered in a fine, velvet-like texture and the bottom has minute pores. It has a long history of use in traditional medicine and is known affectionately as yun zhi in China and karawatake in Japan. Their polysaccharides, polyphenols and flavonoids are purported to be immunomodulatory, antitumor and antiviral. A comforting, brothy tea reminiscent of aged puerh can be made from the boiled flesh. 

Companions: Turkey Tails are partial to hardwood hosts throughout their range, but can be found associated with conifers from time to time. As early colonizers, they pave the way for a wider variety of wood-rotting fungi to take hold in novel environments. They are powerful decomposers of lignin, so they help to create the nutrients and space needed for new growth in a forest. Through decomposition, T. versicolor helps create habitat for cavity nesting birds and bugs. While they are considered inedible for humans, turkey tails are an important food source for fungus moths, gnats and maggots. 

Recipe: https://perpetuallydevastated.com/blog/turkeytailtea

Jasper Lee ~ December (Turkey Tail)

A Sound Awareness is delighted to present a wonderfully diverse and inventively oddball audio collage by those stellar folks at RADIOOLIO.

A Sound Awareness Presents Radioolio

Radioolio is one of many musical aliases of Graeme Ross, a visual artist, DJ and musician based in London. A one-time regular at Cafe OTO and on Hoxton.fm, his latest project, SOUNDTRAITS, combines visual and sonic media, using the sounds made during the production of a pen and ink portrait to trigger responsive radio signals. 

We knew that asking Graeme for a guest mix would deliver a good result. Enjoy!

https://soundtraits.co.uk/

https://www.mixcloud.com/radioolio/

http://www.grohs.co.uk/

Guest Mix - Radioolio

Extra Noir Podcast - Episode 34 (Guest Mix: Radioolio)

Debut Album by central Alabama's Lil White Bitch. Released Oct 31 2018 via Earth Libraries

Body Hoppin

Water In A Box

Percussion Suite [3rd Movement]

The Haunted Radio

Art War Light And Dark Show

Archibald & Tim, Dal Film Omonimo Priviledge

Big Elettronic Sound

A sound map of people and places in central Alabama recorded over the course of 10+ years including jazz legends Doc Adams and Arthur Doyle, New Year's Eve celebrations, Civil War reenactments, creek baptisms, AM radio broadcasts, oral histories, field recordings of trains, rivers, towns, theaters and more.  These people, places and moments in time are woven into a conversation with one another through audio collage. This ongoing composition conjures a meeting in sonic space of diverse voices and draws a cultural map of Alabama in the early 21st century.  The mixed media book that houses the work is similarly collaged from many everyday sources such as grocery store coupons, books on embroidery, newspapers, children's drawings and found photographs.

Ancestor Decoy : Sound Map of the Middle Counties of the Land Currently Known as Alabama

Jasper Lee

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