'KURT' SPEAKS!

NCN - 'DAY OF NIRVANA' Spot (Kurt Cobain AI Voice)

A spot read by a Kurt Cobain AI voice-simulator, telling people about the upcoming 'day album' called 'Day of Nirvana' a 24 hour album that The National Cynical Network is going to release on its Bandcamp on the date of April 5th, 2024, which will be the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. The audio project will be in 'MetaMix' (literally, our term for 'mix of mixes') form, utilizing literally hundreds of different audio sources, including remixes and mashups of Nirvana songs, obscure bits and rarities, DIY 
collages culled from around the web, documentary and news clips, genre-bending covers, version medleys, stories about the making of their classic albums, expert song deconstructions and analysis and Kurt Cobain's own personal teenage sound collage experiments created WAAAY before he ever started a band. It's all going to be about Kurt Cobain, his band Nirvana, Cobain's personal history, the story of his suicide, his relationship with Courtney Love, and the cultural and personal aftermath and fallout of his death which took place on April 5th, 1994.

BTW: You can listen to and download for FREE (in lossless format) RIGHT NOW a WORKING COPY nearly FIVE HOUR EXCERPT from this project, having to do with one of the KEY SECTIONS of Nirvana's popularity blowing up with their album NEVERMIND and part of the extensive treatment given to their classic song 'SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT' at our SoundCloud by going here:

https://soundcloud.com/nationalcynical/ncn-day-of-nirvana-sneak-preview-excerpt

Please follow NCN at our Bandcamp at https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/ or at our Patreon at https://patreon.com/nationalcynical to keep up with everything we are doing and to stay notified of when the 'DAY OF NIRVANA' project is released.

This spot is freely downloadable as a lossless .flac audio file at our SoundCloud. Use the BUY link button there to go to our Patreon. 

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DAY OF NIRVANA

'DAY OF NIRVANA' Spot (Kurt Cobain AI Voice)

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NCN - 'DAY OF NIRVANA' Spot (Kurt Cobain AI Voice)

The first part of this is 'Kurt' talking about the new NCN project about Nirvana coming out on April 5th, 2024 on our Bandcamp and then, the latter part of it (which begins at around timestamp 4:20) is kind of a produced comedy bit using Kurt Cobain's voice. Fans of Nirvana and those who are very familiar with Nirvana song titles and specific lyrics will 'get' the jokes in section of the audio and will probably get a kick out of it, it is called 'The Kurt Cobain Diet'. 

In loving memory of the great talent, spirit, genius and HUMOR of Kurt Cobain who had MORE MUSIC within him when he died which unfortunately and tragically will never be heard. 

Gone too soon.

This is a promo which is promo # 2 utilizing the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Kurt Cobain voice replication technology for the new/upcoming (at the time of this promo spot's posting) 'Day of Nirvana' which will be posted on April 5th, 2024 (the 30th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death). 'Day of Nirvana' will be the world's first 'Day Album' i.e. an album that is exactly 24 hours in length. THIS PROJECT IS NON-COMMERCIAL. You will not need to pay anything in order to stream or download this project, in any audio format of your choosing including lossless. Please use the BUY button for this page to go to the Bandcamp page where this project will be (there are preview tracks from the project there now including promo spot with AI Kurt Cobain #1). Or you can go to that page directly by using this link:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/day-of-nirvana-preview

Note: the official url for that page/project will change on April 5th but the one above should still work at that time.

AI Kurt Cobain SPEAKS! About NCN's 'Day Of Nirvana' 4.5.2024 Release and The Kurt Cobain Diet

NCN - AI Kurt Cobain SPEAKS! About NCN's 'Day Of Nirvana' 4.5.2024 Release and The Kurt Cobain Diet

A humorous spot for NCN on Slack Radio that I made using Alex Jones AI voice. Free lossless (.flac audio file format) download.

Alex Jones AI NCN Slack Radio Station ID

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NCN - Alex Jones AI NCN Slack Radio Station ID

A spot made for NCN on Slack Radio (originally) using Jordan B. Peterson AI but modified for the THC (post-Summer-of-2024 era) of my creative project. For the LULz. 

This is a sonice spoof of 'The Buffalo Bill Dance' from 'Silence of the Lambs'. 

If you need to be reminded:
https://youtu.be/K_V60Lyww90?t=37

The song is 'Goodbye Horses' by Q Lazzarus.

Free lossless audio file format dowload. 

I hope JBP will hear this somehow. I'm sure that he will LOL and champion it. I know how much he is for 'free speech' and everything. LOL

Jordan B. Peterson Loses His Shit

AI Jordan Peterson NCN Slack Radio Spot #3A (Short version)

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This broadcast first aired on Thursday the 9th of May, 2024.  At a special outside broadcast at Careers Day Out 2024 at DECA, Shepparton.

One FM Presenter Plemo talks to physiotherapist Thomas Lewis from NCN Health about the services they offer and how people can pursue a career with them.

For more information head to - https://ncnhealth.org.au/

Contact the station on admin@fm985.com.au or (+613) 58313131

The ONE FM 98.5 Community Radio podcast page operates under the license of Goulburn Valley Community Radio Inc. (ONE FM) Number 1385226/1.

PRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association Limited  and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) that covers Simulcasting and Online content including podcasts with musical content, that we pay every year. This licence number is 1385226/1.

Thomas Lewis from NCN Health at Careers Day Out 2024

'The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 1): Big Time'
 
I did this because I wanted to communicate and express my experience of, and appreciation for, the veteran musician and artist Peter Gabriel. And also to showcase lesser-known musical works of his and the work of other artists that is based on Peter Gabriel's work.

Part 2 of this 3-Part series is called 'Digging in the Dark' and is available on SoundCloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-ii-digging-in-the-dark

The third and final (upcoming!) Part of this series will be titled 'Songs of Love and Conscience'.

It was all supposed to be done by FEB. 13 which was Peter's 75th Birthday (Happy Belated Birthday, Peter!) but, like Peter I work slowly and methodically and so I am a little behind schedule.

This Part of the Threesome explores some of Peter Gabriel's 'darker' works, and many variations and versions thereof. But don't worry: on this audio journey you will be led forth slowly but surely into the light.

This is Part 2 of a trilogy of mixes which comprise a very much expanded version of the 3-hour mix called 'The Peter Gabriel Remix Project' released in 2014 under my 'NCN' (National Cynical Network) moniker, which acts as a 'demo' for this overall much more expanded and comprehensive project.

The original 3-hour 'Peter Gabriel Remix Project' may be found on Mixcloud here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-the-peter-gabriel-remix-project/

This NEW EXPANDED THREE-PART VERSION builds on the original and also focuses on musician Peter Gabriel's lesser-known works: his off-album stuff, his B-Sides, his live performances, his early and experimental work, his collaborations and works that are fantastic but just never really saw much or any 'heavy-rotation' airplay. 

We think they deserve more attention.

Part 1 of this expanded 3-Part project is here at Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-1-big-time

The greatest care to use the best possible audio quality source files has been taken in the composition of this MetaMix (a term meaning 'a mix of mixes'). Lossless audio sound files and the most current remasters have been used whenever possible and the audio file that the project has been rendered to is a .flac lossless file which is 48,000hz and 24bit depth.

This expanded version also includes more interview clips, anecdotal and biographical material than the original 3hr. version and has more coverage and representation of remixes, covers, mashups and various 'DIY' and special versions versions and variations of Gabriel's original work as well.

My project's Patreon is at: https://patreon.com/nationalcynical  << FOLLOW FOR FREE! (Or else contribute to help support my work if  you want!) to keep up with my ongoing creative projects.

Thank you for your support!

Stay tuned...

The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix

The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 1): Big Time

New album:

'The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 2): Digging in the Dark' 

I did this because I wanted to communicate and express my experience of, and appreciation for, the veteran musician and artist Peter Gabriel. And also to showcase lesser-known musical works of his and the work of other artists that is based on Peter Gabriel's work.

The third and final (upcoming!) Part of this series will be titled 'Songs of Love and Conscience'.

It was all supposed to be done by FEB. 13 which was Peter's 75th Birthday (Happy Belated Birthday, Peter!) but, like Peter I work slowly and methodically and so I am a little behind schedule.

This Part of the Threesome explores some of Peter Gabriel's 'darker' works, and many variations and versions thereof. But don't worry: on this audio journey you will be led forth slowly but surely into the light.

This is Part 2 of a trilogy of mixes which comprise a very much expanded version of the 3-hour mix called 'The Peter Gabriel Remix Project' released in 2014 under my 'NCN' (National Cynical Network) moniker, which acts as a 'demo' for this overall much more expanded and comprehensive project.

The original 3-hour 'Peter Gabriel Remix Project' may be found on Mixcloud here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pnarco/ncn-the-peter-gabriel-remix-project/

This NEW EXPANDED THREE-PART VERSION builds on the original and also focuses on musician Peter Gabriel's lesser-known works: his off-album stuff, his B-Sides, his live performances, his early and experimental work, his collaborations and works that are fantastic but just never really saw much or any 'heavy-rotation' airplay. 

We think they deserve more attention.

Part 1 of this expanded 3-Part project is here at Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-1-big-time

Part 1 is also here at SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-i-big-time

Part 2 is here on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/pnarco/the-peter-gabriel-tribute-mix-part-ii-digging-in-the-dark

The greatest care to use the best possible audio quality source files has been taken in the composition of this MetaMix (a term meaning 'a mix of mixes'). Lossless audio sound files and the most current remasters have been used whenever possible and the audio file that the project has been rendered to is a .flac lossless file which is 48,000hz and 24bit depth.

This expanded version also includes more interview clips, anecdotal and biographical material than the original 3hr. version and has more coverage and representation of remixes, covers, mashups and various 'DIY' and special versions versions and variations of Gabriel's original work as well.

My project's Patreon is at: https://patreon.com/nationalcynical  << FOLLOW FOR FREE! (Or else contribute to help support my work if  you want!) to keep up with my ongoing creative projects.

Thank you for your support!

Stay tuned...

The Peter Gabriel Tribute Mix (Part 2): Digging in the Dark

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Tonic Magnum (feat. Nick Silver & Comish) prod. Vice?!

TONIC MAGNUM (FEAT. NICKSILVER & COMISH) PROD. VICE?!

Fatality (feat. Freddy Forbidden, Nick Silver & Rex Ardeo)

FATALITY (FEAT. FREDDY FORBIDDEN, NICKSILVER & REX ARDEO)

Phineas is the curator and primary creative force behind a multipronged 'Latent-Einstein Outreach Ministry' comprised mostly of 'mutated MetaMedia audio mixes' meant largely to be a therapeutic and sonic REPLACEMENT FOR DRUGS for the Masses and the 'Not-That-Reality-Oriented'. He is a self-styled 'MetaMediagician' in this respect, as well as a formerly official canonized (and carmelized) 'Church of the SubGenius' (lapsed) 'SAINT'.

The neologism (meaning literally a 'new word') 'MetaMediagician' is a 'Pre-Zuckian' use of the prefix 'Meta' (which may be confirmed through 'The Internet Wayback Machine's cached copies of Narco social media accounts so... 'nyyyah') and denotes an artist who utilizes content from the media at large like a 'painter's pallette' in order to make further developed or synthesized 'macro' media work out of that media content in a more or less 'collage'-type format. 

Phineas' efforts in this regard have evolved from the personally expressive to the social therapeutic and have been structured around more and more relatable 'universal themes' with the general goal of attaining a more enlightened understanding of the matter or matters at hand.

Phineas is a very late Baby Boomer (a 'Barely Boomer' as he terms it) and is a 'PROUD MENTAL PATIENT' (since 1984) who has never married and has no kids and who lives alone in Silicon Valley since age 9 after his family moved out to San Jose from the Midwest. He has been creating and distributing Experimental audio artwork of one sort or another SINCE THE 1970s. NOTE that the featured profiled pic is from 1983: the year right before he 'GOT SICK' and became disabled lifelong.

Phineas' birth name is James Scianna (surname is typically pronounced 'SEE-ah-na' although the proper Italian pronunciation is actually: 'SHIAHn-nah').

The alias 'Phineas Narco' was created by Phineas around the time of the onset of his overarching, disabling mental health condition at age 19 (guardedly referred to typically as 'the exact same diagnosis as had by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys') and is serious.

Phineas' condition exists independent of and unrelated to his creative skills, artistic life and efforts although it often inspires the subject matter of those efforts that are about mental illness and its aspects.

The alias name 'Phineas Narco' was created around the time of the onset of Phineas' illness as a 'church name' for his inclusion in 'The Church of The SubGenius' an actual mind control cult that Phineas was involved with for many decades but resigned from in 2024.

The two names refer to figures in Greek mythology. 'Narco' is meant as a contraction of the name 'Narcissus' (in the non-pathological sense) and is not meant as a reference to drugs. The name 'Phineas' refers to an ancillary character in the story of 'Jason and the Argonauts'. In addition to this, there is some identification with the character Phineas from the John Knowles novel 'A Separate Peace' although the significance of this 'referential idea' would not fully blossom until life events from 2021 to 2024 had occured in Phineas' life.

In addition to his involvement in the SubGenius mind control cult, Phineas also had a months-long dalliance with The Church of Scientology in 1991 in San Jose, CA in order to see, from the inside, what it was all about, working for the organization for many months but cleverly 'escaping their clutches' by pre-programming into his brain, in the pre-indoctrination period, a predetermined 'escape response', in other words *Phinny's cue to 'exit stage left* when a Church representative uttered a certain inevitable phrase to him, which of course they DID.

Bye, bye Scientology.
They were NOT PLEASED.

Phineas's current religious identification is Christian. He considers himself to be a Man of God but does not ascribe to any particular 'church' organization, being perfectly comfortable with his own, personal sense, useful understanding and concept of God.

Phineas has had a robust, lifelong interest in Psychology and has earned a trained certificate in Peer Counseling which he has utilized in volunteer efforts in his local community. So he is 'certified and certifiable' simultaneously holding both 'consumer' and 'practitioner' status in the mental health community.

Phineas also has since childhood had a driven natural affinity for, and very keen interest in language and its usages, even studying vocabulary and etymology on his own as a child, long term as an interest. 

 When Phineas was given a standardized IQ test as a child, he was found to have a verbal comprehension score of 139 which is very, very high.

Phineas was also tested positively as being on the 'autism spectrum' in an official capacity much later in life although the severity of this was not deemed to be problematic enough to require treatment.

Phineas' post-Highschool educational efforts can be classified as 'some college' but also as 'MUCH some college' taking many, many courses of interest in a number of local community colleges all with no intention or desire of ever earning any sort of degree during his 20's and 30's. These self-interested,  self-motivated educational efforts typically resulted in high grades and included a number of efforts in artistic, drama, media production, Psychology and English courses and curricula. Otherwise, Phineas has  mostly acted as an 'autodidact' (a term meaning essentially someone who is 'self taught') in his extracurricular learning efforts.

Phineas has worked intensively and creatively with the likes of such groups and artists such as Negativland, Bran Flakes, TradeMark Gunderson of (The Evolution Control Committee), Doktors 4 "Bob" and Big City Orchestra with whom he has collaboratively help create online virtual theatrical video events for his 'musical mashup movies' for the 3-D immersive VR community environment 'Second Life'.

His work has been lauded by the likes of the late comedian George Carlin and mainstream media critics such as Brad Kava (The San Jose Mercury News) and Richard Von Busack (The San Jose Metro).

https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.05.02/midnightvoice-0236.html

Phineas has also worked extensively and creatively, for decades collaboratively, at the Pacifica Radio flagship radio station KPFA in Berkeley, CA as well as the prestigious, exclusive and critically-acclaimed college radio station KFJC located at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA. These former creative efforts were reviewed favorably by the aforementioned mainstream media critics at the time.

Despite all this 'impressive display' of extraordinarily unique talent and brainpower, Phineas frequently has difficulty putting on his own pants.

Phineas notoriously once mailed a package containing one of his radio shows to Ted Kaczynski ('The Unabomber') in the mid-nineties to where the notorious insane criminal resided at the time at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado after having secured the notorious serial bomber's exact mailing address through the help of a local (and quite amused) reference librarian.

The program in question was called 'Bombscare', the result of a year-long creative effort by Phineas and was broadcast mixed live around that time by Phineas and Negativland band member, the late Don Joyce on KPFA. The show was, in part, about Mr. Kaczynski, his schizophrenic illness, and the years-long federal investigation into his serial mailbombing crimes.

The program represented a 'high-watermark' in Phineas' creative efforts and the IRONY of Phineas' sincere (yet arguably more than a little irrational and probably uhm... misguided) motivation in going about MAILING A PACKAGE TO THE *FUCKING UNABOMBER* containing his SHOW which was *ABOUT THE FUCKING GODDAMN UNABOMBER* was eclipsed in Phineas's semi-deranged mind by a literally a genuine and curious desire to 'find out what Ted thought about it'. 

Uhhhh... YEAH.
We *wish* we were kidding about that, but we're actually uhhm... NOT.

The package in question was summarily and promptly returned to Phineas, by Supermax prison authorities via US Mail, unopened and without comment.   Which MAKE SENSE. After all, ANY PRISON which houses the *GODDAMN FUCKING UNABOMBER* that gets... *a package* for... UH...  *HIM*... 

...is CERTAINLY... 
** NOT GONNA FUCKING OPEN IT!!! ***

And so, that... as they say... was THAT.

Around this time as well, Phineas mailed an identical tape copy of the 'Bombscare' show highlights to a very different person: the late iconic and legendary comedian George Carlin under the somewhat disingenuous guise of procuring 'permission' for using a Carlin audio sample in the show. 

However there was, like with Kaczinsky, the somewhat diffuse motivation of 'wanting to know what he thought about it'. 

The somewhat 'ruse' of offering the tape up to Carlin 'for review' to 'get permission' arose when Phineas self-consciously realized Carlin was 'in the show' he wanted to send and was offset by the perceptive comedian 'understanding' most likely that Phineas really just wanted feedback. Also, Phineas too was in fact sincere in that he would have snipped out the Carlin sample if permission was not forthcoming from George. 

With that, Phineas procured permission to send the tape to Carlin through the comedian's publicist and a voicemail message from George. The sequence in the 'Bombscare' program that includes the Carlin sample may be heard here in a track from the album/show's full listing on Bandcamp:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/track/more-fun-for-me

Some weeks after sending that tape of the show to George, Phineas discovered a message response from George in his voice mailbox.

In the voicemail message, Carlin was almost 'beyond enthusiastic' about the tape Phineas had sent to him. His praise of the work was almost uncontainable and Carlin articulately and happily lauded and sang its praises sincerely for over a minute, with all the salty facility of language and attitude he was so well known for in is in his lifetime, waxing eloquent about how great and fabulous he found it, and specifically praising the 'middle ear' range of artistic efficacy in which the sonic power of the program had 'hit'.

The uncut recording of Carlin's enthusiastic voicemail message to Phineas about the show can be heard here:

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/track/carlin-voicemail-to-phineas-narco-about-bombscare-c-1997-8

Phineas' immediate reaction to hearing this message of personal endorsement from this hyper-known source there in his own personal voicemail at the time was one not so much of elation, pride and happiness but rather an almost *stunned awe* as if he had thought of one day to get an interesting looking penny assessed by a pawnbroker only to suddenly learn that the coin was in fact worth TEN MILLION DOLLARS.

It is interesting to note in regard this phone call message that George started out his performative career as a radio DJ working at WINO in New York and that his brother the late Patrick Carlin (who George tells Phineas in the message his wants to send the show tape to) also worked in radio and ran a podcast. So, both men would have had a firsthand appreciation of the program as a live-mixed radio effort.

Also, and I have been unable to definitively confirm this, although I seem to recall hearing this from somewhere at one point: Carlin's brother Patrick also kind of lived 'out in the woods' Walden Pond style far away from the mainstream infrastructure of the more developed sections of society. So, if this were in fact true, his 'lifestyle' could be said to be not all that different than that of 'The Unabomber' himself.

Minus the 'exploding' part. *Ahem* 

WELL, A MAN NEEDS A HOBBY!! When he LIVES ALONE so what are you gonna do? Sometimes it's RUNNING A PODCAST and sometimes it's BLOWING PEOPLE UP!!

Further to this: in researching Carlin's life, it became known to Phineas that prior to him becoming the legendary, well-known mainstream comedic show business talent that he turned out to be (which he was rather forced to do in order to raise a family which was expensive to do and also ultimately to pay off his massive tax bills) Carlin originally only had the ambition or 'dream' or intention of being just an obscure artist doing abstract, weird art like in an apartment somewhere on his own merely for his own enjoyment and just living his life like that.

Sort of like... how... Phineas Narco... does.
Go figure.

The phone call from Carlin ultimately motivated and accelerated Phineas' artistic career at a crucial time of growth. It gave Phineas the confidence of knowing that his work had worth and was on the right track with an appeal to an audience, who was like George in terms of sensibility and values, and he was able to rest assured that this endorsement was one HUNDRED PERCENT genuine, no bullshit and SECURE because Phineas knew that Carlin was NOT the kind of guy for Hollywood bullshit. 

So, this ringing endorsement was like a shiny gold coin of the purest stock gifted to him right into his pocket. IT WAS HIS. And he was able to use that currency for capital in the artistic journey to come.

Thanks, George.

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To view, stream or download (at NO required cost) Phineas Narco's mediage artwork which is freely available to everyone online, go to any of the following sites:

YouTube
Mixcloud
SoundCloud
Bandcamp
or
archive.org

...and search for "Phineas Narco" [using quotemarks] and also 'NCN' and/or "National Cynical Network" [with quotes around as well] in combination if need be:

Recent interviews with Phineas on Youtube for 'Innerviews' with former Carlin and Zappa employee Gerry Fialka:     

Part 1: https://youtu.be/AsaZK74Qqu8
Part 2: https://youtu.be/0t9Suf8490o

Phineas Narco's ENTIRE DIGITIZED BODY OF BODY OF WORK (Including much special, rare and heretofore otherwise unreleased, unfinished. upcoming and never-heard before material) termed 'THE VAULT' is now available via DROPBOX in a 1.5TB-sized comprehensive online archive and can be now accessed using THE FOLLOWING LINK:

http://bit.ly/4dllBLQ

Enjoy!g

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