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Paisley Babylon Presents “TV Party, Radio Riot”

This MP3 collage is a combination of found sound, interviews, mash-ups, Paisley Babylon music, and other material. There’s a definite group of themes, messages and and artistic intent on this piece, titled “TV Party, Radio Riot“.

Mixed and produced by Joe Wallace (DJ Paisley Babylon) in 2001 & released in a limited fashion in 20o2, this longform audio experiment (over an hour) tells several true stories including the narrative of a tragic police standoff recorded live in a central Illinois housing project, and clips of an interview with a participant in a central Illinois pirate radio station who experienced an FCC bust.

Download TV Party, Radio Riot mixed and produced by DJ Paisley Babylon for a limited time. This file is hosted at Turntabling.net, which is a repository for all things vinyl-related.

(This link may be removed within 30 days of posting but feel free to try downloading it after that point–it may still be live, depending on workload and travel factors)

Contemplating Sound

I’ve been pondering the nature of sound and its artistic uses quite a bit lately. In today’s digital landscape, it never ceases to amaze (or please) me that audio-only projects are still of great interest in spite of YouTube, Netflix, cable television, etc. Like books, audio-only media isn’t going away, it’s just mutating, evolving, moving to more specialized audiences.

Print isn’t dead by a long shot, and neither is the audio-only format. Not all interesting media is visually oriented.

I started professionally in radio but transitioned into television and video. I spent a lot of time there but still love the audio-only format. I enjoy DJing, talk radio, podcasts, NPR, audio collages, mashups, musique concrete, found sound, audio surrealism, much more…but how to combine, collide, mash up, repurpose and reapproach audio in interesting ways using these formats not as the ends themselves, but as techniques? Sound is the canvas, but it’s also the paint.

I plan on exploring this problem with a series of productions in the near future. Something all at once old, timeworn and done before, but at the same time new and interesting. Collisions of the old and new. Part audio blog, part podcast, part mashup, part DJ, remix, etc.

The first steps will likely be a bit tentative–I’ve got some old material along these lines I only broadcast once or twice, but new material is being worked and coming soon. Over the weekend I plan on posting the first of a series of sonic experiments as a first step towards a regular series that will likely define itself and take on a life of its own as the concept develops.

This is all a bit murky–and not just to you, the poor reader stumbling upon this rambling for the first time. But as the journey unfolds, it will become clearer what the destination is to be. Here’s to the experiments!