STRANGE Cucumber show

Pity the poor plutocrat!

A playful mix of audio combining conspiracy theories and responses.

An audio Op-Ed collage that turns a critical ear to consumer culture and its impact.

A mix of spooky sounds. TRIGGER WARNING: play backwards at your own risk!

This is a review of a passage from George Orwell's novel 1984, part 2, chapter 3 where Julia recognizes the political uses of sexual puritanism.

A brief meditation from Macbeth act 5 scene 5 where Macbeth reflects on the futility and brevity of life in the aftermath of ambition.

A brief reading of Hamlet Act III, Scene 2 where Hamlet's "friends" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern try to get information from him but find that Hamlet is aware of their deception as he wards them off with a clever extended musical metaphor.

Part of the "About the Word" series, this is a brief passage and commentary from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 focused on the daily Two Minutes Hate ritual.

A brief programming audio featuring the command to OBEY with the edited sound of an electric power station for the backdrop. The command to "obey the mechanical voice" sounds absurd until you think about how robotic we are all becoming...not to mention Siri, Alexa and other mechanical voices that direct us today.

An editorial audio collage warning against the propaganda of Big Petro by reminding us of the propaganda of Big Tobacco in the 1950s.

This is a short audio collage made up of the ambient sounds of walking, canine investigation, the sound of trains, Katherine Hepburn, other voices and walking down echoing stairs all punctuated by sharp notes from heavy brass Tibetan cymbals. NOTE: Though I have no recording of anyone sobbing, at around 00:55-57 it sounds very much like someone sobbing. Maybe it's an auditory illusion caused by the mix, but I did not record it nor did I mix it into the collage.

This is a collage of sounds I collected in RVA and mixed together in a big bowl until all the lumps were gone. Peeper frogs, echoing stairwell steps, alien noises, Katherine Hepburn, doors opening, questions asked - seems like you'll never get off the stairs...

A reading from the early chapters of THE BOOMER BIBLE: A Testament For Our Times, a satirical look at human evolution and our relative progress. Background music to match the passages being read. You can find The Boomer Bible online at http://theboomerbible.com/

an audio collage that surveys the interesting and horrific history of Belle Isle in the middle of the James River, Richmond, VA Track includes rhythmic drum-sounding audio made by "playing" the vertical concrete dividers in the smaller hydroelectric building. Chief Powhatan's speech to John Smith, hints of the brothel and race track, Whitman's observations about the emaciated Union soldiers imprisoned there, and the sound of my own blacksmith work for the foundry whose remains are still visible.

A brief collage to applaud and inspire the youth of America who are awakening to their power to help transform our country into a more just and humane place. Clips of a youth rally chant and echoes of John Maynard Keynes.

A fitting memorial to the most hatefully homophobic voice of conservative religion, Rev. Fred Phelps of Westboro (Godhatesfags.com) Baptist "Church".

I found a 14 second track of "wonderful" and played around with it a bit. Best with headphones - NOT RECOMMENDED FOR OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY.

Mystery clip from an unknown movie. "sounds like" GERMAN Midgets LAUGHING

Intro track of unknown movie

a re-mix of my RVA Homeless interview with a focus on expressions of gustatory delight.

A poem about the photographic and televised coverage of the VietNam war and its impact on American viewers is juxtaposed with related audio from the time period.

A brief experiment of making sound with metal rods on vertical cement dividers inside a hydroelectric transformer building on Belle Isle, Richmond, VA (see small white building on right side of image)

This is the first audio collage I made for an academic digital training conference. It is composed of my own reflections on sonic composition and signification, interviews with other participants and clips from Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone and Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage along with recordings of TV and ambient sounds. The conference was Cindy Selfe's Computers In Writing Intensive Classrooms (CIWIC) held at Michigan Tech on the Keweenaw Peninsula.

2010 interview with Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the SubGenius, recorded at Starwood Festival XXX on Wisteria Campgrounds.

a creepy poem based on a true incident *(no humans were harmed in the original even or in the recording of this audio)

A collage of clips reflecting American economic conditioning to free market fundamentalism and its most recent failure in 2008.

Rev. Ivan Stang's "Hour of Slack" is a weekly radio ministry by the Church of the SubGenius broadcast. I post this episode for its reading excerpts of "Rhetorical Ripples: The Church of the SubGenius, Kenneth Burke & Comic Symbolic Tinkering" a dissertation written for the Media, Art and Text (MATX) program at Virginia Commonwealth University. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3667/