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A weekly exploration of unusual stories, news, politics, consciousness, and the unknown, paired with vintage modular electronic sounds from some of the nicest synthesizers of the last 50 years.

Spoken Word with Electronics


    • Mar 28, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    # 91-A: "Typing on the Line"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 3:08


    View us now on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTliMQRxNxM

    # 91-B: "Yeah-Ay-Ah-Om" (Vocals by Phoneme Generator)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 8:53


    View us now on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTliMQRxNxM

    # 91-C: "Bees in the Wall"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 7:05


    View us now on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTliMQRxNxM

    # 91-D: "The All-Phoneme Band" (Music for Robots)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 8:53


    View us now on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTliMQRxNxM

    # 90-A: "Mickey Mouse Acid"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 7:38


    SWWE #90: Mickey Mouse Acid and ICE Prevention https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-90 Hello! — We are now on video! Check out the SWWE youtube channel for video synthesis and other elements added to this show. Help tell others about it, if inclined. The link for the video version: http://www.ep.tc/utub

    # 90-B: "My Most Recent Reddit Posts"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 5:57


    Hello! — We are now on video! Check out the SWWE youtube channel for video synthesis and other elements added to this show. Help tell others about it, if inclined. The link for the video version: http://www.ep.tc/utub

    # 90-C: "Cybertrucks In The Water"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 8:29


    Hello! — We are now on video! Check out the SWWE youtube channel for video synthesis and other elements added to this show. Help tell others about it, if inclined. The link for the video version: http://www.ep.tc/utub

    # 90-D: "Cherry Tree" (We are Chopping)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 9:52


    Hello! — We are now on video! Check out the SWWE youtube channel for video synthesis and other elements added to this show. Help tell others about it, if inclined. The link for the video version: http://www.ep.tc/utub

    # 90-E: "Push Back Against the ICE"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 2:53


    Hello! — We are now on video! Check out the SWWE youtube channel for video synthesis and other elements added to this show. Help tell others about it, if inclined. The link for the video version: http://www.ep.tc/utub

    # 89-A: "What Did I Get Away With" (Over the Holiday)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 9:59


    SWWE #89: "POWER SUPPLY AS Buzzing Ring Modulation!" What did we get away with over the holiday? Find out! With Fresh Water Missionaries and how to create a buzzing vocal effect with a surge protector and magnetic pick up. https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-89 Ring Modulating a voice with cycle hum from a 1900 mA Power Adapter (Wall Wart) — an incredible modulation source for sound design

    # 89-B: "The Best Chess Players"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 2:54


    From SWWE #89 — Play it and be it! https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-89

    # 89-C: "One Week Later"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 9:53


    From SWWE #89 https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-89

    # 89-D: "Fresh Water Missionaries" (Live in Studio C)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 9:59


    From SWWE #89 — Fresh Water!! https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-89

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 3:31


    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 and delight in the one hopeful piece of news: An impending and possible revolution against gross obscene wealth! Oh, Charles Dickens couldn't ask for it better. 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-B: "Free Holiday Music for Your Office Party" (New for 2024-2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 6:20


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 21:59


    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-D: "Let's Scare ALL The Billionaires!" (100% tax at $1B or leave the USA) — HNY from SWWE

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 9:47


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

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 9:32


    SWWE # 87: "Post-Election Special" https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-87 As always, if you enjoy our show, please tell one good friend about the show. You can support us by picking up a record at: https://eptc.bandcamp.com/ and by getting a book or two at: https://ep.tc/books Welcome back to shows, fellow survivors. Hope you're well. This episode we try and recalibrate to America's sad decision. Half of this month's show is a pre-election sound journal, which was obviously interrupted by a tough crisis with the vote. First up however is a wonderful night out for YOUNG GREG ABBOTT. Check out: https://www.tinpanpally.com/younggregabbott

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 6:46


    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. Thanks and hope you're well.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 9:59


    America chose a Mean Choice! Protect Women? ... We didn't.

    # 87-D: "America -- Closed for Ethnic Cleansing!" (Plz Mind Our Dust)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 27:29


    # 87-D: "America -- Closed for Ethnic Cleansing!" (Plz Mind Our Dust) by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 86-A: "Weird White Haired Woman"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 9:03


    SWWE # 86: "Chik-Fil-A Delivery Robot / White Haired Weird Return to Work" https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-86 Austin TX is being forced to return to the office for work. A special mobile episode of Spoken Word with Electronics. Check out that Chik Fil A delivery robot. (Picture included) - Let's smoke up the road! #Exhaust #Songs #Jokes!

    # 86-B: "Turning Off of N. Mopac Onto Enfield at 9AM"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 2:20


    Visiting Austin? Be sure to take Mopac North to Enfield! Follow the speed limit.

    # 86-C: "Just Saw a Chick-fil-A Delivery Robot" (Are We Living In Infinite Jest?)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 9:58


    Was That a Chick-fil-A Delivery Robot?

    # 86-D: "Slow Driver" / "A Microwave For Walking"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 11:02


    # 86-D: "Slow Driver" / "A Microwave For Walking" by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 86-E: "The Rush-Hour Traffic That Morning"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 23:49


    # 86-E: "The Rush-Hour Traffic That Morning" by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 85-A: "Kombucha and Klonopin"

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 5:59


    SWWE #85: "Kombucha and Klonopin, Gieskes and Guitars" https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-85 Kombucha and Klonopin. It's how I got sober. Kombucha and Klonopin. You're bringing me down. From episode 85 of Spoken Word with Electronics. See all episodes at: https://soundcloud.com/you/albums Support the show with a book purchase at: https://www.ep.tc/books

    # 85-B: "What is Happening?"

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 6:20


    Hear all SWWE episodes at: soundcloud.com/eptc/albums What is Happening.

    # 85-C: "Guitar Pedals" (Light Sensor of the KOMA FT-201)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 8:51


    # 85-C: "Guitar Pedals" (Light Sensor of the KOMA FT-201) by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 85-D: "I Don't Know How to Pronounce Gieskes"

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 33:55


    # 85-D: "How To Pronounce Gieskes" (hopefully) # 85-D: "How To Pronounce Gieskes" (maybe!) (How do YOU pronounce Gieskes?) (Demo: Gieske's 100 mH Inductor vs The Soma Ether) Technical note: 100mH Inductor with 90dB of gain from tube amp, Soma Ether unamplified. But with preamp the 100mH is very capable of unique tones.

    # 84-A: "The Night Reddit Went Down"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 17:02


    SWWE # 84: "Is Reddit Down?" (Check Now) https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-84 Featuring DJ Sawdust spliffin' Ziplock Freezer Beats! Reddit Down Detector, Check here for Reddit Status! Sawdust Sawdust. All good jokes - Hope your August has been great - Cheers, EP

    # 84-B: "Don't Call Andy a Baby Anymore"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 11:32


    Is Andy a Baby Anymore? Check with this simple online test!

    # 82-C: "Synthesized Jaw Bones and Horns" (Instrumental)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 9:59


    (the authorities are being called!) bone and body making with elastic synth sounds and percussion.

    # 84-D: "Something Joyous with a Touch of Worry"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 2:34


    # 84-D: "Something Joyous with a Touch of Worry" by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 83-A: "Recordings Are Fascinating" (Side 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 23:30


    Hello. If you like the show, please tell one good friend about it. Hear all SWWE episodes at: soundcloud.com/eptc/albums Subscribe to this podcast at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spoken-word-with-electronics/id1511829184

    # 83-B: "We're Running Out of Time" (Side 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 17:22


    Listen to all episodes: https://soundcloud.com/eptc/albums Subscribe at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spoken-word-with-electronics/id1511829184

    # 82-A: "Milk Math" (introduction)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 9:18


    SWWE #82: "Milk Math and the Tornadoes" https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-82 You've heard Milk Math discussed in professional lectures all around the world. In this introductory free sample lesson, the math of milk is discussed and a new higher quality of milk is revealed. Earn a certificate in Milk Math today. This is a full certification audio course in Milk Math. By listening to this track you are fully permitted to list this as certified Milk Mathematician a resume or CV. Make a career change at any point in your life into the math of milk!

    # 82-B: "Ringer Session" (Nanoloop FM)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 6:26


    How to make a passive audio coupler into a distortion pedal. I mention this is an eight dollar part but it can easily be an eight cent one! Find a badly made coupler that doesn't fit well over a jack or insert it in partly exposed. Your hands are the contacts for adding static and pops. Audio used in this demo is Nanoloop FM with 3.5mm audio coupler between two 3.5mm TS cables.

    ringer ts nanoloop
    # 82-C: "Calling 911 on Modern Reality" (July 2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 14:38


    Optional titles: "Grieving America" . . . "Calling 911 on SCOTUS" . . . "Happy Fourth? RIP America" . . . "July 4th 2024" . . . "Calling 911 on America" (RIP July 4 2024) . . . "Someone Call 911, Bring a Straight Jacket, We're Losing Her!" (RIP America, July 2024) . . . "Someone Call 911, Sound an Alarm!" America is Getting Beaten Senseless!" (July 2024) . . . "Someone Call 911! America is Overdosing" (RIP, July 2024) . . . "Calling 911 as America is Rushed to the E.R." (July 2024) . . . "RIP America!" . . . "What America Do You Want?" (Our Moment in Time, July 2024)" . . . PLEASE, it's easy to prevent future doom scroll of this nation falling to greed and evil: Don't Forget to Vote.

    # 82-D: "Sorry About All These Tornadoes"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 10:02


    CV panning demonstration using a house and a large body of weather. Tornado is voltage controlled, due to DC plug attached to cloud and CV to DC voltage conversion. Optional use of Wilhelm Reich Cloudbuster to dissolve clouds and then Artificial Tornado Forming Technology by TORNEX to reinvigorate weatherfront. "Sorry About All These Tornadoes" by Ethan Persoff.

    # 81-A: "Saturday Afternoon" (Weekend, 05/25/24)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 5:42


    SWWE # 81: "Saturday Afternoon" (May 25 2024) — RIP Gert Jalass / Moon Modular https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-81 Thanks always for listening Pick up a good book: http://www.ep.tc/books Pick up a good album: https://eptc.bandcamp.com/

    # 81-B: "Noisy Refrigerator" (RIP Gert Jalass, Moon Modular)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 25:22


    Everyone has or is a Noisy Refrigerator. (In Your Head)

    # 81-C: "Drilling Underneath the Convenience Store at Night"

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 10:00


    # 81-C: "Drilling Underneath the Convenience Store at Night" by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 81-D: "Yes. I've Always Been So Blue" (The Outdoors in Studio 8)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 7:46


    # 81-D: "Yes. I've Always Been So Blue" (The Outdoors in Studio 8) by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 80-A: "The Problem with Music" by Steve Albini (Tribute)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 2:15


    SWWE #80: Tribute to Steve Albini https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-80 RIP Steve "The Professor" Albini — Alive Forever in Memory and Sound! Read the entire Problem with Music piece here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

    # 80-B: "It Was Not Hearing My Voice" (Opening Monologue)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 9:07


    # 80-B: "It Was Not Hearing My Voice" (Opening Monologue) by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 80-C: "The Bad Cables" (Live in SWWE Studio C)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 9:13


    # 80-C: "The Bad Cables" (Live in SWWE Studio C) by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 80-D: "And Now, a Lyra 8 Run Through a Korg MicroSampler"

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 9:51


    # 80-D: "And Now, a Lyra 8 Run Through a Korg MicroSampler" by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 79-A: "Hail Stone Rock" (Opening Monologue)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 5:10


    SWWE #79: "Year of the Year Round Tan" https://soundcloud.com/eptc/sets/spoken-word-with-electronics-episode-79 Thanks for listening. #T-A-N-M-I-S-T Merch table: albums: http://eptc.bandcamp.com | books: www.ep.tc/books | shirts: working on some. Episode # 79-A: "Hail Stone Rock" (Introduction) Optional titles: # 78-A: "Recording Hail the Night After the Total Eclipse" # 78-A: "Watching the Eclipse while the News Loops" # 78-A: "Watching the Eclipse while the World Burns" etc!

    # 79-B: "Section 2" (How's Your T-A-N?)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 19:22


    # 79-B: "Section 2" (How's Your T-A-N?) by Spoken Word with Electronics

    # 78-C: "To Have Tan Mist Feelings"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 6:58


    # 78-C: "To Have Tan Mist Feelings" by Spoken Word with Electronics

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