Rock Lottery 2012!
What if everything you did, you put yourself on a 24-hour deadline? This was the idea at our first ever Rock Lottery held at the Waldorf hotel on Jan 29th, 2012. We took 25 of our favourite Vancouver musicians, gave them some breakfast and coffee, randomly pulled names from a hat to assemble five totally new bands, and gave them a day and a half to write a 15-minute set. The tracks below were recorded from the floor at the final performance, and showcase an incredibly diverse range of musical genres and abilities.
The Rock Lottery was also a triple-whammy effort from The Association of Very Good Ideas, Instruments of Change, and Girls Rock Camp Vancouver. How can you not create something awesome with all three of these organizations involved? All funds raised went to the creation of a new Ladies Rock Camp to be held in a women’s prison. For more information, visit http://forbiddenflutes.com/instrumentsOfChange.html
Thanks to all you amazing musicians and volunteers who made the magic happen! And thanks to The Waldorf!
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For all you noise-heads out there, my new series is devoted to digesting the often overwhelming daily news in a new format. A noisy format. Since I spend much of my day working at a radio station listening to various news clips from various sources, I have tossed a random smattering of news clips in with some music I’ve made/mixed in Ableton Live. I need an excuse to learn this program properly and make weird music, so here we are: Noise and News!
Frontier Radio: A Media Democracy Day Special
The following short radio piece was created and recorded by a team of ten people totally new to radio. At a workshop yesterday for Media Democracy Day, we threw participants into the thick of it, challenging them to script, plan, and record a short radio piece on a topic of their choice. They chose to discuss and review the panels they had attended for Media Democracy Day on November 12th. This piece will now be used for podcast, broadcast, and has already been transmitted on a low-power radio transmitter, representing the spectrum of radio options in independent media today.
Thanks go to all the participants for jumping in so readily, and to Brady Marks for co-hosting the workshop with me.
Tin Can Radio
Long time no see! This is a special episode resulting from an experiment, in which I built a radio transmitter. With the help of the Tin Can Studio in Vancouver, we arranged for 3 full days of radio mayhem, driving around in an Airstream trailer and broadcasting to whoever lay within a 5-block radius. The sounds below are the live raw files from our broadcast. Beware – it’s a different style of radio than my normal podcasts, as we threw the fancy production out the window in favour of spontaneous live energy.
The first link is the archive from host Matty Harris, featuring live noise performances, and interviews on the topic of “How Radio Changed My Life.” Matty is one of my favorite campus/community radio hosts.
The second link is from the day I hosted, featuring interviews about Media Democracy, live music performances, discussions about Headbanding, and the city coming by to shut us down, and then leaving, at which point we started again.
Matty live from the Tin Can: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Sarah live from the Tin Can [83:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Matty live from the Tin Can: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Sarah live from the Tin Can [83:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Happy Canada Day. And now, some Americans.
So i didn’t want you, listeners, to get all “you run away for a month and come back with eleven minutes?” on me. For this reason I am calling this show a “non-podcast.” Think about it outside the boundaries of the podcast. I went to Portland, I came back with some sounds, and need to keep you all occupied until the new real show comes out on Sunday. So here is Portland, or at least the part of Portland that includes screaming children playing drums, and a lesbian art show.
To tide you over…
Dear Listeners,
I (Sarah) am currently in a frenzy of editing, trying to get the next podcast up this week for all of your fine discerning ears. I know this one is a little late, but it will be worth it. I have discovered that this whole “making a living” thing kind of gets in the way of radio-making.
So, as you wait patiently for the “Bear Stories,” episode, I will entertain you with a thing made by my web developer, Graeme, that I very much enjoy.
It is a stripped down, no bullshit, exact-opposite-of-what-I-generally-do kind of show, and for this, it is great.
Boring Tales of Everyday Life
Also, David Ravensbergen is on it, who is planning to bike across Europe in some crazy stunt to raise money for microcredit, and is also currently pissing off Frank Zappa’s relatives. You can find his website here: