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Years ago, a friend was driving late at night through rural Louisiana. Scanning the radio tuner, she found mostly white noise. Eventually her search stopped and the dial landed on a station playing the chorus to the song Funky Cold Medina over and over again. Funky Cold Medina, Funky Cold Medina, Funky Cold Medina. For fifteen, twenty, and then thirty minutes it repeated with no explanation, no correction until the sound faded to static and she drove deeper into the woods.
This program is for those who accidentally happen upon it.
FIELD RECORDINGS | ART & EXPERIMENT | OUTSIDER MUSIC | POLITICAL PROPAGANDA | NEW AGE SOUNDS | OCCULT & SPIRITUAL | NUMBERS STATIONS | BORDER RADIO | TEE-VEE & MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS | UFOS | HOMEMADE RECORDINGS | HISTORICAL ODDITIES | FOLKLORE | CONFESSIONS & APOLOGIES | VOX POP | PRANKS & GAFFES | WEAPONIZED MUSIC | MOMENTS OF SILENCE| CRICKETS
PROGRAMS
WOODS 01: INTRODUCTION
Take a walk in the WOODS with this inaugural episode of extreme miscellaneous audio. Featuring Melted Men, Jim Roche, the Ninth Ward Marching Band, Uri Geller, V/VM, Jack Kevorkian, Patrick Cowley, David Koresh, Monte Maxwell, Jonny Trunk, and more.
WOODS 02: ANIMALS & CHILDREN
"Never work with children or animals." said the funny drunk. Featuring R. Stevie Moore, Laurie Anderson, Coyle & Sharpe, Marjoe Gortner, Junior and His Soulettes, Pookey Blow, Archie Shepp and more.
WOODS 03: FOOD
A focus on food with grocery lists, Kenny Shopsin, Dion McGregor, The Vegetable Orchestra, Damon Albarn, Stark Reality, Zora Neale Hurston and a recipe for Peas Thompson.
WOODS 04: FOREST FOR TREES
Tree rings and myopia with JG Ballard, Bartholomäus Traubeck, Bo Harwood, Moondog, the Tree of Ténéré, wood glue records, and more.
WOODS 05: HEAVY LIGHT
A focus on hypnotism with possessed teenagers, chickens, Master Wilburn Burchette, Howard Finster, Ken Nordine, Korla Pandit, Steve Reich, Jacques Thollot, and more.
WOODS 06: SILENCE
Silence as a tool for art, commemoration, audio testing, political statements, and pranks.
WOODS 07: ESCAPE ARTIST
Artists and musicians who have disappeared are coupled with the failed final attempt to contact Harry Houdini beyond the grave. Featuring Jim Sullivan, Bas Jan Ader, and Connie Converse. (Dedicated to Joe Cripps.)
WOODS 08: DARK FEAST (WAR ON WAR)
Serving Aleister Crowley, German EVP recordings, Geoff Krozier, Pierre Henry, a Manson Family chorus, Hermann Nitsch, Genesis P-Orridge, Ruth White, and more.
WOODS 09: EAVESDROPPING
Listen to a stranger while the night away with Paul Super Apple, the Badger Theater, David Bowie, Joe Frank, Dial-a-Poem with John Giorno, Andy Warhol, Chris Watson, and more.
WOODS 10: HALF MILE HAILER (THE STREET)
Walk the street with panhandlers, street vendors, drunks and preachers. Cabaret Voltaire, Bobby Charles, Grace Jones, Lou Reed, Charles Manson, Tony Schwartz, and the stories of Dave Whitman.
WOODS 11: UFYAWN
Is yawning contagious? Do UFOs exist? Featuring Robert Ashley, Destroy All Monsters, Frank Edwards, ESG, O.L. Jaggers, Will Jima, Long John Nebel, Sam Spence, Spoerri & Weber, Sun Ra, Jacques Vallee, and yawning.
WOODS 12: CLAY COOLEY MEDITATION TAPE
An audio loop of North Texas car dealer Clay Cooley saying “Hey Guys” with a bell ring and wind chimes.
WOODS 13: HANGRY (FOR TIM)
Empty belly fistfights and high kicks. WOODS brings the macho with Circuit Rider, Danse As***le, Terry Funk, Kenneth Higney, Tim Kaminski, Evel Knievel, Captain Maurice Seddon, Soreng Santi and Six Boys in Trouble.
WOODS 14: WEAPONIZED MUSIC
Music and sound used to coerce, punish and influence. Featuring selections from Nick van Woert’s WACO TEXAS, Aztec death whistles, Billy Ray Cyrus, Charlie & His Orchestra, CIA/FBI audio operations, Mosquitoes, Muzak, Negativland, Throbbing Gristle and more.
WOODS 15: POPULAR DREAMS
What is the meaning of your dreams? Featuring Rosemary Brown, Suzanne Ciani, Robert Desnos, Marlene Dietrich, Donnie & Joe Emerson, Daniel Johnston, Dion McGregor, Ethan Persoff, The Space Lady, Su***de, and snoring.
WOODS 16: NEW RAGER (SUNPATH)
New Age selections from SUNPATH (Jeff Berry) cassette-only releases lightly mixed with the sounds of party chants and late-night ragers.
WOODS 17: BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY
Overturned trash can becomes a horn of plenty. Garbage cornucopia. Featuring Black Zone Myth Chant, Brother Theodore, Dem Hunger, Vincent Gallo, Bruce Haack, Henry Jacobs, Paul Lansky, Moon B and more.
WOODS 18: GOODBYE LETTERS HELLO NUMBERS
Examining numbers stations and television sign-offs from 1970 to 2000.
WOODS 19: MORE ALARMS AT NIGHT
Live, two-hour repetition of the happy birthday song celebrating KUZU’s first year on air.
WOODS 20: VAGUE LANGUAGE
Examining invented languages and talk boxes. With Breadwoman, Pete Drake, Drums & Tuba, Glossolalia, Ursula K. Le Guin, Magma, Psychic TV, instructional Klingon, Israel Regardie, William Shatner (speaking Esperanto), Wah Wah Watson, Stevie Wonder and more.
WOODS 21: BACKMASKING
This two-hour program features all the examples of backmasked messages under the definition of backmasking, courtesy of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia from March 27th, 2018.
WOODS 22: BEAUCOUP BOOS
Halloween and horror records from 1940 to 1990. Homemade sound effects, party tips, folk ghost stories, spells, outsider radio dramas, haunted house instruction, and more. Featuring: The Caretaker, William Castle, Judson Fountain, Dean Gitter, Gershon Kingsley, Nick Reinhart and Troll Records.
WOODS 23: PRISON
Examining music and sound recorded in prisons. Featuring Bad Brains, The Edge of Daybreak, Mac Dre, The Escorts, The Ohio Penitentiary 511 Ensemble, The Power of Attorney, The Prisonaires, Glen Sherley, The Wynne Unit Band, Vibes from Inside, Mack Vickery, and more.
WOODS 24: LEATHERMAN & LAZY SUSAN
A collaboration with NYC musician Corn Mo. The story of The Leatherman, a 19th century wandering eccentric who walked in a circle for thirty years. With Bruno S, Charlie Morrow, sounds of spun music instruments, whirling dervishes and other circular acts.
WOODS 25: MY ANGEL COLLECTION
A woman shows you her angel collection. Featuring the music of firewalkers, snake charmers, voudou practitioners, and the sounds of a growing bonfire. With Shoko Asahara, Maya Deren, Richard Kostelanetz, Malcolm McLaren, Porest and more.
WOODS 26: MAD MAGAZINE
An overview of the records and flexi-discs created for Mad Magazine from 1957 to 1982. Featuring the Dellwoods, Bernie Green with Stereo Mad Men, The Mad Show musical r***e, Alfred E Neuman and the Furshlugginer Five, Basil Wolverton, and the “Usual Gang of Idiots”.
WOODS 27: FUNKY FAVORITES (UNABRIGED)
A first mixtape from 1980. FUNKY FAVORITES features children’s novelty music, skits, note dictation, Willie Nelson, and a nine-year-old singing the s**t portion of “Pasties in a G-String”.
WOODS 28: STARE CONTEST WITH PEEPER
Voyeurs, stare contests, and mirrors. With Alternate Skies, Carmine Capobianco, H.P. Lovecraft, Owen Marshall, R. Stevie Moore, Nick Reinhart, Mal Sharpe, Tonetta, and more.
WOODS 29: CHANGING CHANNELERS
Do you hear the peacocks in the garden? A collection of audio featuring individuals claiming communication with beings and spirits of the deceased. Featuring Edward Cayce, J.Z. Knight, Ruth Montgomery, Barbara Marciniak, Jane Roberts, and Gary Spivey.
WOODS 30: HONORABLE MENTION
Lorem ipsum audio. Two hours featuring Antony & The Johnsons, Captain Beefheart, Chet Baker, Charles Bukowski, John Cale, Criswell, Damon, Devo, Vincent Gallo Sr., Tim Hardin, Miranda July, Konrad, Leland, Arto Lindsay, Makers, Charlie Megira, Momus, Negativland, Normal Brain, Oneida, Pentagram, Jim O’Rourke, Mike Patton, Porest, Psychic TV, Lou Reed, Rodriguez, Harry Dean Stanton, Mayo Thompson, Gérard Vincent, and Steve Wallis.
WOODS 31: BACKMASKING BACKWARDS
A backwards version of WOODS 21: BACKMASKING - examining backmasking in popular culture. Featuring all the examples of backmasked messages as defined by the Wikipedia online encyclopedia from March 27th, 2018.
