[Kzyxtalk] Gone to Edfaloba.

[Marco McClean]

Gone to Edfaloba.

“And then WHOOSH with their heat ray. We’ll turn it on Martians! We’ll 
turn it on men! Man on TOP again! …Wait, where are you going?”  “Not to 
your world.”

The recording of last night's (2018-10-19) KNYO Fort Bragg and KMEC 
Ukiah Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show is available by one or two 
clicks, depending on whether you want to listen to it now or download it 
and keep it for later and, speaking of which, it's right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0303

Usually I put on something interesting that will just fluff up the air 
for a bit before I start the show, to make sure everything’s working all 
the way from wherever I am to the transmitter; this time it was Jim 
Holt’s TED talk asking the question /Why does the universe exist?/  The 
program I use to stream the show out stopped registering an input on the 
meter and luckily I noticed. I solved it, or thought I did, started the 
show, and it stopped again, seeming to have something to do with the USB 
mixing board dropping out of being the default sound device, so- USB 
problem? Reinstall the mixer’s USB driver, restart the computer, 
everything working again. I set up a tablet where I could see it playing 
KNYO’s stream, so if the screen changed to automation-provided album 
cover art that would alert me, and over the course of the show several 
times that happened, and I restarted the computer, wiggled the wires, 
reconnected and continued. That means, each time, a few minutes of 
fail-safe random music on KNYO and a few minutes of zen dead air on 
KMEC. Tch, oy. I’ll fix this stuff up and make it reliable again by the 
next time I need to use it; it might even be just a bad USB cable or a 
bad port. Oh, right, the reason I’m explaining all this is to let you 
know that the eight-hour recording, see above, has four or five sound 
dropouts in it, and why, but that I’ve shortened them all to five 
seconds, so.

While I’ve got your eyes, and thanks for that, friend, I’d like to 
repeat about Mendocino Theater Company doing /Mervin Gilbert’s WAR OF 
THE WORLDS!/ live on stage in Helen Schoeni Theater in the middle of the 
Art Center in Mendocino 7pm this coming Wednesday October 24. And you 
and your date can be there in those comfy new chairs. That’ll be going 
out live on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg! It's part of KNYO's commitment 
to real radio, and part of MTC’s reading series of Wednesday night 
events while the main play people are out, the main play this time and 
until just before Halloween being Marjorie Prime. WOTW will be the first 
time I’ve had anything to do with live-on-air radio drama since the 
Whale School era. I get to be both the sound effects monkey for the 
broadcast and the demented artilleryman, which is easy because I’m 
already in costume. Like Wednesday Addams said, “This /is/ my costume.” 
Speaking of Wednesday.

Also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you can find a fresh batch of 
dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile educational items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as:

Recovered original newsreel footage from the Great Martian War 1913-1918.
https://tinyurl.com/GMWRecoveredFootage

Whatta show! And those are /high school/ kids. E for effort and execution.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2018/10/epic-harry-potter-dance-routine.html

Puppetry genius Barnaby Dixon’s latest amazing real-time puppet. He just 
keeps outdoing himself.
https://laughingsquid.com/barnaby-dixon-creepy-face-puppet/

And objects (and creatures) in space.
https://robotmafia.com/solar-walk-the-journey-of-individuals-and-their-creations-in-space/

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org


https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com