Annie and Ellen's Radio Show (no title yet)

Free Association Radio Show

General Structure: We decide a theme for each week. It can have to do with a holiday that week, or a poem, or a random idea like being stuck in an elevator. We will welcome listeners to send in theme ideas. One of us plays a song that has to do with that theme, and while that song is playing the other has to come up with a song that they associate with the theme and that song. It is basically free association with songs. It will be spur of the moment; we will not plan it beforehand. The songs can stray from the theme as this progresses. By the end of the show we will try to tie the last song back into the original theme.

Special Segment: Baltimore Find of the Week

Both of us share an object, observation, interaction, or other Baltimore experiences in one minute. For instance, we could give a quick food review of a Mexican restaurant we travelled to.

Timing: We figure each song is about two minutes and thirty seconds, so we will play around ten songs each show.We will play all kinds of music, from pop to alternative to jazz.

Programming Ideas

1. Twister Radio Play while we are playing the game twister with the world.

(example

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sound effects

left hand yellow

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right foot green)

-Amber and Zack

2. Random Blog Perfect Song- short segment

where i read a random blog entry and than play the perfect song that fits with it

3. Word of the day

4. Movie Review

Some things of Interest

This guy:

http://www.freeradio.org/

Also,

http://www.arttalkam.blogspot.com is a really amazing archive of interviews from a show by Cyrus Smith. The show is now off the air but its definitely worth checking out. He also made this really beautiful box set of little books of transcriptions from some of the conversations he had on air with different artists, including Michael Rakowitz. On a recent visit to Chicago I bought the box set so I'll bring that in for everyone to check out next week.

I've also been emailing a few college radio stations for some general advice on programming, licensing, software and hardware, staffing, etc. but am still waiting on responses. I'll keep everyone updated as soon as I hear back.

More later.

Ciao,

Zack

Radio Sound Effects

Sound effects for shows!

staffing

Neil, definitely bring your friend in to talk to us. I have emailed both of Towson's radio stations, WTMD of course, but also XTSR which seems to more student-run. No word back from either.

also I have a portable radio that I'm fitting up to play audio through on multiple stations, so we could get that authentic scratchy-knob radio feel in-between segments, like if you were tuning in to different channels. I was thinking that if anything internet radio will lack it's the hiss and crackle of a real radio and the feeling of turning the knob and finding another station. When you listen to the internet i guess it's just one station and there aren't any unknowns, which is the really great thing about real radio, that you can tune in to a different station at any time.

Word, words, words

These are all tentative, open to suggestion, and very much underdeveloped:

"Bad Comma" Grammar lessons interspersed with 80's and 90's hardcore–A half-hour/forty-five minutes

"If it ain't baroque, don't fix it" Baroque music in tandem with aphorisms–An hour

"On this day in the 13th century..." Pretty self-explanatory–Five minutes or less

"Sounds from the Supercontinent" World musical stylings supplemented by continental drift theory and geology lessons–An hour

Also:

In 1934, the anthology series Lights Out debuted and exploited many of radio's unique qualities to massive success. The program was penned by Wyllis Cooper and aired at midnight. Cooper employed stream of conscious monologues, multiple first-person narrators and internal monologues which were at odds with the characters' spoken dialog. It's most often remembered, however, for its gruesome and explicit sound effects which attempted to suggest joints being ripped from sockets, skin being eviscerated, heads being decapitated and other depictions of violence that would still be pushing the envelope, even on modern cable television programs.