El Plan De Aguavodka Podcasts Podcast 1 - Bueno Cancelo A sonic tableau of ancient colonial Sillicon Valley. Free online translation services were mostly useless in determing the meaning behind the cryptic incantations. Historians believe they may represent an early form of tech support. Toy guitar, Tone Generator, and Crazy voice. Podcast 2 - The Oldest Customer In The World Field recording of Midtown New York gently mixed into itself in exchange for money. Podcast 3 - Yesterday Is Where I've Been Livin' (But Tomorrow's Where I'm Bound To Die) A nightmare trip through the carpal tunnel. Tape loops, prepared CD-R, qwerty keyboard, jaw harp--mixed live. Podcast 4 - TVGuideLied A sonic meditation on the eternal question: "Who's gonna cough up the deutsche marks to pay my cable bill?" Podcast 5 - A Monument Only Distances Flakes of bronze and snow gather round our feet to hear the chatter of saw teeth on a hollow conquistador. Melodica, recorder, drum, mpeg encoding software. Podcast 6 - My Parrot Flying Slippers Under the right conditions a dead parrot is easily mistaken for a colorful slipper. Under the not so right conditions it is easily mistaken for a bad omen. Experiment for toy parrot, randomized sad song, and weather broadcast. Podcast 7 - Q18 Drowns Me To Wake A noisy womb of lull and jostle, the autobus drugs-me-drowsy just to toss me out stumbling into the cold. Field recording destroyed with rhythmic "in-camera" editing, encoding software, and noise removal plug-ins. Podcast 8 - Mixtape Amnesia Fabricated memories swirl around and lose control. You'll never know what you're going to forget. A collage of destroyed mixtape fragments. Podcast 9 - The Great Black Ice Disaster of 2006 A song inspired by some Latin psych albums "blows the mind" of my computer causing it to haphazardly alter the speed and volume of random tracks in my mix. This is what survived the attempt to steer into the skid. Podcast 10 - The Search Party Died A horrible accident in utopia leads more innocent victims to a sad end. A film about P. Harrison Fawcet and the outer-space cannibals that traveled so far to meet and devour him in a beautiful setting with high production values. Tape Loops, circuit bent keyboard, melodica, guitar, screamer. Podcast 11 - Another Incident Involving Weather Disaster occurs due to a deadly combination of sunlight and optimism. Melodica, tape recorder, malfunctioning computer. Podcast 12 - All The Kids Sing The Sun Is Setting Gustav says, "Give the kids what they want--something they can sing along with!" An unnumbered "symphony" for toy keyboard, tape recorder, and "ten-tralto." Podcast 13 - When the Sun Goes Down, It Goes Down Sideways Variation on the "sun is setting" theme from a more heliocentric view. A live mix for quicktime loops and feedback. Podcast 14 - Homage A Paik Inspired by this week's Gugenheim memorial tribute, a hommage to the great Jam Nune Paik. Disected field recording randomized with itunes shuffle and then carefully distorted by variable speed tape recorder. Podcast 15 - An Unspeakable Act Caught On Camera What happens in Puebla stays in Puebla even if its really just Cleveland. Celebrating the defeat of the French gets a little out of hand at the local no-tell motel and everything's caught on a not-so-closed circuit. Video recorded as audio, toy keyboard, melodica, charango, and vocals recorded through video camera. Podcast 16 - Reunion Home Video (Aguavideo I) Your typical New Mexico family reunion. First in a series of works using video recordings as the exclusive source of raw material. Podcast 17 - Triborough Bridge (Aguavideo II) Automobile constellations cluster and scatter under a deep blue sky. Second in a series of works using video recordings as the exclusive source of raw material. Podcast 18 - Walk Under Trees [Aguavideo III] Sunlight streams through glowing green leaves under the pretext of photosynthesis. Third in a series of works using video recordings as the exclusive source of raw material. Podcast 19 - East River Reflections [Aguavideo IV] Be mesmerized by the throbbing funhouse mirror of the East River. Fourth in a series of works using video recordings as the exclusive source of raw material. Podcast 20 - Book About Fire [Aguavideo V] Be safe. Close cover before striking. Keep Away from children. The spirit is afoot. Fifth in a series of works using video recordings as the exclusive source of raw material. Podcast 21 - Speeding Past A Desert Highway Traffic Jam [Aguavideo VI] It is easier for a caravan of cars to pass through the lens of a camera than for a debutant to release a single. Collective misfortune shimmers in the summer heat. Sixth and final installment in a series of works using video recordings as the exclusive source of raw material. Podcast 22 - Bowl-of-Screws Life is not a bowl of cherries, but it can be a bowl of screws... which is probably better than a bowl of rubber cement. Tools: Electric screwdriver, electric toothbrush, guitar, music box, discarded electronic scraps, ceramic bowl. Podcast 23- Another Stereotype Eats Itself Stereotypes will eat anything, even if its been sitting out for half the day. Delicious. Tools: un-melodica, acoustic guitar, toy guitar, tamborine, rubberbands, tape barely-player. Podcast 24 - I Cannot Wait To Perish In This Apocalypse All that's needed is to fill in the details and follow through to the end. Clarinet, melodica, mini echo-piano, jaw-harp, guitar, tape deck Podcast 25 - A Pale Bird Brings A Branch To Tie A Rope To Podcast 26 - Black Chains On A Blue-White Trike Podcast 27 - My Growing Contempt For A Pattern of Disregard Podcast 28 - The Sand is Always Grainier In Night Vision Podcast 29 - How Dare You Notice My Deranged Laughter An uplifting story about the good old days and how things are getting better every day and how this kind of mixed message can push you to the edge. Song for toy keyboard, bugle, clarinet, guitar, and tape player. Podcast 30 - Handful of Carnations Disintigration of a variation on the Catalan folk song that goes "...Oh, how my heart withers like a handful of carnations" Toy keyboard and tape player. Podcast 31 - The Snake and the Slow Fuse A cold-war thriller involving a bomb, a snake, and a guy named Joaquin. Clarinet, Melodica, Toy keyboard, and Guitar. Podcast 32 - Pfifltriggi Rave The frog-like Pfifiltriggi inhabit the planet Mars. They have no interest in watching the new season of Survivor and not just because of their work schedule. When they do have some free time they will have a rave like this one, but right now they're busy building things. Tape recorder, bondurria, clarinet, harmonica. Podcast 33 - Good Day White Dove I Come to Praise Thee An unsure voice of praise rises through broken clouds of melody to be shattered by the morning light. Tape recorder, melodica. Podcast 34 - Interrogation No.1 Lacerated field recording digitized, damaged, imported, and played. Originally recorded in the spring of 2000. Prepared CDR. Podcast 35 - Interrogation No.2 (Cannot Be Prepared/Repaired For...) Field recording digitized, damaged, etc. Noise removed. Noise enhanced. Originally recorded in Capetown, spring of 2000. Prepared CDR. Tape Recorder.