WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 8, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:21pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 8:53pm Krys O.: Hidey-ho!
	♥ 8:59pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Mutant Mates! 🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Kat in Chicago: howdy do
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Krys O and Scott 67! And Kat in chicago, too!
	♥ 9:01pm HyperDose: That's a good looking crew!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: We do try to spend a fair amount of time putting on make-up.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings Rich and mutants
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Howdy, HyperDose and coelacanthø! Sit back and enjoy the show!
	9:06pm Geoff-U: Hullo :waves:
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Geoff-U! Nice to see you!
	9:08pm ramencity: Why hello there
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Krys O.: Limited commercial interruptions! Huzzah!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Krys O.: Thanks again!
	9:09pm Charles: Hi!
	9:12pm Mr. X: Howdy!
	9:12pm Heather: Excited to hear this! I'm a big UB fan!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Mr. X! Nice to see you. And Heather too! The gang's all here!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: univac is, among many other things, a circuit bender, a video producer, and a musician. For more information: techdweeb.com
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: When ramencitykid shows up, you know it's a good time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: univac and I have our "dialog" slightly out of sync in their early episode. We were trying out a variety of different digital techniques to be in the "same" room for these kinds of performances. This was an early one, where we hadn't quite mastered it. Later episodes, our dialog is less... wild.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: dAs & Ninah have a weekly show on DFM.nu... a streaming station that has roots that go back to a terrestrial station from the 60's, out of Amsterdam. We join them once a month to do stuff like this.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: dfm.nu
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: dAs & Ninah are also known as Big City Orchestra.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Kat in Chicago: I like these musics
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: univac and I send our signals from our studios to their studio, and they mix our signals into their broadcasts. So often univac and I don't really know what the final product sounds like until after the show airs. (We can hear stuff via monitors and whatnot... but again... distance delays and whatnot make it complicated, but we manage.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: In total, there are four different studios involved at four different locations before listeners hear these sounds.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: In this first installment, the "gimmick" was that univac and I are meeting in person in his spacecraft to jam. The premise gets more complicated as the shows go on...
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: These shows go on for two hours. About 20 mintues of each show is for "intermission" content. We usually jam for at least a full hour, total, between the two sets we usually do each show. And then there's the scripted and improvised dialog bits. I've had to cut a lot to squeeze all of these into these shows here. If you like the music, you're hearing only an excerpt here. There's more, and longer excerpts, here: zer0-g-mice.bandcamp.com
	9:27pm Mr. X: I love the funny space schtick!
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: Usually what happens: we have a call a few weeks before each show, and we discuss ideas for what gags we want to do. Then we start a Google Doc. univac and I will start writing, giving each other chances to revise each other's bits. We'll use the scripts on the day of the show, but we also improvise, change almost everything at the last minute, and make it as difficult for each other as possible. Heather can speak to the inner workings of how we make these.
	9:33pm Heather: It's a lot of fun to be on the show and everyone except myself did a ton of work to prepare for the last one! I just zoomed in, no signal to send from my humble home studio, but it seemed to mostly work. I'm not sure which the biggest challenge was: reading longer blocks of script than I'm used to, more slowly than I'm used to or trying to improv and quickly realize I know nothing of workouts nor cooking!
	♥ 9:34pm HyperDose: This is quite the immersive experience
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Kat in Chicago: My compliments to the interior decorator of the space loft
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: I can't remember where I found that image. We each take turns having to design the fliers for the shows, and I got the Space Loft one. Ninah added the images of us in space suits.
	♥ 9:43pm HyperDose: The seats are so comfy and upholstered to perfection
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: The 1,000,001 Bongo Band was inspired by my love of the name 101 Strings Orchestra.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Kat in Chicago: that's a lotta bongos
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: Ninah came to us and said, "you two should visit the Space Loft in the next episode," and we sort of came up with what that meant.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: We take turns designing different SFX and stuff for the show. It sort of depends on what we need for each show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: One of our dark secrets: they aren't all bongos.
	9:53pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin and fellow space-cases! Been listening on and off while doin stuff. Just gotta say: THIS is creative radio.
	9:54pm Mr. X: Any ideas on what the audience demographics might be for this show? Do the people of Amsterdam take a particular interest in it?
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: I have no idea about that, actually. I think DFM is now largely streaming, so the audience is sort of like WFMU: it's sort of destination listening. Ninah has a chat going, but univac and I are usually too busy reading and performing to get in the chat. Mr. Fab! Nice to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: I can't remember what band exactly, but dAs found some Prog Rock band and "mangled" a live recording for the Panspermia performance.
	9:57pm Mr. X: This is how I imagine Disaster Area, from Hitchhiker's Guide, would sound.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: That was certainly our inspiration.
	9:58pm Mr. X: Sweet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: We do these shows live, so tech issues are certainly a part of it. This bit is partially based on real issues... and improvised issues...
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Kat in Chicago: "Bro glitch"!
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: Bro Glitch is the worst.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Kat in Chicago: Worse than brostep?
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Ouch. That is probably bad, and I haven't heard it yet.
	10:19pm ramencity: Still waiting for the witch hoof revival...
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: When I played one of my first noise festivals, with bands from all over the world, there were these huge guys, in shorts, playing shirtless, and it was really confrontational harsh noise, and the way they interacted with each other, I turned to my bandmate and said, "Ah. Noise Bros. I'll be outside."
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Kat in Chicago: Why bros gotta ruin everything
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Bros Ruin Everything" is the name of my next EP.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Kat in Chicago: All yours. Let me know when the preorder is up :)
	♥ 10:30pm Pauly from Clifton: Hey Austin, folks! Cleaning up the kitchen and getting my lunch ready for tomorrow's workday. Happily listening! Very well done!
	10:41pm Mr. X: Why is space so funny to me?
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: I think, because of the sync issues, you can only just barely hear that I introduce myself as "Vic Sputnik," which is a name I've used a few times on other shows and stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: I'm obsessed with outer space stuff, too. You set almost any story on a spaceship or on another planet, and I'm totally interested. Red Dwarf will always be more funny to me than The Odd Couple. (Though, The Odd Couple is pretty good.)
	♥ 10:44pm HyperDose: Same here Austin. Space is beautiful yet so deadly
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: I only realized about four episodes into this project that one of univac's favorite words is "cantankerous."
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: I have a space calendar at work. And I need to pick out a new space calendar for 2023.
	10:45pm Heather: This is an awesome show tonight! Chiming in to say, heck yeah, space is the place!
	10:45pm Mr. X: Space is infinite, therefore space humor is infinite.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: Heather is now a part of The Fourth Sunday Players, as she was a guest on our last episode. Hopefully we can get her back for a future show, but her manager is hard to get on the phone.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: I had an idea for a future show, where The Renaissance Iguanas have an album release party, and you get to know their members more. Still need to write that script.
	10:49pm Heather: Ahhh I am?! That's so exciting!! But yes and I'm sorry. Nigel really never answers his phone. He just uses my credit card on it to place Chewy orders.
	10:49pm Mr. X: Endorsed by PDQ Bach.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: I'm a little obsessed with PDQ Bach, too.
	10:51pm Heather: I'd recommend a Jimmy Spaceboy Ball Bubbler but yall sound like you're already in the bag so...
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: The free drinks at these gigs are pretty incredible.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Kat in Chicago: Thanks, Austin!
	10:55pm Mr. X: Thanks for this guided tour of yet another facet of the gemstone known as Austin Rich. I had no idea.
	♥ 10:55pm HyperDose: Thank you Austin, participants, and contributors alike!
	10:56pm Heather: I say it all the time but awesome show, Austin! Everyone have a lovely evening!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Both univac and I bonded over Tron early after we started doing this show together.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Heather: you really need to collect some of the best sketches from Sound of Tomorrow for a CD release. There's lots of funny bits that the world needs to hear.
	11:02pm Mr. X: Tro was cyberpunk before it was punk to be cyberpunk.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin!
	11:03pm Mr. X: er, Tron
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Tune in next week for the rest of the story...
	11:06pm ramencity: Trøn
	♥ 11:25pm Scott67: Thanks Austin & Players!🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 8, 2022

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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November 8, 2022: The Fourth Sunday Players Present: "The zer0-g mice Accidental Intergalactic Tour" (Part 1)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Fourth Sunday Players	"The Tour Diaries of zer0-g mice" Excerpt 1	UB Radio Salon #754	UBUIBI.org	2022	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Fourth Sunday Players	"something _____ about space" (Edit)	UB Radio Salon #732	UBUIBI.org	2022	0:12:36 (Pop-up)
The Fourth Sunday Players	"Tales From The Space Loft" (Edit)	UB Radio Salon #737	UBUIBI.org	2022	0:39:44 (Pop-up)
The Fourth Sunday Players	"zer0-g" (Edit)	UB Radio Salon #741	UBUIBI.org	2022	1:05:04 (Pop-up)
The Fourth Sunday Players	"The Tube Presents: zer0-g mice & Renaissance Iguanas" (Edit)	UB Radio Salon #745	UBUIBI.org	2022	1:31:50 (Pop-up)
The Fourth Sunday Players	"The Tour Diaries of zer0-g mice" Excerpt 2	UB Radio Salon #754	UBUIBI.org	2022	1:55:53 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:21pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 8:53pm Krys O.: Hidey-ho!
	♥ 8:59pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Mutant Mates! 🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Kat in Chicago: howdy do
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Krys O and Scott 67! And Kat in chicago, too!
	♥ 9:01pm HyperDose: That's a good looking crew!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: We do try to spend a fair amount of time putting on make-up.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm coelacanth∅: greetings Rich and mutants
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Howdy, HyperDose and coelacanthø! Sit back and enjoy the show!
	9:06pm Geoff-U: Hullo :waves:
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Geoff-U! Nice to see you!
	9:08pm ramencity: Why hello there
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Krys O.: Limited commercial interruptions! Huzzah!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Krys O.: Thanks again!
	9:09pm Charles: Hi!
	9:12pm Mr. X: Howdy!
	9:12pm Heather: Excited to hear this! I'm a big UB fan!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Mr. X! Nice to see you. And Heather too! The gang's all here!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: univac is, among many other things, a circuit bender, a video producer, and a musician. For more information: techdweeb.com
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: When ramencitykid shows up, you know it's a good time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: univac and I have our "dialog" slightly out of sync in their early episode. We were trying out a variety of different digital techniques to be in the "same" room for these kinds of performances. This was an early one, where we hadn't quite mastered it. Later episodes, our dialog is less... wild.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: dAs & Ninah have a weekly show on DFM.nu... a streaming station that has roots that go back to a terrestrial station from the 60's, out of Amsterdam. We join them once a month to do stuff like this.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: dfm.nu
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: dAs & Ninah are also known as Big City Orchestra.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Kat in Chicago: I like these musics
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: univac and I send our signals from our studios to their studio, and they mix our signals into their broadcasts. So often univac and I don't really know what the final product sounds like until after the show airs. (We can hear stuff via monitors and whatnot... but again... distance delays and whatnot make it complicated, but we manage.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: In total, there are four different studios involved at four different locations before listeners hear these sounds.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: In this first installment, the "gimmick" was that univac and I are meeting in person in his spacecraft to jam. The premise gets more complicated as the shows go on...
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: These shows go on for two hours. About 20 mintues of each show is for "intermission" content. We usually jam for at least a full hour, total, between the two sets we usually do each show. And then there's the scripted and improvised dialog bits. I've had to cut a lot to squeeze all of these into these shows here. If you like the music, you're hearing only an excerpt here. There's more, and longer excerpts, here: zer0-g-mice.bandcamp.com
	9:27pm Mr. X: I love the funny space schtick!
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: Usually what happens: we have a call a few weeks before each show, and we discuss ideas for what gags we want to do. Then we start a Google Doc. univac and I will start writing, giving each other chances to revise each other's bits. We'll use the scripts on the day of the show, but we also improvise, change almost everything at the last minute, and make it as difficult for each other as possible. Heather can speak to the inner workings of how we make these.
	9:33pm Heather: It's a lot of fun to be on the show and everyone except myself did a ton of work to prepare for the last one! I just zoomed in, no signal to send from my humble home studio, but it seemed to mostly work. I'm not sure which the biggest challenge was: reading longer blocks of script than I'm used to, more slowly than I'm used to or trying to improv and quickly realize I know nothing of workouts nor cooking!
	♥ 9:34pm HyperDose: This is quite the immersive experience
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Kat in Chicago: My compliments to the interior decorator of the space loft
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: I can't remember where I found that image. We each take turns having to design the fliers for the shows, and I got the Space Loft one. Ninah added the images of us in space suits.
	♥ 9:43pm HyperDose: The seats are so comfy and upholstered to perfection
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: The 1,000,001 Bongo Band was inspired by my love of the name 101 Strings Orchestra.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Kat in Chicago: that's a lotta bongos
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: Ninah came to us and said, "you two should visit the Space Loft in the next episode," and we sort of came up with what that meant.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: We take turns designing different SFX and stuff for the show. It sort of depends on what we need for each show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: One of our dark secrets: they aren't all bongos.
	9:53pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin and fellow space-cases! Been listening on and off while doin stuff. Just gotta say: THIS is creative radio.
	9:54pm Mr. X: Any ideas on what the audience demographics might be for this show? Do the people of Amsterdam take a particular interest in it?
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: I have no idea about that, actually. I think DFM is now largely streaming, so the audience is sort of like WFMU: it's sort of destination listening. Ninah has a chat going, but univac and I are usually too busy reading and performing to get in the chat. Mr. Fab! Nice to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: I can't remember what band exactly, but dAs found some Prog Rock band and "mangled" a live recording for the Panspermia performance.
	9:57pm Mr. X: This is how I imagine Disaster Area, from Hitchhiker's Guide, would sound.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: That was certainly our inspiration.
	9:58pm Mr. X: Sweet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: We do these shows live, so tech issues are certainly a part of it. This bit is partially based on real issues... and improvised issues...
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Kat in Chicago: "Bro glitch"!
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: Bro Glitch is the worst.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Kat in Chicago: Worse than brostep?
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Ouch. That is probably bad, and I haven't heard it yet.
	10:19pm ramencity: Still waiting for the witch hoof revival...
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: When I played one of my first noise festivals, with bands from all over the world, there were these huge guys, in shorts, playing shirtless, and it was really confrontational harsh noise, and the way they interacted with each other, I turned to my bandmate and said, "Ah. Noise Bros. I'll be outside."
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Kat in Chicago: Why bros gotta ruin everything
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Bros Ruin Everything" is the name of my next EP.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Kat in Chicago: All yours. Let me know when the preorder is up :)
	♥ 10:30pm Pauly from Clifton: Hey Austin, folks! Cleaning up the kitchen and getting my lunch ready for tomorrow's workday. Happily listening! Very well done!
	10:41pm Mr. X: Why is space so funny to me?
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: I think, because of the sync issues, you can only just barely hear that I introduce myself as "Vic Sputnik," which is a name I've used a few times on other shows and stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: I'm obsessed with outer space stuff, too. You set almost any story on a spaceship or on another planet, and I'm totally interested. Red Dwarf will always be more funny to me than The Odd Couple. (Though, The Odd Couple is pretty good.)
	♥ 10:44pm HyperDose: Same here Austin. Space is beautiful yet so deadly
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: I only realized about four episodes into this project that one of univac's favorite words is "cantankerous."
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: I have a space calendar at work. And I need to pick out a new space calendar for 2023.
	10:45pm Heather: This is an awesome show tonight! Chiming in to say, heck yeah, space is the place!
	10:45pm Mr. X: Space is infinite, therefore space humor is infinite.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: Heather is now a part of The Fourth Sunday Players, as she was a guest on our last episode. Hopefully we can get her back for a future show, but her manager is hard to get on the phone.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: I had an idea for a future show, where The Renaissance Iguanas have an album release party, and you get to know their members more. Still need to write that script.
	10:49pm Heather: Ahhh I am?! That's so exciting!! But yes and I'm sorry. Nigel really never answers his phone. He just uses my credit card on it to place Chewy orders.
	10:49pm Mr. X: Endorsed by PDQ Bach.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: I'm a little obsessed with PDQ Bach, too.
	10:51pm Heather: I'd recommend a Jimmy Spaceboy Ball Bubbler but yall sound like you're already in the bag so...
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: The free drinks at these gigs are pretty incredible.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Kat in Chicago: Thanks, Austin!
	10:55pm Mr. X: Thanks for this guided tour of yet another facet of the gemstone known as Austin Rich. I had no idea.
	♥ 10:55pm HyperDose: Thank you Austin, participants, and contributors alike!
	10:56pm Heather: I say it all the time but awesome show, Austin! Everyone have a lovely evening!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Both univac and I bonded over Tron early after we started doing this show together.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Heather: you really need to collect some of the best sketches from Sound of Tomorrow for a CD release. There's lots of funny bits that the world needs to hear.
	11:02pm Mr. X: Tro was cyberpunk before it was punk to be cyberpunk.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin!
	11:03pm Mr. X: er, Tron
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Tune in next week for the rest of the story...
	11:06pm ramencity: Trøn
	♥ 11:25pm Scott67: Thanks Austin & Players!🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 8, 2022

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