Random Tape

If you would like to help Azmina and Sasha rebuild their home you can donate to their gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sasha-and-azmina-rebuild-after-palisades-fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween you creeps! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An important PSA about a real dumb rule for all of you who listen to the show on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A found tape, an unchained melody and time moving slowly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation with Caveh Zahedi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little piece about Rik martino and a long promised song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Audio Flux work by Dennis Gaens and a visit from John and Julie.   Visit audioflux.org for info on how to submit your own Audio Flux work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad but it’s not devastating if you think like that… We’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.” -David Lynch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some far east sounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sweet sounds form the streets. If you'd like to support the show you can donate at  patreon.com/randomtape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unearthed experiment in podcasting. Special thanks to KCRW and The Believer Magazine, Andrew Leland and Ross Simonini.    You can hear more of Matt Holzman's work here:   If you would likey to pupport theesey project you can donate to the Patreon at  patreon.com/Randomtape  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A story from the life of Nason Smith.   Music by Sunny Metha and Josh Wexler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some recent finds and the holy grail of found "piano" tape.   Here is the link to the whole Bruce recording:   Music in this episode by Group Listening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fun with AI   If you would like to support this project you can become a member of our Patreon at patreon.com/randomtape   Music by udio.com     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to After the Tone and answerphone for sharing these priceless answering machien messages. You can find more of their collections at: afterthetone.com  answerphone.tumblr.com   You can donate to this project at patreon.com/randomtape. And if you are interested in taking a podcast workshop with jein Los Anfeles this summer visit thirdwaveworkshop.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An excerpt of Rare's tribute to the late great musician Clarence "Frogman" Henry on WWOZ.   Music by Clarence "Frogman" Henry  If you are interested in taking my one week podcasting workshop you can find the details at     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cautionary tale   Thanks to Scott Gurian for submitting this gem. You can find his work at farfromhomepodcast.org   Music by M.O.T.O. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#vanlife   If you would like to support this project you can donate at:     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An exceprt from 's brilliant novel Mother Doll.   Get your copy of the book here:   Music in this episode by Shida Sahabi, Russian brass Band and Vladimir Vyotsky   If you'd like to support Random Tape you can donate at   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A visit from James Braithwaite, the artist behind Random Tape's new logo.   You can find more of his amazing work at thebathwater.com   If yu'd like to support rthis project you can donate at patreon.com/randomtape   Music in this apeisode by Preston Epps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?" -Fanny Crosby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We miss you  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just some old tapes from the attic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The life and music of a reclusive balladeer.   If you would like to support the show you can donate at patreon.com/randomtape   Music in this episode by Charles Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A trip to Pendulum Bob's in Columbia Missouri. Read all about it here:   If you would like to support the show you can donate at patreon.com/randomtpe   Thanks for listening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An obituary for the ages.    Music by Professor Johnson & His Gospel Singers   If you'd like to support the show you can donate at patreon.com/randomtape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An experimental laundry project To get ya handmade statue of yourself donate at Patreon.com/randomtape Music by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sweet calamity on the Father of Waters   If you'd like to support the show you can donate at:  https://www.patreon.com/RandomTape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nature takes its course.   If you'd like to contribute to Random Tape you can donate to my Patreon.   Patreon/Randomtape      Music in this episode by Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A failed pilot for a weekly radio segment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Im performing live as a guest on Stagefright, hosted by Lolly Goodwoman at SatJune 20th   7-9pm followed by a 72-hour afterparty.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we feature an episode of another podcast.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

anyone else missing the rain? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy 420 y'all Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An old story that aired on WWOZ in 2011. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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An iPOD voice memo recording of a tune I came up with at a piano in Newton, MA in 2012 at 11:11 AM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A rough draft of a story about Roosevelt High School'd 2019 Prom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is raw tape of a phone call from somewhere in the depths of 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The begining of a great love story.   To hear the rest visit www.belowtheten.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This tape came from a thirft store in the desert. Written with purple marker on the label was "To Ray from Mike 2/3/93" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to Steve Degroodt for sending me this recording he made of a bluegrass band playing during the 1978 earthquake in Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On December 22nd Hollywood Park closed after more than 75 years. This is the story of the rise and fall of one of America’s greatest horse racing tracks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They rarely tlak to the media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Piano Van Chris Stroffolino plays some tunes from inside the World Famous Piano Van. This is a companion episode to a story I produced for Episode 7 of The Organist. see the van in action at www.pianovan.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kenneth and Miriam ring in the New Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A found tape from the south by way of the desert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Little Daddy sets the scene outside the King Eddy Saloon in Skid Row. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A voice mail and conversation with the one and onle--Lewis Greenberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Story by Nason Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Steve Sharp. His mission: To spread love and celebrate peace every Friday from five to seven… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the answers to last weeks cliffhanger are revealed... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This tape was made by Paul a man in New Jersey to let his family know that he didn't want them to interfere with his plans to go on a diet he hoped would cure him of AIDS. Logan Jaffe found this tape at a yard sale in Gainesville Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My brother-in-law Matthew has perfect pitch. So we spent a day going around the house looking for objects that make sounds and determining their pitch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mastering the art of the followup quesiton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A HUANTED Teddy Ruxpin Tape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This man was killed by Drew Carey! (Sort of) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This song showed up right after September 11th at the college radio station where my friend was a DJ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election night 2008 at Sydney's Saloon in New Orleans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listening to tapes on the roof with Matthew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That's a century in human years! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A poem by Jim Tascio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is what the world may sound like after the Apocaplypse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Stout is best known for his dinosaur paintings. But he also worked in radio, did the storyboards for Thriller, and Raiders of the Lost Ark and deisgned the characters for Pan's Labrynth. But he got his start drawing portraits and Disneyland. This is a story of those humble beginnings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This may be an infinite fatal reset loop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to Myke Dodge Weiskopf for this recording of a call to prayer in Timbuktu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Late one night I picked up a strange signal on my radio dial... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The man they myth, no really the myth who is this guy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Alive! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank Lloyd Wright recorded hundreds of talks in the living room of his desert compound, Taliesin West. In this talk Wright expounds on anarchy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Architect, 1 percenter and desert hobo David Doge didn't intend to design a musical staricase in his magnificant home on the outskirts of Phoenix. The song in this episode is My Xylophones Love me by Melodium Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Late on night Matthew Kielty got a mysterious call from an unkown number... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What keeps the taggers tickin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talked about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a recent trip to central America, Dennis Conrow wrote and recorded a short story and enlisted the help of some locals in San Pedro, Guatemeala to be characters in the story. This is some raw tape and an excpert form the porject. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is what english sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Dan Newman 's ice boat crashed through the surface of the frozen lake he had no idea he was about to do something that had never been done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sound of the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An awkward moment with Jeffrey Lewis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A collection of field recordings made around the State of Colorado between 1982 and 1987. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I lent my friend Moose a tape recorder and he returned it with with tape full of interviews he had done with his friends. One of those interviews was with Herbie, an artist who collaborated with a couple bearded friends to make a sculpture called Re-Neavus. I cut it up and added some music by Barin Darnew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speed Levitch giving one of his signature wlaking tours of Columbia, Missouri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke Cumberland is a second-year student in the MFA writing program at Washington University.  He is editor of the anthology "Faces of Virginia Poetry", available on LuLu.com. His most recent poetry has been published on StatusHat.org. He is from Virginia; he lives in St. Louis and he has never lost an arm wrestling match in his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I found this recording in a box of old tapes. I think I picked it up at a thrift store in Louisiana. It appears to be role playing excercises at a beauty school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nason Smith's nonfiction has appeared on NPR: Hearing Voices and his fiction has been published in The Pinch. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Florida. You look great! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the great things about New Orleans is that you can set up a card table and sell booze in the street. This is what it sounds like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My friend Keaton was having some trouble working on a tandem bicycle at the bike shop he works at when a customer recommended a solution he found on the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film maker Karim El Hakim told this story at a live storytelling event at the True/False Film Festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This cover was performed by Walt McClement on banjo and Mary Go Round (the one time holder of the world record for spinning the most hoola hoops at once: 76 if my memory serves me correctly) on accordion and vocals. The song All the Pretty Horses is about the and the Army Corps of Engineers decision to dynamite the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana to save New Orleans. The breach caused a flood that displaced thousands and was later deemed unnecessary. Check out the book   I recorded this late one evening in the upstairs of Mimi’s in the Marigny in New Orleans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was walking my dog the other night when I came across Larry Boutan sitting on a concrete wall drinking a beer. I bought some beers and joined him. This is the story of Larry’s very first beer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

is the band director at O Perry Walker High school in New Orleans. He runs one of the best marching bands in the state along with a concert band and a Jazz ensemble. Rawlins doesn’t just teach kids to play an instrument though, he provides discipline for a lot of kids who live in a chaotic environment. He teaches them about commitment and the benefits of hard work and education. He puts in a tremendous amount of work at O Perry Walker. When you ask him what the reward is for the countless hours he puts into teaching he says it’s a single moment that lasts for one maybe two seconds. This is an excerpt form a story I did a few years ago which you can listen to Wilburt Rawlins Jr. is also featured in the book Photo by: Susan Poag / The Times-Picayune Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sound of Suffocation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Narrative. He has received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. Charms Against Lightning, his debut poetry collection, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. During 2012 he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, Massachusetts. Photo by: Sean Hill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices