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

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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.

Tuesday 9 - 11pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting November 8, 2022: The Fourth Sunday Players Present: "The zer0-g mice Accidental Intergalactic Tour" (Part 1)

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The Fourth Sunday Players  "The Tour Diaries of zer0-g mice" Excerpt 1   Favoriting UB Radio Salon #754  UBUIBI.org  2022 
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The Fourth Sunday Players  "something _____ about space" (Edit)   Favoriting UB Radio Salon #732  UBUIBI.org  2022 
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The Fourth Sunday Players  "Tales From The Space Loft" (Edit)   Favoriting UB Radio Salon #737  UBUIBI.org  2022 
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The Fourth Sunday Players  "zer0-g" (Edit)   Favoriting UB Radio Salon #741  UBUIBI.org  2022 
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The Fourth Sunday Players  "The Tube Presents: zer0-g mice & Renaissance Iguanas" (Edit)   Favoriting UB Radio Salon #745  UBUIBI.org  2022 
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The Fourth Sunday Players  "The Tour Diaries of zer0-g mice" Excerpt 2   Favoriting UB Radio Salon #754  UBUIBI.org  2022 
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Listener comments!

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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Krys O.:

Hidey-ho!
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Scott67:

G'day Austin & Mutant Mates!
🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Kat in Chicago:

howdy do
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

Nice to see you in the chat, Krys O and Scott 67! And Kat in chicago, too!
Avatar 9:01pm
HyperDose:

That's a good looking crew!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

We do try to spend a fair amount of time putting on make-up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Rich and mutants
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

Howdy, HyperDose and coelacanthø! Sit back and enjoy the show!
Avatar 9:06pm
Geoff-U:

Hullo :waves:
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

Geoff-U! Nice to see you!
  9:08pm
ramencity:

Why hello there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Krys O.:

Limited commercial interruptions! Huzzah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Krys O.:

Thanks again!
  9:09pm
Charles:

Hi!
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Mr. X:

Howdy!
  9:12pm
Heather:

Excited to hear this! I'm a big UB fan!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

Mr. X! Nice to see you. And Heather too! The gang's all here!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

univac is, among many other things, a circuit bender, a video producer, and a musician. For more information:

techdweeb.com
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

When ramencitykid shows up, you know it's a good time.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

dfm.nu
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

dAs & Ninah are also known as Big City Orchestra.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Kat in Chicago:

I like these musics
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

In total, there are four different studios involved at four different locations before listeners hear these sounds.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar 9:27pm
Mr. X:

I love the funny space schtick!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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!
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HyperDose:

This is quite the immersive experience
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Kat in Chicago:

My compliments to the interior decorator of the space loft
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 9:43pm
HyperDose:

The seats are so comfy and upholstered to perfection
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Austin Rich:

The 1,000,001 Bongo Band was inspired by my love of the name 101 Strings Orchestra.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Kat in Chicago:

that's a lotta bongos
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Austin Rich:

One of our dark secrets: they aren't all bongos.
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Mr Fab:

Hey Austin and fellow space-cases! Been listening on and off while doin stuff. Just gotta say: THIS is creative radio.
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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?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
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Mr. X:

This is how I imagine Disaster Area, from Hitchhiker's Guide, would sound.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Austin Rich:

That was certainly our inspiration.
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Mr. X:

Sweet.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Kat in Chicago:

"Bro glitch"!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Austin Rich:

Bro Glitch is the worst.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Kat in Chicago:

Worse than brostep?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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."
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Kat in Chicago:

Why bros gotta ruin everything
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Austin Rich:

"Bros Ruin Everything" is the name of my next EP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Kat in Chicago:

All yours. Let me know when the preorder is up :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!
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Mr. X:

Why is space so funny to me?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.)
Avatar 10:44pm
HyperDose:

Same here Austin. Space is beautiful yet so deadly
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Austin Rich:

I only realized about four episodes into this project that one of univac's favorite words is "cantankerous."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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!
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Mr. X:

Space is infinite, therefore space humor is infinite.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
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Mr. X:

Endorsed by PDQ Bach.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

The free drinks at these gigs are pretty incredible.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Kat in Chicago:

Thanks, Austin!
Avatar 10:55pm
Mr. X:

Thanks for this guided tour of yet another facet of the gemstone known as Austin Rich. I had no idea.
Avatar 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!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

Both univac and I bonded over Tron early after we started doing this show together.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 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.
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Mr. X:

Tro was cyberpunk before it was punk to be cyberpunk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Austin!
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Mr. X:

er, Tron
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 11:03pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks everyone! Tune in next week for the rest of the story...
  11:06pm
ramencity:

Trøn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Scott67:

Thanks Austin & Players!🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺
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