007 - Keystone Temple - First Reflection

Welcome to Point Crawl. I'm your host, Connor Sites-Bowen.

Point Crawl approaches conversation like roleplaying games approach adventures - a series of landmarks to explore and find meaning in.

Today's Point Crawl starts at the Keystone Temple.

This seventh episode is entirely behind-the-curtain shoptalk. It is a debrief and reflection on the first six episodes, “Season One”, as it were, as well as an exploration of what the project is about, why I’m doing it, and who my Podcast Family Tree is.

• Point of Interest: Legacy Audio [2:47]

• Point of Interest: The Podfather Part I [8:56]

• Point of Interest: The Podfather Part II [11:08]

Links:
The Shadow // Psychedelic Salon // C-Realm // Tom Barbalet

The music for this week's episode:

• The intro music for the Keystone Temple is a piece called Zenophobic, by Salakapakka Sound System, from the album Buddha Machines on Fire Vol. 2. Buddha Machines are small musical loop players which produce meditative music. These small plastic boxes were first created by Beijing based electronica duo FM3, back in 2005, and have inspired many subsequent projects and products.

• The music underneath the recreated opening to The Shadow is an electronic piece called PLATO No. 4297 Iridescent Violas, by PLATO & the Western Tradition, a live and improvised electronica set performed by David K. Barton on April 9 of 2017 somewhere in Michiana (pronounced Mish-e-Anna), the area around South Bend, Indiana that straddles the state border.

• This closing track is Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba, featuring Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, and Alex Beroza.
  

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006 - Garden Grove - Seasons

Welcome to Point Crawl. I'm your host, Connor Sites-Bowen.

Point Crawl approaches conversation like roleplaying games approach adventures - a series of landmarks to explore and find meaning in.

Today's Point Crawl starts at the Garden Grove.

• Point of Interest: Garden Update [1:20]

• Point of Interest: Cold Song [11:00]

• Point of Interest: Pittsburgh In Snow, 2013 [13:50]

The music for this week's episode:

• The aria “What Power Art Thou” (Cold Song) from King Arthur, or the British Worthy. The semi-opera was written by Henry Purcell, with a libretto by John Dryden. That was me singing as the Genius (in the sense of an animating land-spirit) of Cold, having been awakened by Cupid - Love itself!

• “Blue Circles”, by Unreal DM, featuring C Soul.

005 - The Place of Shelter and Refuge - Maintenance and Ritual

Welcome to Point Crawl. I'm your host, Connor Sites-Bowen.

Point Crawl approaches conversation like roleplaying games approach adventures - a series of landmarks to explore and find meaning in.

Today's Point Crawl starts at the Place of Shelter and Refuge.

• Point of Interest: Metaphor (0:53)
• Point of Interest: Garbage Day (2:35)
• Point of Interest: The Great Highland Banjo Jam Session (5:00)
• Point of Interest: The Cleaner of Myths (9:30)
• Point of Interest: The Leaving of Liverpool (15:52)
• BONUS: About the Music (18:05)
  
  The music for this week's episode is My Old Kentucky Home, played on musical saw, from a 1921 novelty recording by John Hanford.

004 - Container Yard - Reefer

Welcome to Point Crawl. I'm your host, Connor Sites-Bowen.

Point Crawl approaches conversation like roleplaying games approach adventures - a series of landmarks to explore and find meaning in.

Today's Point Crawl starts at the Container Yard.

• Point of Interest: Listening Notes (:36)

• Point of Interest: Reefer(3:19)

• Point of Interest: 30,000lbs of Bananas(4:15)

• Point of Interest: Tracing This Container - Self-Correcting Numbers (5:47)

• Point of Interest: Tracing This Container - Looking Up the Container (8:29)

• *BONUS* Information about Episode Music (13:33)

You can download your own free papercraft 20' shipping container here, or support my shipping container research by buying my art.

Music for this episode is CC-BY: Parranda, by zambeatz. Zambeatz is Jorge Molina Prudot, an experimental musician from Comayaguela, Honduras. 

Parranda is an Afro-Indiginous musical form and festival format that happens around Christmas-time across Latin America. The Parranda featured in Prudot's haunting mix was performed by the Garifuna group Los Menudos. The Garifuna reside on the Caribbean coast and are of West African, Island Carib, Arawak, and European descent. They are a minority group within Honduras, which has long been the chief source of bananas for the United States.

Thank you Creative Commons and thank you Jorge Molina Prudot. 

Fuel consumption math based on numbers from Electric Refrigerated Container Racks: Technical Analysis [PDF link} by the Electric Power Research Institute. Apologies if I'm way off, but I think the exercise was illustrative regardless of the accuracy of a given computed average fuel price over time.

003 - Field of Field Recordings - Polite Leafblower

Welcome to Point Crawl. I'm your host, Connor Sites-Bowen.

Point Crawl approaches conversation like roleplaying games approach adventures - a series of landmarks to explore and find meaning in.

Today's Point Crawl starts at the Field of Field Recordings.

• Point of Interest: Listening Notes (:41)

• Point of Interest: Polite Leafblower (1:48)

• Point of Interest: Vocal Fry (5:24)

• Point of Interest: Tuvan Throat Singing (8:09)

Music for this episode is CC-BY: Sfioro by Roberto Billi. Thank you Creative Commons and thank you Roberto Billi.

002 - Field of Field Recordings - Overtaken By A Train On a Bike

Welcome to Point Crawl. I'm your host, Connor Sites-Bowen.

Point Crawl approaches conversation like roleplaying games approach adventures - a series of landmarks to explore and find meaning in.

Today's Point Crawl starts at the Field of Field Recordings.

• Point of Interest: Listening Notes [:37]

• Point of Interest: Overtaken By a Train On a Bike [5:41]

• Point of Interest: Hidden Highways [13:17]

The episode of Andrew Kaiser's ZenGlop podcast that I mention can be found here: http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/2018/05/episode-30-modes-of-sonic-psychogeography-modify-memorialize-manipulate-.html

Music for this episode is CC-BY:  Xanadon't by Mystery Mammal. Thank you Creative Commons and thank you Mystery Mammal.