Notes for the upgrade to UBU 20 in Jan 2022 as I remember them – details are in the asterisk reinstall afresh Asterisk MOH relies on the icecast server running. The MOH config file will need updating for UBU 20 The two servers PRIMO and UBU20 use two different ports for the ice cast server- check that the various files that contain references to ports 8000 or 7000 are updated
There are several stories playing out in The Red Telephone Box that talks a bit like me. The first one is about my interest in acting and performing and whether a computer generated voice can ever be a decent actor. The second are a series of personal stories many of them related to family or childhood, some true, some embellishments of the truth and some just made up. The third
Morphine makes the world white and furry – or at least that’s my experience. Things take on the texture and colour of polar bear and crazy ideas seem sensible. So it was, that in 2014, when I was diagnosed with three incurable diseases (hence the morphine) and thought I was going to die, I bought a British red telephone box from Ebay, installed it outside my house and moved in.
ventrilloquismcomputer voiceslivenessmelodramaautoethnograpypoetrystoriessprechgesangmusic hallrandomnessopera Ives Berio Cage Radiohead Amateurism The phone box fantasy stops when I sleep in one at 14 Wizard of Oz, uncanny Valley, edison the realms beyond Dada absurdity Web radio Joe brainard The pieces Julie produced Possible hooks for research articles finding a new me in response to a cancer diagnosis A creative response to the covid lockdown My many voices Melodrama a different way to speak
McClaren did a song based on Madame Butterfly – it has a melodrama treatment – also Diana Ross – Ain’t no mountain high enough has a melodrama section. Be more overt with the notion of a test facility open in the summer accessible by opening the door. Build a sign to put inside the box that invites people to test the facility. As part of the test invite the user
Well how interesting your response is. It really makes me think. Thanks! I think you might be trying too hard to decode significant meaning in what are absurd narratives. I agree there is some autobiographical content but it’s not important. What is important is a sense of the absurd. Both protagonists live in worlds where conventional wisdom has no place. In TIN, to be constrained to speaking only one word