Summary
Word spirits, back rooms and a reply all-pocalypse - Josie Long presents short documentaries that emerge from the internet.
Word Spirits With thanks to Caroline Hesse, Donovan McGrath, Mary Dolejsi, Nicole Reinsch, Nalini Kumari, Zen Priest & Buddhist Scholar John Stevens (for permission to include his Classical Aikido Kototama Chant), and Critical Sound Explorer & Artist Matt Parker (for permission to include excerpts from The People's Cloud / Field Recordings of Internet Data Centres): https://www.earthkeptwarm.com Additional mixing by Maitreya Produced by HJ Radia
The Back Rooms Produced by Mae-Li Evans
The Bello Tolls for Thee Produced by Nadia Mehdi
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of shortcuts. |
| 0:08.3 | And today, podcast friends, this will be an apt one for you. |
| 0:11.6 | It's about the internet, the thing which you are using currently to listen to this podcast |
| 0:17.0 | or to have downloaded this podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | What I love about this episode is it's talking about |
| 0:23.2 | this technology in a supernatural sense largely, about hauntings and magic and unpredictable, |
| 0:31.0 | exciting things. So I hope you enjoy it. If you're not careful and you no clip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the back rooms. |
| 0:43.1 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:45.0 | Words have a life of their own. |
| 0:48.2 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:56.1 | Today, the net. |
| 0:58.9 | Zimwi. Zimwi means ghost. |
| 1:02.3 | Zimwi, di Gauduoho, Halikuli. |
| 1:06.4 | The ghost that knows you will not devour you. |
| 1:08.8 | People forget that you don't need monsters or entities to make the backrooms compelling. |
| 1:13.5 | The backrooms is the monster. |
| 1:17.3 | When you go on like a school trip or something when you're a kid and everyone starts giggling, |
| 1:23.1 | it was like that but 30,000 people in an email list. |
| 1:29.9 | The pace of the changes in technology is so fast that we've not yet adjusted our culture |
| 1:37.8 | to accommodate it. |
| 1:39.9 | Deep-rooted senses of the mythological, the cosmological, the spiritual haven't caught up yet. |
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