Jack grew up as a carny in the circus and was well-loved by the tattooed lady. But what happened to his sister? What strange meats did he consume in the forest? Did he indeed fall in love with a clown? Find out!
He remembers Jack well.
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Colin Winnette reading from Revelation!
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Colin Winnette, Mutable author, recently informed us that he got engaged in Prague and to celebrate we’re putting the first chapter of his remarkable novel, Revelation, up for audio download.
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We Don't Like Cats
Mutable Sound of the Month
The Mice Rock Group Band consists of Ray Davis (vox), Gabriel Boyer & Danyel Johnson (synth), and Mike Tolman (drums). It has had other members in the past, but always with Mr. Davis on lead vox, and Mr. Davis was always the inspiration and the reason for the rest of us to be there. His ideas, always versatile and pinging about the room, about whatever thread of thought he was stringing through his fingers.
That we could capture this moment with Mr. Davis is truly a blessing, and although we here at Mutable have not seen him for many years now, he should know that he is often in our thoughts, his delightful banter, and his occasional back seat serenade. If I had my way, Mr. Davis’ songs would be popping up on every radio, crackling through the fuzz as the car veered a corner down some blue highway. It’s a tragedy that he’s been lost somewhere in the sticks of Oregon, but he is not forgotten. His vision lives on!
The below recording is from an afternoon in May in which for once we all were able to bring it together and capture Ray as he freewheeled from song to song. Here is one of the highlights from that afternoon.
Mutable is pleased to present a unique musical experience every month or so by ourselves or someone we’ve been introduced to. These are from the reel-to-reels and tascams of the garages and basements of the world. Send tracks to mail@mutablesound.com along with credits and a brief description.
What happened to Simone’s parents?
Episode 13
Boo Boo has gone rushing off into the marsh and has found a strange nest of unnatural things. We learn secrets of both Jack and Simone that we do not know. For the most part, Archibald’s colleagues have been very kind and courteous about his new tentacle arm, bu not everyone!
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
What invisible forces hold Simone under their sway?
Episode 14
We learn the details of Simone’s dark past, and what power that lives within her. Could the faeries be responsible for this demon possession? Jack knows something of faeries, but what happened when Simone’s parents were killed? Let’s just say, more horrors awaited them even after the horrific act!
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
What secret world is concealed within our own?
Episode 15
The thing wants Boo Boo to be frightened and curl into a ball. Boo Boo’s people raised the sorts of animals that would force them to live on the outskirts of any village. Things such as unicorn worms and other fantastes.
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
The man face down in the puddle out front is come hunting for his childhood sweetheart.
Episode 16
Why does Simone hate the faeries so? And who is this man hunting for the truth of his childhood sweetheart? And will that boy ever be able to get unstuck from the crib? And why is Gundrun so distracted? And why are Archibald’s eyes rolled back inside his head? So many questions!
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
The French Song
Mutable Sound of the Month
The French Song was originally written by Gabriel Boyer in an effort to test the boundaries of his knowledge of French and recorded on Walking Stick (’01). Lyrics go something like this: “French it’s the language of fingers, french it’s the language of fingers, hey hey hee hee ha ha the language of fingers / Do re mi it isn’t fa, do re mi it isn’t fa, hey hey hee hee ha ha, it isn’t fa / But french it’s in the head / But the fingers are in regret / But your tongue is on my eyes / But your fingers are in my heart.” I leave the rest of the song up to your own fertile imagination.
This song was recorded with the Dynavox 2000 at Exile Studios in the Fall of 2002 with back-up vocals by Corey Tatarczuk and Annie Heringer, with Corey also playing bass and Annie playing accoustic guitar. Malcolm Felder was on drums, Dalton Eljer on electric guitar, Gregory Kenney on keyboards, and Gabriel Boyer performing lead vocals and piano. It was recorded just a few short months after The Textbook Tapes and with largely the same aesthetic in mind, and involving many of the same performers. Since that time it’s been sitting in our storehouses waiting for the moment when we would unleash it on your unsuspecting ears. This is the month, and today is the day.
Feel free to listen or download below.
Mutable is pleased to present a unique musical experience every month or so by ourselves or someone we’ve been introduced to. These are from the reel-to-reels and tascams of the garages and basements of the world. Send tracks to mail@mutablesound.com along with credits and a brief description.
Archibald as a younger man in Shanghai.
Episode 17
Archibald has disappeared, but we learn a bit about his backstory and the cage he spent his adolescence in. Jack has a new invention that the Headmistress finds dirty, and Boo Boo has just stormed in the room holding up the cuddliest parasite the world has ever seen. Are panty-holes the solution? What’s happened to the Grammar Instructor’s hands?
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
What madness is occurring in the infirmary?
Episode 18
A man is face down in a puddle out front. A boy stuck in a crib has somehow worked his way through the doorway. Simone is lost in some other fantastical realm full of trees grinning stupidly. Jack continues to ramble on incomprehensibly as he whispers his concerns to the Grammar Instructor. Will he be shipped off to Zimbabwe?
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
Will Grammar Instructor Gundrun accept Jack’s advances despite his invention of pantyholes?
Episode 19
Gundrun must once again announce her absolute and complete lack of interest in Jack and any and all romantic plans he has concocted. Archibold is himself concocting a plan of revenge with his recently resuscitated telepathic monkey. And Headmistress Ursula? Even as she relates intimate details from her past, she continues to weave a web of mind control and other illocal elements.
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
Swan Dive With Chuck
Mutable Sound of the Month
Ramses (Retrograde)’s Jason Allen—also of ComoRevi Butterfly and the Blank Bankers—who played on and produced Mutable’s No Place to Die—who has been affiliated with FROG (FRiends Of Gamelan), is a great lover and student of Indonesian music, and is friends with Alex Yoffe among others—has graciously shared his library of casio compositions, and we here at Mutable chose this as one of the saner options. Enjoy!
Mutable is pleased to present a unique musical experience every month or so by ourselves or someone we’ve been introduced to. These are from the reel-to-reels and tascams of the garages and basements of the world. Send tracks to mail@mutablesound.com along with credits and a brief description.
The Headmistress’ mind control techniques are very effective.
Episode 20
Confronted by trans dimensional beings, Gundrun at last lets down her guard with Jack. But what is going on back inside the infirmary? And out in the world beyond?
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
What invisible forces are at work?
Episode 21
The Headmistress wants to believe she is the evil one, but the narrator has something else in mind. Faeries will never amount to anything, and narrators can impersonate people when they’re off in the bathroom, and may occasionally titter over smashed faces. And the devil should be obvious.
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
Fish Cake Attack
Mutable Sound of the Month
Fish Cake Attack was written and recorded in a single day for a short film entitled Monkey Hour, about a young woman with a graveyard shift slowly losing her mind and haunted by a strange gorilla. The film was written and directed by Adrianne Jorge as part of Video Salon Night, a semi-monthly experiment from the first few years of the new millenium in which a film was shot and edited in a single day with all in-camera edits. Many of the stories were bizarre pilots to shows would never see the light of day. A divorced couple cop buddy film featuring a senior citizen adoption crime ring for example, or a psychadelic rock group whose music is used as a weapon of mass destruction on the homeworld of an alien posing as their manager, and the Monkey Hour was no exception.
Most of these films included live soundtracks recorded on the premises in the days previous, and we have selected this particular song for its wonderful bone-chilling scream and because it is a prime example of the amateur aesthetic was the foundation for Video Salon Night. Fish Cake Attack was written and recorded by Annie Heringer (lead guitar & vox) and Dalton Eljer (guitar) of the Box Kites, as well as Corey Tatarczuk (bass), and Cathy Cathodic (drums). “My pussy’s black! Fish cake attack!”
To learn more about Monkey Hour and other films made at Exile as part of the Video Salon Night series, go here.
Mutable is pleased to present a unique musical experience every month or so by ourselves or someone we’ve been introduced to. These are from the reel-to-reels and tascams of the garages and basements of the world. Send tracks to mail@mutablesound.com along with credits and a brief description.
What devil possesses her?
Episode 22
Archibald has a little heart to heart with Poppy. The narrator is still going on about his covert powers. The man passed out in the puddle out front is just now coming to his senses. The headmistress uncovers two of her staff in a compromising position. What more could you want?
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
When will the narrator stop talking?
Episode 23
The narrator is having a bit of a nervous breakdown. Apparently, he’s a defrocked priest that lives on a Shanghai junk? Gundrun and Jack are discovered by the Headmistress in a compromising position.
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
Huang and Wu on the street with friends.
Episode 24
The narrator has certain ulterior motives. We learn more about Archibald’s back story. Boo Boo can no longer be controlled because she has been freed by the tentacles of imaginary bears. However, at one point, her face will be on fire. The doorbell rings. Who could it be?
A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies aired on a semi-weekly basis.
The Crucible as a Oneman Show (Pt 2)
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What were those girls brewing in the woods? What secret longings burn in Abby’s heart? Find out in this second installment of the Crucible as a Oneman Show, our Bedroom Theater production. The girls are up to something, but what will come of it? And what of John Proctor and his wandering stare? As read by Mutable’s own Gabriel Boyer
Bedroom Theater began when my roommate changed the light bulb in my bedroom and ended in a five-hour crying spree in the Nevada desert. There is no audience, only people performing for each other. For more on this, please see Welcome to Weltschmerz.
Headmistress Ursula
Episode 25
Simone Fairfax is possessed by the devil, and a stranger has arrived at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, but right now we are going to take a trip down memory lane to Headmistress Ursula’s young adulthood in Shanghai and the stranger she met and how he changed her life, and not for the better!