We Got Both Kinds

this is a collection of the work of Ed Special

The Covid Years

The assembly of the "Warts & All" sampler was accomplished during lockdown

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CLEAR LEADER

made for Ann Arbor Film Festival

In the lobby of The Michigan Theater during the week of the festival, the audience is invited to contribute their own art by way of colored markers onto a reel of clear leader film.

CLEAR LEADER AGAIN

made for Ann Arbor Film Festival

this year 700 feet instead of the usual 400 was donated and nearly all of it was enthusiastically filled up by the time it was shown. The projectionists cut the film in half and projected both halves side-by-side on the wide screen. I had been composing soundtracks for them for 20 years. Of course, never able to view the film before it's shown, I try to compose something that is rich enough with material that it might synchronize frequently with the stuff on the film (which is ALWAYS the same delightful sort of scribbling, stripy, wonderfully splotchy messy gibberish). Most of the spoken bits were extracted from vintage instructional films on proper maintenance of film projectors, thanks to Rick Prelinger's Internet Archive, the rest from The Tingler; Vernon, Florida and Donovan's Brain (Suspense Radio). Much of the sound collage was taken from radio collage done live on WCBN-FM 88.3 many years ago. Some of it includes Barry Bouwsma's work when we were partners in audio crime during the first six years of Special Ed (that's the name of my radio show, not where the short bus took me).

Spacial Ed

Space Theme Shows

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The Story Of The Naivete

"People might like to know that the way we did bits of this show involved Ed and I trading random phrases back and forth from various LPs in two different studios, hard to do when you haven't heard what you're going to be playing and you're laughing the entire time" - Yax Haxley

Birdsongs

TBD 2008?

ART FAIRE

2006

ASH WEDNESDAY

2006?

Penis and Testicles Dance Party

made live at WCBN circa mid 1980s
Edited together from up to 7 records skipping on 7 turntables. Beanball (Barry Bouwsma) in Prod A, Duncan Campbell in Prod B, Ed Special in FM Studio and sex ed records
Edited by Ed Special

NSFW

JINGLE BELLS

2007

Cry Of Silence as told by Ed Special

2006

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