Kalie McMonagle, radio producer/reviewer/gardener extraordinaire gave Audio Smut a fantastic review. Check out her blog, her sounds and Audio Smut’s review, along with a review of Risk and Love + Radio.
Thanks Kalie!
http://kaliedoscope.posterous.com/
The theme for the next Audio Smut is ‘animal’. Watch these cute skits to get you in the mood and learn about the sexuality of some other animals. From bumble bee sex, to fish orgies, to whale penises, to duck mating, to hermaphrodite animals, trans sexual animals, to homosexual animals, and much more – Green porn’s got a little somethin’ for everyone.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/
Audio Smut is trying to raise funds for CKUT’s October Funding Drive. We wanted to give our listeners something very special… We decided to offer the generous person that donates the most money to Audio Smut on-air sex advice from the Montreal Mirror’s weekly sex columnist: Sasha Von BonBon.
Let’s remember Hughette Proulx a radio legend & pioneer. She hosted a show called Radio-Sexe at noon on CJMS in Montreal from 1974 – 1985. (An inspiration for Audio Smut). In the video from Radio-Canada she says “When women heard Radio-Sexe they would cover their faces when they heard us talking about [sex], but they would also listen every day.” She was motivated to use talk radio emancipate Quebec from the church. Hughette Proulx was one of the first mainstream radio people to talk about HIV in Canada.
Her friend, Michel Girouard, talked about her past on Radio-Sexe and a reason he respected her: “When she took a position that would create controversy, she knew how to defend herself.”
Radio-Canada story on Hughette Proulx
Audio Smut’s Pleasures radio drama and Lady Norn’s contact mic in Vagina *VADGE OF HONOUR* sound installation are at the Berlin quEAR das transtonale Ohrenfest. So tell your Berlin friends. The whole program looks awesome. I would love to take the workshop on queering my voice.
You can listen to the Lady Norn work here.
And we will put up the Pleasures episodes really soon. Promise.
Jasmeen Patheja & Blank Noise made an audio piece called Moments of a Long Pause about eve-teasing on the streets of India. It attempts to explore the boundaries of flirting, wooing, ‘teasing’, sexual harassment and sexual violence based on the lived experiences of those interviewed. Moments of a Long Pause is part of an online exhibit of Sound Art from India at CRIASP.
Compiled by: Jon Savage
“Featuring classics by Sylvester, the Kinks, and the Ramones alongside little known discoveries by Chris Robison, the Miracles and Curt Boettcher, Queer Noises tells the hidden history of gay pop music. Beginning in 1961 with drag queens and camp records on tiny labels, the compilation passes through mid sixties’ pop, early seventies’ soul and singer songwriters, glitter rock, and punk to end with Sylvester’s 1978 “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” – the first international hit by an out gay performer. The gay contribution to pop music has always been ignored and written out of history: with detailed sleeve-notes and track by track rundowns, as well as many period photos, “Queer Noises” tells the story of how gay music went from the closet into the charts.” Jon Savage
Download the mix
via seedy (trove to beautiful music)
Pie IX by Suuns from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.
Strutting down this street on a spring day with Suuns.
Been staring, fascinated/hypnotised, at this collage all week. It’s by Julie Doucet, the artist who created the awesome Dirty Plotte comics and other stories and now primarily collages. The piece is part of Galerie La Centrale’s fundraiser. If I had $150 this is what I would take home. No doubt.
Sexy Librarian | Traitor Legion
“In the 60s, before the Lady Chatterley trial,” says Ian Stringer, “you used to get block books – literally, wooden blocks in place of any books the librarians thought were a bit risqué, like Last Exit to Brooklyn. You had to bring the block to the counter and then they’d give you the book from under the desk. So of course you got a certain type of person just going round looking for the wooden blocks.”
The Secret Life of Libraries, The Guardian
Male seahorses give birth to babies. Our next show is about complicating concepts of the cock.
ps. Thanks to Amber for opening up a new facet of animal sex.
“HIVer invokes a season characterized by hardship and dormancy. Like winter, HIV/AIDS occupies a vast white land, an empty space in the minds of those not directly affected by the disease. In an effort to counter the conceptual white-out of HIV/AIDS in the contemporary consciousness of the youth of North America, HIVer will present a suite of creative projects that collectively reassert the presence and the significance of the disease.”
- from the VAV website
Come out to 1395 Rene Levesque O. any time between April 4th-9th
vernissage on Thursday the 7th @ 7pm
ps: keep your eye out for Audio Smut 
Come out on Saturday March 19th
at 6pm
at 90 de la gauchetiere
and partake in salacious storytime 
Tales of the Night Fairies from Mama Cash.
Mama Cash’s website hosts an exhibit about Sex Worker rights.
Image for voix humaines (xxxmybody) | Ariane Moffatt
Ariane Moffatt wrote a song about sex workers. There’s a video that shows her process; she talked to sex workers. The song is part of Les Voix humaines project by ARTV. Silly me to think that the the title referred to the exciting possibility that sex work be decriminalized everywhere in Canada instead of what’s left after an intense career or night working.
Download or listen to the song : Ça vient, ça vient par Ariane Moffatt
Or watch the video about the song creation.
We usually stick to sex on this blog. But as an independent internet based media, Audio Smut just had to mention Canada’s telecommunications push towards usage based billing. The price of information in Canada is about to rise astronomically.
QPIRG McGill et UGE invite you to craft your gender. Needlework and snarkiness.
Then 2110 Centre invites you to talk about sex ed, safe sex, consent and pleasure.
Jon from Sex City and Sex Life Canada is writing an interesting series of featured personalities in Canadian sex positive culture.
An article about Amber (co-founder of Lickety Split, current Nightwood rocker) just went up. You can check out Amber’s super cool blog or Nightwood’s site. Sex Life Canada also wrote an article with Olga W. who contributed to Audio Smut.
ps. Thanks for the shout-out Amber!
Born Gay, Born This Way is a blog that pairs a childhood photo with a reflective story about growing up gay. Honest stories that you want to gorge on like ice cream.
The image is from Post Secret Rejects. Sounds weird. Like your secret, potentially shameful, was not good enough for us and now we are going to tell everyone about it. The image on the card is Rachel Kramer Bussel. We’ve interviewed her twice because her inner thoughts are cool. Listen to Rachel Kramer Bussel talk about Femme and Travel erotica.
Judging by all the youtube videos dedicated to the walk of shame, we seem pretty proud of them. My longest walk of shame included a wedding party dress, the hottest summer day in Montreal and the metro breaking down. The public transportation of shame lasted 2.5 hours.
But really what’s so shameful about getting laid? We think it’s time for a new term for the phenomenon. What about victory lap? Please share your suggestions.
The anthem for celebrating the walk of shame by Shayna Ferm.
Watch PickelPorn by Pippilotti Rist
We’ve been fans of Beautiful Agony website for quite some time. So we were glad to hear that they were dabbling in aural arousal (audio erotica). The new site is called Sonic Erotica and everything is free to download for the moment.
I liked the women describing their orgasms. It ranged from reflective thought generating to hot & steamy during the interludes. One woman talks about how the process of arousal and orgasm taste.
Interesting quote : I like to hear myself talk when I orgasm.
Here’s an interview with Jess MG over at Sex Life Canada!
The Groupies (LP) was recorded in New York in 1969 by Alan Lorber. The recording is a bunch of friends talking about guys, groupies, sex and the scene. Sometimes they sound like airheads, sometimes the dialogue is fascinating. The two sides of the LP may be streamed or downloaded from this post (click on title to access post & player). If you want more groupie related audio go to this WFMU blog post No head, No Backstage Pass.
The best slang : Making Piggies.
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Here’s some frank talk about loving anal sex in French. It’s amazing to me that they use the word “sodomy” so regularly as a verb and noun. Getting ready for our show tomorrow on asses.
ps. ARTE Radio has great audio. They also have many upstanding documentaries about sex. I wish bigger radio sites here in North America were so bold.
I saw Tetsumi Kudo‘s terrariums from the Garden of Metamorphosis series at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Notice the dildo. I think this the last growing greenery we’ll see in the city for awhile. The snow is here to stay.
Audio Smut is continuing our interrogation of sex and sound:
via workshoperotica.tumblr.com
Sound is important.
Stephanie and Jess MG are part of CKUT’s Magic Sound Box this Thursday. Among the 15 stories listen to S.’s reading of the grimmest parts of Grimm fairy tales and J.’s contact mic in vagina (narrated). A pure audio experience. It’s a unique event.
Live Radio Art Performance: storytelling–sound art–music–radio ether
The plan: create an enclosed area with large swaths of fabric, turn off the lights…and make radio. The audience is inside the box, the performers are on the outside. Some of the sounds will be mixed through a quadrophonic speaker system and some will use the natural acoustics of the space, inviting our listeners to enjoy the spatial qualities of voices, instruments, field recordings and electronics.
CKUT invites you into our third Magic Sound Box. We take you back in time when radio was King. This time around we’ll focus on the concept of ‘storytelling’ – as education, as entertainment, as cultural continuity, as the only thing and everything.
This live radio transmission art show (or tell…) takes the audience inside Radioland – inside the magic sound box – highlighting the many talents of CKUT, exploring the limits of aural imagination and indulging in the intimacy of sound.
For this performance all you need is ears, we’ll turn out the lights, and twist and weave a variety of stories and sounds together.
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LOCATION: L’Envers, 185 Van Horne (just east of Parc Ave)
DATE: Thursday, November 18th
TIME: 7pm or 9pm SHARP!
COST: $7-12 Sliding Scale
Facebook event
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The 9pm show will be broadcast live on CKUT 90,3FM & streamed at ckut.ca
More information:
culture@ckut.ca | 514 448 4041 x2593
www.magicsoundbox.blogspot.com | www.ckut.ca
A new perspective on the pussy tattoo. Maybe then I could pinpoint this pain of ovulation. We are two weeks to our next show. I need to get to work on my audio erotica piece. A regular cycle.
We love CKUT because they let us talk frank, explicit and intelligently about sex every month at 6pm. They also taught us how to make creative radio. They will also teach you, your sister, your neighbour how to make radio. Making radio & talking about female desire changed our lives and we hope listening is changing your life or at least the first Wednesday of your month.
Consider donating to CKUT. It costs 60$ an hour to keep the radio broadcasting. Every bit counts.
To thank you : Our highest donor will get this signed poster from Buck Angel.
On Wednesday Oct 27 at 6pm…We join other feminist radio makers and we’ll be giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the Edgy Women 2011 Cabaret. It’s our favourite MTL festival.
Win 2 zines. Lickety Split donated their latest work issue plus a back issue to one lucky donor. Smutty smart reading & photos.
There’s also gifts for pledges over 25$.
Call 514.907.9424 to pledge or online. Make sure to say you are pledging to Audio Smut.
So thanks from the bottom of our vulvas. xxx
Surprise the landlord.
Diane Labelle keynotes about Two-Spirit identities. Movies. Performances. Community Media Showcases. Amateur Drag Shows.
John Blades with Brian Eno!
In The too hard basket John Blades talks about his own experiences with sex, touch and dis/ability. He also talks to other people with dis/abilities, health professionals and sex workers. It is a fascinating & generous documentary plus John Blades’ experience as a experimental musician makes the audio really sweet!
Eric Paradis' Labour of Love & Sex...Not to be missed!
Tons of QC artists getting together to get their erotic art on: mostly visual art and some DJ, baroque music and more.
Fay Melay | Don't Touch My Butt
Le Conseil des artistes québécois vous invites chaleureusement
au vernissage du Festival d’art érotique de Montréal.
L’exposition de l’événement s’intitule: ” Provocation”
Date et heures 2 septembre 2010 de 18h a 22h.
Lieu: CIRCUS after-hour, 917 rue Ste-Catherine Est à Montréal.
Entrée libre
Venez célébrer l’érotisme dans l’art !
Festival d’art érotique de Montréal
20 août au 5 septembre 2010
Dans une ambiance feutrée créer par le DJ Bryan Wolf-Ear, venez admirer les oeuvres de 42 artistes en arts visuels. Un événement unique ou l’art vous séduira par son érotisme.
More info:
Source
Jennifer-Lee Barker
info@conseildesarts.org
514-347-6910
http://faem.conseildesarts.org/
Audio Smut’s polyamourous show is coming up in a week and we’re working hard to get it done. I took a break today to watch this short clip. A feisty woman takes the usual banal vox pop and makes it sex-hilarious.
It made me think about how we get people to tell their secrets on Audio Smut. We’re constantly striving to get smutty, honest and precise stories about intimate lives. It can be a huge challenge. We ask our friends, contact bloggers, event organizers, educators that already put their sexual thoughts out there…often we want to go further. Sometimes we use Craigslist or Facebook to try and get generous new ideas about sexuality. Sometimes it works. I wonder what would happen if I went out onto the street if I could get candid stories about sex that surprise as much as this video? I’m a little nervous to try.
There’s two workshops that really caught our attention at this year’s Queer between the covers book fair. A part of Pervers/cité. Learn to make erotica then get up close and personal when you learn how to make pasties and strip tease. What a productive afternoon!
DIY QueErotica: Photography, Creative Writing and Sketching! 3pm
This introduction to Do-It-Yourself erotica will focus on a variety of creative, cheap, fun ways to make your own queer independent media. From photography, to writing to nude drawing, we’ll explore easy accessible ways to get naughty.
Pasties For Pennies: DIY Burlesque on a Budget with Glam Gam Productions 4:30pm
Glam Gam reveals a few of their sexy secrets on how to produce burlesque on a budget, with a pastie making workshop, and a hands on lap dance instructional. Interactive fun and positive atmosphere, no previous experience required. Materials supplied.
Where? Centre St-Pierre, 1212 rue Panet, #1205, Montreal, QC
Thinking about orgasms let me recognize the panoply of orgasms I have. After sex me and my lover often talk about the type of orgasms we had: feeling inside/outside, thoughts that went through our head, colours/images we saw, build-up etc.
It’s great pillow talk.
When I saw this call out on Violet Blue’s Tiny Nibbles. I just had to share it & encourage the lady readers to contribute. The project is organized by sex educator, Midori. Can’t wait to read your submissions when it comes out.
Call for submissions: Describe your orgasms.
I turn to you, dear readers, for some juicy material needed for a very special project. I am collecting women’s accounts of the physical experience their orgasms. I’m really hoping that some of you can help me out with this. Feel free to pass it on to any women or lists with women who might be interested.
Details – I am seeking first-person descriptions from women about their orgasms.
• Who: You are a woman, 18 years or older, who have experienced one or more variety of orgasms. (Transwomen! I want your unique perspectives too!)
• What: Essay of clear and detailed description of your orgasm, from start to finish, focusing on the physical experience, expressed in your own words. When does it start? What’s the hint of it? Where does it start? How does it move through your body? What sort of sensations? Imagine trying to illustrate your orgasm to a person who’s never had it.
• If you have more than one type of orgasm each variety would be written in a separate essay piece. (The get-to-sleep quickie, the deep one, the surprise one, the long building one, solo-sex one, when getting oral sex, etc…)
• How Long? As long as it takes for you to describe it. It may be a couple of paragraphs or couple of pages.
• Credit line: How would you like your essay to be credited? You’ll have one or two lines.
• Editing: At most I will edit for grammar, spelling and simple readability. I want to keep it as true to your original narrative and tone as possible.
• When: No later than end of August
• Send to midori AT fhp-inc DOT com
• Please make sure that there’s an e mail I can reliably reach you at. I may have some questions around editing or some other detail.
I’m happy to answer any questions on this. Thank you!
I did a rather interesting experiment earlier this summer. Parole Citoyenne held a contest to make fake soundtracks to some archival videos from their collection. I made one that pretended to be the prep/downtime before a live from the scene broadcast.
So watch the video and listen to my soundtrack about a beached whale. Somehow I still managed to include a mention of desire (for the cameraman) in the piece. Never ever audio without a smidgen of sex, ok?
Third Coast International held the Book Odds open competition this summer to make audio works that incorporated set sound effects and titles. One of my favourites is by Erik Laar (Steptone). It tells the story of love in the internet world. I’m often preoccupied with how to create audio works about technology that is increasingly silent. This piece is slick.
Listen to Chain of Missing Links by Erik Laar.
The fine trash loving folks of douteux screenings are getting ready to screen porn tomorrow. The screenings usually are very crowd participation orientated. Expect shenanigans.
What they said:
Vous avez voté pour deux blocs de 45 minutes. Chacun de ces deux blocs est ensuite divisé en trois t…hématiques heureuses nous ramenant à 6 courts métrages de près de 12 minutes chacun. Je ne puis affirmer avec certitude que ça sert à rendre horny; je ne peux croire que ça serve à rendre horny. Mais là, soyez avertis: c’est trash, très trash. Médiéval, Cow-Boy, Pirates, Sultan, Vampires et fantômes, telles seront les différentes manières d’explorer le gros porn trash dépourvu de bon goût et de public cible.
J’insiste sur les deux points: aucun public cible, aucun début de bon goût.
À noter que ces dessins animés hantent toute la bande de douteulogues de Val-d’Or depuis près de 15 ans maintenant…
More info: http://douteux.org
When: Monday 20h
Location: BrouHaha 5860 DeLorimier Montreal
Here’s two radio features about Trans folk:
The small person acquisition project is a lovely story of a couple making babies.
Finding Miles . The website has interesting supplemental information from Miles, the subject of the feature and Sarah Reynolds, the producer.
PS. We’re producing a steamy show about Trans. Stay tuned.
Come celebrate Stella’s 15th anniversary of good hard work on Friday June 25th, at the Lion d’Or, 1676 Ontario East (near Papineau). The doors open at 8 p.m.; the show begins at 9 p.m. Performance: A Seska Lee Production presents EXPOSÉE with two MC, followed by the music of the DJs Plastik Patrik, Mary Hell and Davidé. The book Mais oui c’est un travail! will also be launched. Entrance: only 5$ at the door!
Our porn, ourselves - June 11, 2010
Violet Blue is leading a new social media initiative to counter anti-porn/anti-sex feminists. Check out the website. And enter the “Why Porn is awesome?” video contest with only 4 days left!!! What to create?
Audiotopie makes super interesting audio guides to Montreal. All available for free on their website. The guides integrate sound art and deep listening into the urban exploration. This Saturday they are planning a electroacoustic fashion show/urban exploration of Montreal’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood as part of the L’echo d’un fleuve festival this weekend.
Chères ami.es,
Le nue-méro 3 des *Plottes Con-Plottent* que vous attendiez sans plus vous pouvoir est prêt!
Plottes en Stock
Notre histoire de l’oeil: La Post-Porn Féministe
des mots, des vues, des goodies
*LANCEMENT, DIMANCHE LE 13 JUIN
COUR ARRIÈRE DU DIRA, 2O35 St-Laurent,
2OH, Projections d’extraits lorsqu’il fera suffisamment noir. *
en cas de pluie: on tend la bâche au dessus de nos têtes, ça n’en sera que plus excitant.
A dimanche!
the plot’z
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If I have the right DVD (picked it up at the anarchist book-fair) there are three hot videos from Pink & White, NoFauxxx and Wordy Bike Porn stuff called Tour de Pants. I was a little surprised there wasn’t other articles or something. The anti-patriarchy framed discourse of the cover sticker made me think about how when I usually read or talk about alt-porn it’s all about gender theory. Interesting. There is a description full of great sex puns on the cover. We love sexy plays on words. My faves: “nerdes jouisseueses” and “Je fais les relations pubiques.”
PS. Roulette is beyond amazing.
Thanks for the love, Lickety.
Last night Audio Smut partied it up at the launch of Lickety Split’s much anticipated 8th issue. Congrats to the Lickety peeps on a beautiful smutty zine and a great launch. The Work Issue looks at sex work from sexy, creative, political and practical angles. We really like the profiles of different sex workers. Also the centerfold spread, including our own Noisy Nora, is not to be missed!
To continue our zine love. Here’s a call-out from Superhussy. They are looking for stories about how women of colour learned about sex. The deadline is July 1 2010.
POSITIVE WARNING: Thinking, writing and talking about how we first experienced and learned sex is results in some of the most entertaining, thought provoking and present day sex changing activity. So submit!
Jess MG’s article, Paddling The Pink Canoe Without Porn, was part of the new issue of 1234V. It’s a piece about her favourite adolescent masturbation tools. The list runs from MC Hammer’s song “Have U Seen Her?” to Sue Johanson’s Sunday Night Sex with Sue radio show.
Check out the piece and more info about this awesome zine from Winnipeg over at 1234V.
$8 gets you in and a copy of the zine!
Friday, June 4th
Il Motore, 179 Jean Talon O.
Doors @ 9
Bands @ 10
Smut all night!
Come get your copy of the zine and enjoy a night of great music, dancing and smut with us.
Don’t forget to dress as your favourite profession!
Through labour pains and stock market gains, LS #8: The Work issue has got your smutty career aspirations covered! Featuring smutty writing, art and photography by: Mark Ambrose Harris, Sophie Glowa, Samara Leibner, Valerie Webber, Farah Khan, Noisy Nora, Gloria Gloryhole, Monogamie and more!! Slip into the staxxx with Susie Lovelace, learn how to get fabulous muscles, take more sex days, and find out how to get kinky on the cheap!
More info on Lickety’s blog
The registration details for the Desiree Conference: Working Sex are up. Check them out at Bound, Not Gagged Blog The conference is on from July 25th-30th. I wish I could go. If you go, would you send Audio Smut an audio diary?
Audio Smut is the #2 Radio Show in Montreal! Thank you to the lovely sexy people who voted for us.
Here’s two events to get you hot and bothered:
MTL: Book Launch of Pink Noises!
What she said: “Come to Montreal launch party to celebrate the release of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, by Tara Rodgers (Duke University Press, 2010). The book is a collection of twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and performance artists.”
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: OBORO New Media Lab
Street: 4001 rue Berri
Facebook event details
TO: Euphoric Femme Vernissage
What she said: “I am interested in the healing of sexually-based psychic wounds, reconnecting the sexual with the spiritual, a cross-pollination between art and health, and ultimately erotic celebration. Through a synthesis of autoerotic images and vocalizations, these artworks add to a growing body of work concerned with the creation of shameless and esteem-centred self-representations of women as sexual beings.”
***Jess MG from Audio Smut is part of the exhibit yo***
Friday April 30, 6-9pm
OCAD Graduate Student Gallery, 205 Richmond Street, Ground Floor (enter via Duncan Street entrance)
More info
