Episode Background Info & Sources

Waste time following links to sources and other info mentioned during the podcast!

Episode 1: What Is a Fake Band?: The Rocklopedia Fakebandica Ep. 1 (1 Apr. 2024)

We mentioned Google's AI Test Kitchen, as well as the McGurk Effect. We also mentioned how audio deepfake technology can make us think Biden used to wear an onion on his belt or Jay-Z rapped a truly terrible Billy Joel song. For more, this Two-Minute Papers video is a good start.

Episode 2: Hey Hey, It's One of the Most Famous Fake Bands of All: The Monkees! (1 Apr. 2024)

We talked a bit about the Brill Building songwriters.

Episode 3: Real Feelings, Fake Bands: An RF Love Mix, Just4U (8 Apr. 2024)

Nothing really arcane this week. Just l-u-v.

Episode 4: Fake From New York! (15 Apr. 2024)

A lot of the old eps are available at the Internet Archive.

Episode 5: Going Down the Musical Torture Rabbit Hole with the Muppephone (22 Apr. 2024)

The original sketch on YouTube. It's also available via Disney+ of course. Also on YouTube:

• Monty Python's "Arthur Ewing and His Musical Mice" sketch
• The "Torturer's Apprentice" scene from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Stan Freberg's "Tuned Sheep" sketch
• Disney's "The Barnyard Concert" short (the piglet bit is around 2:15)
• The immortal Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat (RIP Fatso)
• Scarlatti's "Cat's Fugue"
• The classic "Oh Long Johnson"
• The short film "The Cat Piano" (It's also at the film's official site) 
• A clip of the Catastrophy being played

You can play with a virtual Katzenklavier thanks to MIT and Mewser23.

The sheet music for La Piganino Quick Step is here. We used Soundslice to play it for you.

Jules Verne's "Mister Ray Sharp and Miss Me Flat" from Yesterday and Tomorrow is available via the Internet Archive. (You have to check it out.) More about the story from the Museum of Imaginary Instruments.

More Interesting links:

• Info about Cauld airn and Scottish pig taboos
• This monstrous ‘organ’ of squealing pigs was built at King Louis XI’s command
• The Cat in Medieval Inventions
• The Piganino
• Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments
• The Birth of Sampling (via Internet Archive)
• The Cat Piano
• The Katzenklavier: An Organ Made of Cats
• Hey, what's that sound: the Katzenklavier
• Music or Animal Abuse? A Brief History of the Cat Piano

We also used Pascal Quignard's “Louis XI et les porcs musiciens” from La Haine de la Musique, 1996, pages 185–193. It's also available in English from Yale University Press, but we couldn't get it via interlibrary loan in time.