#breathingxspace

Interview with members of a YuDio squat/artist collective, who are preserving and remaking songs from the distant past.

Music: The Sweetness, performed by Chima Baardson

Chasing a Ghost, part 5: Old Songs

This episode features Lauren Tucker and @woebegonepod, & includes @rox-and-prose & Lou Sutcliffe (who I KNOW is on here, but whose handle I cannot find and it is driving me crazy)

I've been working on a conlang for @breathingxspace for a couple seasons now, and S4 has presented opportunities to develop a bunch of profanity!

Angry with someone?

Call them ne’werkem! (an unproductive member of society)

Or ne'celja! (Useless)

Or maybe say that you think they're ne’khrabroste. (A coward, lit. without courage)

Even MORE angry?

Say they're marzvats promandetion! (an untrained timewaster)

Or angra neftyanye! (willfully-ignorant trash)

Or really go all out and say someone is prom’det ne’celja ne’werkem! (a time-wasting, useless, non-productive member of society)

Angry AND poetic?

Try "Ne’uchit ultod’t oni to tukrasit." (Lit. "they can't teach a child to make art." Fig. they can't do the most basic & obvious things.)

Or say "Britsyaway oni konhae." (Lit. "They shave in the cafeteria." Fig. they are selfish at the expense of society.)

Want still MORE Mahknovchik?

The language primer can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jSaLXhT_qH4whWAwr5vPFpK2VIwcz5dxDpPixasDXo/edit?usp=sharing

And the dictionary here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13oSzpk5L272fRLrL-l8mo_yUlGA5aOc0zHswPeFsv98/edit?usp=sharing

This show has been a joy to make, and I'm sitting here trying to figure out what I'm supposed to say in wrapping it up.

In thinking about it, I realized that I could go through & yell about every single individual involved with something specific to them, their performances, or their work. And that's a really good feeling-- knowing that regardless as to how large this crew has gotten (and holy shit is it big,) everyone is still stand out, unique, & beautifully talented.

I'm glad to honor that.

I'm not going to do it. But I could. And I think that's cool.

I've discovered I generally have nothing to say at the actual end of a show. I do my yelling as we go. I'm too excitable to wait, and you all do such stellar work, how can I NOT yell when listening?

So. What I'm going to do instead is share some stats.

Because they're frankly really fucking impressive, and y'all should see just how /much/ you've made.

The very first content for BSFF aired on March 13, 2021.

Our very last ep will air Oct 18, 2024.

In that time, we worked with 134 individual cast/crewmembers, including 20 writers, 10 editors, & well over 100 VAs.

We had cast/crew on 5 continents across 9 time zones

There have been a total of 78 individual releases, including episodes, miniseries, & bonus content with a combined runtime of

3,141 minutes

that is- 52 hours, or 2.2 /days/ of continuous Breathing Space material.

So, uh. This has been quite the undertaking.

So many thank yous to everyone who has contributed to the show, and also to everyone who listened.

I hope we've brought you at least a few emotions during the course of our run. God knows we've felt them ourselves.

PS-

While this is the end of BSFF in its current incarnation, there's no way we're leaving The System entirely behind.

Keep an eye on our social media for what comes next.

This is an unpaid/volunteer hobby project.

We're trying to get some additional voices for a wedding scene in one of the last episodes of Breathing Space (my scifi western anthology show)

It's two verses of a song, there's an audio track to follow. The difficulty is that it's in a different language. But there's a (very rough) phonetic guide.

If you're interested in maybe helping us out, full details can be found here.

Join us at the Grand Circumsolar Exposition, a fair celebrating the ingenuity and siblinghood of humankind!

...and our series finale.

Part 1: A Day At the Fair

As always, we'll have a live listen at 6pm pacific, link to follow.