The Earth Hotel

Jacquie Cotillard
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In this liminal variety show, host and Operator Jacquie Cotillard guides you through the endless halls of our strangest dreams. We are advised by musicians, artists, and fascinating souls that pass by the Main Desk in Birmingham, Alabama for the sounds and seeking.

  1. 1D AGO

    "Bouncer See Bouncer" (Scott Walker Talk #2)

    A kind message came to me which reminded me that this became unavailable when its mother episode was unlisted. Enjoy this re-visitation of Scott Walker’s (marital drama?) song about loss of some kind. I have my thoughts about what kind exactly, hypothetically. Stay around for a similar re-taking of ‘Zercon’ into one lovely chunk so we can add a second chunk after that and stay under 3 hours. With love, Jacquie. (Originally aired March 71/2017) FFind “Bouncer See Bouncer” on Tilt (1997), anywhere you get music, you know that part. I wish I still had the live recording of my version at the Firehouse; the one version before the main instrument — a glass bottle full of rusty nails taped to a long PVC pole, wobbling and jangling like a tightroper’s ballast — gave out. Maybe one day I’ll have a glass bottle again. Toodles~

    18 min

  2. FEB 24

    Shawn Avery: Liminal Photographer

    00:00:00 – cursed opening00:00:36 – Operator’s Welcome (feat – “Dead Ice,” “Ascending”, “Dirty Trip”)00:07:18 – Interview01:09:14 – Through the Sparks “Meteors in Gorges” *Instrumental tracks by Shawn Avery from Music for the Earth Hotel It’s my esteemed joy to welcome the photographic talents and heartful brain of Shawn Avery to our desk to discuss his liminal visioncraft. There’s a crop of bountiful insights and candid questions from a curious head who came to meet this stranger out of sheer equanimity as we tour spaces real and unreal and draw in obscure angles of many more besides. Enjoy. Back again soonest. Shawn Avery (Averygraphic on Instagram) Through the Sparks “Meteors in Gorges” (closing music) & We Own the Sky (Shawn’s Label and Collective) “The lyrics were adapted from a notebook of a few abandoned ideas that “place absurdities — love and nature’s cruelty — in a world without Newtonian physics, where they make more sense,” [Shawn’s bandmate Jody] Nelson said.” [Chosen of course, on impulse for feeling, then come to find out…] Stay close for a video edition of this episode, replete with so many linked images you’ll think you were in a cyclotron. Thanks for your patience, old and new. Thanks to Shawn for images and the gorgeous instrumentals featured in this episode. Thanks to Mandaloregaming for the nightmares and the intro stinger-flynn.

    1h 13m

  3. 09/13/2025 · BONUS

    From the Desk: Johnny Coley in memoriam (9IX80)

    A few words in remembrance of our friend and collaborator who passed this week. Details for celebration and preservations of his work will be reported duly, but for now I share two brief writings from Johnny’s indelible chair of mind. Thanks going once twice and thrice for him, and movement onward with the Dao. I recommend checking out his work, especially his recent novel Huron from Sweet Wreath, available online and locally at hip retailers. Every word is a treasure, always has been. You can hear more of them back in our interview a few years ago. So we go.

    10 min

  4. 04/12/2025 · BONUS

    Pata-visual Survey with members of Vernal Scuzz

    Footage from EH 114-115 with james, Mika, and Jasper. I would love to know any responses you have from these qualia-queries. Send to operatorsdesk@protonmail.com, thanks.

    10 min

  5. 03/27/2025

    From the Desk re: Storms (III79)

    “a bit of a personal lament with some Weird hope alongside. Thoughts for the pyre.” (pardon my pronunciations, I am still practicing) Video version here

    19 min

  6. 03/26/2025

    Jasper Lee of Sweet Wreath

    An exploration of the sonic/magic/esoteric works of Sweet Wreath via a blessed conversation with founder Jasper Lee. We talk about the recent Vernal Scuzz album, his late friend Nancy Richmond and their collaboration, cut-up technology, transcendental-collective social activity, and many things besides. Be merry and explorative with links below for they contain many treasures of this most excellent creative person. Sweet Wreath Bandcamphttps://sweetwreath.com/ Vernal Scuzz Nancy Richmond: Cheaha Mountain Rainbows write-up by Jasper

    1h 34m

  7. 03/26/2025

    EH 114: Mika Carpenter / James Elliott (Vernal Scuzz)

    Two friends of local music delighted me with their presence and fielded my questions with aplomb. Their Vernal Scuzz tracks will be sounded and beckoning fates re-beguiled. You can hear more from Vernal Scuzz in this interview with Sweet Wreath founder Jasper Lee, and at links below. (Available as a video on Youtube) 0:00:00 – Opening Flashback / Monologue0:08:25 – “Song of Will” (Gale) - Mother Harmony / 0:10:47 – Worst Spills ushers in “People Like Me” (Coley, Nelson) / 0:12:54 – Interview w/ James and Mika (background & experience) / 0:29:00 – “Sickle” - Vernal Scuzz / 0:31:24 – Interview pt 2 (re: Vernal Scuzz, touring NE / 0:50:10 – Informal survey / Sweet Wreath Bandcamphttps://sweetwreath.com/ (Highly Recommended Browsing) Article on Wheelchair as Extension of Peripersonal Space and others citing itSister Sniffle / Worst Spills / A bit of info on Mother Harmony

    1h 1m

  8. 12/31/2024

    Syzygy 1: Spatial Exercise A79 (*P01)

    A bit of guided experimentation with pleas for self-reported data. Email us at operatorsdesk@protonmail.com Studies consulted: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28701912/ … https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39414877/ Thanks to the Monroe Institute as invaluable inspiration and point of departure. A bit of guided experimentation with pleas for self-reported data. Email us at operatorsdesk@protonmail.com or comment on our webzone at theearthhotel.org Studies consulted: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28701912/ … https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39414877/ Thanks to the Monroe Institute as invaluable inspiration and point of departure. (Contains segments of 256-250Hz (6hz) and 18010-18000Hz (10Hz) Binaural Beats. Do not use while driving, operating heavy machinery, or running for political office. This does not constitute medical or really any other kind of advice and the EH etc are not responsible for effects resulting from this experiment.) Alternate version of this track and its counterpart with Limited Instruction can be found here— including non-binaural with/out waves, and vocal only.

    37 min
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In this liminal variety show, host and Operator Jacquie Cotillard guides you through the endless halls of our strangest dreams. We are advised by musicians, artists, and fascinating souls that pass by the Main Desk in Birmingham, Alabama for the sounds and seeking.

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  • Creator
    Jacquie Cotillard
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    94
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    The Earth Hotel