Awkward portmanteaus - Casseptember

[AuntDaisy]

Casseptember caught my eye on the BBC's Media Centre latest news - does it win the prize for the most awkward portmanteau title?
Not sure if the programmes will be my cup of tea, I was hoping for radio drama or classical music - but you never know...

BBC Radio 3 celebrates 60 years of the cassette with Casseptember

BBC Radio 3's Late Junction’s Casseptember season will explore how the arrival of the cassette was a watershed moment in the democratisation of audio culture.

In August, 1963, the first compact cassette recorder was launched at the Funkaustellung (Radio Exhibition) in Germany. To celebrate its sixtieth anniversary, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction begins a month of programming dedicated to the history and legacy of the cassette: Casseptember.

Making possible the documentation of local and underground scenes and genres, the cassette paved the way for lo-fi aesthetics and DIY music, helping to shape and influence some of the most popular pop, rock, classical and alternative artists of the day. Featuring contributions from the likes of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Vashti Bunyan and Aki Onda, as well as archival audio and newly commissioned cassette recordings, Late Junction’s Casseptember season will explore how the arrival of the cassette was a watershed moment in the democratisation of audio culture.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv3x

[french frank]

does it win the prize for the most awkward portmanteau title?

Well, incomprehensible bereft of context. Only in September? And is it to return every September (like Movember)? Octetober when Radio 3 plays only octets??

[AuntDaisy]

Well, incomprehensible bereft of context. Only in September? And is it to return every September (like Movember)? Octetober when Radio 3 plays only octets??

Apologies french frank, do you mind adding " - Casseptember" to the title?

I'd enjoy Octetober, esp. Beethoven wind.
If they skipped a month, would it be Noneventmber?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Other key moments in the democratisation of audio culture - folk song , the invention of the bone flute and the plucked string on a hunting bow.

[french frank]

Apologies french frank, do you mind adding " - Casseptember" to the title?

Um ... - don't go away...

Eureka!

[AuntDaisy]

Um ... - don't go away...
Eureka!

You're a star

... and perfect to appear in Starpril's new series focusing on the Bessarabian nose-flute (there's a treat for you Ein Heldenleben.)

[Ein Heldenleben]

You're a star

... and perfect to appear in Starpril's new series focusing on the Bessarabian nose-flute (there's a treat for you Ein Heldenleben.)

Ah . That sounds interesting,

Programmes about how electronic tech effected huge social change leave me cold generally and in the case of this programme on cassettes it just strikes as something that somebody got very excited about in the canteen but is , in reality , journalistic BS.

Something weird is going on though . l Went to a huge electronic retailer today . In the hifi section there were far more turntables on sale than CD players.

PS I’m looking to buy a decent cassette player as I have dozens of R3 recordings - ROH relays and the like . My last TEAC Falied after two years so I don’t fancy buying another from them,

[ardcarp]

I’m looking to buy a decent cassette player as I have dozens of R3 recordings

Cars of a certain vintage had cassette-players as standard. In fact 2010 was the final year I think. So go for a car over 13 years old, EH, and you'll be able to escape from the house and listen in glorious solitude. (We have an old VW van with one fitted as standard.)

[johncorrigan]

With the return to China announced this week of Tian Tian and Yang Guang from Edinburgh Zoo, BBC Radio Scotland resurrected Pandaplomacy on its news programme.