The blackhumour audio project had its beginnings in early 1982 with the
first few experiments Frazer Hall was doing on his teac 4-track reel-to-reel
recorder "Since 'snakes in an atheist's grave' (1984), NO blackhumour piece has
used anything other than found object (spoken) human voice and editing
techniques. (since 1986, digital editing has been included, thanks to
inexpensive digital sampling.) I wanted the sound source to be
absolutely basic. The human voice speaking was about as basic as i could
get."