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Emmitt Owens

Plizaya Productions

  • The WindowsXP Advantage: Fruityloops

    The Windows XP Advantage:  Why FruityLoops 2 and 3 Can Be a Powerful Front End  …for AI Music Written by: emmittowens.com staff / September 26th 2026 FruityLoops 2 and 3 won’t make AI music sound better by magic. What they can do is give the AI a source you designed yourself, built from a sonic vocabulary that modern software no longer hands you by default. One of the more… Read more

  • The Line Between “Using AI” and “Not Using AI” Is Disappearing

    The Line Between “Using AI” and “Not Using AI” Is Disappearing The conversation about artificial intelligence is usually framed as a binary: humans on one side, AI on the other. But that framing is increasingly out of step with how people actually interact with technology. A more accurate picture is starting to look like human-plus-AI… Read more

  • The Importance of Documenting Your Creative Work

    The Importance of Documenting Your Creative Work In the old days, a musician might keep a box of master tapes, handwritten session notes, track sheets, and a stack of receipts sitting in a closet. It wasn’t glamorous, but that paperwork could tell the story of how a recording came to exist. Today, things are different.… Read more

  • Mad Mechanics: The Liberty Overalls

    Mad Mechanics: The Liberty OverallsEpisode 10.4Written by: Emmitt OwensAs narrated by: Waylon Waylon, Intro: “Well now, folks, let me tell you about the day Derek Pemberton returned and learned that insurance mathematics don’t account for stubbornness, Reedus discovered the transformative power of forty-five dollar workwear, and the whole shop learned that sometimes the funniest thing… Read more

  • How-To, Part 15: Radio Broadcasting

    How-To, Part 15: Radio Broadcasting Building WDAR Dead Air Radio From a Home Studio By EmmittOwens.com Staff Radio doesn’t have to begin with a broadcast tower, a corporate studio, or a room full of expensive equipment. Sometimes it starts with a computer, a microphone, a few old recordings, a strange idea, and somebody saying: “We’re… Read more

  • BUZZARD DUST RETURNS TO THE AIRWAVES WITH “WHITE COUNTY MOON”

    Discover the enchanting world of Buzzard Dust: White County Moon, a radio station that brings the spirit of Arkansas to life. Featuring timeless folk tunes and fictional stories, this album is a must-listen for fans of Americana and nostalgia. Read more

  • Buzzard Dust: Copper Bonus: Cupcake Island and Coconut Girls

    Get ready for a delightful surprise with Buzzard Dust: Copper Bonus, featuring Cupcake Island and Coconut Girls! This unique collection takes listeners on a tropical detour from the ongoing Copper era rollout, blending music, radio ads, and comedy bits into a short pirate broadcast. Read more

  • Backwoods Shit: A Song From Somewhere Down in the Hollow

    Backwoods Shit: A Song From Somewhere Down in the Hollow Some roads ain’t on no map. Some songs probably shouldn’t be on the radio. “Backwoods Shit” is the latest transmission from the fictional world of Buzzard Dust: Aluminum, supposedly recorded somewhere deep in the hills around Lost Creek, Alabama (Near Crooked Oak, Alabama), by a… Read more

  • The Long Habit of Making Things: A Profile of Emmitt Owens

    The Long Habit of Making Things: A Profile of Emmitt Owens In 1999, Emmitt Owens was recording songs on a five-dollar microphone connected to a Windows 98 computer, using FruityLoops to build tracks in whatever room of the house happened to be free. He released the material under a home operation he called Plizaya Productions,… Read more

  • From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Rapper

    The Buzzard Times From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Wrapper Florence, Ala. — There was a time when he packed heat. Mixtapes. Albums. Hard rhymes. Loaded pistols. Hard attitude. He wasn’t arranging anything. He was moving units. He spoke like a man who believed nobody could touch him,… Read more