Sound Propositions: Recent Episodes
Joseph Sannicandro
Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Each episode combines interviews with music, field-recordings, and experimental sound design.
For fans of experimental music, field-recording, drone, electro-acoustic, ambient, modern composition, and other contemporary electronic music genres.
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 July 2024 - with Ostap Manulyak
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
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Ostap Manulyak - "Aeolian processes" [Fragment]
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Myroslav Trofymuk - "Місто" [The City] [excerpt]
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Dallek - "Arpeggio Disorder"
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"Unspeakable Weight" - A multichannel audiovisual installation by Andriy Linik, Ostap Manuliak, Yurii Vovkohon, Yevhenia Nesterovych, based on the Yevhen Hulevych's recordings
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Edgard Varese - "Ionisation" [excerpt]
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Ostap Manulyak - "Reprogression" (Fragment 2)
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Alla Zagaykevych - "Mithe IV: K.S." [excerpt]
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Valentin Silvestrov - Maidan Requiem - Cycle IV - "Prayer For Ukraine"
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Lostlojic - Майструймо гучну культуру ( Let's make a loud culture)
Clasps - Re-Rooting (ft. Daryna Panas)
Lostlojic - Bayraktar (excerpt)
Lostlojic - Night Explode (excerpt)
Distortion (UA) - Jaguar (excerpt)
Clasps - Shibboleth (excerpt)
Clasps - Take Charge And Move In (excerpt)
Slava Los - Snus (excerpt)
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LINKS
C. Lavender
BandcampiDEAL
Transcendent Waves
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
C. Lavender - “The Blue Expanse” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)SP INTRO
C. Lavender - “Dream Within A Dream” (Ubuweb, Edit from live performance at Union Pool, Brooklyn, 12 November 2019)
C. Lavender - I've Become Aware (live edit 2014) (Don't Trip, NTS, 2014)Oliveros and Ione - “The Nubian Word for Flowers: a Phantom Opera” (The International Contemporary Ensemble, Live, 22 February 2020)
Bunnybrains - “Foregone Occlusion” (Foregone Occlusion, Bandcamp, 2024)
Matmos - “On the Team” [C. Lavender section] (The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, Thrill Jockey, 2020)
John Wiese - “Magnetic Stencil 1-1” (Magnetic Stencil 1, Helicopter, 2020)
Pauline Oliveros - “Tuning Meditation” (Live at Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters, NYC, 2016)
Pauline Oliveros - “King Kong Sing Along Simultaneously” (Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014, Live at Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea, 2014)
Late Music Ensemble / Pauline Oliveros - “Sonic Meditation I” ("Teach Yourself to Fly", York Unitarian Chapel, 1 August 2015)
Paid in Puke + Buckets of Bile - “Case in Point” (Split, Speed Tapes, 2018)
Wolf Eyes - “Mnesmosyne Moments” (IN SPLATTERED TIME, Disciples, 2023)
C. Lavender - “Opening The Gates” (Fortitude In Wintarmanoth, Ecstatic Peace!, 2013)
C. Lavender - “White Oleander/Delphic Oracle Enters The Chasm” (Peaceful Protest, RVNG, 2017)
C. Lavender - “Remedy Potion” (Myth of Equilibrium, Editions Mego, 2020)
C. Lavender - “Terraforming a Sanctuary” (Installation, The Lincoln Park Conservatory | Experimental Sound Studio "Florasonic" Commission | Chicago, IL | 2019)
C. Lavender - “Ocean Of Ambrosia” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)
C. Lavender - “Escape From The Pendulum” (V/A: Alone In The Dark, Hot Releases, 2019)
C. Lavender - “Myth of Equilibrium” (Myth of Equilibrium, Editions Mego, 2020) C. Lavender - “Assimilation/Incineration” (Serpentine Fever Dream, psychic liberation, 2017)
Aaron Dilloway & C. Lavender - “Secret Destroyed Instantly 1” (Secret Destroyed Instantly, Hanson, 2018)
John Cage / Aaron Dilloway - “Rozart Mix” (Rozart Mix, Hanson, 2024) C. Lavender - “Transient Seclusion” (Transient Seclusion, Longform Editions, 2021)
C. Lavender - “Melt Into Light” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)C. Lavender - “Emptiness Itself” (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL, 2024)
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 May 2024 - with Zlata and Katro Zauber
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist
Marina Herlop - abans abans
Loslojic - Kyivskyi vechir
Katro Zauber - DNA
Тонка - Болить
k.e.d.r.o.v.a - Вечр
Andrii Barmalii - я нормально
Yansima - Tweede Cans
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Ukrainian Field Notes - April 17 2024 - with Lesik Omodada and Yurii Bazaka (Musicians Defend Ukraine)
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklisting
Stasik - Lullaby for the Enemy
Lady Aphina - Yakby ne ty
Kurs Valüt - Ni
The Unsleeping – “Не сплю” [Ne splyu – I don’t sleep]
Пиріг і Батіг (Pyrih and Batih) - Vesna
Omodada - Nove Zhyttia
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AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much more.
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
AGF - “Oops for understanding iii” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)SP Intro
AGF - “SKINgame” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)AGF - “POEMproducer” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AG.F3 & SUE.C - “Lazy” (MINI MOVIES, Asphodel, 2006)
AGF - “Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi” (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution, female:pressure, 2016)
AGF - “background & processes ⇻ explained by AGF” (rec-on : feminist sonic technologies, 2023)
AGF - “recon - rec-on.org ƒollow @reconsonic” (Soundcloud, 2021)
Laub - “Wortspur” (Filesharing, Kitty-Yo, 2002)
AGF - “fieldWORK” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Sonic Wilderness - “Medley” (DOCUMENTATION: #SONICWILDERNESS #NUSASONIC Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2018)
Antye Greie-Ripatti - “mycelium sonicification video clip” (Vimeo, 2017)
Audience Participation - “Collective Mycelium Hum” (SonicEX10sion, AGF Producktion, 2018)
AGF - “sideNESS” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “Live excerpt” (Presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston, November 18, 2023)
AGF - “FIREmushroom” (DISoriented MINDsets, 2017)
KING VISION ULTRA feat. Dreamcrusher - “UNTRAPPINGS” (SHOOK WORLD, PTP, 2023)
Moor Mother - “Deadbeat Protest” (Fetish Bones, Don Giovanni, 2016)
AGF - “MIGration” (SOLIDICITY, 2017)AGF - “Chorizon” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AGF - “Source Voice” (Beatnadel, AGF Producktion, 2011)
AGF - “words are useless” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
RyJ - “RyJ [excerpt]” (Studio Mix, 2014)
RyJ / Nicki Minaj (Pickle Juice Mix, 2012)
J Dilla - “Bounce” (Beat Tape #3, 2002)AGF - bassPOETess (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Vladislav Delay - “Ele” (Ele, Sigma Editions, 1999)
Craig Armstrong x AGF - “Remix of Memory Takes My Hand” (Memory Takes My Hand - Exhibition Music, Chester Music Ltd., 2006)
AGF - xenakISS (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
The Lappetites - “Avoiding Shopping” (Before The Libretto, Quecksilber, 2005)
Dadub - “Life (Rrose Remix)” (Preternity, Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2013)
AGF - “BONUS_ Westernization Continued 2013 [excerpt]” (Westernization Completed, 2003/2013)
AGF - “şamaran [kurdish]” (uttu EP, 2023)
PINKCOURTESYPHONE + KID CONGO POWERS - “Inflame (Sludge Dub)” (Move To Trash, 3particles, 2015)
Kevin Richard Martin / KMRU - “If (Dub)” (RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, PTP 2024)
Ka Baird - “Gate VI” (Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, RVNG, Intl., 2024)
AGF - “Regional Distinctions” (Futurism Ain't Shit To Me, Kyo, 2004)
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
Hidden Element x Floex - Yellow Ribbon
DZ'OB Ft. Mattia Prete - Zamovliannia
Pokaz Trio - Song Of Sirens (Live at Bimhuis Amsterdam)
SI Process - Rukh
Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station
Blooms Corda - Пісня про війну
Ihor Tsymbrovsky - Brilliant Small Poetry
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This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as a historical source reader, the book compiles over 100 primary sources retelling the story of minimalist music from the 1950s to the present. Sources include liner notes, interviews, journalism, manifestos, and other material organized chronologically and thematically, with introductory essays from the editors. Not a simple revisionist history seeking to expand the canon, let alone an attempt to dethrone the “Big Four” composers, On Minimalism nonetheless radically reconsiders the scope of minimalist music. In some ways the book is a restorative history, following the offshoots of musical practices that had once been described as “minimalist,” beginning with non-western music and modal jazz in the 1950s up to drone rock and techno of the present. We discuss the influence of Ravi Shankar, why the Coltranes were minimalists, the Julius Eastman revival, and much more.
Read more at A Closer Listen
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
Wiseword.Nidaros - Лев
Polje - Maliunok
Polje - Pa
Polje - Yasne Mi
Polje - Wall of Sirens
Arthur Mine - Helicopter Theme
Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song
Вічний Ґандж - Комарик
Polje - Janmarko
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Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonalshas continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her production work, alchemically transmuting her voice into a wide range of instruments and textures. In this episode, she discusses the production challenges posed by Fractured Whole, her background in musical theatre, her work with the feminist archive Many Many Women, and much more.
Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Cruel Diagonals - “Penance” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)
INTRO
Cruel Diagonals - “Monolithic Nuance” (Monolithic Nuance, Longform Editions, 2018)
Mika Vainio - “Se On Olemassa (It Is Existing)” (In The Land Of The Blind One-Eyed Is King, Touch, 2003)
Matthewdavid - “Phased Moon” (Mycelium Music, Leaving, 2023)
Cruel Diagonals - “Monolithic Nuance” (Monolithic Nuance, Longform Editions, 2018)
Cruel Diagonals - “Render Arcane” (Disambiguation, Drawing Room Records, 2018)
Cruel Diagonals & Jon Carr - “Fall Back Into Earth” (Fall Back Into Earth, 2022)
Asmus Tietchens - “Club of Rome” (The Emergency Cassette Vol. 2, Los Angeles Free Music Society, 1981)
Faust - “Why don’t you eat carrots?” (Faust, Polydor, 1971)
Can - “One More Night” (Ege Bamyasi, Liberty, 1972)
Demdike Stare - “Black Sun” (Voices of Dust, Modern Love, 2010)
Andy Stott - “Luxury Problems” (Luxury Problems, Modern Love, 2012)
Porter Ricks - “Biokinetics 2” (Biokinetics, Chain Reaction, 1996)
Anne Gillis - “A6” (Monetachek, Rangehen, 1985)
Techno Animal - “Bionic Beatbox (Tortoise version)” (Techno Animal Versus Reality, City Slang, 1998)
Cruel Diagonals - “Intuit Sensate [edit]” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - “Lear” (Deep Listening, New Albion, 1989)
Eliane Radigue - “L'Île re-sonante (2000)” (L'Île re-sonante, Shiiin, 2005)
Annea Lockwood - “For Ruth” (Tête-à-tête by Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood, Ergot, 2023)
Petr Kotik – S.E.M. Ensemble – Many Many Women – Part 13 (That being uncovered) (Many Many Women, Labor, 1981)
Cruel Diagonals - “Fluvial” (A Dormant Vigor, 2021)
Laurie Spiegel - “Three Sonic Spaces II” (Unseen Worlds, Scarlett/Infinity, 1991)
Lana Del Rabies - “Grace the Teacher (Cruel Diagonals remix)” (Becoming Everything: STREGA BEATA Remixed, 2024)
Cruel Diagonals - “Live in Los Angeles - March 2023 pt.1” (Live in Los Angeles, March 2023, Beacon Sound, 2023)
Cruel Diagonals - “Vestigial Mythology (remix)” (Live in Los Angeles, March 2023, Beacon Sound, 2023)
Cruel Diagonals - “Vestigial Mythology” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)
Andy Stott - “Submission” (We Stay Together, Modern Love, 2011)
Andy Stott - “Promises” (It Should Be Us, Modern Love, 2019)
Luc Ferrari - “Music Promenade” (Music Promenade / Unheimlich Schön, Recollection GRM, 2019)
Cruel Diagonals - “Soporific Return” (Disambiguation, Drawing Room, 2018)
Cruel Diagonals - “Decimated Whole” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)
Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith - “Part III [Encore]” (Nessuno, I Dischi Di Angelica, 2016)
Demdike Stare - “We have already died” (Elemental, Modern Love, 2012)
Can - “Call Me” (Saw Delight, Mute/Spoon, 1977/1991)
Silent Servant - “Violencia” (Violencia, Sandwell District, 2008)
Realivox Ladies (2015)
Bjork - “It’s Not Up To You” (Vespertine, Polydor, 2001)
Pauline Oliveros - “Sound Patterns” (Extended Voices, Odyssey, 1967)
Maxwell - “This Woman’s Work” (Now, 2001)
Richard Maxwell - “Pastoral Symphony” (An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 5, 2008)
Cruel Diagonals - “Live in Los Angeles - March 2023 pt.2”
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шлях
ummsbiaus: Lichylnyk
Difference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживання
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачароване
ummsbiaus: Hypnagogia
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist:
Andriy Kiritchenko - Eyes of Exiles
Roman Khropko - Kyiv 17.04.22
Roman Khropko - The Moment Of Unity (Sympathetic Mix)
Myroslav Protsan - Ravens On The Cemetery
Myroslav Protsan - Very Old Piano Improvisations
Anthony Junkoid - Drum Vision
Nightcourier - Temnivody
Lena Mirzakh - A Little Interlude
Kadaitcha - Seed
Katarina Gryvul - Zemlya
58918012 - 7e3422
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Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important figures, Nickleson instead underscores a different set of shared traits that he sees in (early) minimalism: the importance of collective authorship, often collaborating in a form of “bandness”; the priority of recording to tape over written scores; and distinguishing between “(early) minimalism” and the later canonization of Minimalism as we know it since the early 1980s. In addition to the book, we discuss searching for obscure records online, our shared love of Constellation Records, and the influence of Tony Conrad.
Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com
TRACKLIST
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Steve Reich”
SP INTRO
John Cale - “Terry’s Cha-Cha”
[Glenn] Branca - “Lesson No. 3 (Tribute To Steve Reich)”
Terry Riley - “[Excerpt]”
Steve Reich - “Pulses (2)”
Philip Glass - “Part 5 (Beginning)”
Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars - “Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Buffalo”
Glenn Branca - “Structure”
Tony Conrad - “Tony Conrad April 1965”
Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad - “Untitled (recorded October 18, 1968 at Tony Conrad's apartment)”
La Monte Young - “Pre-Tortoise Dream Music”
Tony Conrad - “The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Incineration Of The Pythagorean Elite, Whose Shrill Harmonic Agonies Merge And Shimmer Inside Their Torched Meeting House [excerpt]”
Tony Conrad with Faust - “From The Side Of Machine”
John Coltrane - “Africa”
GENG PTP - “(alice coltrane)”
Dickie Landry - “Kitchen Solos”
Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS (Version 2006, Giuseppe Ielasi)
Morton Feldman - “Page 1, System 1, Measure 1”
John Coltane (McCoy Tyner solo) - “Naima [excerpt]”
Observer All Stars and King Tubby - “Rebel Dance”
Philip Glass - “Two Pages (For Steve Reich)”
Albert Ayler - “For John Coltrane”
Radiohead - “How To Disappear Completely”
Godspeed - “Deathkamp Drone"
Nicholas Papador and the University of Windsor Percussion Ensemble - "Stasis"
The Noiseborder Ensemble - [Improvisation on A-Ha’s "Take on Me"] (Live at Media City, Windsor ON, 2009)
The Dream Syndicate with La Monte Young - “Day Of The Holy Mountain (excerpt 2)”
Jon Gibson - “Cycles” (
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - “Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal)”
Ornette Coleman - “Friends and Neighbors (instrumental) / “Friends and Neighbors (vocal)”
Rhys Chatham - “Two Gongs (1971)”
La Monte Young - “B Flat Dorian Blues 19 X 63 (5th day of the Hammer)”
Terry Riley / Don Cherry “Descending Moonshine Dervishes”
Sonic Youth - “Pendulum Music (Steve Reich, 1968)”
Tony Conrad - “ten years alive on the infinite plain (#1)” [Live at the Kitchen, 1972]
Tony Conrad, “Four Violins (1964)”
Henry Flynt - “You Are My Everlovin”
Catherine Christer Hennix - “The Electric Harpsichord [excerpt]”
Raven Chacon - “Singing Toward The Wind Now / Singing Toward The Sun Now”
Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / John Cale - “Trance #2”
John Cale - “A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building”
Angus MacLise / Jack Smith / Tony Conrad - S.O.S. (Ca. 1968)
Mt. Zion - “side one _ sow some lonesome corner so many flowers bloom”
Angus MacLise - “Tunnel Music #2” [1965]
John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - “Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara”
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist:
Gamardah Fungus - Vega
Revshark - Restricted Areas
Waveskania - Essential
Difference Machine - Повідь
Natalia Tsupryk - beyond the cemetery wall
YLOI - UAV Hunting
Andrii Kunin - threshold
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Episode 12 - with Nastia and Vlad Fisun
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Nastia and Vlad Fisun talk about the burgeoning electronic scene in Ukraine, toxic behaviour and Ukrainian Identity.
TRACKLIST
DZ'OB - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong (S.Tolkachev re-imagining)
Louwave and Splinter (UA) - Baby Let's Vibe
Polygrim - Klang
Koloah - Away
https://soundcloud.com/nastia_ua
https://soundcloud.com/vladfisun
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Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in lead. Movement, circularity, and stasis are all terms that also describe Belfi’s interests as a composer. We discuss his origins in Italy’s punk scene, his time as drummer of the noisy instrumental rock band Rosolina Mar, opening for Thom Yorke, and the development of his unique approach to solo performance as a drummer.
TRACKLIST
Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 1] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)
SP INTRO
Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 2] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)
Andrea Belfi - “Cera Persa 1” (Cera Persa, Latency, 2016)
Andrea Belfi - “Wege B” (Wege, Room40, 2012)
Andrea Belfi - “Ton” (Ore, Float, 2017)
Thom Yorke - “Atoms for Peace” (The Eraser, XL, 2006)
Four Tet - “Pyramid (Atoms For Peace remix)” (Pink Remixes, Bandcamp, 2014)
Andrea Belfi - “Pulsing” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)
Carla Bozulich - “Pissing” (Evangelista, Constellation, 2006)
Andrea Belfi & Ignaz Schick - “Myth 5” (The Myth Of Persistence Of Vision Revisited, Zarek, 2011)
Steve Reich / Ulrich Krieger (performer) - “Pendulum Music” (An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005, Sub Rosa, 2006)
Andrea Belfi - “Shale” (Strata, Float, 2019)
Steve Reich - “Drumming, Part I” (Works 1965-1995 (Disc 02 - Drumming), Nonesuch, 1997)
John Zorn / Ennio Morricone - “The Battle of Algiers” (The Big Gundown, Nonesuch, 1986)
Ennio Morricone - “L'Attentato” (C'era una volta il west, RCA, 1969)
Egisto Macchi - “Gare Spatiale” (I Futuribili, Gemelli, 1971)
Egisto Macchi - “Jungla I”(Africa Minima, Anya, 1972)
Vladislav Delay - “Nesso” (Multila, Chain Reaction, 2000)
Vladislav Delay - “Mustelmia” (Tummaa, Leaf, 2009)
Medves [Andrea Belfi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Riccardo Wanke, Stefano Pilia] - “Untitled” [Figures Side] (Medves, Fringes Recordings, 2004)
Rosolina Mar - “Malpensa Social Club” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004)
Swell Maps - “Harmony In Your Bathroom” (A Trip To Marineville, Rough Trade, 1979)
Antioch Arrow - “David” (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995)
Clikatat Ikatowi- “Science Fiction Reality” (Orchestrated And Conducted By…, Gravity, 1996)
Antioch Arrow - “Date With Destiny” (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995)
Drive Like Jehu - “If it kills you” (Drive Like Jehu, Headhunter, 1992)
Clikatat Ikatowi - “Rise and Shine” (River of Souls, Gravity, 1998)
Heroin - “Indecision” [rework] (All About Heroin, Vinyl Communications, 1991)
Hiroshima Rocks - “Walking Like US Maple” (Around Isolation Bus Blues, NO=FI, 2001)
Stereolab - “Metronomic Underground” (Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Elektra, 1996)
Gastr del Sol - “Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye” (Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly, Drag City, 1995)
Gastr del Sol - “The Japanese Room At La Pagode” (The Japanese Room At La Pagode / May [Split with Tony Conrad], Table of the Elements, 1995)
Rosolina Mar - “La Bottega Del Krapftwerk” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004)
Rosolina Mar - “Before And After Dinner” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005)
Rosolina Mar - “L'ora Di Religione” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005)
Rosolina Mar - “Mingozo di Mongozo (Claudio Rocchetti Remix)” (Rosolina Mar Meet Trumans Water, Robot Radio, 2007)
Rhythm & Sound - “Trace” (Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, 2001)
Andrea Belfi - “Picture Burning” (...a gift for (°!°)..., Afe/Grey Sparkle/et. al, 2004)
3/4hadbeeneliminated - “Loop Recorder in the Patient with Heart Disease” (a year of the aural gauge operation, häpna, 2005)
Andrea Belfi - “Iso” (Ore, Float, 2017)
Andrea Belfi - “Pastorale” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)
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Episode 11 - with Katia Stieber and Kadiristy from Regular Disco
@stieber_k
@kadiristy
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
TRACKLIST
Misha Tsiganoff (intro)
Lobanov K. - Bios Recall
58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background)
Yaroslav M - Pog (Victor B. Remix)
58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background)
Clasps - Ex Voto
58918012 Brainwave
Denys Coin - Flowers of Doom
58918012 - Brainwave
DiSKOP - Phantom
Volodymyr Gnatenko - Reba She (background)
Kadiristy - Sapphire Dream (unreleased demo)
58918012 Displaced (excerpt - background)
58918012 Go Under (excerpt - background)
Misha Tsiganoff (outro)
The Doors - The End (ID UA Edit) (excerpt)
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Back in February 2022, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To celebrate, in this episode, we pull the curtain back a bit to talk with ten of the writers who have contributed to A CLOSER LISTEN since we began over a decade ago, constituting a virtual roundtable discussing the past, present, and future of ACL. We discuss the founding of the site, abandoning scoring, our sub-sites, mixes, video game music, film scores, and the relationship between sound and the visual, including artwork, packaging, and physical media. We reflect on what has made ACL distinct over the years, our openness to new sounds, the joys of ongoing discovery, our formative influences, and our signature blend of critical positivity.
The music for this episode was selected collectively, drawn from tracks that came up throughout our conversations. Scattered throughout the episode are also many 10 second clips I solicited from friends of the site back in 2014. I used them to make some “community sound collages” that I never really shared, so it seemed fitting to include them here.
VOICES (in order of appearance)
Richard Allen
Gabriel Bogart
Joseph Sannicandro
Jeremy Bye
Samuel Rodgers
Nayt Keane
Chris Redfearn-Murray
David Murrietta Flores
Maya Rose Merberg
Jennifer Smart
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Episode 10, Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 June 2023 - with Mykyta Moiseiev and Maryana Klochko
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
TRACKLIST
Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Intro (from Falling OST)
Maryana Klochko - оченька мої чорні
Mykyta Moiseiev - Твій дім
Mykyta Moiseiev – One Day in Ukraine OST trailer
Mykyta Moiseiev - I’ve learned something (Falling OST)
Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Coffee (from Falling OST)
Maryana Klochko – My Girl (from Stop-Zemlia OST)
Mykyta Moiseiev – Didukh (from Ivan’s Land OST)
Mykyta Moiseiev – Chornobaivka
Maryana Klotchko – Kvity
Mykyta Moiseiev – Intro Rejected (from Falling OST)
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Episode 9 Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 May 2023 - with Alexander Pavlenko (Sunchase / Na Nich) and Vera Logdanidi
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Alexander Pavlenko and Vera Logdanidi talk about the first days of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian electronic scene and touring.
TRACKLIST
Misha Ziganoff (intro)
Sunchase – "Step Outside" (from Timeline)
Laima Adelaide – Y (Vera Logdanidi Re Interpretation)
Asyncronous – "Padma Kirtanam" (background)
Monoconda – "Route Select" (from Horizon)
Monoconda – "Horizon" (background)
Vera Logdanidi – "02 2402" (from Voices)
Sunchase – "Hello" (background)
Anton Stuck – "February 26 12.07 AM Chernihiv"
Vera Logdanidi – "Udda" (from Voices)
Na Nich – "Melt" (Background)
Ihor Babaiev – "One minute in Bakhmut"
Na Nich – "Melt" (background)
Vera Logdanidi – "Water Bubble Floating in Space"
Na Nich & Vero – "Morning" (background)
Na Nich – "Super Earth"
Mishka Ziganoff (outro)
Sunchase – "H" (from Timeline)
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Episode 8 Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 April 2023 - with Alexander Stratonov
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Alexander Stratonov talks about working for Ukrainian state television Suspilne and scoring documentaries about war crimes.
TRACKLIST
Alexander Stratonov - "Before the Storm" (from Bucha 22 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RXf6REnoSs)
Alexander Stratonov - "He Bought Himself a Clock" (from Bucha 22)
Alexander Stratonov - "Numbering the People" (from Survivor's Diary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacMw4oo_Zc)
Alexander Stratonov - "The Last Lullaby" (from Notes Under the Cherry Tree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cm6kmJbF7o)
Alexander Stratonov - "Identification" (from Bucha: Final Destination - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrbVkhG5wM)
Плач Єремії - "Вона"
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Episode 7 of Ukrainian Field Notes with Asyncronous live on ResonanceFM Wed 15 March at 5.30 pm (GMT) repeated Sunday 19 March at 11am.
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Oleksii and Bohdan talk about their collaborative project as Asyncronous and about life in Kyiv one year on from the full-scale Russian invasion of February 24, 2022.
Tracklist:
Asyncronous - Midnight Sun
Asyncronous - Point of no Return
Asyncronous - Shinkansen
Asyncronous - Stage of Delta (Ambient Remix)
Arctica - Ambient Mix: Into the Unknown (background)
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This episode features Giuseppe Esposito, a Neapolitan musician who runs the tape label Archivio Diafònico, an operation that mostly documents artists who are based in Napoli. The chaotic and bustling capital of the South of Italy undeservedly gets a bad reputation, and the city has a vibrant cultural scene and rich history that is sorely underappreciated. Through a chronicle of his own musical formation and the birth of the label, Esposito constructs a map of the Neapolitan underground scene, with particular attention to noise and improvisation. We also discuss Abidjan Centrale / Partono i Bastimenti, a podcast Esposito produces with Carole Oulato exploring the diverse musical traditions of Africa.
TRACKLISTARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Mario [Gabola] - “Steno, tube, voice and feedback” (Idiolect, Archivio Diafònico/Viande, 2021)
Eks - “B-side excerpt” (Echo Courts, Archivio Diafònico, 2019)
Grausam Frühjahr - “B-side excerpt” (Ascent/Descent, Toxo, 2011)
Velvet Underground - “White Light White Heat” (live 69)
Tony Conrad and Faust - “From the Side of the Machine” (Outside the Dream Syndicate, Table Of The Elements, 1973/1993)
My Bloody Valentine - “Loomer” (Loveless, 1991)
Gristleism - YouTube Demo (Throbbing Gristle Buddha Machine, 2010)
Weltraum - Sy.1 (Sy, 2009)
A Spirale - “Suriciorbu” (Agaspastik, Fratto9 Under The Sky Records/Viande, 2009)
Elio Martusciello– “For Mario Biserni” (...A Gift For (°!°)..., Afe, Grey Sparkle / Morirermo Tutti/ etc, 2006)
Jealousy Party – "JP Punca For Trombones" (Again, Burp Publications, 2008)
99 Posse - “Curre Curre Guaglió” (Curre Curre Guagliò, Esodo autoproduzioni, 1993)
Toni Esposito - “Rosso Napoletano” (Toni Esposito, Numero Uno, 1974)
One Starving Day - “Black Star Aeon” (Broken Wings Lead Arms to The Sun, 2005)
Francesco Gregoretti - “Faithful Walking Stick” (Solid Layers Deafening Shapes, 2016)
Motosega (Ottavio Balzano) - “No No No” (NO, 2014)
SEC_ - “Small traces” (Moscaio, Bocian, 2012)
EKS - “Falafel Humpers” (Sedic, 2015)
70fps - “Untitled - Side A” (Campo Catodico, Archivio Diafònico, 2015)
Matar Dolores - “The Great Transformation (Side B excerpt)” (The Great Transformation, Archivio Diafònico, 2014)
False Moniker - Side A (Amidst The Statues, Archivio Diafònico 2019)
Many Others - “Day Two / I” (Aggression of Paradox, Archivio Diafònico, 2017)
Grizzly Imploded - Side B (You Are The Way You Face Your Death, Scissor Tale, 2013)
Maurizio Argenziano - “Buio Riflesso” (Privazioni, Joy De Vivre, 2016)
Forest Management - “Porter Creek (Side B Excerpt)” (Porter Creek, Archivio Diafònico, 2015)
Luciano Cilio “Quarto Quadro” [1977] (Dell'Universo Assente, Die Schachtel, 2013)
Liberato - “NUNNA VOGLIO NCUNTRÀ” (CAPRI RDV Ep03, 2019)
Genital Warts - “Cut and Shit (Instrumental)” (Parappaio, Viande, 2015)
Giuseppe and Carole talking on the phone from "Capo Verde"- (Partono i Bastimenti - Abidjan Central per Radio Cavone Stereo, 2019)
Antoinette Konan - "Abidjan Adja" (RACINES & RYTHMES, 1995)
Dur-Dur Band - “Dooyo” (Dur-Dur Band Vol 5., 1989)
Zagazougou - “Varietoscope” (La Confirmation, 2000)
Claudio Villa – “Santa Lucia Luntana” (Santa Lucia Luntana / 'O Surdato 'Nnammurato, Vis Radio, 1958)
Salaad Darbi SideB (cassette, Awesome Tapes from Africa, 1970s?)
Co'Sang - “Poesia Cruda (ft. Fuossera)” (Chi More Pe' Mme, Poesia Cruda Dischi, 2005)
Kuupuu (Jonna Karanka) (Kuupuu / Hilma Glad split, self-released, 2011)
Blood Feud - “Side B Excerpt” (AM Fields, Archivio Diafònico, 2014)
Joseph Sannicandro, “Piano in Colle” (Field Recordings, 2022)
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Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Heinali talks about the making of his album Kyiv Eternal out on February 24, 2023 on the anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion.
Tracklist:
Lugovsky - Sirens of Kyiv
Heinali - Rare Birds / Field Recordings (unreleased)
Heinali - Shulyavka / Field Recordings (unreleased)
Sound Weekends - Tram 12 / Field Recording
Heinali - Silpo
Heinali - Botanichny / Field Recordings (unreleased)
William Basinski - DLP 2.1 (snippet)
Heinali - Kyiv Eternal
Svitovamora Pleura A and Pleura B (background)
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More from this series at https://acloserlisten.com/
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Last fall I shared the first episode of Sounding the Housing Crisis, a bilingual (French/English) podcast by a collective of Montreal sound artists and tenants. I co-produced the eight episode series with Hubert Gendron-Blais, organizing and editing the contributions from each member of the collective. The project was partially inspired by the “militant sound inquiry” of Ultra-Red. In 2021, Ultra-Red co-founder Dont Rhine visited Montreal for a seminar at McGill, followed by a workshop/performance as part of Echoes of a Distance, Music, Protest and Community in Confined Times, organized by Hubert and The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). I'm now sharing the eighth episode in this feed as well, since it is one where I think my fingerprints are most visible.
More on that entire project: https://www.reverberationscriselogement.org/
Find the series wherever you find this podcast, or stream/download at bandcamp:
https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/r-verb-rations-d-une-crise-une-enqu-te-sonore-sur-le-logement-montr-al-sounding-the-housing-crisis
This eighth and last episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' looks back to the elaboration of the investigation question that guided the project's the composition process, addressing in passing issues of mental health, precarity, the role of artists and gentrification.
- Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”, par/by Christine White, Hubert Gendron-Blais & Philippe Battikha
- Sound collage and intro theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro
- Excerpt from the piece "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)", par/by Aidan Girt + Stefan Christoff, feat. Mostafa Henaway
- Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question and Where do you live? (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
- Excerpt from the piece "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)"
- Excerpt from “Q-Block (podcast)”, par/by Philippe Battikha
- Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Relations between art and social struggles (avec des extraits de la pièce / with excerpts of the piece "The Price of Precarity", par/by Christine White)
- Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Artists and gentrification (part 2), (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
- Predicaments of Power", par/by speranza spir
- Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / With excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
- End Theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro
The excerpts of some music pieces come from the album 'Réverbérations d’une crise. Une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal', Cuchabata Records, CUCH-205, 2022. reverberationscriselogement.bandcamp.com/albu…r-al
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Gianmarco Del Re presents the fifth episode of the Ukrainian Field Notes podcast, broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 5:30 pm GMT and repeated on Sunday 22 January at 11 am GMT.
Tracklist
Mauser - Тривога
Distortion (UA) - Bullet Seeds
Kurs Valüt - Rozklad Ruhu
Peredmova - Слонова Кістка
Limanenko - Strange Gift
Hanna Svirska - Inner
Kat - Цвях
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I made this sound collage in early 2013, nearly a decade ago now, and listening back to it recently I can hear the early seeds of techniques I use in Sound Propositions. My friend Ian Stone Grey was producing a beautiful audio series called Portmanteau at that time, and he included a piano composition of mine in one episode. I was inspired to create some collages of my own that veered further away from music without becoming narrative.
A Portmanteau of sorts.
Some treated field-recordings.
Howlin Wolf.
Federico Campagna on Novara Media.
Gilles Deleuze on the ABCs.
A phased stereo tape loop.
Some edits from Bob Ostertag'sSooner or Later.
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Jessica Moss has just released Galaxy Heart, a surprising collection of ten songs that form a companion to last year’s Phosphenes. The Montréal-based composer, violinist, and vocalist recorded the material for both records (and more) during the peak of early pandemic lockdown, allowing her songcraft to take new forms, as well as welcoming collaborators into her solo music for the first time. Moss, of course, is a prolific collaborator, and we have been a fan of her work for over two decades, particularly her 15-year tenure with Silver Mt. Zion. In this episode, Moss dives into the making of her two recent solo albums, the highs and lows of pandemic touring, the return of Black Ox Orkestar, and her collaborations with Vic Chesnutt and Jem Cohen.
TRACKLIST
Jessica Moss - “Enduring Oceans” (Galaxy Heart, Constellation, 2022)
JM - “Memorizing And Forgetting” (Phosphenes, CST, 2021)
“UNDER” (Under Plastic Island, self-released, 2015)
“Uncanny Body [Violin Study #1]” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
“Uncanny Being [Violin Study #2] feat. Thierry Amar and Jim White” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Sibelius / (Gil Shaham / Philharmonia Orchestra / Giuseppe Sinopoli) - “Violin Concerto in D minor, Op47 - 1st movement: Allegro moderato” (Violon Concerto - Violinkonzertev, Deutsche Grammophon, 1993)
Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir - Mihail Milkov - “Svyatii Bozhe” (Orthodox Chants, Балкантон, 1998)
Black Ox Orkestar - “Golem” (Nisht Azoy = נישט אזױ, CST, 2006)
BOO - “Mizvrakh-mi-maarav” (Everything Returns, CST, 2022)v
KC Accidental / Broken Social Scene medley
ZU - “The Dawning Moon of the Mind” (Jhator, House of Mythology, 2017)
JM - “Fractals (Truth 1)” (Entanglement, CST, 2018)
Excerpts of David Garland interviewing Silver Mt. Zion (Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - “there’s a river in the valley made of melting snow” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
Silver Mt. Zion - “Hang On To Each Other” (Horses In The Sky, CST, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra feat. Ariel Engle - “Any Fucking Thing You Love” (Hang On To Each Other, CST, 2014)
JM - “Entire Populations (Pt III)” (Pools of Light, CST, 2017)
Vic Chesnutt - medley (North Star Deserter, CST, 2007)
Fugazi - “The Argument” (The Argument, Discord, 2001)
Sarah Davachi - “Matins” (Gave In Rest, Ba Da Bing!, 2018)
Matana Roberts - “Jewels Of The Sky: Inscription” (Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, CST, 2019)
Silver Mt. Zion - “Horses in the Sky” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
JM - “Opened Ending” (Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series 2020-2021, CST, 2020)
JM - “Opened Ending” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Carla Bozulich – “Evangelista I” (Evangelista, CST, 2006)
PJ Harvey - “Hanging In The Wire” (Let England Shake, Vagrant, 2011
Eve Parker Finley - “Alone / Together” (Chrysalia, 2020)
Carla Bozulich - “Prince of the World” (Evangelista, CST, 2006)
Set Fire To Flames – “Barn Levitate” (Barn Levitate, self-released, 2020)
JM - “Enduring Oceans” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
JM - Distortion Harbour (Phosphenes, CST, 2021)
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Gianmarco Del Re presents the fourth episode of the Ukrainian Field Notes podcast, broadcast on Resonance FM Wednesday 16 November 5.30-6.30 pm GMT and repeated on Sunday 20 November at 11am GMT.
DJ, sound producer, composer and podcaster Nina Eba discusses life in Poland, Germany and France after fleeing Kyiv following the full-scale invasion of February 24 and her monthly podcast Air Raid Siren.
To support Nina Eba's Air Raid Siren podcast
To support Ukraine: Come Back Alive
Tracklist
Hidden Element and Ténèbre - Sensitive Content
Jockii Druce - боі стули пельку
Koloah - Time Traveller
Ivan Skoryna - Cheap Gas, Cheap Blood
Unfeeling - New Reality
Axxent13 - Bleached Mint
Nina Eba - сонце (demo)
Запорозький марш - Вогнем і Мечем
tiho tiho - Fragile Monuments (background)
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Kranky co-founder Bruce Adams sits down to discuss his new book,You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music. (UTPress) Adams explains the unique conditions that put Chicago at the heart of the ‘90s indie rock scene, the emergence of the kranky aesthetic, and sings the praises of Labradford.
Interview recorded between Urbana and Montreal, August 2022
Produced and mixed in Montreal, October 2022
TRACKLISTARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Labradford - “Listening in Depth” (Prazision, kranky, 1993)
INTRO
Tim Hecker - “harmony in blue iv” (Harmony in Ultraviolet, kranky, 2006)
Sebadoh - “Gimme Indie Rock” (Gimme Indie Rock!, Homestead, 1991)
Archers of Loaf - “Plumb line” (Icky Mettle, Alias, 1993)
Smashing Pumpkins - “Cherub Rock” (Siamese Dream, 1993)
Jessamine - “Secret” (Jessamine, kranky, 1994)
Slint – “Good Morning Captain” (Spiderland, Touch & Go, 1991/1995)
Tortoise - “Djed” (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Thrill Jockey, 1996)
Spacemen 3 - “Feel So Sad” (Recurring, Fire Records, 1991)
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago – “Urban Magic (in 4 Parts)” (Urban Bushmen, ECM, 1982)
Designer [Casey Rice]- “Vandal” (Vandal, Organico, 1996)
Labradford - “New Listening” (Prazision, kranky, 1993)
Labradford - “Recorded And Mixed At Sound Of Music, Richmond, Va.” (E Luxo So, kranky, 1999)
Labradford - “Wien” (Fixed::Context, kranky, 2001)
Labradford - “S” (Mi Media Naranja, kranky, 1997)
Stereolab / Nurse With Wound - “Simple Headphone Mind” (Simple Headphone Mind, Duophonic Super 45s, 1997)
Gastr del Sol – “The Harp Factory On Lake Street” (The Harp Factory On Lake Street, Table Of The Elements, 1995)
AMP - “Celestialreturn” (astralmoonbeamprojections, kranky, 1997)
Massive Attack - “Inertia Creeps” (Mezzanine, Virgin, 1998)
Magnog - “Shapeshifter" (Magnog, kranky, 1996)
Roy Montgomery - “The Soul Quitens” (Temple IV, kranky, 1995)
Windy + Carl - “Surfacing” (Depths, kranky, 1998)
Jessica Bailiff - “Beautiful Soul" (Even in Silence, kranky, 1998)
Grouper - “Disengaged” (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill, Type, 2008/ kranky, 2013)
Low - “Remember” (Secret Name, kranky, 1999)
Liz Phair - “Girls! Girls! Girls!” (Exile in Guyville, 1993)
J Dilla “33” (Another Batch, 1998)
Wadada Leo Smith - "Images" [excerpt] (Spirit Catcher, Nessa, 1979)
Angel Bat Dawid - “The Oracle” (The Oracle, International Anthem, 2019)
Christina Vantzou - “The Magic of the Autodidact” [edit] (N°2, kranky, 2014)
Dead Texan - “The Struggle” (The Dead Texan, kranky, 2004)
Stars of the Lid - “The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)” (The Tired Sounds Of, kranky, 2001)
Bowery Electric - “Deep Blue” (Lushlife, Beggars Banquet, 2000)
Kevin Drumm - “Deep Breathing Doesn’t Work” (May(Part 2), 2017)
Labradford - “Lake Speed” (Labradford, kranky, 1996)
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HAPPY DOOMSDAY
RIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020)
GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. GENG shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of one of hip hop's greatest artists.
Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2021/10/31/sp-episode-21-food-music-with-geng-ptp-podcast/
TRACKLIST
King Geedorah – “Voices Pt. 0 feat. MF GRIMM” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)
SP intro
MF DOOM – “The Mystery of Doom (Skit)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Metal Fingers – “Peach Extract” (Special Herbs, Vol. 9-0, Shaman Work, 2005)
MF DOOM & Nujabes – “The Mask (Interlude)” (Metaphorical Villainy, Altered Crates, 2020)
Metal Fingers – “Orris Root Powder” (Special Herbs, Vol. 9-0, Shaman Work, 2005)
Viktor Vaughn – “The Drop” (Vaudeville Villain, Sound-Ink, 2003)
Metal Fingers – “Nettle Leaves” (Special Herbs, Vol. 1-2, High Times, 2002)
King Geedorah – “Foolish” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)
Metal Fingers – “Dragon’s Blood” (Special Herbs, Vol. 5-6, Nature Sounds, 2004)
AMANI + KING VISION ULTRA – “Water” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
GENG – “Hand of Doom (Chopped _ Slowed by GENG)” (Screwing Yourself to Live, PTP, 2012)
MF DOOM – “? (Feat. Kurious)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Metal Fingers – “Arabic Gum” (Special Herbs, Vol. 3-4, Nature Sounds, 2003)
Playboi Carti – “Stop Breathing” (Whole Lotta Read, Interscope, 2020)
MF DOOM – “Kon Queso” (MM..FOOD, Rhymesayers Entertainment, 2004)
Armand Hammer – “Parables (ft AKAI SOLO, prod. Navy Blue) (Shrines, Backwoodz, 2020)
MF DOOM – “Operation: Greenbacks” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Madvillain – “Accordion (instrumental)” (Four Tet Remixes, Stones Throw, 2005)
De La Soul – “I Am I Be” (Buhloone Mindstate, Tommy Boy, 1993)
KMD – “Get-U-Now (instrumental)” (Black Bastards Ruff + Rares, Fondle ‘Em, 1998)
KMD – “Get-U-Now” (Black Bastards, Sub Verse Music, 2001)
Madvillain – “Supervillain Theme (Instrumental)” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)
Metal Fingers – “Mullien” (Special Herbs, Vol. 1-2, High Times, 2002)
MF DOOM – “Tick, Tick…(Feat. MF GRIMM) (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Metal Fingers – “Emblica Officinalis” (Special Herbs, Vol. 7-8, 2004)
Billy Woods – “Borrowed Time” (Today, I Wrote Nothing, Backwoodz, 2015)
Madvillain – “ALL CAPS” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)
Ghostface Killah x MF DOOM – “Money Folder” (Operation: Ironman, 2000)
MF DOOM – “Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
MF DOOM – “Doomsday” (Live at Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC, 1998)
MF DOOM – “Doomsday” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Ras G – “Find Ya Self (ANU Wrld)” (Back On the Planet, Brainfeeder, 2013)
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The first episode of the ‘Réverbérations d’une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' podcast, an introductory presentation of the approach underlying the project, with excerpts from different segments that will be presented during the next episodes. /// Premier épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal'. Présentation de la démarche qui sous-tend le projet et extraits de différents segments qui seront présentés durant les prochains épisodes.
- Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Présentation de l’approche / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Presentation of the approach
- Housing crisis collage & Intro theme, by Joseph Sannicandro (avec des enregistrements de terrain de/with field recordings by Christine White)
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “Le sud-ouest montréalais en crise : trois portraits de locataires”, par/by Jordan Torres Bussière
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “Les lieux disparus (podcast)”, par/by Claude Périard
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “Q-Block (podcast)”, par/by Philippe Battikha
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “Autour de deux manifs contre la gentrification”, par/by Hubert Gendron-Blais
- Trompette solo issue de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce “Homage to Martin Peach”, par / Solo trumpet from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”, by Philippe Battikha
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “Essai sur la politique de la vie nocturne à Montréal - Part 1”, par/by Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec un extrait de la pièce/with an excerpt of the piece “En retrait”, par/by ce qui nous traverse)
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “3 (Sahnia Karamat Ali)”, par/by Stefan Christoff (avec des enregistrements de terrain de/with field recordings by Christine White)
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “1 (François Saillant)”, par/by Stefan Christoff
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “The Price of Precarity”, par/by Christine White
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “2 (Pierre Parent)”, par/by Stefan Christoff
- Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Perception collective de la situation: logement et santé mentale / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Collective perception of the situation: housing and mental health
- Petit exercice de spéculation politique no. 1, par/by Julien Simard & Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec la voix de/with the voice of Jérémie Dubé-Lavigne)
- Extrait de / Excerpts from “How We Negotiate Worlds”, by Amanda Harvey
- Informations sur le projet / Information on the project
- End theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro.
The excerpts of some music pieces come from the album “Réverbérations d’une crise. Une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal”, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-205, 2022. /// Les extraits de certaines pièces musicales (“Homage to Martin Peach”, “The Price of Precarity”, etc.) proviennent de l’album.
Réalisé par / Produced by Joseph Sannicandro & Hubert Gendron-Blais
Art visuel/Visual art: Marjolaine Lord
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The third episode of Gianmarco Del Re's Ukrainian Field Notes aired on Wed October 19 on ResonanceFM at5:30pm - 6:30pm GMT.
Third episode of the podcast with Odesa based musicians Leonid Zhdanov and Nataly Hrytsenko, aka Casa Ukrania, discussing the current situation in the country in the aftermath of the recent shelling of Ukrainian cities on Monday 10th of October.
Tracklist:
Misha Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Casa Ukrania – Trunok u Darunok
58918012 – Previous Experience (background)
Undo Despot – Asterisk
05:AM – Hats & Snares (background)
The House of the Hidden Light – The Abducted Automaton.
05:AM – CH8 (background)
Poljie – Maliunok
05:AM – NNM (background)
Casa Ukrania – Dalnyk
05:AM – Odesa Winter (background)
Ginger Snaps – Zaida
58918012 – Roar of the Skies (background)
Misha Ziganoff (reprise)
Casa Ukrania – Krov Moia (Acoustic)
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Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Second episode of the podcast, with Olesia Onikyienko (NFNR) discussing fundraising and life in Kyiv.
Tracklist:
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
hspd - Prayer One
Motorpig - Luminous Abyss
NFNR - Dice2
Motorpig - Oscillators of Time
hspd - Yesnoyes
hspd - Crepuscula
NFNR - Dog Rose
I, Iteration - Homeland
hspd - Sorry Dub
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DeForrest Brown, Jr. (aka Speaker Music)is a media-theorist, curator, and self-described rhythmanalyst. While he’s been based in NYC for the better part of the last decade, he was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, which also happens to be where Sun Ra first landed on Earth. Brown’s just-released book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, traces the cycles of American history through the Great Migrations from the Deep South to the industrial centers of the north and back again. In this episode, Brown discusses his profound sense of future shock, the meaning of rhythmanalysis, and the making of Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, his critically acclaimed 2020 album.
Headphone listening recommended.
TRACKLIST
Speaker Music – “Ex-American Blues (excerpt)” (Soul-Making Theodicy, Planet Mu, 2021)
Drexciya – “Depressurization” (Deep Sea Dwellers, Shockwave, 1992)
Speaker Music – “Amerikkka’s Bay (ft. Maia Sanaa)” (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, Planet Mu, 2020)
Speaker Music – “Techno is a Liberation Technology (ft. AceMo)” (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, Planet Mu, 2020)
John Coltrane – “Alabama” (Live at Birdland, Impulse!, 1964)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra – “Space Loneliness” (We Travel the Space Ways, El Saturn, 1967)
Nina Simone - “Mississippi Goddam” (Live At Carnegie Hall New York, 1964)
Speaker Music – “Magic City Classic” (CRACK magazine, 2021)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr. – “sunken place in reverse…a cancelled future, a horizon of a pipe dream” (The Wages of Being Black is Death, PTP, 2018)
Carl Craig – “Dreamland” (More Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art, SSR, 1997)
Moor Mother & billy woods – “The Blues Remembers Everything The Country Forgot ft. Wolf Weston (of Saint Mela)” (BRASS, Backwoodz, 2020)
Sterling Toles – “6/19” (Resurgent Cinerbus, Sector 7G, 2017)
Gang Starr – “1/2 & 1/2 (feat. M.O.P)” (1/2 & 1/2, TVT, 1998)
Dakim – “Typeofblue” (Ntoo, Poo-bah, 2011)
Yusef Lateef - “Woodward Avenue” (Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°, Atlantic, 1969)
Underground Resistance – “Riot” (Riot EP, UR, 1991)
Cybotron – “Techno City (vocal)” (Techno City 12”, Fantasy, 1984)
Carl Craig – Party/After-Party (Dia:Beacon, 2020)
Theo Parrish – “Dreamers Blues” (Parallel Dimensions, Sound Signature, 2000)
Ethel Waters – “Down Home Blues” (Down Home Blues 78, Black Swan, 1921)
Speaker Music – “An Expression of Hi-Tech Soul” (Percussive Therapy, self-released, 2020)
Model 500 – “Future (instrumental)” (No UFO’s, Metroplex, 1985)
Axine M - sᑦ⍺𝜼(s⍺𝗩𝐢Ơ𝑟〕(Speaker Music Remix) (SBVRSV.press, 2021)
Speaker Music – “Black Compositional Thought––Torkwase Dyson_s Evolving Theory of Environmental Liberation” (a bitter but beautiful struggle, PTP, 2020)
Sun Ra - “UFO (Mike Huckaby Reel-2-Reel Edit)” (The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 1, Kindred Spirits/Art Yard, 2011)
John Akomfrah - the last angel of history, 1996
J Dilla – “Welcome 2 Detroit” (Welcome 2 Detroit, Barely Breaking Even Records, 2001)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Beyond Vietnam” (Riverside Churuch, 1967)
The Roots – “Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) [feat. Amiri Baraka]” (Phrenology, MCA, 2002)
Kanye West / Gil Scott Heron - “Who Will Survive In America” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Roc-A-Fella, 2010)
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I'm still swamped with work, especially now that the semester has begun. New episodes will arrive later this fall. Until then, here is another bonus mix. It's probably my favorite mix I've ever done, made for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014.
S13 founder Justinas Mikulskis writes:
“Secret Thirteen 139” is a picturesque and unique mix composed by Joseph Sannicandro. This mix is like a truly precious musical treasure every die-hard music lover could be searching for ages. In this over 1 hour long musical mosaic Joseph connects 55 pieces by his beloved and inspirational artists such as Tim Hecker, Vladislav Delay, Jon Hassell, Giuseppe Ielasi, Hue, Nicola Ratti, Machinefabriek, Klaus Schulze, MB, Steve Roden and many others, to form a complex, but at the same time a delightful soundscape. The opening and closing recordings by his The New Objective project tightly binds the overall mix’s concept and mood.
The mix radiates a strange musical luminosity, which guides the mind and the soul to the pure infinite satisfaction even when it is played in complete darkness. Divine ambiance, unexpected twists between music genres, fluid melodies and harmonious and thoughtful attitude to even the smallest details bring this mix to another dimension, a dimension where the nature meets man and his fundamental desire to perceive cosmos. As Joseph whispered, the mix could stand in parallel with Giuseppe Penone’s metaphorical sculpture “The Hidden Life Within“. And it’s quite a good example, because both, mix and sculpture, are based on the magical and fantastic groundwork, also the form, which could not be replicated.
In the beginning we asked Joseph to interpret the outer space theme with his mix through his own perspective, but in the end the recording expanded into a much deeper, more metaphysical exploration of the whole universe with all it’s phenomenons and wonders. Please, take a moment to read Joseph’s keen comment about the mix.
Read more about the mix, including tracklisting:
secretthirteen.org/joseph-sannican…ser-listen-mix/
acloserlisten.com/2015/01/10/acl-m…/#comment-127414
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Joseph Sannicandro presents 'dopo il diluvio,' a binaural soundwalk made for headphones, following a specific route through the town of San Martino Valle Caudina (AV).
A bandcamp page has been made available for the 2022 edition of Liminaria / Interferenze festivals.
Read more at Bandcamp: https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/dopo-il-diluvio
This bonus episode is a bilingual version, combining the vocals into a special feature for our podcast listeners. Below you can find links to alternate versions, including a vocal-less 'soundscape' version that is my favorite.
As always,
Headphone Listening Recommended.
Soundwalk Instructions: bit.ly/DopoilDiluvio-info
Map: bit.ly/LiminariaSoundwalkMap
Downloads
Bilingual Version:bit.ly/DopoIlDiluvio-En-It
Soundscape Version (no vocals): bit.ly/DopoIlDiluvioSoundscape
Folder with all versions: bit.ly/DopoilDiluvio-all-files
Special thanks to Leandro Pisano and Laura Marcoccia. Thanks also to the work of Matteo Renato Imbriani, Dante, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Gospel of James.
-Joseph Sannicandro
www.soundpropositions.com
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Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
with Zavoloka, Burning Woman and Vlad Suppish
discussing the aftermath of the Russian invasion of February 24 2022
and issues relating to the sound-centred impact of war.
Tracklisting:
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Cluster Lizard - Music of Creation
Troxellemott - Trauma Zavoloka - Obriad
Vlad Suppish - A Hobbyist of Hellworlds
Burning Woman - Nightingale Song
Dmytro Bobryk - Goverla
Stas Teterevlev - Ambience_Kyiv_24_02_022
Vlad Suppish - Bergamot Lyre
Zavoloka - Vilna
Sean Deigh - Gardens of the Mind
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen (reprise)
Vlad Suppish - A Glimmer of Hope
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I'm still in rural southern Italy as artist-in-residence, so I haven't had time to finish up the next regular episode of the podcast, which is a tenth anniversary celebration of ACL. But last week I was in Colle Sannita in the province of Benevento, where my paternal grandfather's mother grew up and where her family had deep roots. I conducted a multi-day workshop, mostly leading soundwalks with high school students. I also interviewed townsfolk of all ages, and made all kinds of recordings. On Sunday evening, as part of the return of Liminaria, I made a public presentation to town, giving a brief overview of sound studies and my artistic methodology, before presenting a live soundscape composition based on the recordings and interviews I'd conducted during my workshop. I present that piece to you here: Ritmi Rurali (suonano ancora).
Ritmi Rurali (suonano ancora) is a 15′ sound collage comprised of ambient soundscapes and interviews recorded in Colle Sannita (BN).
I set the length of the piece to 15 minutes, which is also the interval at which the church bells in the campanile ring (day or night). I was a bit surprised how habituated the Collese are to the incessant chiming. We grow numb to background noise and even if we hear, we often fail to listen. Thus I lean heavily into the sound of those bells in this piece, both rhythmically and in terms of timbre.
Interviews in Italian, Headphone Listening Recommended.
-Joseph Sannicandro
www.soundpropositions.com
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The long-running electronic duo Matmos have just released a gorgeous new LP, Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer. Whereas their previous album, 2020’s The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, saw the couple collaging contributions from 99 friends recorded at 99 bpm, their latest is dedicated to the work of just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer (1929-2019). In this episode, we discuss how their reputation for conceptualism has often served to obscure the formal characteristics of their work. Can an object be a concept? Is “washing machine” or “plastic” a concept? With their signature blend of serious humor, the pair reflect on touring with a washing machine, the practicalities of licensing music, and the complexities of working with Schaeffer’s archive.
Interview recorded between Baltimore and Montreal, April 2022
Produced and mixed in New York, May 2022
TRACKLISTARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Matmos - “Anti-Antiphon(Absolute Decomposition) / Anty-Antyfona (Dekonstrukcja_na_całego)” [excerpt] (Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer, Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Matmos intro collage + Barbarella Matmos clip (1968)
Matmos - “Anti-Antiphon” [excerpt] (Regards, Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Matmos - “A DOUGHNUT IN THE SKY” (The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, Thrill Jockey, 2020)
Matmos - “Flight to Sodom / Lot do Salo” (Regards Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Song that my Whirlpool stackable washing machine plays
Matmos - [opening excerpt] (Ultimate Care II, Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Matmos – “Always Three Words” (quasi-objects, vague terrain, 1998)
Matmos - “Memento Mori” (A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, Matador, 2001)
Matmos clip from Top Gear: Series 5, Episode 9, Ariel Atom 46:09 – 46:40 (2004)
Matmos – “Plastic Minor” (Matmos, Vague Terrain, 1997)
Matmos – “You (Rrose Mix)” (The Ganzfeld EP, Thrill Jockey, 2012)
Matmos - “Cobra Wages Shuffle / Off! Schable w gurę!” (Regards, Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Matmos - “In Search Of A Lost Faculty” (The Marriage Of True Minds, Thrill Jockey, 2013)
Joseph Sannicandro - Improv with Matmos' Bogusław Schaeffer Ableton sample kit
Bogusław Schaeffer - “Berlin 80 II” (Inventionen: Berlin 80 II / Fabulas II / Inventio, Edition RZ, 1985)
Matmos - [late excerpt] (Ultimate Care II, Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Matthew Herbert - “August 2010” (ONE PIG, Accidental, 2011)
Matmos - “Extending The Plastisphere To GJ237b (Plastic Anniversary, Thrill Jockey, 2019)
Jennifer Veillerobe – “B3” (Luftlöcher, Senufo, 2013)
Run The Jewels - “Creown (Alchemist Remix)” (Meow The Jewels, Mass Appeal, 2015)
Terry Fox - “The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Different Cats” [excerpt] (Tellus #21, Tellus, 1988)
Alvin Curran - [Side A, opening excerpt] (Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri, Ananda, 1978)
Count Dooku clips from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Matmos - “Part VII. The Backyard” (ROBERT ASHLEY’s Perfect Lives: Baltimore, 3/28/17)
Pierluigi Billone - “excerpt” (1 + 1 = 1, Kairos, 2006)
Ivan Catteneo - "Kiss me I'm italian" (Urlo, CGD, 1980)
Matmos - “The Little People ..." (Matmos and Michael Brown)” (Work Work Work, Vague Terrain, 2006)
M.C. Schmidt - “Lowland Side” (Batu Malablab, Megaphone / Knock’em Dead, 2015)
The Soft Pink Truth - “Space Formerly Occupied ...” (Am I Free To Go?, self-released, 2020)
Joseph Sannicandro - Sample kit Improv (2022)
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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Maria Chavez is a pioneer of Abstract Turntablism, a self-described practice she developed under the guidance of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening. Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Houston, she cut her teeth as a DJ spinning techno and drum & bass, but the male chauvinism of that scene roused her to experiment further with the materiality of vinyl, using broken needles and non-musical sounds. Oliveros inspired her to ditch dance parties for improvisation with a single turntable, an artistic practice which has evolved to include installations, workshops, visual art, and curation. A true sound artist (she adamantly eschews the label “musician”), until recently, Chavez had released only one recording, 2004's Those Eyes Of Hers, focusing instead on her career as longform performance. But after beginning a medical sabbatical in 2019, which forced her to cease touring (a year before the rest of the world shut down), Maria began slowly releasing new recordings into the world. In this episode, we discuss recent and upcoming collaborations, her switch to using four turntables (with double needles), and staking out her rightful place in art history contra White supremacist power structures.
TRACKLISTMaria Chavez - “I Love You, 2020” (2020)
Maria Chavez - “EMPAC SESSIONS: 2, 2020” (2020)
Beethoven / Werner Elmker - "Slow version of Für Elise" (2021)
Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler - “Five Thousand” (2021)
Maria Chavez & Lucas Gorham - “A Side” (2020)
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - “Nike” (1989)
Devin KKenny - “NY Lottery-CBD Kratom (LALIT Remix)” (2021)
DJ Screw / UGK - “Tell Me Something Good” (1995)
DJ Screw - “Untitled [excerpt] (instrumental)” (2004)
Annea Lockwood performed by Maze - “Bayou-borne, For Pauline” (2022)
Maria Chavez - “EMPAC SESSIONS: 1 (excerpt)” (2020)
Grandmaster Flash - [excerpt from the film] (1982)
Geto Boys - “Still (Instrumental)” (1996)
Maria Chavez - [Excerpt] (Maria's Last Live DJ set in Europe, Brussels, Saturday Night Radio Panik & Moacrealsloa, Jan. 2019)
Maria Chavez - “EMPAC SESSIONS: 1 (excerpt)” (2020)
Maria Chavez - “Guitar Vocabulary” (2020)
Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler - “Que Te Vaya Bien” 2021)
Maria Chavez - [excerpt] (SquareWheels DJ mix 1998)
Pauline Oliveros - “Big Mother Is Watching You” (1997)
Grand Wizard Theodore and Mean Gene - [excerpt] (1977)
Pauline Oliveros & Cecil Taylor - “Duo” (2012)
Bernhard Leitner - “HT_A” (2003)
Maria Chavez - “Sara Sleeps, 2020” (2020)
Maria Chavez - “The Rain of Applause” (Amplify, 2020)
Susanna Hood, Martin Tétreault - “Hello étendues” (2019)
Maria Chavez - “XI” (Maria Chavez Plays (Stefan Goldmann's 'Ghost Hemiola'), Macro, 2019)
Pauline Oliveros - “Bye Bye Butterfly” (1997)
Antipop Consortium - “Volcano (Four Tet Remix Instrumental)” (2009)
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Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles, whose 2021 album Hidemi was one of our favorites of the year. A prolific collaborator, Shiroishi can also be heard in various duos, trios, and larger ensembles, including the quartet Fuubutsushi, another group that has been in steady rotation at ACL. In this episode, we reminisce about elementary school concert band and Third Wave ska, discuss his introduction to various modes of improvisation, and explore his love of black metal. Shiroishi also unpacks the importance of family history and ancestry to his work, particularly against the recent rise in anti-Asian racism. And as live performances pick up again, he looks back on how the pandemic turned him into an unlikely proponent of online collaboration.
Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Patrick Shiroishi - “nerves of human life” (black sun sutra, Weird Cry Records, 2013)
SP INTRO
Patrick Shiroishi - “眼には眼を”[excerpt] (Eye For An Eye, Armageddon Nova, 2020)
Skankin' Pickle - “Turning Japanese” [flip] (Sing Along With Skankin' Pickle, Dill Recorda, 1994)
Deerhoof - “The Perfect Me" (Friend Opportunity, Kill Rock Stars, 2007)
Blonde Redhead - “Misery is a Butterfly” (Misery is a Butterfly, 4AD, 2004)
Patrick Shiroishi - “Tomorrow Is Almost Over” (Descension, Thin Wrist, 2020)
John Coltrane - “Ascension I” (The Major Works Of John Coltrane, GRP, 1965/1992)
Corima – “Amaterasu V” (Amaterasu, Soleil Zeuhl, 2016)
Upsilon Acrux - “Old Dusk Seas: Odyssey” (Sun Square Dialect, New Atlantis, 2015)
Patrick Shiroishi - “To Kill A Wind-Up Bird” (Hidemi, American Dreams, 2021)
Patrick Shiroishi - “never again is now” (i shouldn't have to worry when my parents go outside, 2021)
Patrick Shiroishi Rob Magill Duo - “Picture Paintings” (Eyes in the Dirt, Weird Cry, 2018)
Patrick Shiroishi - “What Happens When People Open Their Hearts” (Hidemi, American Dreams, 2021)
John Coltrane & Rashied Ali - “Saturn” [1967] (Interstellar Space, Impulse!, 1974)
Thomas Ankersmit, Taku Sugimoto, Nakamura, Akiyama “Untitled” (Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1, reset, 2002)
Patrick Shiroishi / Radu Malfatti - “Benkyou” [excerpt] (Benkyou, B-Boim Records, 2020)
Patrick Shiroishi / Radu Malfatti - 勉強 [excerpt] (勉強, 2019)
M. Sage & Patrick Shiroishi - Valley Candle (Wants A Diamond Pivot Bright, 2021)
Fuubutsushi - “Good Sky Day” [excerpt] (Good Sky Day, Longform Editions, 2021)
Patrick Shiroishi & claire rousay - “Brushed Too Hard” (Now Am Found, Mended Dreams, 2021)
Armand Hammer & the Alchemist [verse: billy woods] - “Robert Moses” (Haram, Backwoodz, 2021)
Black Swan - “Descension” (Redemption, Ethereal Symphony, 2013)
Yellow Eyes - “Cathedral” (Silence Threads The Evening's Cloth, Sol Y Nieve, 2012)
Patrick Shiroishi & Camila Nebbia - “el espacio entre el lenguaje / 言語の間” (The Human Being as a Fragile Article, 2021)
Chris Williams - “Live” [excerpt] (Live, 2022)
Patrick Shiroishi & Noel Meek - “Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets” [excerpt] (Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets, 2021)
Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka “in the frame of incarceration” (No
No 2 / のの 二, 2022)
Patrick Shiroishi - “Beachside Lonelyhearts” (Hidemi, American Dreams, 2021)
Patrick Shiroishi - “Be a Lion, I Will Still Be Water (Sparrow's Tongue, Fort Evil Fruit, 2018)
Patrick Shiroishi - “the soothing thought that spring from human suffering” (White Sun Sutra, 2014)
LTJ - "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" (All My Best Friends Are Metalheads/The Disintegrators 45", Fueled by Ramen, 1999)
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We kick off season 3 with an interview with the creators behind The World According To Sound, in honor of their 2022 Winter Listening Series. A streaming concert series designed for our times, each event is dedicated to listening closely together, apart. If, like us, you’re apprehensive about attending live concerts again, but miss the experience of collective listening, this series is made for you. 12 shows will be presented every Thursday evening at 6PM PST, January 6 through March 24, 2022. Enter “ACloserListen” at checkout for 25% off tickets and season passes. Half season passes, as well as individual tickets, are also available. This episode begins by profiling The World According to Sound and diving into their listening series, as well as their frustrations with the state of public radio in the USA. Despite these critiques, we all still have a deep love of radio, and so the back half of the episode forms an homage to the radiophonic arts.
Interview recorded between California and Montreal, December 2021
Produced and mixed in Montreal, January 2022
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RIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020)
GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. Geng shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of one of hip hop's greatest artists.
Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2021/10/31/sp-episode-21-food-music-with-geng-ptp-podcast/
TRACKLIST
King Geedorah – “Voices Pt. 0 feat. MF GRIMM” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)
SP intro
MF DOOM – “The Mystery of Doom (Skit)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Metal Fingers – “Peach Extract” (Special Herbs, Vol. 9-0, Shaman Work, 2005)
MF DOOM & Nujabes – “The Mask (Interlude)” (Metaphorical Villainy, Altered Crates, 2020)
Metal Fingers – “Orris Root Powder” (Special Herbs, Vol. 9-0, Shaman Work, 2005)
Viktor Vaughn – “The Drop” (Vaudeville Villain, Sound-Ink, 2003)
Metal Fingers – “Nettle Leaves” (Special Herbs, Vol. 1-2, High Times, 2002)
King Geedorah – “Foolish” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)
Metal Fingers – “Dragon’s Blood” (Special Herbs, Vol. 5-6, Nature Sounds, 2004)
AMANI + KING VISION ULTRA – “Water” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
GENG – “Hand of Doom (Chopped _ Slowed by GENG)” (Screwing Yourself to Live, PTP, 2012)
MF DOOM – “? (Feat. Kurious)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Metal Fingers – “Arabic Gum” (Special Herbs, Vol. 3-4, Nature Sounds, 2003)
Playboi Carti – “Stop Breathing” (Whole Lotta Read, Interscope, 2020)
MF DOOM – “Kon Queso” (MM..FOOD, Rhymesayers Entertainment, 2004)
Armand Hammer – “Parables (ft AKAI SOLO, prod. Navy Blue) (Shrines, Backwoodz, 2020)
MF DOOM – “Operation: Greenbacks” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Madvillain – “Accordion (instrumental)” (Four Tet Remixes, Stones Throw, 2005)
De La Soul – “I Am I Be” (Buhloone Mindstate, Tommy Boy, 1993)
KMD – “Get-U-Now (instrumental)” (Black Bastards Ruff + Rares, Fondle ‘Em, 1998)
KMD – “Get-U-Now” (Black Bastards, Sub Verse Music, 2001)
Madvillain – “Supervillain Theme (Instrumental)” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)
Metal Fingers – “Mullien” (Special Herbs, Vol. 1-2, High Times, 2002)
MF DOOM – “Tick, Tick…(Feat. MF GRIMM) (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Metal Fingers – “Emblica Officinalis” (Special Herbs, Vol. 7-8, 2004)
Billy Woods – “Borrowed Time” (Today, I Wrote Nothing, Backwoodz, 2015)
Madvillain – “ALL CAPS” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)
Ghostface Killah x MF DOOM – “Money Folder” (Operation: Ironman, 2000)
MF DOOM – “Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
MF DOOM – “Doomsday” (Live at Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC, 1998)
MF DOOM – “Doomsday” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)
Ras G – “Find Ya Self (ANU Wrld)” (Back On the Planet, Brainfeeder, 2013)
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It’s been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with GENG, the man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see how these fine “purveyors of weaponized media and information” are handling the pandemic and the uprisings. With live performance no longer an option, the model of mutual support demonstrated by a crew like PTP is all the more important. GENG tells us about the history of PTP, the benefits of peer-support, community activism, and why it’s more important now than ever to understand hip hop as spiritual music.
Interview recorded between Montreal and Queens, May 2020 and January 2021
Produced and mixed in Montreal, February 2021
Read more at: http://acloserlisten.com/2021/02/19/sp-episode-17-before-the-internet-with-geng-ptp-podcast
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Milford Graves with Sunny Morgan – – “Nothing 19” (Percussion Ensemble, ESP Disk, 1965)
INTRO
Raekwon/RZA – “Ice Cream (instrumental)” (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, Loud, 1995)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “An Unknown Infinite” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
King Vision Ultra – “excerpts from B Side” (Pain of Mind, PTP, 2018)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Guillotine” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Milford Graves, Marshall Allen, Henry Grimes – “(live excerpt)” (Angel Orensanz Center / Arts for Art – 4 Dec 2012)
GENG – “Iron Man (Chopped _ Slowed by GENG)” (Screwing Yourself To Live: A Chopped & Slowed Tribute To Black Sabbath, PTP, 2012)
YATTA – “Bliss” (WAHALA, PTP, 2019)
Dis Fig – “Excerpt” (An Atypical Brain Damage, PTP, 2018)
Moor Mother – “This Week (Feat. GENG)” (The Motionless Present, Fear Anger Love, 2017)
King Vision Ultra – “Excerpt” (QUATTRO (death circus), PTP, 2020)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Scrapes (Feat. ELUCID)” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Monie Love – “Monie in the Middle” (Live at the Apollo, 1990)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Monie Said So (Prod. Nick Hakim)(Feat. Monie Love)” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Queen Latifah – “Ladies First (Feat. Monie Love)” (All Hail the Queen, Tommy Boy, 1989)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Monie Said So (Prod. Nick Hakim)(Feat. Monie Love)” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Cannibal Ox – “Stress Rap (instrumental blend)” (The Cold Vein, DefJux, 2001)
DREAMCRUSHER – Excerpt from B-side (Panopticon!, PTP, 2020)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr – “Reflex and Bone Structure.” (Absent Personae, PTP, 2017)
Mobb Deep – “[The Grave Prelude]/Cradle To The Grave (instrumental)” (The Infamous, Loud, 1995)
billy woods – “Dirge (Feat. Vordul Mega)” (Camouflage, Backwoodz, 2003)
Ennio Morricone – “Paura E Aggressione (Short Version)” (Crime And Dissonance, Ipecac, 2005)
Bad Brains – “I Luv I Jah” (I Luv I Jah, Alternative Tentacles, 1982)
Moor Mother & billy woods – “Giraffe Hunts” (BRASS, Backwoodz, 2020)
Madvillain – “America’s Most Blunted (instrumental blend)” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)
Public Enemy – “Leave This Off Your Fuckin' Charts (instrumental)” (Fear of a Black Planet, Def Jam, 1990)
Negativland – “A Nice Place To Live” (Points, Seeland, 1981)
Brand Nubian – “Step to the Rear” (One For All, Elektra, 1990)
RZA – “Banister Fight” (Kill Bill Vol. 1 OST, Maverick, 2003)
Giuseppi Logan Quartet – Bleecker Partita (The Giuseppi Logan Quartet, ESP Disk, 1965)
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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We have a new bonus episode coming up later this month, but until then check out some past episodes you may have missed.
ROBOT, TEACH US TO GROOVE was first published in March 2019. This episode features Efraín Rozas, Peruvian-born, Brooklyn-based performer/composer and robotics/software developer interested in new paradigms of cognitive technologies and mythologies. He leads the psychedelic salsa group La Mecánica Popular, fusing groove-based Latin music with electronic and experimental explorations. Rozas' Myth and Prosthesis series utilizes software programming and robotics to produce sound installations and music, deploying Latin American influences and modern technology to uproot Western concepts and mind/body duality.
We discuss all these projects and more, including the role of NYC in the history of Salsa, and the future of electronic Latinx music to come.
Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com
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The podcast is still on hiatus, but here is a plunderphonic radio play originally presented as part of Disinformation Cultures
(https://disinformationcultures.net/)
On January 6, 2021, Americans learned what Italians have known since the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa: power is not a site to which one can lay siege. It is past time to retire this Medieval fantasy of the sovereign confined inside the walls of their castle.
Q. and not U. (or, Conspiracy Means To Breathe Together) is a plunderphonic exercise in free association. The length of this radio play was determined by one solo match of the videogame Fortnite Battle Royale.
Read more, including a complete transcript, at https://soundpropositions.com/2021/04/26/censor/
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DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a media-theorist, curator, and self-described rhythmanalyst. He releases digital audio as Speaker Music and under his own name. While he’s been based in NYC for the better part of the last decade, he was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, which also happens to be where Sun Ra first landed on Earth. Brown’s upcoming book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, traces the cycles of American history through the Great Migrations from the Deep South to the industrial centers of the north and back again. In this episode, Brown discusses his profound sense of future shock, the meaning of rhythmanalysis, and the making of Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, his critically acclaimed 2020 album.
Headphone listening recommended.
TRACKLIST
Speaker Music – “Ex-American Blues (excerpt)” (Soul-Making Theodicy, Planet Mu, 2021)
Drexciya – “Depressurization” (Deep Sea Dwellers, Shockwave, 1992)
Speaker Music – “Amerikkka’s Bay (ft. Maia Sanaa)” (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, Planet Mu, 2020)
Speaker Music – “Techno is a Liberation Technology (ft. AceMo)” (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, Planet Mu, 2020)
John Coltrane – “Alabama” (Live at Birdland, Impulse!, 1964)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra – “Space Loneliness” (We Travel the Space Ways, El Saturn, 1967)
Nina Simone - “Mississippi Goddam” (Live At Carnegie Hall New York, 1964)
Speaker Music – “Magic City Classic” (CRACK magazine, 2021)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr. – “sunken place in reverse…a cancelled future, a horizon of a pipe dream” (The Wages of Being Black is Death, PTP, 2018)
Carl Craig – “Dreamland” (More Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art, SSR, 1997)
Moor Mother & billy woods – “The Blues Remembers Everything The Country Forgot ft. Wolf Weston (of Saint Mela)” (BRASS, Backwoodz, 2020)
Sterling Toles – “6/19” (Resurgent Cinerbus, Sector 7G, 2017)
Gang Starr – “1/2 & 1/2 (feat. M.O.P)” (1/2 & 1/2, TVT, 1998)
Dakim – “Typeofblue” (Ntoo, Poo-bah, 2011)
Yusef Lateef - “Woodward Avenue” (Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°, Atlantic, 1969)
Underground Resistance – “Riot” (Riot EP, UR, 1991)
Cybotron – “Techno City (vocal)” (Techno City 12”, Fantasy, 1984)
Carl Craig – Party/After-Party (Dia:Beacon, 2020)
Theo Parrish – “Dreamers Blues” (Parallel Dimensions, Sound Signature, 2000)
Ethel Waters – “Down Home Blues” (Down Home Blues 78, Black Swan, 1921)
Speaker Music – “An Expression of Hi-Tech Soul” (Percussive Therapy, self-released, 2020)
Model 500 – “Future (instrumental)” (No UFO’s, Metroplex, 1985)
Axine M - sᑦ⍺𝜼(s⍺𝗩𝐢Ơ𝑟〕(Speaker Music Remix) (SBVRSV.press, 2021)
Speaker Music – “Black Compositional Thought––Torkwase Dyson_s Evolving Theory of Environmental Liberation” (a bitter but beautiful struggle, PTP, 2020)
Sun Ra - “UFO (Mike Huckaby Reel-2-Reel Edit)” (The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 1, Kindred Spirits/Art Yard, 2011)
John Akomfrah - the last angel of history, 1996
J Dilla – “Welcome 2 Detroit” (Welcome 2 Detroit, Barely Breaking Even Records, 2001)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Beyond Vietnam” (Riverside Churuch, 1967)
The Roots – “Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) [feat. Amiri Baraka]” (Phrenology, MCA, 2002)
Kanye West / Gil Scott Heron - “Who Will Survive In America” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Roc-A-Fella, 2010)
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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Max Alper is best known for La Meme Young, his popular Instagram account turning niche experimental music jokes into dank memes. But a deep interest in music pedagogy is at the heart of everything Alper does, including his non-profit Sonic Arts For All!, an organization that puts music technology directly into the hands of K-12 and special needs students. We talk about the importance of creativity, memes as pedagogy, the limits of traditional music education, and how to democratize music technology.
Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
TRACKLISTARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Peretsky – “Pase que lo que” (Bandcamp, 2019)
George Clinton (RBMA, 2015)
Parliament – “Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication” (Mothership Connection, Casablanca, 1975)
SP Intro
Peretzky – “Cuarentena Canovanas (edit)” (Cuarentena Canovanas, Bandcamp, 2020)
Konono N°1 – “Lufuala Ndonga” (Congotronics, Crammed Discs, 2004)
Eddie Palmieri – “Bilongo” (El Lunatico / Bilongo, Tico, 1968)
DJ Riobamba Latin LDN #2 (Boiler Room, 2019)
Valentine - Odysseus Matrix (SAFA!, 2020)
Les Filles de Illighadad – “Eghass Malan” (Eghass Malan, Sahel Sounds, 2017)
Francis Bebey – Sahel (*African Electronic Music 1975
1982*, Born Bad, 2011)
George Lewis & Douglas Ewart - “Homage to Charles Parker” (Live at Palasport, Novara, Italy, November 11, 1978)
Extra Life –“Strong Brother, Weak Brother (Laurel Halo remix)” (Ripped Hearts, Last Things, 2010)
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir – “Lux Aurumque” (2010)
Angélica Negrón – “Soundscape Backing Track” (by Audiopuerto / Ariel Alvarado & Manuel Vázquez) (Marejada, 2020)
Angélica Negrón – “Excerpt” (Gray Sound Sessions, July 21, 2020)
Mike Huckaby - " Wavetable No 9” (My Life With The Wave EP, S Y N T H 2007)
Maria Chavez – “Sara Sleeps” (2020)
Mauthausen Orchestra – Side A (They Never Learn, 1983)
Luigi Russolo / DJ Spooky - Corale_FTP _ Bundle_Conduit (Sound Unbound, 2007)
Luigi Russolo – “Veglio di una Citta” [1914) (Dada for Now: a collection of Futurist and Dada Sound Works, 1985)
Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck “live excerpt” (Live @ Basement 414, Lansing, MI, 17 October 2007)
John Cage + Sun Ra – “Empty Words And Keyboard” (John Cage Meets Sun Ra: The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, Modern Harmonic, 2016)
Pauline Oliveros /Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis “Suiren” (Deep Listening, New Albion, 1989)
Jeremiah Cymerman / Charlie Looker - “I’ll show you what you are” (A Horizon Made Of Canvas, Astral Spirit, 2021)
Greg Fox – “Stone Pillar”(Stone Pillar, Longform Editions, 2019)
Clipping - “Dominoes” (CLPPNG, Sub Pop, 2014)
Manitoba [Caribou] – “Children Play Well Together” (Stop Breaking My Heart, Leaf, 2001)
David Grubbs – “The Chimney Swifts” (Airport Symphony, Room40, 2007)
Wolf Eyes – “Ancient Delay” (Burned Minds, Sub Pop, 2004)
The Mad Lads – “Gone, Promises of Yesterday” (A New Beginning, Volt, 1972)
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with Montreal’s Roger Tellier-Craig, known for his work with Fly Pan Am, Godspeed, Le Révélateur and others. In 2019, Fly Pan Am released C'est ça, their first record in 15 years, but their 2020 tour plans were derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tellier-Craig discusses his fascination with music as a studio art, the unexpected creative opportunities presented by quarantine, and the hyperreality of our present in which our fragile sense of reality seems poised to collapse at any moment.
Interview recorded in Montreal, May 2020
Produced and mixed in Montreal, March 2021
"la réalité qui bascule dans le néant" - Roger Tellier-Craig
Read more at : https://acloserlisten.com/2021/03/14/sp-episode-18-into-the-uncanny-valley-with-roger-tellier-craig-podcast/
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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It’s been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with Geng, the man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see how these fine “purveyors of weaponized media and information” are handling the pandemic and the uprisings. With live performance no longer an option, the model of mutual support demonstrated by a crew like PTP is all the more important. Geng tells us about the history of PTP, the benefits of peer-support, community activism, and why it’s more important now than ever to understand hip hop as spiritual music.
Interview recorded between Montreal and Queens, May 2020 and January 2021
Produced and mixed in Montreal, February 2021
Read more at: http://acloserlisten.com/2021/02/19/sp-episode-17-before-the-internet-with-geng-ptp-podcast
TRACKLISTARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Milford Graves with Sunny Morgan – – “Nothing 19” (Percussion Ensemble, ESP Disk, 1965)
INTRO
Raekwon/RZA – “Ice Cream (instrumental)” (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, Loud, 1995)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “An Unknown Infinite” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
King Vision Ultra – “excerpts from B Side” (Pain of Mind, PTP, 2018)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Guillotine” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Milford Graves, Marshall Allen, Henry Grimes – “(live excerpt)” (Angel Orensanz Center / Arts for Art – 4 Dec 2012)
Geng – “Iron Man (Chopped _ Slowed by Geng)” (Screwing Yourself To Live: A Chopped & Slowed Tribute To Black Sabbath, PTP, 2012)
YATTA – “Bliss” (WAHALA, PTP, 2019)
Dis Fig – “Excerpt” (An Atypical Brain Damage, PTP, 2018)
Moor Mother – “This Week (Feat. Geng)” (The Motionless Present, Fear Anger Love, 2017)
King Vision Ultra – “Excerpt” (QUATTRO (death circus), PTP, 2020)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Scrapes (Feat. ELUCID)” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Monie Love – “Monie in the Middle” (Live at the Apollo, 1990)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Monie Said So (Prod. Nick Hakim)(Feat. Monie Love)” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Queen Latifah – “Ladies First (Feat. Monie Love)” (All Hail the Queen, Tommy Boy, 1989)
Amani + King Vision Ultra – “Monie Said So (Prod. Nick Hakim)(Feat. Monie Love)” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)
Cannibal Ox – “Stress Rap (instrumental blend)” (The Cold Vein, DefJux, 2001)
DREAMCRUSHER – Excerpt from B-side (Panopticon!, PTP, 2020)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr – “Reflex and Bone Structure.” (Absent Personae, PTP, 2017)
Mobb Deep – “[The Grave Prelude]/Cradle To The Grave (instrumental)” (The Infamous, Loud, 1995)
billy woods – “Dirge (Feat. Vordul Mega)” (Camouflage, Backwoodz, 2003)
Ennio Morricone – “Paura E Aggressione (Short Version)” (Crime And Dissonance, Ipecac, 2005)
Bad Brains – “I Luv I Jah” (I Luv I Jah, Alternative Tentacles, 1982)
Moor Mother & billy woods – “Giraffe Hunts” (BRASS, Backwoodz, 2020)
Madvillain – “America’s Most Blunted (instrumental blend)” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)
Public Enemy – “Leave This Off Your Fuckin' Charts (instrumental)” (Fear of a Black Planet, Def Jam, 1990)
Negativland – “A Nice Place To Live” (Points, Seeland, 1981)
Brand Nubian – “Step to the Rear” (One For All, Elektra, 1990)
RZA – “Banister Fight” (Kill Bill Vol. 1 OST, Maverick, 2003)
Giuseppi Logan Quartet – Bleecker Partita (The Giuseppi Logan Quartet, ESP Disk, 1965)
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
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Esther Bourdages is an art critic, radio journalist, independent curator, and musician based in Montréal. She is an improviser of extraordinary sensitivity, bringing a playfulness to her tactile manipulation of vinyl records, sometimes outright mishandling them. This freedom to destroy is indicative of a resistance to structure and formalism, but Esther’s work can’t be easily dismissed as some sort of exercise in catharsis. Instead her approach to live improvisation is raw and expressive, and cultivated over decades of ongoing exploration. Much of her recent studio work is for radiophonic diffusion, often based on field-recordings and with a politicized context. We discuss her unique approach to vinyl, the history of Canadian artist-run centres, and the intersection of art and sound from multiple perspectives.
Interview recorded in Montreal, October 2020
Produced and mixed in Montreal, January 2021
Read more at: http://acloserlisten.com/2021/01/21/sp-episode-16-freedom-to-destroy-with-esther-b-podcast/
TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Esther B. –Think about the rhythm (Audio Postcard, 2020)
Esther B. - excerpt a (live at Spiro Space, 2019)
Esther B. / Erik Hove / Thom Gossage - The Space between - 01 Exclusive piece_no1!(Particles, Contour Editions, 2021)
[the user] (Emmanuel Madan and Thomas MacIntosh) - “Silo # 5” (Silophone, The Kitchen, 2001)
Esther B. - excerpt b (live at Spiro Space, 2019)
Luigi Turra / France Jobin – “France Jobin Variation” (Fukinsei VARIATIONS, 2020)
Togetherness! – “Salaam/Looking for Gilchrist (Abdullah Ibrahim / William Parker)” (Togetherness!, Mr. E Records, 2018)
Martin Tétreault – “Abandon” (La Nuit Où J'Ai Dit Non, Audioview, 1997)
Christian Marclay & Okkyung Lee – “Rubbings” (From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 7, Opax, 2005)
Esther B.- Silence film : quand l’audience devient la trame sonore 2016
Anne-F Jacques / Tim Olive – “Sur Place/Staying” (AMPLIFY 2020)
Joane Hétu / Diane Labrosse / Zeena Parkins / Danielle P. Roger* / Tenko – “Les Pluies Acides” (La Légende De La Pluie, Ambiances Magnétiques, 1992)
Esther B. (with Jon Ascencio, Aimé Dontigny, Édouard Jeunet, James Schidlowsky, David Turgeon) – “Untitled 4” (It is not easy for doug engelbart to give a conference when Youppi and Mad Dog are in the house, No Type/Bricolodge, 2004)
Jean Tinguely – “Homage to New York (Radio sculpture) / Sculpture at the Tate 12 / Mta harmonie II” (Sculpture at the Tate, Audio Arts, 1982)
Esther B. - excerpt c (live at Spiro Space, 2019)
Maria Chavez – “The Rain of Applause” (Amplify 2020)
Cover image: Jean Tinguely
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Dedicated to George Floyd
....
I. every precinct an autozone
II. a new world from the ashes of the old
III. fuck12
IV. minnesota nice
V. this aint a riot
VI. 8'46"
I lived in South Minneapolis for 4 years, most of that time in an apartment building on Chicago Avenue and 39th St, just a block from the intersection where police murdered George Floyd.
Music for Insurrection is a sound collage, blending field-recordings I made in South Minneapolis, livestream audio from the Uprising in May 2020, samples, and improvised instrumentation (flute, practice soprano sax, sampler, fx). Livestream samples from Unicorn Riot, friends' Instagram stories, and Youtube, including a sample of Mel Reeves speaking to protesters. Excerpt from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993) read by me. Big Floyd samples from DJ Screw.
Any proceeds will be donated to South Minneapolis-based community charities, including a community library we have been supporting at the George Floyd Memorial Intersection. Purchase available PWYC at Bandcamp.
https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-insurrection
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Kassel Jaeger, once little more than a mysterious German moniker producing captivating music for our favorite boutique labels, has since been revealed to be François J. Bonnet, composer, philosopher, and now director Ina-GRM, France’s legendary center for electroacoustic research. No longer shrouded in mystery, his prolific output has lost none of its power. In the last year he’s released some of the best records of his career, including collaborations with Jim O’Rourke and Stephen O’Malley. Having grown accustomed to hearing Bonnet’s voice as host ofFrance Musique’s L'Expérimentale, it was a trip to have the opportunity to sit down with him while he was in Montreal for 2019’s AKOUSMA festival. In this episode, Bonnet speaks with us about the development of his music, various acousmatic diffusion techniques, the privilege of composing for the acousmonium, and balancing the legacy of the GRM with the music to come.
Interview recorded at Usine-C, Montreal, October 2019
Produced and mixed in Montreal, November 2020
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We sit down with director Serdar Kökçeoğlu in Istanbul to discuss the 2013 Gezi Park protests, how the sounds of the city have inspired his work as a film maker, and how composer İlhan Mimaroglu was inspired by the activism of his wife, Güngör. Kökçeoğlu has recently completed his first full-length feature film, Mimaroğlu. Going beyond a biography of Turkey’s most famous composer, the film explores İlhan and Güngör’s relationship and the cross-pollination between avant-garde music and radical politics.
Plus an Istanbul scene report, a special mix, and an interview with Touch artist Ipek Gorgun.
Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
This episode is accompanied by the İSTANBUL EKSPRES [mix]
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This mix accompanies the LISTENING THROUGH MIMAROĞLU episode, featuring director Serdar Kökçeoğlu discussing his work and the Mimaroglu project in particular. I originally had in mind a second episode with interviews with other musicians I met while in Istanbul, but for a variety of reasons not everyone was comfortable speaking for audio, or we were otherwise unable to find an opportunity to record. Of course there are also linguistic barriers. Save polished corporate aesthetics for the professionals, this podcast is more interested in something else. So instead I present İSTANBUL EKSPRES, a bonus mix of music from Istanbul artists old and new.
You can also read my interview with Ipek Gorgun. at www.acloserlisten.com
We spoke about some of her favorite Anatolian psychedelic bands, among other things. Since the 1990s, international music publications like the Wire have become hip to Turkish rock from the 60s and 70s. Artists from that era were often incorporating folk instruments from around the region into a rock ensemble context. But that's just one facet of Turkish musical heritage.
Sample-based producers like Group Ses, working in styles influenced by hip hop, trap, beat tapes, etc, make up a vibrant scene of crate diggers, mining the rich history of Turkish (and Ottoman) recordings.
İSTANBUL EKSPRES is my attempt to share some of this music. I don't claim any expertise, or pretense of exhaustive knowledge, just wanted to share the music and voices of the amazing artists I met in Istanbul.
cover image: Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
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After a longer delay than intended, the Sound Propositions podcast is back. I’m very pleased to finally share this conversation with Bruno Stucchi, graphic designer and co-founder of the Die Schachtel label. Stucchi reflects upon the evolution of the label, the suppressed history of Italian experimental music, and the continued importance of big ideas.
Die Schachtel is a partnership between Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, who met online in the peak of eBay record collecting, before Discogs and social media convinced us that there is nothing new under the sun. They exchanged records and, more importantly, they exchanged ideas, culminating in an ambitious excavation of the lost history of Italian experimentalism. The label debuted in 2003, and has since built a strong reputation for as their meticulous editions, unquestionably one of the guiding lights of the current flourishing of experimental music in Milan and Italy more broadly.
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And now for the big finale. Alvin Curran has been at the forefront of challenging musical convention for over half a century. His work has pushed back against the institutional stranglehold on culture, encouraging anybody to make music, anywhere and with anybody. A dominant tendency in his oeuvre has been finding new ways to activate spaces and cultivate active listening and music making. His recent sound installation Omnia Flumina Romam Ducunt serves as an entry point into a wide-ranging discussion encompassing many aspects of his long career.
This episode features mainly compositions by Alvin Curran. A large portion is built upon binaural field-recordings made during the finissage of Omnia Flumina Romam Ducunt at the Terme di Caracalla, ancient Roman bathes which served as the location for this stunning work. Headphone listening recommended.
Find more, including tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com.
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The Liminaria festival ran for five editions between 2014 and 2018, culminating with a collateral event in Palermo as part of Manifesta 12. Based in the rural micro-region of Fortore, the frontier between Campania, Molise, and Puglia, Liminaria offered residencies and public presentations in which visiting artists worked with local residents to apply sound art methodologies to the unique geographies of this territory. Curators Beatrice Ferrara and Leandro Pisano take this period to reflect upon the successes and challenges of working in the rural south of Italy with virtually no budget, the important solidarities between the south of Italy and the Global South, and their recently published "Manifesto of Rural Futurism."
This episode features a selection of sound art and musical compositions which resulted from the five editions of Liminaria. I visited the Fortore region which Leandro Pisano in 2017, during Philip Samartzis' residency in San Marco dei Cavoti. Included in the episode are field-recordings I made in San Marco, Baselice, and in transit.
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Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). New episodes will be published every two weeks (more or less). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined (and since today is my birthday, I’d be extra grateful for the support). One of the rewards for supporting the podcast in this way is access to vocal-free versions of the episodes, that is, more traditional mixes, as well as other benefits for higher tiers of support, including custom made mixes, soundscapes, and collages.
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Many of our readers responded enthusiastically to the Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese music compiled by the Unexplained Sounds Group in 2018. Earlier this year, I reached out to label founder Raffaele Pezzella (Sonolygyst) to discuss his label, his radio show, his solo work, and why he keeps digging for unheard artists.
We had a great chat, discussing his interest in dark ambient, conspiracy theories, and the technical pursuit of sound. I am also really into this playlist, if I don't say so myself. (You can hear the mix without the interview and vocal fades if you support this project on our Patreon.)
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Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). New episodes will be published every two weeks (more or less). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined (and since today is my birthday, I’d be extra grateful for the support). One of the rewards for supporting the podcast in this way is access to vocal-free versions of the episodes, that is, more traditional mixes, as well as other benefits for higher tiers of support, including custom made mixes, soundscapes, and collages.
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Andrew Khedoori of the Preservation label talks about his latest series, Longform Editions, featuring compositions designed to encourage deep listening. Very much organized against the prevailing streaming ecosystem which encourages short tracks and distracted listening, Longform Editions has released 32 works and counting. The interview is set entirely against selection from the series, often playing out for much longer than I usually would give a single track. The final selection is the sole exception, a meditative piece from Deep Magic released on Preservation.
Longform Editions isn't necessarily interested in being overly prescriptive, dictating how we should or should not listen. Khedoori never makes a moral argument that things should be one way or another. But for those who feel increasingly overwhelmed and are looking for an escape, subscribe to the Longform series for your regular dose of music that encourages deep listening.
Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). New episodes will be published every two weeks (more or less). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined (and since today is my birthday, I’d be extra grateful for the support). One of the rewards for supporting the podcast in this way is access to vocal-free versions of the episodes, that is, more traditional mixes, as well as other benefits for higher tiers of support, including custom made mixes, soundscapes, and collages.
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Greyfade is a New York based label founded by Joseph Branciforte, dedicated to releasing high-quality physical and digital album length works of art. Greyfade's inaugural release is the aptly titled LP1, a collaboration between Branciforte and the acclaimed vocalist Theo Bleckmann. In this episode, Branciforte discusses why Greyfade is emphasizing HQ downloads via their own web store and eschewing streaming services, why he regards launching a label as an extension of composition, collaborating with Theo Bleckmann, and working with max/msp as a performative tool.
For fans of improvised music, lush textures, heavenly vocal harmonies, sub-bass frequencies, electroacoustic experimentation, and ambient excursions.
Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). New episodes will be published every two weeks (more or less). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined (and since today is my birthday, I’d be extra grateful for the support). One of the rewards for supporting the podcast in this way is access to vocal-free versions of the episodes, that is, more traditional mixes, as well as other benefits for higher tiers of support, including custom made mixes, soundscapes, and collages.
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This episode features a deep conversation with Toni Cutrone (best known as Mai Mai Mai) delving into all the various facets of his career. On the occasion of the release of his latest LP, Nel Sud, we met to discuss his southern Italian and Mediterranean roots, the rediscovery of Italian music from the 70s, and the difficulties (and joys) of running clubs and a cultural association in Italy's capital. Cutrone draws an implicit link between the same eclecticism that is on display in the Roma Est neighborhood he calls home with the ancient links of circulation which unite diverse Mediterranean identities.
Nel Sud departs from where his Mediterranean Trilogy left off, exploring "the interrelation between pagan rituals and Catholicism, lives shaped by arduous labour and working-class dignity, the fragility of man subdued by nature, divinity and magic." It stands as his most ambitious, and best, album yet and shouldn't be missed. Amidst rising nationalism and right-wing populism, a work such as this all the more necessary: rather than solidifying a false standard of "purity" or advocating a fantasy of blood and soil, Nel Sud de-centers the received narratives, pointing to a long history of exchange and hybridization, of liminal spaces and fluid boundaries, of interlinked histories which cannot be contained by static understandings of identity. The music included here, much of which comes from Cutrone's various projects and those of his collaborators, reflects this diversity, and while it tends, ultimately, towards a rather bleak picture (juxtaposing the ruins of past empires with the contemporary ruins of decadent consumerist society) there is nonetheless something I find hopeful. In excavating the past in this way, perhaps we can ignite new imaginaries and new futures.
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Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice. Headphone listening recommended.
Cover Image a panel from Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore's Ranx a New York.
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Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. This series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ Each episode combines interviews with music, field-recordings, and experimental sound design.
MUSIC SELDOM HEARD explores the intersection of the production and dissemination of music, probing questions of media, form, and feedback from the perspective of a musician and organizer. Earlier this month I attended the final event of the third edition of the Napoli-based festival La Digestion, held at the incredible Maschio Angioino, a 13th century castle on the water front. This was also the first of three Musica Sanae events, exploring the intersection of sound and medicine in consecutive concerts in Napoli, Sokolowsko, and Berlin. This episode features a wide-ranging discussion with Mimmo Napolitano, one of the organizers behind La Digestion. As a musician, he produces challenging and dynamic sounds inspired by musique concrète and noise. Utilizing the Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape player together with no-input feedback and other sounds, SEC_ has cultivated a very singular approach to live performance. This episode brings together his work with music from just a few of the many exciting artists who Mimmo has helped to bring to Napoli over the last decade. Mixed in are live recordings made during Musica Sanae in Napoli, as well as field-recordings recorded around the city earlier in the year (mostly as a part of my [Useless Sounds] series). Headphone listening recommended.
For fans of experimental music, field-recording, drone, electro-acoustic, ambient, modern composition, and other contemporary electronic music genres.
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Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features Joe McKay, profiling his label Dinzu Artefacts. We talk about his previous label, Spring Break Tapes!, his own artistic practice (as Monte Burrows), the importance of listening to the quotidian, and the persistence of physical media in an increasingly digitally mediated world.
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Cover image: still from Bill Fontana's "Arche Sonore" (1994)
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Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features John Daniel, a Chicago-based musician best known for his ambient solo project, Forest Management. I caught up with him from his childhood home in Cleveland over the holidays. We discuss his latest LP Passageways (inspired by his childhood home), his influences, how his approach to music has changed, his new imprint Afterhours, and the importance of place, space, and community.
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[Cover image, Gordon Matta-Clark, "Splitting" (1974)]
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Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features Efraín Rozas, Peruvian-born, Brooklyn-based performer/composer and robotics/software developer interested in new paradigms of cognitive technologies and mythologies. He leads the psychedelic salsa group La Mecánica Popular, fusing groove-based Latin music with electronic and experimental explorations. Rozas' Myth and Prosthesis series utilizes software programming and robotics to produce sound installations and music, utilizing Latin American influences and modern technology to uproot Western concepts and mind/body duality.
We discuss all these projects and more, including the role of NYC in the history of Salsa, and the future of electronic Latinx music to come.
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Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
This episode features saxophonist and composer Phillip Johnston, known for his work with genre-bending jazz ensemble The Microscopic Septet, the Beefheart tribute Fast 'N Bulbous, and as the composer of silent film scores. Johnston moved to Australia over a decade ago, but NYC still feels like his home turf. We were both back in town last November for Thanksgiving, and we met to discuss memory, music, media, the (not-so-silent) history of silent film, and his long-association with the various music scenes of NYC.
Special thanks to Phillip, Joyce, Steve, and Smalls.
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Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.
The inaugural episode of our new podcast, Sound Propositions, features interviews (with Resina and Lea Bertucci) and field-recordings recorded during the 2018 UNSOUND festival in Krakow, Poland. (You can read my review of the festival here.) The theme of this year's festival was "Presence," and so that became the point of departure for my interviews, particularly the ways in which absences can also be felt as a "presence."
Special thanks to Resina, Lea Bertucci, Ryan Diduck, Corey Bracken, and the entire Unsound team.
Keywords: Experimental Music, Sound Art, Sound Design, Electro-acoustic, field-recordings, electronic music, modern composition, Ambient, Drone, Post-Rock.
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The introduction to Sound Propositions, which changes slightly with each episode.
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