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Edition #13: Ake Hodell listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer listen to part 3 | listen to part 3 with RealPlayer Host John Duncan introduces this grossly underrated audio pioneer from Stockholm, Sweden, with additional commentary via telephone from C.M. von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren. More on Ake Hodell's "Brainwash and Other Works". and Dael Orlandersmith's acclaimed play, Yellowman. |
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Edition #12: Ellen Fullman, David Maranha, Keiji Haino - listen | listen with RealPlayer Imagine the sound of a harp over 100 ft. long, with the musicians walking among the strings...or a live grand piano concert played with vibrating motor...or a solo electronic guitar performance ranging from grating to ethereal. A classic presentation by the most avant of musicologists, John Duncan. Ellen Fullman is a composer known for her compositions on her self-made Long String Instruments (played by walking on the strings and rubbing them), her distinct tunings, and her involvement with extended harmonics - exemplified here by "Body Music." She says, "Playing the Long String Instrument feels to me like I'm walking in waist-high water, skimming the surface with my fingertips...The cascading overtone production glides over the rooted fundamental tone like a river moving past: always changing; yet remaining the same." The Portuguese pianist, specialist in shimmering string-drones David Maranha plays "Piano Suspenso." With his brother André and Patricia Machiás, he curates Osso Exótico, a Portuguese music foundation. Mysterious guitarist Keiji Haino, front man for the psychedelic power trio Fushitsusha, performs "Beginning and End, Interwoven," solo, with the usual sunglasses. and Dael Orlandersmith's acclaimed play, Yellowman. |
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Edition #10: Eliane Radigue - listen | listen with RealPlayer In 1975, Eliane Radigue became a disciple of Tibetan Buddhism and later composed a large-scale cycle of works based on the life of Milarepa, the 11th-century Tibetan master. Host John Duncan plays some of it here. |
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Edition #9: Salvadore Francesh - listen | listen with RealPlayer For this episode, Duncan presents Francesh's audio sigil trilogy - a fresh interpretation of the idea of sound used as a subversive instrument. |
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Edition #8: Oskar Sala - listen | listen with RealPlayer This episode is devoted to the electronic pioneer, Oskar Sala, developer of the Trautonium, one of the earliest audio synthesizers and a most fascinating musical instrument. |
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Edition #7: Matt Heckert's Mechanical Sound Orchestra - listen | listen with RealPlayer Heckert's behemoth machine orchestra - in concert - with all the attendant hums, clicks, creaks and other nonverbal communications you might expect from an orchestra that really moves. Heckert was the co-founder, with Mark Pauline, of Survival Research Laboratories. |
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Edition #6: Banks Bailey: Dawn at Main Entrance to Saguaro National Park - listen | listen with RealPlayer On location in Italy, Duncan dedicates this show to the late Los Angeles iconoclast, John Schroeder, featuring Banks Bailey's daybreak performance at Saguaro National Park in Tucson, AZ. |
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Edition #5: Phill Niblock - listen | listen with RealPlayer Sound-art specialist John Duncan samples the microtonal frequencies of drone pioneer Phill Niblock. |
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Edition #4: Keiji Haino - listen | listen with RealPlayer John Duncan presents the sounds of Keiji Heino, intense Japanese noise guitarist, vocalist and performer. |
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Edition #3: Hermann Nitsch - listen | listen with RealPlayer John Duncan presents Hermann Nitsch. This intensely ritualistic Viennese actionist who invented Mystery Orgy Theater also makes music! Here it is. |
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Edition #1 and #2: Folke Rabe listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer Lie down. Genial (and knowledgeable) host John Duncan presents the music of Folke Rabe, an electronic composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. As Duncan says, "Get ready to put muscles in your ears." |
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