TRS (#1) 1-27-09: "J.E.Tsun says Hello, no disclaimers, no excuses, sound is cited"

"Hello I am your host J.E.Tsun," I may start by saying something of this sort. On here, though, within this blog's code I'm gonna keep it kind of bloggy (read = unprofessional) and just wax on the fax yo.

This evening (or tomorrow morning if your that type of person) I will be introducing the show to the world (or the few sleepless souls orbiting the Old Capitol) and I'm basically shooting for a technically sound show. I'm going for a decent flow, no gaffs, no meltdowns, no, actually... I'm setting the bar even lower: I will declare victory if I get to the studio in time.

But insecurity and self-deprecation aside, here's the playlist:

1. I will start things off with bpNichol's, Pome Poem (as blessings for the show). It's from his Ear Rational, 1982, more info available here: www.ubu.com/sound/nichol.html

2. William S. Burroughs - Recalling All Active Agents (www.ubu.com/sound/burroughs.html)

3. Track 25 from DJ Spooky's Rhythm Science, artists on the track listed as: Oval vs. Yoshihiro Hanno, Oval vs. Main, David Shea, Marcel Duchamp, track name: "April (remix] + SDII Audio Remplate + Satiricon + Some Texts From L'Infintif"... The album is part of a book produced by Mediawork/MIT Press 2004

4. Christian Bok - Intro & Chapter A from Eunoia... www.ubu.com/sound/bok.html - If you don't know about this book check out the link. Each chapter is limited to the vowel of its title... I will be featuring the whole book over the course of this show... I can't wait til we get to U...

5. Duchamp reads "The Creative Act" - www.ubu.com/sound/duchamp.html

6. "Unclean" by Psychic TV from The Dial-A-Poem Poets album Better An Old Demon Than a New God... www.ubu.com/sound/demon.html

7.James Joyce - Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake) > London, 1929 - www.ubu.com/sound/joyce.html

8. And look what I found on UBU... Iowa City's own: The Tape Beatles... 4 tracks (in order aired: Beautiful necessity, Education of the will, The man of to-morrow, Body of his desire) from the album Good Times (www.ubu.com/sound/pw/good_times.html)

Two thoughts on background talk music (there must be a radio term for this filler)... anyway, I'm thinking either Seth Price's Vid-Trax Continuous Mix (40 minutes of video game soundtracks) or viral symphOny by Joseph Nechvatal (which is rather harsh at points, but what the hell).

A note on resources: you may have noticed my links all have the same base web address... ubu.com... Ubuweb is an internet archive of most of the historical and contemporary "sound" work I will be playing on this show. I built this show mining UBU, this show is totally dependent on UBU, this specialty show exists from the blood of UBU... KRUI has no afliation with UBU and I am comfortable using them as a resource because that's what they are there for, to make available what is otherwise obscure or defunct. Here see for yourself: www.ubu.com/resources/index.html... my favorite line from their dictum is this:

Totally independent from institutional support, UbuWeb is free from academic bureaucracy and its attendant infighting, which often results in compromised solutions; we have no one to please but ourselves.

I, too, have no one to please but myself. I am here out of delight. One hour of sound. That is the point of That Resounding Sound!

Comments welcome.