TRS (#2) 2-3-09: Nothing (or a Running Joke About 4.33)

Hello and welcome to this week's edition. By now you've surely found that I like to blog more than I like talking on the air... this week we move into our prerecorded format... and when I say "we" I am talking about me three times: there is the live "me" in the studio (just because it's prerecorded doesn't mean it isn't live (or does it?)), there is the field reporter me (you'll hear my interview on nothing with UI Professor David Dunlap), and there is the third me I haven't yet discovered (this me, the blogger me, perhaps, the John 2.0)... I am dumping M.T.sun or any of its incarnations because it just doesn't work on RADIO...

This week's lineup: ( or an awkward progression into something):

1) People Like Us... "Nothing" from the Abridged Too Far
2) Yoko Ono... "Snow is Falling All The Time" from the publication Aspen
3) John Cage... "excerpt of an interview" from Norton Lectures
4) Meredith Monk... "RALLY"... from Airwaves
5) Yves Klein... "excerpt from Monotone Symphony" event on a historical evening
7) Brian Joseph Davis... "Elua" a "cover of Sony's best song"
8) bpNichol... "Dada Lama" from Ear Rational
9) Christian Bok... performs "Ursonate" by Kurt Switters
10) Siegfried Fink... "Metallophonie" from Sound Sculptures

and I tagged track 5 from DJ Spooky's Rhythm Science on at the end to fill the hour... it contains some Gertrude Stein for good measure...

Thanks for listening.

Also I would like to extend my thanks to David Dunlap for the 1st official interview of TRS... (sound clips interspersed)... and for his conversation regarding Travis FREEMAN (an artist who attempts "nothing" with much more success than I...) and Alva Gene Dexhimer... TRS is a proud sponser of the Men's Cold Pork Drawing Club even though we are 2/3 vegetarian.

Notes have been noted: for next week The Boundaries of Storytelling