TRS (#8) 3-24-09 : Free Radical Radio

This week's show was a live mix. It featured some of my own audio tracks (wheel of fortune clips, a stuttering obama, and b-songs from my ipod) and others I have played before on the show... Seth Price video game trax, B Gysin, WSBurroughs, Dick Higgins, and some ethno-poetry off UBU and some other stuff as well. If you're interested I can direct you in the right direction, and I think this is the route I'll take from now on... no more listing everything meticulously. Anyway I was quite proud of this "cut-up/cleansing show" and now feel prepared for hijack. If you'd like to listen to what you missed you can follow the title of this post to the hour broadcast preserved forever at internet archives. Thanks for listening.

Preparing for Hijack

Hello. This week I am preparing for hijack. Hijack will happen next week. For this week, I am preparing. I have a host of rituals. I must transform the airwaves to prepare for hijack. Hijack is not this week but the next. I have already purified this space with too much D Antin. Now I must prepare this purified space for hijack and make sure we are pure. Hijack is next week. For this week (in preparation): Free Radical Radio.

TRS (#7) 3-10-09 : The Complete Normed Vector Spaces Show featuring Char Banach & David Antin

Okay, so if you've been listening lately you've been witness to my obsession with David Antin... lasts week's show may have been a bit hard to listen to with the sporadic pops and crackles, so I've brought Mr. Antin back for the later half of this week in a better recording from Studio 111 at UPenn (a discussion they freely disperse (at least for educational means) on their website)...

But the main attraction this week is my interview with Char Banach (whom I've introduced in the post below)... I am playing a distilled/remixed 24 minute version of our conversation... I could have filled the hour with our talk and I thought I would given the delight of our interview, but when it comes down to it, I just have trouble listening to myself for such a length... I have done my best to give Char her due... she sings a couple beautiful songs in the clip I have included and a couple more are available in animated form on youtube (again: see post below)...

So that's this week's show... I will return in two weeks with a "radio essays" show...

Next Week: The Complete Normed Vector Spaces Show

Featuring Char Banach, and math quotes from wikipedia: "Since the norm induces a topology on the vector space, every Banach space is necessarily metrizable and metrizable spaces generally have very interesting properties."

Like I mentioned before, Char Banach is an intermedia turned designer grad at the SAAH... She sat down with me this week to discuss art, academia, the dilemma of being an introverted radio show host, and the joy in the spontaneous creation of song.

Below is a selection of her video work. Tune in next week to hear these songs and more on That Resounding Sound...

TRS (#6) 3-3-09 : Hellbird

The theme of this week's show is Hellbird because that phrase awoke with me one morning this week and I wanted to spice up my titling a little.

In honor of Hellbird, I will be playing a David Antin talk (given at SUNY-Buffalo in 2003), entitled "War" which will cover a significant duration of tonight's program.

"War" (and some more of Mr. Antin's work) can be linked to here, here, or here on ubuweb.

Next week I will be collaborating with Charmaine Banach (UI SAAH Grad Intermedian turned Designer) who will be talking about life as a catalyst and singing soulful ditties about household appliances.

"Burn This Motherfucker Down"

That is the theme for this week although I will not be saying that word on the air, nor using it again whenever I address the theme for this week. This blog is rated T for strong language.

TRS (#5) 2-24-09 : Songiness

Okay this week I'm having fun... intergrating Brain Joseph Davis as the fabric that holds my "songiness" theme together and bouncing these fried tracks off more or less listenable stuff from Madlib to Monkey Chants to Talking Heads to a plundered Micheal Jackson... it's just an experiment...

1. Lady Be Good - Ella Fitzgerald - from the Ubuweb : ethnopoetics... check the link for some words about scat, Louis Armstrong, and a connection between jazz and dada
2. Brian Joseph Davis - from Ten Banned Albums Burned Then Played (a contemporary sound project which is just as it sounds) - Stravinsky
3. Madlib - from Beat Konducta vol. 5+6 two tracks, back to-back (a twofer Tuesday ha!): 1) Infinity Sound & 2) Sacrifice
4. Ketjak : The Ramayama Monkey Chant- (9 minute excerpt) - also from ubuweb : ethnopoetics (I liked how this fit with the skipping, repetitive nature of B.J. Davis "burned albums"
5. Brian Joseph Davis - Ten Banned Albums Burned Then Played - Sex Pistols
6. John Oswald - Plunderphonics - Micheal Jackson "Dab"
7. Sonic Youth - Goo Interview Flexi - from disc 2 of the Goo reissue
8. Brian Joseph Davis - Ten Banned Albums Burned Then Played - The Beatles
9. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - from the album Speaking in Tongues
10. Morales-Taniel_Sin-Cabeza_15-Movimiento-sexual (I don't know where I got this [I thought ubu] but I can't find it again and I don't know anything other than the file's name, sorry)
11. Negativland - Richard Nixon Died Today - from the album Thigmotactic
12. Brian Joseph Davis - Ten Banned Albums Burned Then Played - First Family/Louie Louie
13. New Humans - You Must Be Free - from album New Humans
14. Brain Joseph Davis - Ten Banned Albums Burned Then Played - 2 Live Crew
15. David Dondero - Song for the Civil Engineer - from the album The Transient

Hopefully soon I'll have the podcast as a feed... until then, any interested parties can click on the title of each week's show (ex. TRS (#5) 2-24-09 : Songiness) and find it logged on Internet Archive. Thanks for listening.