POPULARITY
Episode 171 Chapter 30, EMS Analog Synthesizers. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 30, EMS Analog Synthesizers from my book Electronic and Experimental music. Playlist: MUSIC MADE WITH EMS ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:34 00:00 1. Delia Derbyshire, “Dance From ‘Noah' " (1970). Composed for a television program. Used the EMS VCS3. 00:55 01:44 2. Selections from the demonstration disc, EMS Synthi And The Composer (1971). Excerpts from Harrison Birtwistle, “Medusa,” Peter Zinovieff, “January Tensions,” and Tristram Cary, “Continuum.” 06:15 02:34 3. Peter Zinovieff and Harrison Birtwistle, “Chronometer” (1971–2). Featured both the EMS Synthi VCS3 and modified sound recordings of the ticking of Big Ben and the chimes of Wells Cathedral clock. 24:23 08:48 4. Mike Hankinson, “Toccata And Fugue In D Minor” (Bach) (1972) from The Classical Synthesizer. South African record realized using the Putney (EMS) VCS3. 07:04 33:06 5. Electrophon, “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (1973) from In a Covent Garden (1973). Electrophon Music was described as the studio where the electronics were recorded and produced in the UK by Radiophonic musicians Brian Hodgson, Dudley Simpson. A variety of synthesizers were used including the obscure EMS Synthi Range, a multi-effect instrument. 03:04 40:10 6. The Eden Electronic Ensemble, “Elite Syncopations” (Joplin) (1974) from The Eden Electronic Ensemble Plays Joplin. Realized using the EMS VCS3 and Minimoog synthesizers. 04:53 43:12 7. Peter Zinovieff, “A Lollipop For Papa” (1974). Realized with the EMS Synthi AKS. 06:26 48:04 8. Peter Zinovieff and Hans Werner Henze, “Tristan” (Long Section) (1975). Tape accompaniment realized with the EMS Synthi AKS. 07:40 54:40 9. J.D. Robb, “Poem of Summer” (1976) from Rhythmania And Other Electronic Musical Compositions. Realized using the EMS Synthi AKS. 02:04 01:02:18 10. J.D. Robb, “Synthi Waltz” (1976) from Rhythmania And Other Electronic Musical Compositions. Realized using the EMS Synthi AKS and Synthi Sequencer 256 (digital sequencer). 01:52 01:04:24 11. Bruno Spoerri, “Hymn Of Taurus (Taurus Is Calling You!)” (1978) from Voice Of Taurus. Realized using a host of equipment, including a few EMS instruments: EMS Synthi 100, EMS VCS3, EMS AKS, EMS Vocoder 2000, Alto Saxophone with EMS Pitch-to-voltage Converter & Random Generator, plus the Lyricon, Prophet-5 Polyphonic Synthesizer, ARP Omni & Odyssey, Minimoog, Moog Taurus Bass Pedal, RMI Keyboard Computer, Ondes Martenot , Vako Polyphonic Orchestron, Bode Frequency Shifter, AMS Tape Phase Simulator, Echoplex, Roland Echo, Roland Rhythm Box, Bruno Spoerri. 02:48 01:06:16 12. Henry Sweitzer, “Open Windows” (1979) from Te Deum. Realized with the EMS Synthi AKS. 11:11 01:09:02 13. Eduard Artemyev, Yuri Bogdanov, Vladimir Martynov, “Le Vent Dans La Plaine,” “Io Mi Son Giovinetta,” and “Why Ask You?” (1980) from Metamorphoses. Composed and realized using the EMS Synthi 100, a large synthesizer unit combining several EMS3 models and connecting circuitry. 08:38 01:20:14 14. Jean-Michel Jarre, “Les Chants Magnétiques,” (side 1) (1981) from Les Chants Magnétiques. Portions realized with the EMS Synthi AKS, EMS Synthi VCS3, and EMS Vocoder 1000. 17:58 01:28:52 15. Alessandro Cortini and Merzbow, “AAMC” (2017) from Alessandro Cortini And Merzbow. Recent recording with all sounds realized using a vintage EMS Synthi AKS. 04:49 01:46:40 Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.
MyMusic with Graham Coath – Episode: Soundtracks & Symbiosis with Tulipomania's Tom MurrayIn this episode of MyMusic, Graham Coath welcomes back Tom Murray from the enigmatic art-rock duo Tulipomania, for a deep-dive into their latest sonic journey — a reimagined and reworked album project that blurs the line between sound and story.Tom shares the remarkable tale of how their 2023 album Dreaming of Sleep inspired acclaimed author Jeff VanderMeer (best known for the Area X trilogy and Annihilation) to write a fourth novel, Absolution — and how that novel in turn influenced Tulipomania's new musical work. It's a true creative loop, where literature and music feed one another.We explore:
Episode 162 Chapter 23, Radiophonic Music in the United Kingdom. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music This episode of the podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 23, Radiophonic Music in the United Kingdom from my book Electronic and Experimental music. Playlist: RADIOPHONIC MUSIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:36 00:00 1. Daphne Oram, “Introduction to Oramics” (1960). Introduction to her Oramics studio and processes for making electronic music. Voice and musical examples by Daphne Oram, recorded in her home studio Tower Folly, Kent. 04:37 01:38 2. Daphne Oram, “Four Aspects” (1960). Tape composition by Daphne Oram recorded in her home studio Tower Folly, Kent. 08:07 06:14 3. Delia Derbyshire, “Doctor Who Theme” (Closing Credits) (1962). The most famous version of this theme for the popular television program, composed by Ron Grainer and realized by Derbyshire at the BBC studios. 02:23 14:20 4. Ray Cathode (George Martin), “Time Beat” (1962). Produced at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Written and produced by George Martin, around the time when he was starting his production work with The Beatles. 02:11 16:40 5. Ray Cathode (George Martin), “Waltz in Orbit” (1962). Produced at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Written and produced by George Martin, around the time when he was starting his production work with The Beatles. 01:52 18:52 6. Daphne Oram, “Costain Suite” (1964). Tape composition by Daphne Oram recorded in her home studio Tower Folly, Kent. 13:17 20:44 7. Delia Derbyshire, “Running” (1964). One of the seven parts from the “radio inventions” called "The Dreams," first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, Sunday 5th January 1964. 08:08 34:02 8. Delia Derbyshire, “Falling” (1964). One of the seven parts from the “radio inventions” called "The Dreams," first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, Sunday 5th January 1964. 08:45 42:08 9. Delia Derbyshire, “Land” (1964). One of the seven parts from the “radio inventions” called "The Dreams," first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, Sunday 5th January 1964. 07:02 50:54 10. Daphne Oram, “Pulse Persephone” (1965). Tape composition by Daphne Oram recorded in her home studio Tower Folly, Kent. 04:03 58:06 11. Tristram Cary, “Sputnik Code” (1968). Cary was a British composer and pioneer of electronic music. He composed this work for a movie soundtrack. 01:50 01:02:08 12. Lily Greenham, “ABC in Sound” (1968). Early tape work by this pioneer of electronic music in the UK. Greenham was an Austrian-born Danish visual artist, performer, composer and leading proponent of sound poetry and concrete poetry. She settled in London. 02:39 01:04:02 13. White Noise (Delia Derbyshire, David Vorhaus, Brian Hodgson), “The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell (The White Noise)” (1969). Experimental electronic music project established in London in 1968, originally as a group project between David Vorhaus and BBC Radiophonic Workshop members Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson. Vocals by Annie Bird, John Whitman, Val Shaw. 07:20 01:06:40 14. White Noise (Delia Derbyshire, David Vorhaus, Brian Hodgson), “Your Hidden Dreams” (1969). Experimental electronic music project established in London in 1968, originally as a group project between David Vorhaus and BBC Radiophonic Workshop members Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson. Vocals by Annie Bird, John Whitman, Val Shaw. 04:55 01:13:58 15. White Noise (Delia Derbyshire, David Vorhaus, Brian Hodgson), “Love Without Sound” (1969). Experimental electronic music project established in London in 1968, originally as a group project between David Vorhaus and BBC Radiophonic Workshop members Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson. Vocals by Annie Bird, John Whitman, Val Shaw. 03:07 01:18:52 16. Electrophon (Brian Hodgson, Dudley Simpson), “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (Händel) (1973). Electronic interpretations of classical music for various synthesizers. 03:04 01:22:00 17. Paddy Kingsland, “Fourth Dimension” (1973). Produced by Kingsland for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. “The synthesisers used on this disc are both British, and both made by E.M.S. of London. They are the VCS3, an amazingly versatile miniature synthesiser, and its big brother, the Synthi '100', known within the Radiophonic Workshop as 'The Delaware', after the address of the Workshop.” 02:19 01:25:02 18. Lily Greenham, “Traffic” (1975). Realized at the Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Technical Assistance, Hugh Davies. 10:33 01:27:18 19. White Noise (David Vorhaus), “Concerto Movement 1” (1975). Used what Vorhaus called the Kaleidophon Synthesizer that included two EMS VCS 3's connected via a console of electronic modules he designed. 11:33 01:37:50 20. Delia Derbyshire, “Dreaming” (1976). Produced for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as a work to accompany a television program. 01:13 01:49:18 21. Glynis Jones, “Crystal City” (1976). Produced for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as a work to accompany a television program. 01:01 01:50:30 22. Glynis Jones, “Magic Carpet” (1976). Includes three shorts works, Magic Carpet Take-Off, Magic Carpet Flight and Magic Carpet Land. Produced for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as sound effects. 00:50 01:51:30 23. Brian Hodgson, “Tardis Land” (1976). Produced for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as a sound effect. 00:23 01:52:22 Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.
durée : 00:04:27 - La BO du monde - Pionnier de la musique électronique, l'atelier de création sonore de la BBC a fasciné des générations de DJ's et d'adeptes du home studio. Un logiciel permet désormais d'explorer ses archives et se réapproprier son héritage.
AlCe - I Colori di FridaAnjali Aurora - See meAnima Nera – Per teAna & Gene - Keep On Giving You LoveLuciia & Sabrina Ddumba – HappensEddy Delmonico - The Booze Didn't Bury Me But the Women Did Cosme De La Cruz – Romantique George A. Johnson Jr. - The Last Rose Lostinato - Dentro o fuori Queen Lady Elvira - We Will Kiss All Night Queen Lady Elvira – You are the man who is giving me so much powerZansler and Killah Priest - Yesterday Air Jazz and Killah Priest Bonfire Big L Radiophonic Killah Priest - Stand Phonetic and Kilah Priest – Word to the wise Alaska Redd and Killah Priest - Deadly combo Radiophonic and Killah Priest – Dance Air Jazz and Killah Priest Uncle Tomahawk Blanket Attack - Midnight Sin City Angels Banda – Confession Tapes NickGCherry Dot - Heart of BlueTim Camrose - Fly AgainJD Days - Take Me DownAdrian Brockless - Da Sealkie Wife's SangShyfrin Alliance - Unconditional – Shyfrin Vs Stimpy RemixAlessio Corrias feat. Emmetia - Dimmi se poi Emmetia - GuardamiRomano Alexander – Descontrol Pork Pie – Golden Leaf Sheets The Rhythm Junctions - You've Got To Move N' GrooveTom Dicillo - Shot of BlueStereotide - AliveSynchroStar - Wonders (Radio Edit) Joe Lington – Pinkeen
Anjali Aurora - See meCOMA BEACH – AbsurdAlCe - I Colori di FridaAnima Nera – Per teAna & Gene - Keep On Giving You LoveLuciia & Sabrina Ddumba – HappensCosme De La Cruz – Romantique Lostinato - Dentro o fuori Queen Lady Elvira - We Will Kiss All Night Queen Lady Elvira – You are the man who is giving me so much powerSteve Brooks & The Fourth Level - Between The Sun & Moon Zansler and Killah Priest - Yesterday Air Jazz and Killah Priest Bonfire Big L Radiophonic Killah Priest - Stand Phonetic and Kilah Priest – Word to the wise Alaska Redd and Killah Priest - Deadly combo Radiophonic and Killah Priest – Dance Air Jazz and Killah Priest Uncle Tomahawk Blanket Attack - Midnight Sin City Angels Banda – Confession Tapes NickGCherry Dot - Heart of BlueTim Camrose - Fly AgainJD Days - Take Me DownAdrian Brockless - Da Sealkie Wife's SangShyfrin Alliance - Unconditional – Shyfrin Vs Stimpy RemixAlessio Corrias feat. Emmetia - Dimmi se poi Emmetia - GuardamiRomano Alexander – Descontrol Pork Pie – Golden Leaf Sheets The Rhythm Junctions - You've Got To Move N' GrooveTom Dicillo - Shot of BlueS. A. Vents – LucidCOMA BEACH – I Won't ListenAndy Wolff – Nothing Will Be Done Ace Diamond – Rollin' Down to Memphis
46 BAND - NEVER ENDING STORYCleimo- Hey Siri, Hey Schiri Points – Hey George Bolton's Trancendental – Triumph Jeremy M – it's not your fault Anjalts – Paint the World So Blue M.Haiux – WeirdoJohn Harrison - Time & SpaceThe Linda Brady Revival – Shut youKerian von Heyden – Final Horizon HiTTA $AM – ALONES. A. Vents – LucidFrancis V – Beyond the HorizonCOMA BEACH – A Madman's DreamAlCe - I Colori di FridaAnjali Aurora - See meAnima Nera – Per teAna & Gene - Keep On Giving You LoveLuciia & Sabrina Ddumba – HappensEddy Delmonico - The Booze Didn't Bury Me But the Women Did Cosme De La Cruz – Romantique George A. Johnson Jr. - The Last Rose Lostinato - Dentro o fuori SUZI SOPRANO – Parada laži Queen Lady Elvira - We Will Kiss All Night Queen Lady Elvira – You are the man who is giving me so much powerSteve Brooks & The Fourth Level - Between The Sun & Moon Zansler and Killah Priest - Yesterday Air Jazz and Killah Priest Bonfire Big L Radiophonic Killah Priest - Stand Phonetic and Kilah Priest – Word to the wise Alaska Redd and Killah Priest - Deadly combo Radiophonic and Killah Priest – Dance Air Jazz and Killah Priest Uncle Tomahawk Blanket Attack - Midnight Sin City The Giraffes - 'Pipes'
Join us as we dive into the making of Alaska Borealis, a groundbreaking album featuring Killah Priest and some of Alaska's most talented hip-hop artists. In this episode, we explore the inspiration behind the project, the creative process, and the impact it's having on the Alaskan music scene. Tune in to hear how this collaboration is elevating emerging artists and reshaping the future of hip-hop in Southeast AlaskaLine UpKillah Priest, Juneau's Air Jazz, Radiophonic, Lance Mitchell, and Zansler; Sitka's Phonetic; and Fairbanks' Alaska Redd. The album was expertly engineered by Jbo of Juneau's Second2None Sound studio.Discover more here : https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/0FtBWLcZCPVqltdCvm3r8E?si=0FtBWLcZCPVqltdCvm3r8E&nd=1&dlsi=7aafa654102046cd
We are joined by Yawdunéi Arias Hoyle, who performs as Air Jazz, to talk about his work as a Hip Hop artist that uses Lingít Yoo X̱ʼatángi (the Lingít language) in his work. We are honored to feature three of his songs: S'áxt', Nakaaní/Shaax'wsaani, and Ch'áak Waak (ft. Radiophonic), and talk about learning and using Lingít, taking the language into new realms, and maintaining a loving and supportive environment for future generations of Indigenous creators and thinkers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ultima Context – the podcast that takes you deeper into the world of contemporary and experimental music. In this sound portrait, Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen visits Risto Holopainen in his Oslo environment and hears how the composer combines speech, atmospheric music and field recordings into something greater than its parts. Drawing on earlier examples of ‘radiophonics', this is the art of sculpting sounds into an immersive listening experience. Produced by Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Editors: Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen (in-Chief), Torunn Forland and Rob Young. Co-produced by Filt Oslo: Regine Døsen Kristoffersen, Peter Daatland. Jingles composed by Kristine Tjøgersen. Supported by Music Norway, Norsk Komponistforening, TONO and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.
Sayre Quevedo is a producer at VICE. “I'm not like a cinephile at all but in a movie nobody says, ‘And then he revealed to me a deep, dark secret.' You discover the deep, dark secret as the main character is learning it. And I just feel like there's something so much more engaging for me as a listener to feel like I'm discovering at the same time as the person who's doing the reporting than feeling like you're just describing the process of discovery. I just need things to feel like they did in real life. I don't want to recreate things."
Bianca Giaever is the host of Constellation Prize and a producer at The Daily. "My favorite radio stories are ones that were passion projects to begin with, that would be un-pitchable from the start because the idea sounds so mundane. .... Boy talks about anxiety as I feel anxiety would have been the logline for the Scared is scared. Holy Cow Lisa would've be like I want to make a movie about my heartbreak, like every other fucking person on planet earth? ... Terrible pitch! But the person I was talking to happened to be a great talker, an amazing character. ... So I've never really been afraid of the un-pitchable story. And it's actually the type of story that intrigues me the most." If you like the show, and want to keep tape alive, please support us at patreon.com/taperadio.
Wendy Zukerman is the host and executive producer of Science Vs. "There is an expectation that if you have a platform you have an agenda. And whereas — for better or worse — me, personally, I don't have particularly strong opinions about things that I don't know about. It's what makes the show possible. I'm terrible at other things in life, but when it comes to issues, I'm pretty good at knowing, oh, I actually don't know anything about that. I shouldn't be having an opinion. And I just want to know the facts."
Autor: Singer, Nathalie Sendung: Fazit Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14
43: Nadia Sirota Nadia Sirota is the host and co-creator of Meet the Composer and an acclaimed violist. “I actually feel like somebody being joyful about something in their life is wonderful. ... There's this temptation when you're in college, and definitely when you're in conservatory, to try to find the right constellation of things to hate. That will make other people think you're smart. And it's really tempting, and it's really easy, in some levels, to sort of fall into that kind of negative world. In classical music, God knows there's so much tearing down of people and of technique and of whatever. ... It's so boring, and it's fascinating to listen to people talk about stuff they love because it requires a little bit of vulnerability. And also that's the kind of excitement that brings you to love something yourself.”
Zounds! Once again we dig into the Fletcher Hanks Bible to perform a mind-bending dramatic reading from the adventures of the Super Wizard Stardust! This time, ol’ Dusty goes up against a mad scientist who plans to reverse the Earth’s… Continue Reading →
Nathalie Singer, die künstlerische Leiterin der Ausstellung "Radiophonic Spaces" im Gespräch. // Moderation Marie Schoeß. / BR 2018 // Jetzt anmelden für aktuelle Hörspiel-Empfehlungen: www.hörspielpool.de/newsletter
Die Ausstellung "Radiophonic Spaces" präsentiert ein begehbares Radioarchiv und möchte mit seinen umfangreichen Begleitangeboten eine Bühne des Hör-Wissens sein. Vom 1.11.-10.12.2018 zu erleben im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, im Rahmen des von Katrin Klingan kuratierten Programms "100 Jahre Gegenwart". // Moderation: Marie Schoeß, BR 2018 // www.hörspielpool.de
Avery Trufelman is a producer of 99% Invisible and the host of Articles of Interest. “The literal battleground of interior and exterior forces in your world is what you’re wearing.”
The massive David Bowie box set project reaches the 1980s. Will the highs – Let’s Dance, Absolute Beginners, Loving The Alien – win out over the lows and is it strictly kosher to reinvent unloved albums to sound better after the artist’s death? Plus our guests Mark “Hole & Corner Magazine” Hooper and actor and director Caroline Catz talk about the Cat Power album, their emergency go-to movies for a night when there’s nothing on TV, and Caroline’s new film documentary Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes about the High Priestess of Radiophonics. And it’s a sad farewell to producer Jack Claramunt who is leaving us for bigger things… Support BIGMOUTH and get a little extra from the podcast every week – buy us a pint via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Studio production by Jack Claramunt. *Bigmouth is a Podmasters production. * See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life. “It’s not an accident I made a radio show where I am having intimate conversations with people on tape. ... Like the only person who would go to the trouble to invent something like that is somebody who has difficulty with intimacy, you know what I mean? And I think that I totally was inventing a thing to do in conversations with people on tape that I was having so much trouble doing in real life.”
Julie Snyder is the co-creator of Serial and S-Town. Prior to that, she was the senior producer of This American Life. "So the original conceit [of This American Life] was using the tools of journalism to [tell stories from] everyday life but then I felt like we flipped it back. ... Like why can’t we take then the same sort of narrative tools that we have, that people use to just talk ... and apply that back to things that are traditionally topical stories and news stories?"
A new radio art work by composer and Prix Italia-winning sound artist Colin Black.
A new radio art work by composer and Prix Italia-winning sound artist Colin Black.
Robert Smith is a correspondent for NPR's Planet Money. "I've done [radio] for 30 years. I don't want to come in and do the same story every time. Like I want things to be challenging. … And it's solely for myself. It's solely so I don't sound like a lot of NPR reporters — they've been there, they've seen it, they've done it. ... Even ones who are really good. They're just like, "I am good at this, I am doing what I always do." And so if the very least thing that comes out of [experimenting] is, "My God! That reporter sounds excited to be in a place, that reporter sounds engaged with people, that reporter feels like he or she is present, is listening," it's exciting! And so, that may be the only thing that people hear, is that — "Wow! You know, Robert seems like he really likes his job."
Alex Blumberg is the co-founder of Gimlet Media. Prior to that he was a producer for This American Life. "A big lesson for me is that there aren't really rules. If [the radio story] is really fun, and you really love it, it's probably going to work. ... And if it doesn't, if it drags, then you should come in with script. ... In the beginning, I was always asking myself, here's this like 3 minute piece of tape in my story — and every other piece of tape had been like 30 to 45 seconds, and here's this one that's a 3 minute chunk — but I think I like it at 3 minutes. Can I do it at 3 minutes or do I have to break it up? And the answer is yeah, if it works at 3 minutes then you can do it at 3 minutes. And if it doesn't, then it doesn't. And the more that happens where I am like my whole story was a piece of teaser tape — 12 seconds of tape here, and 12 seconds of tape here — and then 5 minutes where everything happens, that's fine. If it works, it works."
We recorded this weeks ago and have been too busy to upload it. Because we have no respect for you, the listener. We think you’re a JOKE! Winky and the Stain herewith present a show about comedy, featuring no decent jokes and at a song which The Stain slightly regrets playing. He’s become a parody of himself. Drole d’histoire d’amour – Kelly Super LoooooL!!!!! – DJ Laugh Mary Had a Little Lamb – Daphne Oram Ha Ha Ha – Conrad Schnitzler PUN – Mouse on Mars I Made a Funny – Space Dimension Controller Joking Apart – The Nightingales Eikenholt – Der Joker Laughing – Pere Ubu Laughing Quarter – Autechre I Started a Joke – Low Opel Hair – The Laughing Windows
Lu Olkowski, an independent radio producer, is the host of CBC's Love Me. "You spend so much time with people and I just think it's so shitty to suddenly — the story airs and you — disappear. ... I think that's terrible. And I just don't want to do that."
Lewis Wallace was a reporter for Marketplace. "I think our listeners and audiences are strong enough to hold that I can have a credible voice in reporting a story, and a truthful voice in reporting a story, and also have a perspective."
Julia Barton is a freelance editor who edits for Revisionist History, The World, and Studio 360. She reports for Radiolab, Marketplace, 99% Invisible, and more. "If people think they might want to be an editor the first step is to pitch to places that have good editors and get edited and really pay attention to that process. ... But also the second thing is to just listen to work — work that you like and work that you don't like — and figure out how are you reacting to it. Like where am I bored? Where am I confused? Where am I checking Twitter? Alternately, why am I unable to do what I thought I was doing because the story is so damn good that I can't do anything but listen to it?"
Halloween Special Hauntology exposes the contamination of the present by spectres of surreal consciousness. The occult invokes the future and past as a simultaneous encounter. Witchcraft is the art of manipulating the threshold of extrasensory casuality. Fear of the unknown is the first defence of a weak mind. Let terror be a guardian angel that leads you to the power of your divine self.
Mike Pesca is the host of Slate's The Gist. "There was a time when the most intelligent guy in your town was just the guy who knew the most — he knew the family genealogy, he knew facts. We've gotten away from that. The facts are there on a computer. So I think the definition of intelligence has a lot to do with synoptical connections — the ability to make connections, the ability to make analogies. So I have these conceptual scopes — I find a way to tie seemingly disparate things together. This is how my mind naturally thinks, but this is also — since I have this show I know that I have to turn out content for it — this is how I've conditioned my mind to think."
Sruthi Pinnamaneni is a producer at Reply All. “It’s almost like me and the other person were learning about each other. And I don’t ever think about it like oh this is what makes this person weird or this is a weird moment. It’s just like moments where a thing feels real. You hear somebody tell you something and you feel like they’re telling it for the first time, and you just can’t get that quickly. It just takes time.”
Jonathan Menjivar is a producer at This American Life. "When I started in radio I imagined myself on the radio more. But I've come to a place where it doesn't matter to me. I just want to make stuff."
Emily Botein is the Vice President for On-Demand Content of WNYC. "I feel like as a producer, the whole goal is to have someone become more human, reveal something more personal, say something surprising. So it's your job to make an unrealistically good situation — everything has to be perfect for the host, you want the host to be super comfortable, whatever the host likes. And stupid things, from like what they want to drink, to how they want the mic positioned, to where they want to sit, to anything. It's like you want to make a heightened version of life because you're trying to create a moment. You're not just trying to go gather a story. Something is supposed to happen on the tape. So you need to do everything possible to think about what can happen, and how can you try to trigger it."
Hello! In this episode,I am joined by JR Southall (Blue Box Podcast),Simon Meddings (Waffle On podcast),Simon Brett (Blue Box podcast),Phil Cannon (Who's He Podcast),Harry Medium (Radio Rassilon),Suky Khakh and Lee Rawlings (Blue Box podcast) to discuss our favourite Pertwee! Ka-Pow 2016 http://www.who-ray.co.uk Screen Con http://www.screen-con.com Subscribe on Itunes and Please review the Pod at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ian-todd-podcast-collective/id1053450770 Follow me on Twitter @iantodd82 #mondaspodcast Phil @Whos_He_Podcast JR @JR_Southall Lee @Montagfire Simon Meddings @Hawkeyemeds Simon Brett @ simonbrett Harry @HarryMedium Suky @cyberman_151 Thanks for listening! Ian
Producer & performance artist Mika Forsling joins MaJiKer to talk about how limitation can stimulate creativity, with tracks from a Radiophonic legend, a Bollywood oddity, a timeless vocal from a homeless man and some ancient Afro-Cuban chanting. Show notes: https://majiker.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/11-music-meets-mika-forsling/ More info: www.majiker.com/podcast Tags: music, discussion, review, interview, human beatbox, pop, classical, world music, folk, electro, trip-hop, hop-hop, contemporary, disco, techno, opera, R'n'B, singer-songwriter, sonic art, blues, experimental, garage, country, soul, house, choral, indie, symphony, acapella, jazz, punk... … Continue reading 11) Music Meets – Mika Forsling
Jessica Abel is the author of Out on the Wire. "The group edit format, while emotionally difficult, actually is an incredibly efficient tool. In an hour, two hours, you can get the intellectual work done on a piece that could take weeks without it.”
Tim Howard is the senior producer of Reply All. "You can do radio stories without stakes they just have to be really fun."
Jacob Goldstein is a reporter for NPR's Planet Money. "I've never been that interested in the classic investigative story — here's this victim and here's this villain, and implicitly, I, the reporter, am the hero. ... They were never the kind of stories I wanted to read, they were never the kind of stories I wanted to write. I like profiles of weirdos and stories about systems."
I adore Eddie Mair. There. The love affair is public. I just shake my head in wondrous disbelief as he allows radio to be the best it can. The pauses. The short, barbed questions: those daggers covered in cotton wool. The deadpan retorts. The potent questions masquerading as statements. The politeness coated with innocent acid. And - the gifted, gifted teasers at the outset. I could go on. He is a master; and yet maybe not yet recognised sufficiently for his brilliance. I once sat in the car at a lonely filling station on the cold moors of the M62, unable to get out of the car during one of his interviews which had turned into art. Admittedly over a glass of wine, I wrote lovingly to say as much; and Eddie took the trouble to reply. The show for which he is now rightly famous is PM. But it has not always been like that. PM began in 1970, following the 'Broadcasting in the 70s' report which paved the way for the BBC radio services to carve out their own sovereign states. As you can hear on this Boo: William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper heralded a programme which "sums up the day and your evening starts here". It did have a twiddly-pom signature tune, thanks to the Radiophonic workshop. This later gave way to an orchestral piece; and I often dreamed of co-hosting that very show with Valerie Singleton, voicing up to the Da-da-da-da-dah-dah-dah. It was never to happen. Not that she's dead, you understand. She just doesn't care about me. There is no theme now; save for pip pip peep. But Eddie's powerfully-chosen words are better than the best orchestra in the world; or even any fine piece from the delectable Delia Derbyshire. The last sig seemed wrong when the programme covered the death of Princess Diana; and has never since seemed right. PM is the BBC at its best.
Audie Cornish is the host of All Things Considered. "I ran a gauntlet of people who underestimated me. Every subject is like, "Are you the intern?" Every lawmaker is like, "I don't understand who you are?" People don't see me so when they finally meet me they're not sure what to think. And I think the only way you can get through this job, or any other job where people will underestimate you on arrival, is to just not on board it. Like I can't collect it. And so, maybe it means I've been successful because I can't remember any [moments of microaggressions]."
The first track in six years from post-rock pioneers Tortoise kicks off this week's podcast. Some more new music from Colombia's Meridian Brothers, house from Medlar, techno from Scalameriya & VSK, dub from Devon's Alien Dread, plus a new compilation of Radiophonic music, afro-disco and art house ambience.
Sean Rameswaram is the host of sideshow. "On the outside, which I was on the outside for a long time, I thought public radio takes itself too seriously. My favorite moments in public radio are when Scott Simon interviews Ke$ha. We don't need to be highbrow all the time and it's actually endangering our medium."
Note: This episode is explicit. Kaitlin Prest is the host and creative director of The Heart. "My whole thing about making stuff is I want it to *feel* like the thing. If you're making a show about love, I want to feel like I'm falling in love when I listen to the show."
Anshuman Iddamsetty is Hazlitt’s art director and audio/visual producer.* "I stare at waveforms constantly. So like I'm staring at the layout of the waveforms more than anything. There is a sort of visual component to how the show finally comes together, right? I can tell how many — again I understand how out to lunch I sound now — but, if i’m being honest, I can kind of tell, “No, this sounds right because I can see the ratio of the a person’s cut up voice to the music to the sound effects to my voice, and the sort of compression of the guest coming in at certain points, or like how quickly a guest’s voice turns the corner." (*This episode is guest hosted by Ethan Chiel)
David Weinberg, a former Marketplace producer, is part of KCRW's Independent Producer Project and the creator of Random Tape. "I felt so trapped before I found and decided that radio is what I wanted to do. I placed a lot on this as being the thing that was going to save me. And so there was this huge amount of fear that like if I don't do it well then I have nothing. ... And so recording my life all the time was a way to be like, 'Oh, I'm not a bum bumming around with no plan. I have a plan. I'm working on it.' And the longer you do that, the longer you put off actually making something for the first time, the harder it gets. And I was just stuck in that period for many years. ... When I look back at it now, I'm like, 'You idiot. Why were you wasting all this time when you could've been getting better at making stories?' But I was so afraid to do things out in the open."
Nate DiMeo is the host of The Memory Palace. "I struggled a lot when I first got into journalism because I knew every Q&A I edited ... something would get cut. And that the person interviewed would not be entirely represented the way they wanted to be. ... So the best way to honor that person and to get at the heart of it was by writing really well. If their literal voice didn't carry and didn't get enough airtime the spirit of what they were saying was effectively and pointedly articulated by me as a writer."
Scott Carrier is an independent producer and the host of Home of the Brave. "It's what makes us human, is our storytelling ability. Animals can't do that. They can communicate. They can talk to each other. They understand, they know what's going on, and they can play. They have rules. They can make the rules, and change the rules, and break the rules, but it's always present tense for animals. But we can talk about the past, we can talk about the future, and that's what makes us so different, besides just our shape."
Dana Chivvis is a producer at Serial. "I thought it was important to be really devoted to your medium. ... I thought I have to love video. And what I realized is that it didn't matter to me what medium I was working in. It mattered what story I was telling, and how I was telling it, and who I was telling it with."
Lulu Miller, a former producer at Radiolab, is the co-host of NPR's Invisibilia. "I think there's this thing that goes hand in hand with journalism, or with radio, which is that professionally, you're an amateur, so you have to ask, and with not knowing, there's always discovery."
Alix Spiegel, a former producer at This American Life, is the co-host of NPR's Invisibilia. "I always want to understand like why? What do you know that I don't know? What is your life? And how do you see the world? And that's it."
Andrea Silenzi is the creator and host of Why Oh Why?. She's also the Senior Producer of Slate's The Gist.* "I listen to a lot of radio and there's so much of 'This person wrote a book.' 'This person has a project.' 'This person has been working on this for years.' And I just think that I much prefer conversations where people have a personal connection that's at stake. ... Like I always get the pitch of I want to do speed dating and it's like no one I've ever known has actually sincerely ever done speed dating. So If I were to do a show about speed dating it would be the most inauthentic thing possible." (*This episode is guest hosted by Avery Trufelman.)
Hillary Frank is the host and creator of The Longest Shortest Time. "I hate small talk, and it makes me very uncomfortable. I don't know how to do it well. I want to have a real conversation with a person."
Toby Hadoke set out to interview someone involved with every TV Doctor Who story in the show's first 50 years. Can he make it for intended #100 milestone...? And today's part two of the last interview means there's even less time to make it...
Lynn Levy is a producer at Radiolab. "Sometimes if you’re interviewing an author they’ve already worked out the best way to tell the story. They’ve been through all the options in their head, they figured out what to omit and what to get rid of. And often times, even though they’re not reading from the book, they’ll literally be saying the words that they wrote down. Like you’ll hear phrases from the book in what they’re telling you. … And it can be really seductive when you’re interviewing these people because they’re giving it to you. You’re just like, well this is going to be very easy to edit. Thank you. The thing is when you actually do go to edit it it doesn’t have anything. It doesn’t have any tension, it doesn’t have any pathos, it doesn’t have any like… um… It doesn’t have any um! It doesn’t have any moments where you can hear somebody working things through. And I think one of the things that radio producers kind of know is that it’s a better story if something happens. You want to go out in the field and something is going to happen and you are going to record it and that’s going to make a better story. But that’s even true about interviews. You want something to happen in the person who’s talking while you’re talking to them. You want them to figure something out or work something through or confront something, if possible. … They think they know how the story goes and you have to convince them otherwise."
Pejk Malinovski is a poet and a radio producer. "I feel like when I make structure it's not a traditional Hollywood storyline where there's a beginning and a middle and an end and a conflict and resolution I think it's more about tension and release. I think it's more about composing musically basically."
Michael May, a Third Coast Gold Award winner, is a freelance radio and print journalist. He teaches radio documentary at the Salt Institute. "I'm not interested in doing stories where I just label somebody some clinical label — a misogynist, sociopath. It's so easy to dismiss people, it's much more difficult to understand them."
Stephanie Foo, a former producer at Snap Judgment, is a producer at This American Life. "I think everybody has a story that is worth telling, but I think most people don't know what their best story is. At all. They'll think that it's their most life or death moment or that it's the moment that they feel changed them the most, but sometimes it's the most surprising little moments that really touch people. And I don't even know necessarily what those moments are in my life."
Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt are the creators of TLDR. "The internet can feel like the same thing over and over again, and sometimes that's because the internet is the same thing over and over again. But sometimes it's because you've hemmed yourself to a boring internet by just paying attention to people who are much the same as you. So to the extent that we can get out of that, it gives our show more longevity."
Tamara Keith is NPR's White House Correspondent. She also co-founded B-Side Radio. "There's drama in the human experience, and if people are willing to share that, there's a way to make it into a good story... says the person who only does stories about the White House and Congress."
Ann Heppermann, a Peabody Award winner, produces Slate's Culture Gabfest. She teaches radio writing and radio drama at Sarah Lawrence College. "I don't think you want all crappy tape, but there's something about texture of crappy tape and Skype tape. If you think about sound as a palette, I kind of like phone tape and I like how it adds an element of grit to it."
Jeff Emtman is the creator and host of Here Be Monsters. "You can think of your memory as a box full of photographs, like the ones your parents have in your basement. Just like old glossy prints. ... And unfortunately, when you pick up an old photo print, what happens is you always leave a thumbprint on it, and overtime your memories become more and more thumb-printed. So if you pull up a memory enough times, you’ll just be looking at your own unique thumbprint."
Zoe Chace is a reporter for NPR’s Planet Money. "A lot of times people don't pay enough attention to their voicing at all. They don't realize that their story doesn't exist, unless people are grabbed by their voice. The story literally — like practically literally — is not happening. People are just missing it, so I always thought voicing is key, it's central. You have to grab people. And I had a real approach where I was almost trying to scream out of the radio, 'Listen now!' And, 'Listen now!' And, 'Listen now!'"
Ellen Horne is the Executive Producer of Radiolab. “When you’re trying to create something new, that kind of risk-taking has to happen in a low-stakes environment.”
Eric Mennel is a producer for WUNC and Criminal. "People pooh-pooh the idea of logging like it’s the worst thing in the world. Some of the best techniques I’ve learned, in terms of interviewing, was from logging good interviewer's tape. ... Listening to Alex Kotlowitz conduct an interview was like it’s own class on how to make radio."
Sean Cole, a producer at This American Life, has also reported for Radiolab, Marketplace, and 99% Invisible. "Journalism is a translation of madness, and poetry is a transcription of madness."
Stan Alcorn, a freelance multimedia journalist, is a contributor to WNYC and NPR. “I love stories but I’m very interested in how they pertain to some larger truth that you’re not going to know without quantifying it.”
Jennifer Brandel is the Senior Producer of Curious City. "I don't think that soft or fluffy news should be given such a bad rap. When you have a question that ignites someone's curiosity and gets them interested in thinking about the world in a different way or considering things they haven't done before, that is important. If you can accomplish that in your stories, they're not fluffy — they're interesting."
Ben Calhoun is a producer at This American Life. "The nature of covering politics is one where often people don’t want to say to you the things that they are feeling or thinking. ... You can create the diorama of that action in a way that you couldn’t if you weren’t willing to make them a character — founded on things that they said and beliefs that you know they have — than they’ve done for you on tape."
In a rare example of temporal relevance for Project Moonbase, this week we bring you a show all about the return to halls of learning currently going on up and down the country. We have educational music to tickle your … Continue reading →
Taking its name from a track by Jon Brooks, this show was going to be all about mitosis and meiosis until we discovered there s not as much cell themed music as you might Imagine. So instead it is an … Continue reading →
Summary: Andy Simpkins (back in the studio) and Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith, Jean Riddler and the Real Keith Dunn in Los Angeles, at the Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention, discuss the event, play a game, have a 30 second recommendation, talk with a Radiophonic genius and a variety of other stuff, specifically: 00:00 – […]
NEW!! Nearly 34 minutes of continuous comedic weirdness direct from somewhere. Radiophonic holdall consultant John Dredge invites you and your team of aardvarks into his odd yet peculiar cubic audio realm. Featuring the following fabulous featured features: At Home with The Human League, The Adventures of Basil the Cylinder, and an exclusive Open University lecture on cutlery. PLUS partly-acclaimed avant-garde film director David Lynch showcases an awful track from his new album. So tune in and remember: never put a washing machine inside another washing machine as it gets confusing – I speak from personal experience. Features featured features not featured in the version premiered on Resonance FM!
FABRIC COLLIDING WITH SURFACES comments / Braxton Palace of the Legion of Honor 71 part 3 / brian and murray wilson / hanatarash "1969" / "how they suffer" / cathorn scorpion the FOREIGN CORRESPONDANT/ cookie the NY CORRESPONDANT (little fishes) / OPERATION CHROGNOSIS (white pepper child, wench, smithy) / MAZUP:oneeyedjack by MAXIMUM CLOUD & shout out 2 the latch boy "BLACK LABEL" & defrey malmud / farewellz (unknown bum)
EPISODE 6 - BLURRY KEYS TO THE GARAGE: "nightshift" / NY correspondant (events in dense fog) / "stick your phone out the window" / manson family B.B. / klatschmohn / Baronic Wall from "the gloden sword" / (ceramic hello) / FOREIGN CORRESPONDANT / Besiedelung Der Ozeane / from "THE ENFORCERS" / Radio NFA 1 (l.m.s. & ghxy2k) / (unknown bum)
RELAXED LAUGHING hans elder / braxton Palace of the Legion of Honor 71 part 2 / Ian Schoales / richard prince / errki kurenniemi / telemark, sten hanson, STANAD RADS, shadowgut contrlrm, jimi hendrix vourtesy ov meatball / teiji ito / tchen gi vane "to go beyond" / arpanet "p2101v" comments / CAthORN Scorpion the Foreign Correspondant
TYPE TRANSIENT "im still a slave" tonetta 777/ police / JACK new 7th music / ZBS mutant 50/ laura warholic "herbs hgh nigHTMARES" / (im the bass player) KIPM Allen Maxwell "dead zone" edit / from chorely "tablecloth" / Cathorn Scorpion the FOREIGN CORRESPONDANT/ (M. garrison) condolences and admonitions
PURPOSELESS DREAMING oram "rotolock" / music of the night / delia derbyshire running / boser traum / compass rose / braxton Palace of the Legion of Honor 71 part 1 / "i was a prisoner in your skull" / john giorno - give it to me baby / gamelan II
NO SURRENDER NO RETURN skat bros/close your eyes and see death, london, robert ashley, yo yo dieting, tsarlag common cube, "minus something", brent wilcox "leisure with dignity", prple rain, angel rada (dedication), ZBS mutant, hllywd/oliveros "alien bog"
FYRST GLYTCH : Rotting Arm, Derbyshire, Lt. Caramael
Great news for radiophonic enthusiasts in the next week or so as next weekend (2-3 April 2011) the Cube Cinema in Bristol will be hosting A Radiophonic Weekend featuring former members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Then on Thursday 7 … Continue reading →
Dave Robinson tells us all about the Eurovision massive production and the enormous redundancy they put in place, then it's the recent BBC Radiophonic Workshop gig at the Roundhouse in London, after which we suffer a network outage which sees me scrambling around for multiple re-boot - don't worry , we made it back on air, but minus Dave Robinson unfortunately. We then discuss the excellent documentary/interview with Peter Zinovieff of EMS, followed by a bit of a mixed bag from Sony and there new X-Series Walkman announced just at the time when they also post enormous losses. We finish up with Curtis Roads and his digital granular synthesis and what this pre 1970s work means to the modern musician.
Dave Robinson tells us all about the Eurovision massive production and the enormous redundancy they put in place, then it's the recent BBC Radiophonic Workshop gig at the Roundhouse in London, after which we suffer a network outage which sees me scrambling around for multiple re-boot - don't worry , we made it back on air, but minus Dave Robinson unfortunately. We then discuss the excellent documentary/interview with Peter Zinovieff of EMS, followed by a bit of a mixed bag from Sony and there new X-Series Walkman announced just at the time when they also post enormous losses. We finish up with Curtis Roads and his digital granular synthesis and what this pre 1970s work means to the modern musician.
Featured artists: Crucial D, Zoltan Dobi, 310, Radiophonic, and Elemental Journey.