Sound Propositions

By Joseph Sannicandro

Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Each episode combines interviews with music, field-recordings, and experimental sound design.

For fans of experimental music, field-recording, drone, electro-acoustic, ambient, modern composition, and other contemporary electronic music genres.

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Episode 11: RURAL FUTURISM - with Beatrice Ferrara & Leandro Pisano

Sound PropositionsSep 16, 2019

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Episode 35: DIS/CONTENT - with AGF

AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much more.

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

AGF - “Oops for understanding iii” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)SP Intro

AGF - “SKINgame” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)AGF - “POEMproducer” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)

AG.F3 & SUE.C - “Lazy” (MINI MOVIES, Asphodel, 2006)

AGF - “Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi” (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution, female:pressure, 2016)

AGF - “background & processes ⇻ explained by AGF” (rec-on : feminist sonic technologies, 2023)

AGF - “recon - rec-on.org ƒollow @reconsonic” (Soundcloud, 2021)

Laub - “Wortspur” (Filesharing, Kitty-Yo, 2002)

AGF - “fieldWORK” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)

Sonic Wilderness - “Medley” (DOCUMENTATION: #SONICWILDERNESS #NUSASONIC Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2018)

Antye Greie-Ripatti - “mycelium sonicification video clip” (Vimeo, 2017)

Audience Participation - “Collective Mycelium Hum” (SonicEX10sion, AGF Producktion, 2018)

AGF - “sideNESS” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)

AGF - “Live excerpt” (Presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston, November 18, 2023)

AGF - “FIREmushroom” (DISoriented MINDsets, 2017)

KING VISION ULTRA feat. Dreamcrusher - “UNTRAPPINGS” (SHOOK WORLD, PTP, 2023)

Moor Mother - “Deadbeat Protest” (Fetish Bones, Don Giovanni, 2016)

AGF - “MIGration” (SOLIDICITY, 2017)AGF - “Chorizon” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)

AGF - “Source Voice” (Beatnadel, AGF Producktion, 2011)

AGF - “words are useless” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)

RyJ - “RyJ [excerpt]” (Studio Mix, 2014)

RyJ / Nicki Minaj (Pickle Juice Mix, 2012)

J Dilla - “Bounce” (Beat Tape #3, 2002)AGF - bassPOETess (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)

Vladislav Delay - “Ele” (Ele, Sigma Editions, 1999)

Craig Armstrong x AGF - “Remix of Memory Takes My Hand” (Memory Takes My Hand - Exhibition Music, Chester Music Ltd., 2006)

AGF - xenakISS (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)

The Lappetites - “Avoiding Shopping” (Before The Libretto, Quecksilber, 2005)

Dadub - “Life (Rrose Remix)” (Preternity, Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2013)

AGF - “BONUS_ Westernization Continued 2013 [excerpt]” (Westernization Completed, 2003/2013)

AGF - “şamaran [kurdish]” (uttu EP, 2023)

PINKCOURTESYPHONE + KID CONGO POWERS - “Inflame (Sludge Dub)” (Move To Trash, 3particles, 2015)

Kevin Richard Martin / KMRU - “If (Dub)” (RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, PTP 2024)

Ka Baird - “Gate VI” (Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, RVNG, Intl., 2024)

AGF - “Regional Distinctions” (Futurism Ain't Shit To Me, Kyo, 2004)

—Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Apr 13, 202401:02:34

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

Hidden Element x Floex - Yellow Ribbon

DZ'OB Ft. Mattia Prete - Zamovliannia

Pokaz Trio - Song Of Sirens (Live at Bimhuis Amsterdam)

SI Process - Rukh

Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station

Blooms Corda - Пісня про війну

Ihor Tsymbrovsky - Brilliant Small Poetry

Mar 21, 202459:02

Episode 34: OLD & NEW DREAMS - with Kerry O'Brien and Will Robin

This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as a historical source reader, the book compiles over 100 primary sources retelling the story of minimalist music from the 1950s to the present. Sources include liner notes, interviews, journalism, manifestos, and other material organized chronologically and thematically, with introductory essays from the editors. Not a simple revisionist history seeking to expand the canon, let alone an attempt to dethrone the “Big Four” composers, On Minimalism nonetheless radically reconsiders the scope of minimalist music. In some ways the book is a restorative history, following the offshoots of musical practices that had once been described as “minimalist,” beginning with non-western music and modal jazz in the 1950s up to drone rock and techno of the present. We discuss the influence of Ravi Shankar, why the Coltranes were minimalists, the Julius Eastman revival, and much more.

Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje

Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

Wiseword.Nidaros - Лев

Polje - Maliunok

Polje - Pa

Polje - Yasne Mi

Polje - Wall of Sirens

Arthur Mine - Helicopter Theme

Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song

Вічний Ґандж - Комарик

Polje - Janmarko

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Feb 22, 202459:47

Episode 33: DIS/EMBODIED - with Cruel Diagonals

Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her production work, alchemically transmuting her voice into a wide range of instruments and textures. In this episode, she discusses the production challenges posed by Fractured Whole, her background in musical theatre, her work with the feminist archive Many Many Women, and much more.

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Cruel Diagonals - “Penance” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

INTRO

Cruel Diagonals - “Monolithic Nuance” (Monolithic Nuance, Longform Editions, 2018)

Mika Vainio - “Se On Olemassa (It Is Existing)” (In The Land Of The Blind One-Eyed Is King, Touch, 2003)

Matthewdavid - “Phased Moon” (Mycelium Music, Leaving, 2023)

Cruel Diagonals - “Monolithic Nuance” (Monolithic Nuance, Longform Editions, 2018)

Cruel Diagonals - “Render Arcane” (Disambiguation, Drawing Room Records, 2018)

Cruel Diagonals & Jon Carr - “Fall Back Into Earth” (Fall Back Into Earth, 2022)

Asmus Tietchens - “Club of Rome” (The Emergency Cassette Vol. 2, Los Angeles Free Music Society, 1981)

Faust - “Why don’t you eat carrots?” (Faust, Polydor, 1971)

Can - “One More Night” (Ege Bamyasi, Liberty, 1972)

Demdike Stare - “Black Sun” (Voices of Dust, Modern Love, 2010)

Andy Stott - “Luxury Problems” (Luxury Problems, Modern Love, 2012)

Porter Ricks - “Biokinetics 2” (Biokinetics, Chain Reaction, 1996)

Anne Gillis - “A6” (Monetachek, Rangehen, 1985)

Techno Animal - “Bionic Beatbox (Tortoise version)” (Techno Animal Versus Reality, City Slang, 1998)

Cruel Diagonals - “Intuit Sensate [edit]” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - “Lear” (Deep Listening, New Albion, 1989)

Eliane Radigue - “L'Île re-sonante (2000)” (L'Île re-sonante, Shiiin, 2005)

Annea Lockwood - “For Ruth” (Tête-à-tête by Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood, Ergot, 2023)

Petr Kotik – S.E.M. Ensemble – Many Many Women – Part 13 (That being uncovered) (Many Many Women, Labor, 1981)

Cruel Diagonals - “Fluvial” (A Dormant Vigor, 2021)

Laurie Spiegel - “Three Sonic Spaces II” (Unseen Worlds, Scarlett/Infinity, 1991)

Lana Del Rabies - “Grace the Teacher (Cruel Diagonals remix)” (Becoming Everything: STREGA BEATA Remixed, 2024)

Cruel Diagonals - “Live in Los Angeles - March 2023 pt.1” (Live in Los Angeles, March 2023, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Cruel Diagonals - “Vestigial Mythology (remix)” (Live in Los Angeles, March 2023, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Cruel Diagonals - “Vestigial Mythology” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Andy Stott - “Submission” (We Stay Together, Modern Love, 2011)

Andy Stott - “Promises” (It Should Be Us, Modern Love, 2019)

Luc Ferrari - “Music Promenade” (Music Promenade / Unheimlich Schön, Recollection GRM, 2019)

Cruel Diagonals - “Soporific Return” (Disambiguation, Drawing Room, 2018)

Cruel Diagonals - “Decimated Whole” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith - “Part III [Encore]” (Nessuno, I Dischi Di Angelica, 2016)

Demdike Stare - “We have already died” (Elemental, Modern Love, 2012)

Can - “Call Me” (Saw Delight, Mute/Spoon, 1977/1991)

Silent Servant - “Violencia” (Violencia, Sandwell District, 2008)

Realivox Ladies (2015)

Bjork - “It’s Not Up To You” (Vespertine, Polydor, 2001)

Pauline Oliveros - “Sound Patterns” (Extended Voices, Odyssey, 1967)

Maxwell - “This Woman’s Work” (Now, 2001)

Richard Maxwell - “Pastoral Symphony” (An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 5, 2008)

Cruel Diagonals - “Live in Los Angeles - March 2023 pt.2”

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Sound Propositions produced by ⁠⁠Joseph Sannicandro⁠⁠.

Jan 31, 202458:46

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шлях
ummsbiaus: Lichylnyk
Difference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживання
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачароване
ummsbiaus: Hypnagogia

Jan 20, 202458:59

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023 

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist:

Andriy Kiritchenko - Eyes of Exiles

Roman Khropko - Kyiv 17.04.22

Roman Khropko - The Moment Of Unity (Sympathetic Mix)

Myroslav Protsan - Ravens On The Cemetery

Myroslav Protsan - Very Old Piano Improvisations

Anthony Junkoid - Drum Vision

Nightcourier - Temnivody

Lena Mirzakh - A Little Interlude

Kadaitcha - Seed

Katarina Gryvul - Zemlya

58918012 - 7e3422

Nov 18, 202358:47

Episode 32: INDISCREET MUSIC - with Patrick Nickleson

Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important figures, Nickleson instead underscores a different set of shared traits that he sees in (early) minimalism: the importance of collective authorship, often collaborating in a form of “bandness”; the priority of recording to tape over written scores; and distinguishing between “(early) minimalism” and the later canonization of Minimalism as we know it since the early 1980s. In addition to the book, we discuss searching for obscure records online, our shared love of Constellation Records, and the influence of Tony Conrad.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

TRACKLIST

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Steve Reich”

SP INTRO

John Cale - “Terry’s Cha-Cha”

[Glenn] Branca - “Lesson No. 3 (Tribute To Steve Reich)”

Terry Riley - “[Excerpt]”

Steve Reich - “Pulses (2)”

Philip Glass - “Part 5 (Beginning)”

Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars - “Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Buffalo”

Glenn Branca - “Structure”

Tony Conrad - “Tony Conrad April 1965”

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad - “Untitled (recorded October 18, 1968 at Tony Conrad's apartment)”

La Monte Young - “Pre-Tortoise Dream Music”

Tony Conrad - “The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Incineration Of The Pythagorean Elite, Whose Shrill Harmonic Agonies Merge And Shimmer Inside Their Torched Meeting House [excerpt]”

Tony Conrad with Faust - “From The Side Of Machine”

John Coltrane - “Africa”

GENG PTP - “(alice coltrane)”

Dickie Landry - “Kitchen Solos”

Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS (Version 2006, Giuseppe Ielasi)

Morton Feldman - “Page 1, System 1, Measure 1”

John Coltane (McCoy Tyner solo) - “Naima [excerpt]”

Observer All Stars and King Tubby - “Rebel Dance”

Philip Glass - “Two Pages (For Steve Reich)”

Albert Ayler - “For John Coltrane”

Radiohead - “How To Disappear Completely”

Godspeed - “Deathkamp Drone"

Nicholas Papador and the University of Windsor Percussion Ensemble - "Stasis"

The Noiseborder Ensemble - [Improvisation on A-Ha’s "Take on Me"] (Live at Media City, Windsor ON, 2009)

The Dream Syndicate with La Monte Young - “Day Of The Holy Mountain (excerpt 2)”

Jon Gibson - “Cycles” (

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - “Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal)”

Ornette Coleman - “Friends and Neighbors (instrumental) / “Friends and Neighbors (vocal)”

Rhys Chatham - “Two Gongs (1971)”

La Monte Young - “B Flat Dorian Blues 19 X 63 (5th day of the Hammer)”

Terry Riley / Don Cherry “Descending Moonshine Dervishes”

Sonic Youth - “Pendulum Music (Steve Reich, 1968)”

Tony Conrad - “ten years alive on the infinite plain (#1)” [Live at the Kitchen, 1972]

Tony Conrad, “Four Violins (1964)”

Henry Flynt - “You Are My Everlovin”

Catherine Christer Hennix - “The Electric Harpsichord [excerpt]”

Raven Chacon - “Singing Toward The Wind Now / Singing Toward The Sun Now”

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / John Cale - “Trance #2”

John Cale - “A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building”

Angus MacLise / Jack Smith / Tony Conrad - S.O.S. (Ca. 1968)

Mt. Zion - “side one _ sow some lonesome corner so many flowers bloom”

Angus MacLise - “Tunnel Music #2” [1965]

John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - “Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara”

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Sound Propositions produced by ⁠Joseph Sannicandro⁠.

Nov 10, 202301:05:00

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist:

Gamardah Fungus - Vega

Revshark - Restricted Areas

Waveskania - Essential

Difference Machine - Повідь

Natalia Tsupryk - beyond the cemetery wall

YLOI - UAV Hunting

Andrii Kunin - threshold

Oct 20, 202359:47

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 September 2023 - with Nastia and Vlad Fisun

Episode 12 - with Nastia and Vlad Fisun

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Nastia and Vlad Fisun talk about the burgeoning electronic scene in Ukraine, toxic behaviour and Ukrainian Identity.

TRACKLIST

DZ'OB - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong (S.Tolkachev re-imagining)

Louwave and Splinter (UA) - Baby Let's Vibe

Polygrim - Klang

Koloah - Away

https://soundcloud.com/nastia_ua
https://soundcloud.com/vladfisun

Sep 23, 202359:05

Episode 31: FREE TIME - with Andrea Belfi

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in lead. Movement, circularity, and stasis are all terms that also describe Belfi’s interests as a composer. We discuss his origins in Italy’s punk scene, his time as drummer of the noisy instrumental rock band Rosolina Mar, opening for Thom Yorke, and the development of his unique approach to solo performance as a drummer.

TRACKLIST

Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 1] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)

SP INTRO

Andrea Belfi - “Golden” [edit 2] (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)

Andrea Belfi - “Cera Persa 1” (Cera Persa, Latency, 2016)

Andrea Belfi - “Wege B” (Wege, Room40, 2012)

Andrea Belfi - “Ton” (Ore, Float, 2017)

Thom Yorke - “Atoms for Peace” (The Eraser, XL, 2006)

Four Tet - “Pyramid (Atoms For Peace remix)” (Pink Remixes, Bandcamp, 2014)

Andrea Belfi - “Pulsing” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)

Carla Bozulich - “Pissing” (Evangelista, Constellation, 2006)

Andrea Belfi & Ignaz Schick - “Myth 5” (The Myth Of Persistence Of Vision Revisited, Zarek, 2011)

Steve Reich / Ulrich Krieger (performer) - “Pendulum Music” (An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005, Sub Rosa, 2006)

Andrea Belfi - “Shale” (Strata, Float, 2019)

Steve Reich - “Drumming, Part I” (Works 1965-1995 (Disc 02 - Drumming), Nonesuch, 1997)

John Zorn / Ennio Morricone - “The Battle of Algiers” (The Big Gundown, Nonesuch, 1986)

Ennio Morricone - “L'Attentato” (C'era una volta il west, RCA, 1969)

Egisto Macchi - “Gare Spatiale” (I Futuribili, Gemelli, 1971)

Egisto Macchi - “Jungla I”(Africa Minima, Anya, 1972)

Vladislav Delay - “Nesso” (Multila, Chain Reaction, 2000)

Vladislav Delay - “Mustelmia” (Tummaa, Leaf, 2009)

Medves [Andrea Belfi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Riccardo Wanke, Stefano Pilia] - “Untitled” [Figures Side] (Medves, Fringes Recordings, 2004)

Rosolina Mar - “Malpensa Social Club” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004)

Swell Maps - “Harmony In Your Bathroom” (A Trip To Marineville, Rough Trade, 1979)

Antioch Arrow - “David” (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995)

Clikatat Ikatowi- “Science Fiction Reality” (Orchestrated And Conducted By…, Gravity, 1996)

Antioch Arrow - “Date With Destiny” (Gems Of Masochism, Amalgamated, 1995)

Drive Like Jehu - “If it kills you” (Drive Like Jehu, Headhunter, 1992)

Clikatat Ikatowi - “Rise and Shine” (River of Souls, Gravity, 1998)

Heroin - “Indecision” [rework] (All About Heroin, Vinyl Communications, 1991)

Hiroshima Rocks - “Walking Like US Maple” (Around Isolation Bus Blues, NO=FI, 2001)

Stereolab - “Metronomic Underground” (Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Elektra, 1996)

Gastr del Sol - “Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye” (Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly, Drag City, 1995)

Gastr del Sol - “The Japanese Room At La Pagode” (The Japanese Room At La Pagode / May [Split with Tony Conrad], Table of the Elements, 1995)

Rosolina Mar - “La Bottega Del Krapftwerk” (Rosolina Mar, Wallace, 2004)

Rosolina Mar - “Before And After Dinner” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005)

Rosolina Mar - “L'ora Di Religione” (Before And After Dinner, Wallace, 2005)

Rosolina Mar - “Mingozo di Mongozo (Claudio Rocchetti Remix)” (Rosolina Mar Meet Trumans Water, Robot Radio, 2007)

Rhythm & Sound - “Trace” (Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, 2001)

Andrea Belfi - “Picture Burning” (...a gift for (°!°)..., Afe/Grey Sparkle/et. al, 2004)

3/4hadbeeneliminated - “Loop Recorder in the Patient with Heart Disease” (a year of the aural gauge operation, häpna, 2005)

Andrea Belfi - “Iso” (Ore, Float, 2017)

Andrea Belfi - “Pastorale” (Eternally Frozen, Maple Death, 2023)

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Sound Propositions produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Sep 19, 202359:09

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 July 2023 - with Katia Stieber and Kadiristy from Regular Disco

Episode 11 - with Katia Stieber and Kadiristy from Regular Disco

@stieber_k 
@kadiristy

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

TRACKLIST
 
 Misha Tsiganoff (intro)
Lobanov K. - Bios Recall 
58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background) 
Yaroslav M - Pog (Victor B. Remix) 
58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background) 
Clasps - Ex Voto
58918012 Brainwave 
Denys Coin - Flowers of Doom 
58918012 - Brainwave 
DiSKOP - Phantom  
Volodymyr Gnatenko - Reba She (background)
 Kadiristy - Sapphire Dream (unreleased demo) 
58918012 Displaced (excerpt - background) 
58918012 Go Under (excerpt - background) 
Misha Tsiganoff (outro) 
The Doors - The End (ID UA Edit) (excerpt)

Jul 21, 202359:05

Episode 29: CRITICAL POSITIVITY – with ACL

Happy (very belated) birthday to us! Back in February of 2022 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To celebrate, in this episode, we pull the curtain back a bit to talk with ten of the writers who have contributed to A CLOSER LISTEN since we began over a decade ago. Utilizing my idiosyncratic editing skills, I’ve conjured a virtual roundtable discussing the past, present, and future of ACL. We discuss the founding of the site, abandoning scoring, and all our sub-sites, mixes, and other projects that define us. Our discussion of video game music gives way to a reflection on film scores, and the relationship between sound and the visual more broadly, including artwork, packaging, and physical media. We recount what has made ACL distinct over the years, our openness to new sounds, the joys of ongoing discovery, our formative influences, and our signature blend of critical positivity.

The music for this episode was selected collectively, drawn from tracks that came up throughout our conversations. Scattered throughout the episode are also many 10 second clips I solicited from friends of the site back in 2014. I used them to make some “community sound collages” that I never properly shared, so it seemed fitting to include them here.

VOICES (in order of appearance)

Richard Allen

Gabriel Bogart

Joseph Sannicandro

Jeremy Bye

Samuel Rogers

Nayt Keane

Chris Redfearn-Murray

David Murrieta Flores

Maya Rose Merberg

Jennifer Smart

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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Jul 14, 202301:40:00

Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 June 2023 - with Mykyta Moiseiev and Maryana Klochko

Episode 10, Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 June 2023 - with Mykyta Moiseiev and Maryana Klochko

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

TRACKLIST

Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Intro (from Falling OST)

Maryana Klochko - оченька мої чорні

Mykyta Moiseiev - Твій дім

Mykyta Moiseiev – One Day in Ukraine OST trailer
Mykyta Moiseiev - I’ve learned something (Falling OST)

Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Coffee (from Falling OST)

Maryana Klochko – My Girl (from Stop-Zemlia OST)

Mykyta Moiseiev – Didukh (from Ivan’s Land OST)

Mykyta Moiseiev – Chornobaivka

Maryana Klotchko – Kvity

Mykyta Moiseiev – Intro Rejected (from Falling OST)

Jun 24, 202359:31

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 May 2023 - with Alexander Pavlenko (Sunchase / Na Nich) and Vera Logdanidi

Episode 9 Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 May 2023 - with Alexander Pavlenko (⁠Sunchase / Na Nich⁠) and ⁠Vera Logdanidi⁠

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

⁠Alexander Pavlenko and Vera Logdanidi talk about the first days of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian electronic scene and touring.

TRACKLIST

Misha Ziganoff (intro)
Sunchase – "Step Outside" (from Timeline)
Laima Adelaide – Y (Vera Logdanidi Re Interpretation)
Asyncronous – "Padma Kirtanam" (background)
Monoconda – "Route Select" (from Horizon)
Monoconda – "Horizon" (background)
Vera Logdanidi – "02 2402" (from Voices)
Sunchase – "Hello" (background)
Anton Stuck – "February 26 12.07 AM Chernihiv"
Vera Logdanidi – "Udda" (from Voices)
Na Nich – "Melt" (Background)
Ihor Babaiev – "One minute in Bakhmut"
Na Nich – "Melt" (background)
Vera Logdanidi – "Water Bubble Floating in Space"
Na Nich & Vero – "Morning" (background)
Na Nich – "Super Earth"
Mishka Ziganoff (outro)
Sunchase – "H" (from Timeline)

May 17, 202359:28

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 April 2023 - with Alexander Stratonov

Episode 8 Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 April 2023 - with Alexander Stratonov

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Alexander Stratonov talks about working for Ukrainian state television Suspilne and scoring documentaries about war crimes.

TRACKLIST

Alexander Stratonov - "Before the Storm" (from Bucha 22 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RXf6REnoSs)

Alexander Stratonov - "He Bought Himself a Clock" (from Bucha 22)

Alexander Stratonov - "Numbering the People" (from Survivor's Diary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacMw4oo_Zc)

Alexander Stratonov - "The Last Lullaby" (from Notes Under the Cherry Tree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cm6kmJbF7o)

Alexander Stratonov - "Identification" (from Bucha: Final Destination - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrbVkhG5wM)

Плач Єремії - "Вона"

Apr 22, 202359:40

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 March 2023 - with Asyncronous

Episode 7 of Ukrainian Field Notes with Asyncronous live on ResonanceFM Wed 15 March at 5.30 pm (GMT) repeated Sunday 19 March at 11am.

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

  Oleksii and Bohdan talk about their collaborative project as Asyncronous and about life in Kyiv one year on from the full-scale Russian invasion of February 24, 2022.  

Tracklist:  

Asyncronous - Midnight Sun 

Asyncronous - Point of no Return 

Asyncronous - Shinkansen 

Asyncronous - Stage of Delta (Ambient Remix)  

Arctica - Ambient Mix: Into the Unknown (background)

Mar 19, 202359:39

Episode 28: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE - with Archivio Diafònico

This episode features Giuseppe Esposito, a Neapolitan musician who runs the tape label Archivio Diafònico, an operation that mostly documents artists who are based in Napoli. The chaotic and bustling capital of the South of Italy undeservedly gets a bad reputation, and the city has a vibrant cultural scene and rich history that is sorely underappreciated. Through a chronicle of his own musical formation and the birth of the label, Esposito constructs a map of the Neapolitan underground scene, with particular attention to noise and improvisation. We also discuss Abidjan Centrale / Partono i Bastimenti, a podcast Esposito produces with Carole Oulato exploring the diverse musical traditions of Africa.

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Mario [Gabola] - “Steno, tube, voice and feedback” (Idiolect, Archivio Diafònico/Viande, 2021)

Eks - “B-side excerpt” (Echo Courts, Archivio Diafònico, 2019)

Grausam Frühjahr - “B-side excerpt” (Ascent/Descent, Toxo, 2011)

Velvet Underground - “White Light White Heat” (live 69)

Tony Conrad and Faust - “From the Side of the Machine” (Outside the Dream Syndicate, Table Of The Elements, 1973/1993)

My Bloody Valentine - “Loomer” (Loveless, 1991)

Gristleism - YouTube Demo (Throbbing Gristle Buddha Machine, 2010)

Weltraum - Sy.1 (Sy, 2009)

A Spirale - “Suriciorbu” (Agaspastik, Fratto9 Under The Sky Records/Viande, 2009)

Elio Martusciello– “For Mario Biserni” (...A Gift For (°!°)..., Afe, Grey Sparkle / Morirermo Tutti/ etc, 2006)

Jealousy Party – "JP Punca For Trombones" (Again, Burp Publications, 2008)

99 Posse - “Curre Curre Guaglió” (Curre Curre Guagliò, Esodo autoproduzioni, 1993)

Toni Esposito - “Rosso Napoletano” (Toni Esposito, Numero Uno, 1974)

One Starving Day - “Black Star Aeon” (Broken Wings Lead Arms to The Sun, 2005)

Francesco Gregoretti - “Faithful Walking Stick” (Solid Layers Deafening Shapes, 2016)

Motosega (Ottavio Balzano) - “No No No” (NO, 2014)

SEC_ - “Small traces” (Moscaio, Bocian, 2012)

EKS - “Falafel Humpers” (Sedic, 2015)

70fps - “Untitled - Side A” (Campo Catodico, Archivio Diafònico, 2015)

Matar Dolores - “The Great Transformation (Side B excerpt)” (The Great Transformation, Archivio Diafònico, 2014)

False Moniker - Side A (Amidst The Statues, Archivio Diafònico 2019)

Many Others - “Day Two / I” (Aggression of Paradox, Archivio Diafònico, 2017)

Grizzly Imploded - Side B (You Are The Way You Face Your Death, Scissor Tale, 2013)

Maurizio Argenziano - “Buio Riflesso” (Privazioni, Joy De Vivre, 2016)

Forest Management - “Porter Creek (Side B Excerpt)” (Porter Creek, Archivio Diafònico, 2015)

Luciano Cilio “Quarto Quadro” [1977] (Dell'Universo Assente, Die Schachtel, 2013)

Liberato - “NUNNA VOGLIO NCUNTRÀ” (CAPRI RDV Ep03, 2019)

Genital Warts - “Cut and Shit (Instrumental)” (Parappaio, Viande, 2015)

Giuseppe and Carole talking on the phone from "Capo Verde"- (Partono i Bastimenti - Abidjan Central per Radio Cavone Stereo, 2019)

Antoinette Konan - "Abidjan Adja" (RACINES & RYTHMES, 1995)

Dur-Dur Band - “Dooyo” (Dur-Dur Band Vol 5., 1989)

Zagazougou - “Varietoscope” (La Confirmation, 2000)

Claudio Villa – “Santa Lucia Luntana” (Santa Lucia Luntana / 'O Surdato 'Nnammurato, Vis Radio, 1958)

Salaad Darbi SideB (cassette, Awesome Tapes from Africa, 1970s?)

Co'Sang - “Poesia Cruda (ft. Fuossera)” (Chi More Pe' Mme, Poesia Cruda Dischi, 2005)

Kuupuu (Jonna Karanka) (Kuupuu / Hilma Glad split, self-released, 2011)

Blood Feud - “Side B Excerpt” (AM Fields, Archivio Diafònico, 2014)

Joseph Sannicandro, “Piano in Colle” (Field Recordings, 2022)

Feb 25, 202359:54

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 February 2023 - with Heinali

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Heinali talks about the making of his album Kyiv Eternal out on February 24, 2023 on the anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion.

Tracklist:

Lugovsky - Sirens of Kyiv

Heinali - Rare Birds / Field Recordings (unreleased)

Heinali - Shulyavka / Field Recordings (unreleased)

Sound Weekends - Tram 12 / Field Recording

Heinali - Silpo

Heinali - Botanichny / Field Recordings (unreleased)

William Basinski - DLP 2.1 (snippet)

Heinali - Kyiv Eternal

Svitovamora Pleura A and Pleura B (background)

To support Ukraine visit: supportukrainenow.org/

More from this series at https://acloserlisten.com/

Feb 18, 202359:18

Sounding the housing crisis - Investigation Questions [bonus]

Last fall I shared the first episode of Sounding the Housing Crisis, a bilingual (French/English) podcast by a collective of Montreal sound artists and tenants. I co-produced the eight episode series with Hubert Gendron-Blais, organizing and editing the contributions from each member of the collective. The project was partially inspired by the “militant sound inquiry” of Ultra-Red. In 2021, Ultra-Red co-founder Dont Rhine visited Montreal for a seminar at McGill, followed by a workshop/performance as part of Echoes of a Distance, Music, Protest and Community in Confined Times, organized by Hubert and The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). I'm now sharing the eighth episode in this feed as well, since it is one where I think my fingerprints are most visible.

More on that entire project: https://www.reverberationscriselogement.org/

Find the series wherever you find this podcast, or stream/download at bandcamp:
https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/r-verb-rations-d-une-crise-une-enqu-te-sonore-sur-le-logement-montr-al-sounding-the-housing-crisis

This eighth and last episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' looks back to the elaboration of the investigation question that guided the project's the composition process, addressing in passing issues of mental health, precarity, the role of artists and gentrification.

1. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”, par/by Christine White, Hubert Gendron-Blais & Philippe Battikha
2. Sound collage and intro theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro
3. Excerpt from the piece "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)", par/by Aidan Girt + Stefan Christoff, feat. Mostafa Henaway
4. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question and Where do you live? (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
5. Excerpt from the piece "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)"
6. Excerpt from “Q-Block (podcast)”, par/by Philippe Battikha
7. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Relations between art and social struggles (avec des extraits de la pièce / with excerpts of the piece "The Price of Precarity", par/by Christine White)
8. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Artists and gentrification (part 2), (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
9. Predicaments of Power", par/by speranza spir
10. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / With excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
11. End Theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro

The excerpts of some music pieces come from the album 'Réverbérations d’une crise. Une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal', Cuchabata Records, CUCH-205, 2022. reverberationscriselogement.bandcamp.com/albu…r-al

Feb 02, 202335:15

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 January 2023 - with Yaryna Denisiuk and Kseniia Yanus (Neformat Family)

Gianmarco Del Re presents the fifth episode of the Ukrainian Field Notes podcast, broadcast on Resonance FM on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 5:30 pm GMT and repeated on Sunday 22 January at 11 am GMT.

Tracklist

Mauser - Тривога
 Distortion (UA) - Bullet Seeds
Kurs Valüt - Rozklad Ruhu
Peredmova - Слонова Кістка
 Limanenko - Strange Gift 
Hanna Svirska - Inner
 Kat - Цвях

Jan 21, 202358:58

With a real gone mama, don't let me take your style. [bonus]

I made this sound collage in early 2013, nearly a decade ago now, and listening back to it recently I can hear the early seeds of techniques I use in Sound Propositions. My friend Ian Stone Grey was producing a beautiful audio series called Portmanteau at that time, and he included a piano composition of mine in one episode. I was inspired to create some collages of my own that veered further away from music without becoming narrative.

A Portmanteau of sorts.
Some treated field-recordings.
Howlin Wolf.
Federico Campagna on Novara Media.
Gilles Deleuze on the ABCs.
A phased stereo tape loop.
Some edits from Bob Ostertag's Sooner or Later.

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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Dec 14, 202212:16

Episode 27: ATTUNEMENT - with Jessica Moss

Jessica Moss has just released Galaxy Heart, a surprising collection of ten songs that form a companion to last year’s Phosphenes. The Montréal-based composer, violinist, and vocalist recorded the material for both records (and more) during the peak of early pandemic lockdown, allowing her songcraft to take new forms, as well as welcoming collaborators into her solo music for the first time. Moss, of course, is a prolific collaborator, and we have been a fan of her work for over two decades, particularly her 15-year tenure with Silver Mt. Zion. In this episode, Moss dives into the making of her two recent solo albums, the highs and lows of pandemic touring, the return of Black Ox Orkestar, and her collaborations with Vic Chesnutt and Jem Cohen.

TRACKLIST
Jessica Moss - “Enduring Oceans” (Galaxy Heart, Constellation, 2022)
JM - “Memorizing And Forgetting” (Phosphenes, CST, 2021)
“UNDER” (Under Plastic Island, self-released, 2015)
“Uncanny Body [Violin Study #1]” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
“Uncanny Being [Violin Study #2] feat. Thierry Amar and Jim White” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Sibelius / (Gil Shaham / Philharmonia Orchestra / Giuseppe Sinopoli) - “Violin Concerto in D minor, Op47 - 1st movement: Allegro moderato” (Violon Concerto - Violinkonzertev, Deutsche Grammophon, 1993)
Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir - Mihail Milkov - “Svyatii Bozhe” (Orthodox Chants, Балкантон, 1998)
Black Ox Orkestar - “Golem” (Nisht Azoy = נישט אזױ, CST, 2006)
BOO - “Mizvrakh-mi-maarav” (Everything Returns, CST, 2022)v
KC Accidental / Broken Social Scene medley
ZU - “The Dawning Moon of the Mind” (Jhator, House of Mythology, 2017)
JM - “Fractals (Truth 1)” (Entanglement, CST, 2018)
Excerpts of David Garland interviewing Silver Mt. Zion (Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - “there’s a river in the valley made of melting snow” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
Silver Mt. Zion - “Hang On To Each Other” (Horses In The Sky, CST, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra feat. Ariel Engle - “Any Fucking Thing You Love” (Hang On To Each Other, CST, 2014)
JM - “Entire Populations (Pt III)” (Pools of Light, CST, 2017)
Vic Chesnutt - medley (North Star Deserter, CST, 2007)
Fugazi - “The Argument” (The Argument, Discord, 2001)
Sarah Davachi - “Matins” (Gave In Rest, Ba Da Bing!, 2018)
Matana Roberts - “Jewels Of The Sky: Inscription” (Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, CST, 2019)
Silver Mt. Zion - “Horses in the Sky” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
JM - “Opened Ending” (Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series 2020-2021, CST, 2020)
JM - “Opened Ending” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Carla Bozulich – “Evangelista I” (Evangelista, CST, 2006)
PJ Harvey - “Hanging In The Wire” (Let England Shake, Vagrant, 2011
Eve Parker Finley - “Alone / Together” (Chrysalia, 2020)
Carla Bozulich - “Prince of the World” (Evangelista, CST, 2006)
Set Fire To Flames – “Barn Levitate” (Barn Levitate, self-released, 2020)
JM - “Enduring Oceans” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
JM - Distortion Harbour (Phosphenes, CST, 2021)
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Nov 22, 202259:44

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 November 2022 - with Nina Eba

Gianmarco Del Re presents the fourth episode of the Ukrainian Field Notes podcast, broadcast on Resonance FM Wednesday 16 November 5.30-6.30 pm GMT and repeated on Sunday 20 November at 11am GMT.

DJ, sound producer, composer and podcaster Nina Eba discusses life in Poland, Germany and France after fleeing Kyiv following the full-scale invasion of February 24 and her monthly podcast Air Raid Siren.

To support Nina Eba's Air Raid Siren podcast

To support Ukraine: Come Back Alive

Tracklist

  Hidden Element and Ténèbre - Sensitive Content

 Jockii Druce - боі стули пельку

Koloah - Time Traveller

 Ivan Skoryna - Cheap Gas, Cheap Blood

Unfeeling - New Reality 

Axxent13 - Bleached Mint

Nina Eba - сонце (demo) 

Запорозький марш - Вогнем і Мечем

 tiho tiho - Fragile Monuments (background)

Nov 20, 202259:07

Episode 26: LANE DISCIPLINE - with kranky

Kranky co-founder Bruce Adams sits down to discuss his new book,You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music. (UTPress) Adams explains the unique conditions that put Chicago at the heart of the ‘90s indie rock scene, the emergence of the kranky aesthetic, and sings the praises of Labradford.

Interview recorded between Urbana and Montreal, August 2022
Produced and mixed in Montreal, October 2022

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Labradford - “Listening in Depth” (Prazision, kranky, 1993)

INTRO

Tim Hecker - “harmony in blue iv” (Harmony in Ultraviolet, kranky, 2006)

Sebadoh - “Gimme Indie Rock” (Gimme Indie Rock!, Homestead, 1991)

Archers of Loaf - “Plumb line” (Icky Mettle, Alias, 1993)

Smashing Pumpkins - “Cherub Rock” (Siamese Dream, 1993)

Jessamine - “Secret” (Jessamine, kranky, 1994)

Slint – “Good Morning Captain” (Spiderland, Touch & Go, 1991/1995)

Tortoise - “Djed” (Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Thrill Jockey, 1996)

Spacemen 3 - “Feel So Sad” (Recurring, Fire Records, 1991)

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago – “Urban Magic (in 4 Parts)” (Urban Bushmen, ECM, 1982)

Designer [Casey Rice]- “Vandal” (Vandal, Organico, 1996)

Labradford - “New Listening” (Prazision, kranky, 1993)

Labradford - “Recorded And Mixed At Sound Of Music, Richmond, Va.” (E Luxo So, kranky, 1999)

Labradford - “Wien” (Fixed::Context, kranky, 2001)

Labradford - “S” (Mi Media Naranja, kranky, 1997)

Stereolab / Nurse With Wound - “Simple Headphone Mind” (Simple Headphone Mind, Duophonic Super 45s, 1997)

Gastr del Sol – “The Harp Factory On Lake Street” (The Harp Factory On Lake Street, Table Of The Elements, 1995)

AMP - “Celestialreturn” (astralmoonbeamprojections, kranky, 1997)

Massive Attack - “Inertia Creeps” (Mezzanine, Virgin, 1998)

Magnog - “Shapeshifter" (Magnog, kranky, 1996)

Roy Montgomery - “The Soul Quitens” (Temple IV, kranky, 1995)

Windy + Carl - “Surfacing” (Depths, kranky, 1998)

Jessica Bailiff - “Beautiful Soul" (Even in Silence, kranky, 1998)

Grouper - “Disengaged” (Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill, Type, 2008/ kranky, 2013)

Low - “Remember” (Secret Name, kranky, 1999)

Liz Phair - “Girls! Girls! Girls!” (Exile in Guyville, 1993)

J Dilla “33” (Another Batch, 1998)

Wadada Leo Smith - "Images" [excerpt] (Spirit Catcher, Nessa, 1979)

Angel Bat Dawid - “The Oracle” (The Oracle, International Anthem, 2019)

Christina Vantzou - “The Magic of the Autodidact” [edit] (N°2, kranky, 2014)

Dead Texan - “The Struggle” (The Dead Texan, kranky, 2004)

Stars of the Lid - “The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)” (The Tired Sounds Of, kranky, 2001)

Bowery Electric - “Deep Blue” (Lushlife, Beggars Banquet, 2000)

Kevin Drumm - “Deep Breathing Doesn’t Work” (May(Part 2), 2017)

Labradford - “Lake Speed” (Labradford, kranky, 1996)

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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Nov 02, 202259:43

Episode 21: FOOD + MUSIC - with GENG PTP [replay]

HAPPY DOOMSDAY

RIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020)

GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. GENG shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of one of hip hop's greatest artists.

Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2021/10/31/sp-episode-21-food-music-with-geng-ptp-podcast/

TRACKLIST

King Geedorah – “Voices Pt. 0 feat. MF GRIMM” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)

SP intro

MF DOOM – “The Mystery of Doom (Skit)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)

Metal Fingers – “Peach Extract” (Special Herbs, Vol. 9-0, Shaman Work, 2005)
MF DOOM & Nujabes – “The Mask (Interlude)” (Metaphorical Villainy, Altered Crates, 2020)

Metal Fingers – “Orris Root Powder” (Special Herbs, Vol. 9-0, Shaman Work, 2005)

Viktor Vaughn – “The Drop” (Vaudeville Villain, Sound-Ink, 2003)

Metal Fingers – “Nettle Leaves” (Special Herbs, Vol. 1-2, High Times, 2002)

King Geedorah – “Foolish” (Take Me To Your Leader, GENG's Mecha-King Ghidorah Deluxe Edition, 2021)

Metal Fingers – “Dragon’s Blood” (Special Herbs, Vol. 5-6, Nature Sounds, 2004)

AMANI + KING VISION ULTRA – “Water” (An Unknown Infinite, PTP, 2020)

GENG – “Hand of Doom (Chopped _ Slowed by GENG)” (Screwing Yourself to Live, PTP, 2012)
MF DOOM – “? (Feat. Kurious)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)

Metal Fingers – “Arabic Gum” (Special Herbs, Vol. 3-4, Nature Sounds, 2003)

Playboi Carti – “Stop Breathing” (Whole Lotta Read, Interscope, 2020)

MF DOOM – “Kon Queso” (MM..FOOD, Rhymesayers Entertainment, 2004)

Armand Hammer – “Parables (ft AKAI SOLO, prod. Navy Blue) (Shrines, Backwoodz, 2020)

MF DOOM – “Operation: Greenbacks” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)

Madvillain – “Accordion (instrumental)” (Four Tet Remixes, Stones Throw, 2005)

De La Soul – “I Am I Be” (Buhloone Mindstate, Tommy Boy, 1993)

KMD – “Get-U-Now (instrumental)” (Black Bastards Ruff + Rares, Fondle ‘Em, 1998)

KMD – “Get-U-Now” (Black Bastards, Sub Verse Music, 2001)

Madvillain – “Supervillain Theme (Instrumental)” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)

Metal Fingers – “Mullien” (Special Herbs, Vol. 1-2, High Times, 2002)

MF DOOM – “Tick, Tick…(Feat. MF GRIMM) (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)

Metal Fingers – “Emblica Officinalis” (Special Herbs, Vol. 7-8, 2004)

Billy Woods – “Borrowed Time” (Today, I Wrote Nothing, Backwoodz, 2015)

Madvillain – “ALL CAPS” (Madvillainy, Stones Throw, 2004)

Ghostface Killah x MF DOOM – “Money Folder” (Operation: Ironman, 2000)

MF DOOM – “Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)

MF DOOM – “Doomsday” (Live at Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC, 1998)

MF DOOM – “Doomsday” (Operation: Doomsday, Fondle ‘Em, 1999)

Ras G – “Find Ya Self (ANU Wrld)” (Back On the Planet, Brainfeeder, 2013)

Oct 31, 202245:18

Reverberations d'une crise / Sounding the housing crisis [bonus]

The first episode of the ‘Réverbérations d’une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' podcast, an introductory presentation of the approach underlying the project, with excerpts from different segments that will be presented during the next episodes. /// Premier épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal'. Présentation de la démarche qui sous-tend le projet et extraits de différents segments qui seront présentés durant les prochains épisodes.

Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Présentation de l’approche / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Presentation of the approach
Housing crisis collage & Intro theme, by Joseph Sannicandro (avec des enregistrements de terrain de/with field recordings by Christine White)
Extrait de / Excerpts from “Le sud-ouest montréalais en crise : trois portraits de locataires”, par/by Jordan Torres Bussière
Extrait de / Excerpts from “Les lieux disparus (podcast)”, par/by Claude Périard
Extrait de / Excerpts from “Q-Block (podcast)”, par/by Philippe Battikha
Extrait de / Excerpts from “Autour de deux manifs contre la gentrification”, par/by Hubert Gendron-Blais
Trompette solo issue de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce “Homage to Martin Peach”, par / Solo trumpet from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”, by Philippe Battikha
Extrait de / Excerpts from “Essai sur la politique de la vie nocturne à Montréal - Part 1”, par/by Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec un extrait de la pièce/with an excerpt of the piece “En retrait”, par/by ce qui nous traverse)
Extrait de / Excerpts from “3 (Sahnia Karamat Ali)”, par/by Stefan Christoff (avec des enregistrements de terrain de/with field recordings by Christine White)
Extrait de / Excerpts from “1 (François Saillant)”, par/by Stefan Christoff
Extrait de / Excerpts from “The Price of Precarity”, par/by Christine White
Extrait de / Excerpts from “2 (Pierre Parent)”, par/by Stefan Christoff
Extrait des sessions d’enquête sonore - Perception collective de la situation: logement et santé mentale / Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Collective perception of the situation: housing and mental health
Petit exercice de spéculation politique no. 1, par/by Julien Simard & Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec la voix de/with the voice of Jérémie Dubé-Lavigne)
Extrait de / Excerpts from “How We Negotiate Worlds”, by Amanda Harvey
Informations sur le projet / Information on the project
End theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro.

The excerpts of some music pieces come from the album “Réverbérations d’une crise. Une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal”, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-205, 2022. /// Les extraits de certaines pièces musicales (“Homage to Martin Peach”, “The Price of Precarity”, etc.) proviennent de l’album.

Réalisé par / Produced by Joseph Sannicandro & Hubert Gendron-Blais

Art visuel/Visual art: Marjolaine Lord

https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/r-verb-rations-d-une-crise-une-enqu-te-sonore-sur-le-logement-montr-al-sounding-the-housing-crisis

Oct 26, 202229:58

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 October 2022 - with Casa Ukrania

The third episode of Gianmarco Del Re's Ukrainian Field Notes aired on Wed October 19 on ResonanceFM at5:30pm - 6:30pm GMT.

Third episode of the podcast with Odesa based musicians Leonid Zhdanov and Nataly Hrytsenko, aka Casa Ukrania, discussing the current situation in the country in the aftermath of the recent shelling of Ukrainian cities on Monday 10th of October.

Tracklist:

Misha Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Casa Ukrania – Trunok u Darunok
58918012 – Previous Experience (background)
Undo Despot – Asterisk
05:AM – Hats & Snares (background)
The House of the Hidden Light – The Abducted Automaton.
05:AM – CH8 (background)
Poljie – Maliunok
05:AM – NNM (background)
Casa Ukrania – Dalnyk
05:AM – Odesa Winter (background)
Ginger Snaps – Zaida
58918012 – Roar of the Skies (background)
Misha Ziganoff (reprise)
Casa Ukrania – Krov Moia (Acoustic)

Oct 23, 202259:04

Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 September 2022 - with NFNR

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Second episode of the podcast, with Olesia Onikyienko (NFNR) discussing fundraising and life in Kyiv.

Tracklist:
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
hspd - Prayer One
Motorpig - Luminous Abyss
NFNR - Dice2
Motorpig - Oscillators of Time
hspd - Yesnoyes
hspd - Crepuscula
NFNR - Dog Rose
I, Iteration - Homeland
hspd - Sorry Dub

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Sep 23, 202259:00

Episode 20: PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY - with Speaker Music [replay]

DeForrest Brown, Jr. (aka Speaker Music) is a media-theorist, curator, and self-described rhythmanalyst. While he’s been based in NYC for the better part of the last decade, he was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, which also happens to be where Sun Ra first landed on Earth. Brown’s just-released book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, traces the cycles of American history through the Great Migrations from the Deep South to the industrial centers of the north and back again. In this episode, Brown discusses his profound sense of future shock, the meaning of rhythmanalysis, and the making of Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, his critically acclaimed 2020 album.

Headphone listening recommended.

TRACKLIST

Speaker Music – “Ex-American Blues (excerpt)” (Soul-Making Theodicy, Planet Mu, 2021)
Drexciya – “Depressurization” (Deep Sea Dwellers, Shockwave, 1992)
Speaker Music – “Amerikkka’s Bay (ft. Maia Sanaa)” (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, Planet Mu, 2020)
Speaker Music – “Techno is a Liberation Technology (ft. AceMo)” (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, Planet Mu, 2020)
John Coltrane – “Alabama” (Live at Birdland, Impulse!, 1964)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra – “Space Loneliness” (We Travel the Space Ways, El Saturn, 1967)
Nina Simone - “Mississippi Goddam” (Live At Carnegie Hall New York, 1964)
Speaker Music – “Magic City Classic” (CRACK magazine, 2021)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr. – “sunken place in reverse…a cancelled future, a horizon of a pipe dream” (The Wages of Being Black is Death, PTP, 2018)
Carl Craig – “Dreamland” (More Songs about Food and Revolutionary Art, SSR, 1997)
Moor Mother & billy woods – “The Blues Remembers Everything The Country Forgot ft. Wolf Weston (of Saint Mela)” (BRASS, Backwoodz, 2020)
Sterling Toles – “6/19” (Resurgent Cinerbus, Sector 7G, 2017)
Gang Starr – “1/2 & 1/2 (feat. M.O.P)” (1/2 & 1/2, TVT, 1998)
Dakim – “Typeofblue” (Ntoo, Poo-bah, 2011)
Yusef Lateef - “Woodward Avenue” (Yusef Lateef's Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83°, Atlantic, 1969)
Underground Resistance – “Riot” (Riot EP, UR, 1991)
Cybotron – “Techno City (vocal)” (Techno City 12”, Fantasy, 1984)
Carl Craig – Party/After-Party (Dia:Beacon, 2020)
Theo Parrish – “Dreamers Blues” (Parallel Dimensions, Sound Signature, 2000)
Ethel Waters – “Down Home Blues” (Down Home Blues 78, Black Swan, 1921)
Speaker Music – “An Expression of Hi-Tech Soul” (Percussive Therapy, self-released, 2020)
Model 500 – “Future (instrumental)” (No UFO’s, Metroplex, 1985)
Axine M - sᑦ⍺𝜼(s⍺𝗩𝐢Ơ𝑟〕(Speaker Music Remix) (SBVRSV.press, 2021)
Speaker Music – “Black Compositional Thought––Torkwase Dyson_s Evolving Theory of Environmental Liberation” (a bitter but beautiful struggle, PTP, 2020)
Sun Ra - “UFO (Mike Huckaby Reel-2-Reel Edit)” (The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 1, Kindred Spirits/Art Yard, 2011)
John Akomfrah - the last angel of history, 1996
J Dilla – “Welcome 2 Detroit” (Welcome 2 Detroit, Barely Breaking Even Records, 2001)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “Beyond Vietnam” (Riverside Churuch, 1967)
The Roots – “Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) [feat. Amiri Baraka]” (Phrenology, MCA, 2002)
Kanye West / Gil Scott Heron - “Who Will Survive In America” (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Roc-A-Fella, 2010)

Sep 15, 202201:02:56

ACL mix for Secret Thirteen [bonus]

I'm still swamped with work, especially now that the semester has begun. New episodes will arrive later this fall. Until then, here is another bonus mix. It's probably my favorite mix I've ever done, made for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014.

S13 founder Justinas Mikulskis writes:

“Secret Thirteen 139” is a picturesque and unique mix composed by Joseph Sannicandro. This mix is like a truly precious musical treasure every die-hard music lover could be searching for ages. In this over 1 hour long musical mosaic Joseph connects 55 pieces by his beloved and inspirational artists such as Tim Hecker, Vladislav Delay, Jon Hassell, Giuseppe Ielasi, Hue, Nicola Ratti, Machinefabriek, Klaus Schulze, MB, Steve Roden and many others, to form a complex, but at the same time a delightful soundscape. The opening and closing recordings by his The New Objective project tightly binds the overall mix’s concept and mood.

The mix radiates a strange musical luminosity, which guides the mind and the soul to the pure infinite satisfaction even when it is played in complete darkness. Divine ambiance, unexpected twists between music genres, fluid melodies and harmonious and thoughtful attitude to even the smallest details bring this mix to another dimension, a dimension where the nature meets man and his fundamental desire to perceive cosmos. As Joseph whispered, the mix could stand in parallel with Giuseppe Penone’s metaphorical sculpture “The Hidden Life Within“. And it’s quite a good example, because both, mix and sculpture, are based on the magical and fantastic groundwork, also the form, which could not be replicated.

In the beginning we asked Joseph to interpret the outer space theme with his mix through his own perspective, but in the end the recording expanded into a much deeper, more metaphysical exploration of the whole universe with all it’s phenomenons and wonders. Please, take a moment to read Joseph’s keen comment about the mix.

Read more about the mix, including tracklisting:

secretthirteen.org/joseph-sannican…ser-listen-mix/

acloserlisten.com/2015/01/10/acl-m…/#comment-127414

Sep 07, 202201:13:34

dopo il diluvio [bonus]

Joseph Sannicandro presents 'dopo il diluvio,' a binaural soundwalk made for headphones, following a specific route through the town of San Martino Valle Caudina (AV).

A bandcamp page has been made available for the 2022 edition of Liminaria / Interferenze festivals.

Read more at Bandcamp: https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/dopo-il-diluvio

This bonus episode is a bilingual version, combining the vocals into a special feature for our podcast listeners. Below you can find links to alternate versions, including a vocal-less 'soundscape' version that is my favorite.

As always,

Headphone Listening Recommended.

Soundwalk Instructions: bit.ly/DopoilDiluvio-info

Map: bit.ly/LiminariaSoundwalkMap

Downloads

Bilingual Version:bit.ly/DopoIlDiluvio-En-It

Soundscape Version (no vocals): bit.ly/DopoIlDiluvioSoundscape

Folder with all versions: bit.ly/DopoilDiluvio-all-files

Special thanks to Leandro Pisano and Laura Marcoccia. Thanks also to the work of Matteo Renato Imbriani, Dante, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Gospel of James.

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-Joseph Sannicandro
www.soundpropositions.com

Jul 23, 202201:00:32

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 July 2022 - with Burning Woman, Vlad Suppish, Zavoloka

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

with Zavoloka, Burning Woman and Vlad Suppish

discussing the aftermath of the Russian invasion of February 24 2022

and issues relating to the sound-centred impact of war.

Tracklisting:

Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Cluster Lizard - Music of Creation 
Troxellemott - Trauma Zavoloka - Obriad
Vlad Suppish - A Hobbyist of Hellworlds
Burning Woman - Nightingale Song
Dmytro Bobryk - Goverla
Stas Teterevlev - Ambience_Kyiv_24_02_022
Vlad Suppish - Bergamot Lyre
Zavoloka - Vilna
Sean Deigh - Gardens of the Mind
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen  (reprise)
Vlad Suppish - A Glimmer of Hope

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Jul 20, 202259:46

Ritmi Rurali (suonano ancora) [bonus]

I'm still in rural southern Italy as artist-in-residence, so I haven't had time to finish up the next regular episode of the podcast, which is a tenth anniversary celebration of ACL. But last week I was in Colle Sannita in the province of Benevento, where my paternal grandfather's mother grew up and where her family had deep roots. I conducted a multi-day workshop, mostly leading soundwalks with high school students. I also interviewed townsfolk of all ages, and made all kinds of recordings. On Sunday evening, as part of the return of Liminaria, I made a public presentation to town, giving a brief overview of sound studies and my artistic methodology, before presenting a live soundscape composition based on the recordings and interviews I'd conducted during my workshop. I present that piece to you here: Ritmi Rurali (suonano ancora).

Ritmi Rurali (suonano ancora) is a 15′ sound collage comprised of ambient soundscapes and interviews recorded in Colle Sannita (BN).

I set the length of the piece to 15 minutes, which is also the interval at which the church bells in the campanile ring (day or night). I was a bit surprised how habituated the Collese are to the incessant chiming. We grow numb to background noise and even if we hear, we often fail to listen. Thus I lean heavily into the sound of those bells in this piece, both rhythmically and in terms of timbre.

Interviews in Italian, Headphone Listening Recommended.

-Joseph Sannicandro
www.soundpropositions.com

Jun 29, 202215:13

Episode 25: IRREGARDS - with Matmos

The long-running electronic duo Matmos have just released a gorgeous new LP, Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer. Whereas their previous album, 2020’s The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, saw the couple collaging contributions from 99 friends recorded at 99 bpm, their latest is dedicated to the work of just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer (1929-2019). In this episode, we discuss how their reputation for conceptualism has often served to obscure the formal characteristics of their work. Can an object be a concept? Is “washing machine” or “plastic” a concept? With their signature blend of serious humor, the pair reflect on touring with a washing machine, the practicalities of licensing music, and the complexities of working with Schaeffer’s archive.

Interview recorded between Baltimore and Montreal, April 2022
Produced and mixed in New York, May 2022

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Matmos - “Anti-Antiphon(Absolute Decomposition) / Anty-Antyfona (Dekonstrukcja_na_całego)” [excerpt] (Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer, Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Matmos intro collage + Barbarella Matmos clip (1968)
Matmos - “Anti-Antiphon” [excerpt] (Regards, Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Matmos - “A DOUGHNUT IN THE SKY” (The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, Thrill Jockey, 2020)
Matmos - “Flight to Sodom / Lot do Salo” (Regards Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Song that my Whirlpool stackable washing machine plays
Matmos - [opening excerpt] (Ultimate Care II, Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Matmos – “Always Three Words” (quasi-objects, vague terrain, 1998)
Matmos - “Memento Mori” (A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, Matador, 2001)
Matmos clip from Top Gear: Series 5, Episode 9, Ariel Atom 46:09 – 46:40 (2004)
Matmos – “Plastic Minor” (Matmos, Vague Terrain, 1997)
Matmos ‎– “You (Rrose Mix)” (The Ganzfeld EP, Thrill Jockey, 2012)
Matmos - “Cobra Wages Shuffle / Off! Schable w gurę!” (Regards, Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Matmos - “In Search Of A Lost Faculty” (The Marriage Of True Minds, Thrill Jockey, 2013)
Joseph Sannicandro - Improv with Matmos' Bogusław Schaeffer Ableton sample kit
Bogusław Schaeffer - “Berlin 80 II” (Inventionen: Berlin 80 II / Fabulas II / Inventio, Edition RZ, 1985)
Matmos - [late excerpt] (Ultimate Care II, Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Matthew Herbert - “August 2010” (ONE PIG, Accidental, 2011)
Matmos - “Extending The Plastisphere To GJ237b (Plastic Anniversary, Thrill Jockey, 2019)
Jennifer Veillerobe – “B3” (Luftlöcher, Senufo, 2013)
Run The Jewels - “Creown (Alchemist Remix)” (Meow The Jewels, Mass Appeal, 2015)
Terry Fox - “The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Different Cats” [excerpt] (Tellus #21, Tellus, 1988)
Alvin Curran - [Side A, opening excerpt] (Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri, Ananda, 1978)
Count Dooku clips from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Matmos - “Part VII. The Backyard” (ROBERT ASHLEY’s Perfect Lives: Baltimore, 3/28/17)
Pierluigi Billone - “excerpt” (1 + 1 = 1, Kairos, 2006)
Ivan Catteneo - "Kiss me I'm italian" (Urlo, CGD, 1980)
Matmos - “The Little People ..." (Matmos and Michael Brown)” (Work Work Work, Vague Terrain, 2006)
M.C. Schmidt - “Lowland Side” (Batu Malablab, Megaphone / Knock’em Dead, 2015)
The Soft Pink Truth - “Space Formerly Occupied ...” (Am I Free To Go?, self-released, 2020)
Joseph Sannicandro - Sample kit Improv (2022)
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

May 20, 202201:00:13

Episode 24: KAKAPHONY - with Maria Chavez

Maria Chavez is a pioneer of Abstract Turntablism, a self-described practice she developed under the guidance of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening. Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Houston, she cut her teeth as a DJ spinning techno and drum & bass, but the male chauvinism of that scene roused her to experiment further with the materiality of vinyl, using broken needles and non-musical sounds. Oliveros inspired her to ditch dance parties for improvisation with a single turntable, an artistic practice which has evolved to include installations, workshops, visual art, and curation. A true sound artist (she adamantly eschews the label “musician”), until recently, Chavez had released only one recording, 2004's Those Eyes Of Hers, focusing instead on her career as longform performance. But after beginning a medical sabbatical in 2019, which forced her to cease touring (a year before the rest of the world shut down), Maria began slowly releasing new recordings into the world. In this episode, we discuss recent and upcoming collaborations, her switch to using four turntables (with double needles), and staking out her rightful place in art history contra White supremacist power structures.

TRACKLIST
Maria Chavez - “I Love You, 2020” (2020)
Maria Chavez - “EMPAC SESSIONS: 2, 2020” (2020)
Beethoven / Werner Elmker - "Slow version of Für Elise" (2021)
Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler - “Five Thousand” (2021)
Maria Chavez & Lucas Gorham - “A Side” (2020)
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - “Nike” (1989)
Devin KKenny - “NY Lottery-CBD Kratom (LALIT Remix)” (2021)
DJ Screw / UGK - “Tell Me Something Good” (1995)
DJ Screw - “Untitled [excerpt] (instrumental)” (2004)
Annea Lockwood performed by Maze - “Bayou-borne, For Pauline” (2022)
Maria Chavez - “EMPAC SESSIONS: 1 (excerpt)” (2020)
Grandmaster Flash - [excerpt from the film] (1982)
Geto Boys - “Still (Instrumental)” (1996)
Maria Chavez - [Excerpt] (Maria's Last Live DJ set in Europe, Brussels, Saturday Night Radio Panik & Moacrealsloa, Jan. 2019)
Maria Chavez - “EMPAC SESSIONS: 1 (excerpt)” (2020)
Maria Chavez - “Guitar Vocabulary” (2020)
Maria Chavez & Jordi Wheeler - “Que Te Vaya Bien” 2021)
Maria Chavez - [excerpt] (SquareWheels DJ mix 1998)
Pauline Oliveros - “Big Mother Is Watching You” (1997)
Grand Wizard Theodore and Mean Gene - [excerpt] (1977)
Pauline Oliveros & Cecil Taylor - “Duo” (2012)
Bernhard Leitner - “HT_A” (2003)
Maria Chavez - “Sara Sleeps, 2020” (2020)
Maria Chavez - “The Rain of Applause” (Amplify, 2020)
Susanna Hood, Martin Tétreault - “Hello étendues” (2019)
Maria Chavez - “XI” (Maria Chavez Plays (Stefan Goldmann's 'Ghost Hemiola'), Macro, 2019)
Pauline Oliveros - “Bye Bye Butterfly” (1997)
Antipop Consortium - “Volcano (Four Tet Remix Instrumental)” (2009)

Apr 20, 202201:04:08

Episode 23: HOMEWORK - with Patrick Shiroishi

Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles, whose 2021 album Hidemi was one of our favorites of the year. A prolific collaborator, Shiroishi can also be heard in various duos, trios, and larger ensembles, including the quartet Fuubutsushi, another group that has been in steady rotation at ACL. In this episode, we reminisce about elementary school concert band and Third Wave ska, discuss his introduction to various modes of improvisation, and explore his love of black metal. Shiroishi also unpacks the importance of family history and ancestry to his work, particularly against the recent rise in anti-Asian racism. And as live performances pick up again, he looks back on how the pandemic turned him into an unlikely proponent of online collaboration.

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Patrick Shiroishi - “nerves of human life” (black sun sutra, Weird Cry Records, 2013)

SP INTRO

Patrick Shiroishi - “眼には眼を”[excerpt] (Eye For An Eye, Armageddon Nova, 2020)

Skankin' Pickle - “Turning Japanese” [flip] (Sing Along With Skankin' Pickle, Dill Recorda, 1994)

Deerhoof - “The Perfect Me" (Friend Opportunity, Kill Rock Stars, 2007)

Blonde Redhead - “Misery is a Butterfly” (Misery is a Butterfly, 4AD, 2004)

Patrick Shiroishi - “Tomorrow Is Almost Over” (Descension, Thin Wrist, 2020)

John Coltrane - “Ascension I” (The Major Works Of John Coltrane, GRP, 1965/1992)

Corima – “Amaterasu V” (Amaterasu, Soleil Zeuhl, 2016)

Upsilon Acrux - “Old Dusk Seas: Odyssey” (Sun Square Dialect, New Atlantis, 2015)

Patrick Shiroishi - “To Kill A Wind-Up Bird” (Hidemi, American Dreams, 2021)

Patrick Shiroishi - “never again is now” (i shouldn't have to worry when my parents go outside, 2021)

Patrick Shiroishi Rob Magill Duo - “Picture Paintings” (Eyes in the Dirt, Weird Cry, 2018)

Patrick Shiroishi - “What Happens When People Open Their Hearts” (Hidemi, American Dreams, 2021)

John Coltrane & Rashied Ali - “Saturn” [1967] (Interstellar Space, Impulse!, 1974)

Thomas Ankersmit, Taku Sugimoto, Nakamura, Akiyama “Untitled” (Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1, reset, 2002)

Patrick Shiroishi / Radu Malfatti - “Benkyou” [excerpt] (Benkyou, B-Boim Records, 2020)

Patrick Shiroishi / Radu Malfatti - 勉強 [excerpt] (勉強, 2019)

M. Sage & Patrick Shiroishi - Valley Candle (Wants A Diamond Pivot Bright, 2021)

Fuubutsushi - “Good Sky Day” [excerpt] (Good Sky Day, Longform Editions, 2021)

Patrick Shiroishi & claire rousay - “Brushed Too Hard” (Now Am Found, Mended Dreams, 2021)

Armand Hammer & the Alchemist [verse: billy woods] - “Robert Moses” (Haram, Backwoodz, 2021)

Black Swan - “Descension” (Redemption, Ethereal Symphony, 2013)

Yellow Eyes - “Cathedral” (Silence Threads The Evening's Cloth, Sol Y Nieve, 2012)

Patrick Shiroishi & Camila Nebbia - “el espacio entre el lenguaje / 言語の間” (The Human Being as a Fragile Article, 2021)

Chris Williams - “Live” [excerpt] (Live, 2022)

Patrick Shiroishi & Noel Meek - “Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets” [excerpt] (Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets, 2021)

Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka “in the frame of incarceration” (No
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No 2 / のの二, 2022)

Patrick Shiroishi - “Beachside Lonelyhearts” (Hidemi, American Dreams, 2021)

Patrick Shiroishi - “Be a Lion, I Will Still Be Water (Sparrow's Tongue, Fort Evil Fruit, 2018)

Patrick Shiroishi - “the soothing thought that spring from human suffering” (White Sun Sutra, 2014)

LTJ - "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" (All My Best Friends Are Metalheads/The Disintegrators 45", Fueled by Ramen, 1999)

Mar 08, 202201:00:34

Episode 22: SHUT UP AND LISTEN! - with The World According to Sound

We kick off season 3 with an interview with the creators behind The World According To Sound, in honor of their 2022 Winter Listening Series. A streaming concert series designed for our times, each event is dedicated to listening closely together, apart. If, like us, you’re apprehensive about attending live concerts again, but miss the experience of collective listening, this series is made for you. 12 shows will be presented every Thursday evening at 6PM PST, January 6 through March 24, 2022. Enter “ACloserListen” at checkout for 25% off tickets and season passes. Half season passes, as well as individual tickets, are also available. This episode begins by profiling The World According to Sound and diving into their listening series, as well as their frustrations with the state of public radio in the USA. Despite these critiques, we all still have a deep love of radio, and so the back half of the episode forms an homage to the radiophonic arts.

Interview recorded between California and Montreal, December 2021
Produced and mixed in Montreal, January 2022

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Feb 01, 202256:14

Episode 21: FOOD + MUSIC - with GENG PTP

RIP Daniel Dumile (July 13, 1971 – October 31, 2020)

GENG PTP aka King Vision Ultra memorializes the legacy of the late MF DOOM, who died on Halloween day 2020. Geng shares some memories about NYC hip hop in the 90s, muses on the similarities between KMD and De La, and praises the enduring influence of one of hip hop's greatest artists.