On WFMU’s Beware of the Blog is an ATC Theme Overload. More than a dozen mp3s of the All Things Considered “dinks,” along w/ a link to listener suggested lyrics.
There’s the seminal sappy synth:
“ATC Theme- 1971 original” (1:52 mp3):
The breathy brass of the:
“ATC Theme- Washington Saxophone Quartet” (0:29 mp3):
To which we’ll add our own:
“ATC Theme- Dinky the Dingo” by Larry Massett (2:12 mp3):
For an upcoming HV hour on Lincoln and Civil War (for July 4th), here’s a couple poets mixed with music from Lincoln Shuffle (by Bryce Dessner, guitarist for The National and Clogs, for the great bicentennial site 21st Century Abe, used with their re-mixing blessings).
UPDATED AGAIN VERS “Lincoln Langston Carl” (4:27 mp3):
Voices: 1- Langston Hughes performing his poem “Lincoln Monument, Washington” (1955 album: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes). 2- Poet Carl Sandburg addressing the U.S. Congress on Lincoln’s 150th birthday (2/12/1959; excerpt). 3- “A Visit with Carl Sandburg” interview on NBC-TV Wisdom Series: Conversations with Elder Wise Men (2/8/1953; excerpt). Music: Bryce Dessner “Long Summer” (2008: Lincoln Shuffle for 21stcenturyabe.org). Production: Barrett Golding HearingVoices.com.
In support of David Greenberger’s new CD, Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time is live on stage at the The Pabst Theater, Milwaukee WI, May 13:
A collaboration between Duplex Planet creator David Greenberger and Milwaukee music legend Paul Cebar
Featuring spoken word stories derived from Greenberger’s conversations with elderly residents of Milwaukee, backed by music composed by Paul Cebar that is seamlessly integrated with the mood of the words.
“A King in Milwaukee, part 1” from Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time (2:23):
Micheal Gregory makes it hardly worth tuning in any news that ain’t auto-tuned, “Auto-Tune the News #2: pirates. drugs. gay marriage:”
very thin ice.
A listener requested info on finding the Jonathan Richman song we used in our “Dog Tales” HV Hour. It’s off a kids-songs compilation, Colours Are Brighter, now out-of-print. So I hope Jonathan don’t mind us posting his “Our Dog Is Getting Older Now” (2:30 mp3):
Two minutes of PolitiMusic bliss. Michael Schmoyoho Gregory, w/ his sis-in-law Sarah Fullen Gregory, “Auto-Tune the News #1”:
Also check “Auto-Tune the News #2” and an auto-tuned Churchill.
Michael Gregory: Face | Tube | Barely Political
via Mtn Music Project.
Bloodshot Records “the home of insugent country music” released an anthology (revu) 1980s cowboy punker Charlie Pickett, a staple of indie-music radio in our neuvo wave phase. One irresistible track is 1984’s “Marlboro Country” Charlie Pickett and the Eggs, Bar Band Americanus: The Best of Charlie Pickett And…
UPDATE: NPR story on Kitman
Kitiman’s ThruYOU vids are mashups & mixes of “unrelated YouTube video/clips edited together — what you see is what you hear.” The latest is the “Mother of All Funk Chords:”
Sez 43 Folders of Kutiman:
Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels: if your reaction to this crate of magic is “Hm. I wonder how we’d go about suing someone who ‘did this’ with our IP?†instead of, “Holy crap, clearly, this is the freaking future of entertainment,†it’s probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page.
Because, this is what your new Elvis looks like, gang. And, eventually somebody will figure out (and publicly admit) that Kutiman, and any number of his peers on the “To-Sueâ€list, should be passed from Legal down to A&R.
Kutiman: Space | Wikip | More ThruYOU‘s
via Smatter.
From a Composer Weekend dedicated to John Cage, at the Barbican Centre, London (John Cage Uncaged, January 2004). Hope the musicians weren’t getting paid by the note, but you gotta admit it was a flawless performance; John Cage “4’33” by the BBC Symphony Orchestra:
“Everything is music.” “Wherever we are what we hear mostly is noise… When we ignore noise, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” —John Cage
From the BBC article, “Radio 3 plays ‘silent symphony.’ BBC Radio 3 has aired more than four minutes of complete silence… by design”:
[Cage’s] estate won a bizarre copyright battle in 2002, when composer Mike Batt agreed to pay a six-figure sum to a charity because his album featured a tongue-in-cheek silent track which he credited as co-written by Cage…
General manager Paul Hughes told BBC Radio 5 Live the orchestra had rehearsed to “get in the right frame of mind”.
Despite having no notes to play, the musicians tuned up and then turned pages of the score after each of the three “movements” specified by the composer.
The silence was broken at times by coughing and rustling sounds from the audience, who marked the end of the performance with enthusiastic applause.
Mr Hughes denied the performance was a “mindless gimmick” and said Cage believed “music was all around us all the time” and the piece was his attempt to make the audience focus on sounds that were “part of our everyday lives”.
But the audience at the premiere in 1952 was “so discomforted that mostly what you could hear was people getting up and walking out”, he said.
“They were completely outraged and extremely angry,” Mr Hughes added.
He said Cage, who died in 1992 aged 80, was very proud of the silent composition.
In readiness for the performance, Radio 3 bosses switched off their emergency back-up system – designed to cut in when there is an unexpected silence on air.
A decade later, still sounds good, Bran Van 3000Â “Drinkin in LA:”
BTW, is Bran Van 3000 related to André 3000?
HV listener Jack R Box has been combing thru this site for us, uncovering 404s, removed YT videos, and other species of link-rot. In one of our eeem xchanges he suggested I check the following vid, and I’m glad I did.
Witness this musical incarnation of multinational glasnot, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” by the Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir:
YouTube’s Screening Room featured this 40-min video portrait of street performer, Thoth. This Oscar winning film has an elegant story structure, steadily revealing more elements of the man, his music, and his “prayformances” (go to YT and click HQ for their high-quality vers), “Thoth” by director Sarah Kernochan:
They fixed it in the mix:
“The Obama inauguration performance was pre-recorded, as we learned a few days after the event. Here is how the live performance might have actually sounded, for all we know… This is a satirical hypothetical document, not an actual record of what happened on inauguration day. Albeit with a nod to StSanders, numerous viewers have also pointed out that the duration of this video (4’33”) makes it a sort of John Cage tribute.”
via Lucas at WFMU.
From their CD Christmas In March The Sursiks’ “Little Paper Airplanes” details their problem w/ tubas:
via my bud and WFMU Blogger (and recent bridegroom) Lukas.
New animation by Grandchildren for Fleet Foxes “Mykonos:”
Grandchildren‘s video on the Making of Mykonos.
Time suck alert— Qwerty-rock with your keyboard on this Drum Kit.
via WFMU.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) performs his poem, music by Paul McCartney, directed by Gus Van Sant, “Ballad of the Skeletons:”
Same poem by Ginsberg w/ PaulMcC live at Royal Albert Hall, 1995.
A diagrammatically delineated vid vers of “This Is a Song” by Mitch Friedman:
From Friedman’s CD Game Show Teeth: “A brand new, almost-rock album, featuring Andy Partridge, Dave Gregory, R. Stevie Moore and more.”
The Christian Bale techno rant remix by RevoLucian (Paine):
“Bale Out” (2:46 mp3):
Also at YouTube. Hi-fi fuqd and clean versions at RevoLucian (and his Space). Original unmix (Bale-only) mp3 at TMZ.
Some Velvet Blog offer into evidence this Dylan-Obama Connection:
Congressional inquiry into Conflict of Photo charges commences soon.