2009-01-20
B.H.O. Fires It Up- rx
New rx vid featuring our current commander-in-chief, “Fire It Up 2.0:”
Tag: music/Archives
2009-01-14
Art of Field Recording II
The next of Dust-to-Digital’s book/CD box-set music series is out, Art of Field Recording Volume II: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum:
Art of Field Recording Volume II from Dust-to-Digital on Vimeo.
2009-01-05
HV045- Shortcut Thru 2008
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
045 Shortcut Thru 2008—
The Year in Speeches, Songs, and Soundbites
Host— Peter Bochan of WBAI-FM
Airs week of— 1/07/200901-07
“Shortcut Thru 2008” (52:00 mp3):
An hour-long audio scan of Year 2008, from the the Olympics to oil prices, from the elections to the economy. A memorial to those who passed, including Studs Turkel, Eartha Kitt, George Carlin, Bo Diddley, and Paul Newman. And a tribute to the changing of the presidential guard. (Produced by Peter Bochan of All Mixed Up).
The retrospective includes the collapse of Wall Street, financial and political scandals, the wild fires, the ice storms, and one of most memorable political campaigns in history, ending with a personal tour of the White House (conducted by past, present and future Presidents) all mixed up with answers to the question… “What will you remember about 2008?”
More…
2008-12-31
Hendrix In Cows’ Company
One of my favorite performed poems is a New Year’s Eve 1969 memory by John B. Lee, “Jimi Hendrix In The Company Of Cows” (1:49 mp3):
From the compilation of Canadian poets Word Up.
2008-12-24
We Wish
And a happy new you. Guitar by Jesse Boggs, vocals by his son Eli — at 4 years old. “We Wish” (1:41 mp3):
2008-12-13
rx in the UK
A smashup of Sex Pistols’ trax, performed by Brit PM Gordon Brown and Conservative Party head David Camero, “god save the queen vs anarchy in the uk” by rx:
2008-12-12
Playing For Change
This Ben E. King song is performed “by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.” Then it’s mixed into a moving whole, as part of the project and documentary film “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music” (producer Mark Johnson on Bill Moyer’s Journal).
Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me”
2008-12-11
ECC- Rocked
Video (by Kenny Haner) of the Evolution Control Committee‘s classic splice-happy send-up of the Evening News. As i recall CBS sent a cease & desist. ECC did neither. CBS said wtf, and gave up. (More on this at ECC site.)
“Rocked By Rape” from Plagiarhythm Nation, ver. 2.0
And check ECC’s new Wii-hacked “rear-projected infra-red-activated faux-touchscreen video mashup controller.”
via MMP.
2008-12-08
Found Sound Orchestra
The Found Sound Orchestra does some nice sample-mashup-remixes. FSO is a team9 project and lotsa mp3s are at the site.
From Copier Love EP & Remixes, The Found Sound Orchestra “2000 tomorrows” (2:00 mp3):
2008-12-07
Bad Bad Whiskey
Classic early R&B, Amos Milburn “Bad Bad Whiskey:”
2008-12-01
Cowboy Chanukah
Just in time for Chanukah (Dec 21-29), Seattle’s Captain Smartypants yodel and line-dance their Brokeback Dreidel, aka, “Kislev Cowboys” by Eric Lane Barnes, sung by Captain Smartypants with the Seattle Men’s Chorus:
Recorded by Tom Speer of the Seattle Channel. Listen for the audio of this song in our upcoming “Christmas Mashup” HV hour.
via Kalish.
2008-11-30
JacobTV- Jesus
A video by of composer JacobTV‘s (aka Jacob ter Veldhuis), from the CD/DVD-box Shining City, “Jesus is coming” Aurelia Saxophone Quartet:
2008-11-27
Fiest-y Angel
Feist sings like an angel on A Colbert Christmas, for this heavenly auto-prayer answering message:
2008-11-26
HV039- Portrait of a Plague
Hearing Voices from NPR®
039 Portrait of a Plague: For AIDS Awareness Day
Host: Joe Richman of Radio Diaries
Airs week of: 2011-11-30 (Originally: 2008-11-26)
“Portrait of a Plague” (52:00 mp3):
W.H.O. World AIDS Day
The 1st of December
A Day Without Art
The 1st of December
A Day Without Art
Sister Agnes Ramashiga makes her rounds at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto; 2000 patients check in daily, half are HIV positive. It’s “Just Another Day At the Biggest Hospital In the World,” a Radio Diaries by Joe Richman & Sue Johnson (Picture-Projects).
HIV-Positive teenagers, Tanya, Mark, and Tenisha, record audio diaries about living “The Positive Life”; produced by by Stephen Smith & Stephanie Curtis for American RadioWorks (photos and journals at ARW).)
Poet Lisa Buscani is “Counting” on her mom’s health advice, from the book Jangle and the CD Word Up
And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary (CD at Arkiv Music) by Laura Kaminsky is a compositon for viola, cello, piano, and for a narrator, reciting poems, biblical verse, and stories of Tamakloe, a warrior, tailor, and AIDS victim.
AIDS once meant death. Now improved treatments keep HIV-positive people alive for decides. So what’s that like, being brought back from the dead; as when Jesus revived his dead friend “Lazarus;” by Krandall Kraus from his book Book: It’s Never About What It’s About.
“Letters to Butchie” are a dying mother’s writings to a son she’ll never see, produced by Dave Isay Sound Portraits (music: Nick Drake).
Web Resources:
CDC (USA), Critcal Path, AVERT (UK), UN AIDS, Know HIV/AIDS, AIDS Diary, Visual AIDS.
Animations from Creative Time- Day Without Art: Web Action, top to bottom:
Ben Benjamin- Superbad & Chisato Uyeki- Chisa, Guthrie Dolin, Yoshi Sodeoka- Soundtoys, Friederike Paetzold- Iconogene, Lance Arthur of Glassdog.
.
2008-11-25
Palin Piano
This is beautiful: Keyboardist Henry Hey of the band Rudder plays with the rhythm and melody of Sarah Palin speech:
via Glassdog.
2008-11-20
Burma Blues for Karen
The stories of Burmese refugees, the Karen people, recorded in the camps on the Thailand-Burma border, and in their new American homes. Thru it all their music preserves their culture.
Aired on NPR Day to Day; with help from KGLT, by producer Jack Chance, “Burma Blues for Karen” (5:30 mp3):
More Chance music and pix at Guerilla Ethnomusicology.
2008-11-15
Fleet Foxes- Winter Hymnal
It’s getting cold out, time for the Fleet Foxes short “White Winter Hymnal:”
Fleet Foxes: space | wikipedia | amazon | Sub Pop
“White Winter Hymnal” (2:27 mp3):
2008-11-13
Joe Frank at Largo
Joe Frank‘s stage performance, “Just an Ordinary Man,” returns to Largo at the Coronet December 2nd and 3rd. Largo is taking reservations now. (Call 310-855-0350 and press #0 for ticket sales.)
2008-11-05
Change Gonna Come
Seal does Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come:”
UPDATE: WFMU just posted 14 versions of the song, including Aretha, Otis, Dylan, and the original Sam Cooke “A Change is Gonna Come” (3:13 mp3):
2008-11-03
Studs- R.I.P.
Louis “Studs” Terkel Louis (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) signs off America’s latest greatest radio show.
This I Believe “Community in Action” (4:06)
From Studs Terkel: Voices of Our Time; The Original Live Interviews, “Mahalia Jackson, 1963” (6:20)
Studs links: Wikipedia | Transom Review | Prime Time Radio | WFMT-FM Memories| Chicago Historical Society | WNYC 2003 Interview | Third Coast Luminary | Chicago Tribune