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Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang - "Azure" - Azure [features Kenney on vocals & shruti box & Kang on viola] [0:00:00] Nata Swara, JACK Quartet - "Prisms for Gene Davis" - Brian Baumbusch: Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet [Baumbusch built 2 separate sets of "American Gamelan" instruments based on various instruments from the Balinese tradition with unique tunings / Nata Swara is a Balinese gamelan collective / Gene Davis was an artist from Washington D.C. - go here for more info on him: https://americanart.si.edu/artist/gene-davis-1147] [0:11:10] Nate Scheible - "Small And Horseless" - Or Valleys And [Scheible is an artist based in Washington, D.C.] [0:35:18] Laura Mosotto - "Dark Horse" - The Spirit Of Things [0:37:09] Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (cond by Mariss Jansons) - "Symphony No. 3 in D minor: III. Comodo Scherando. Ohn Hast (by Gustav Mahler) composed 1893-6" - Symphony No. 3 in D minor [recorded live in 2010 / this new re-issue celebrates the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's 75th anniversary / Mahler's 3rd Symphony is his longest work, clocking in at 90 minutes - it is his hymn to nature] [0:40:58] Stas Czekalski - "Pogoda Ducha" - Przygody (Adventures) [debut album from this Warsaw-based artist] [1:03:39] Andrew Tasselmyer - "Trying To Outrun Time" - Where Substance Meets Emptiness [album title inspired by Japanese author Haruki Murakami] [1:07:02] Lustmord - "Other Woes Are Yet To Come" - Much Unseen Is Also Here [1:12:32] Allison Burik - "Solstice I (Dreams And Memories)" - Realm [1:20:10] The Haxan Cloak - "Consumed" - Excavation [1:22:13] Robert Scholl, Justin Paterson, Anne McCready - "At The Graveyard in Perros - Guirec" - Les ombres du Fantôme ["Les ombres du Fantôme" explores Gaston Leroux’s novel, "Le Fantôme de l’Opéra" (1910) through 14 improvisations / Scholl - organ, Paterson - electronics, Anne McCready - vocals] [1:24:01] Mark Vernon - "Megalithic Circuit" - An Annotated Phonography of Chance [1:30:39] Luigi Nono - "La Fabbrica Illuminata (for voice and tape) (1964)" - La Fabbrica Illuminata [Luigi Nono (1924-1990) was an Italian composer of electronic, aleatory, and serial music. Nono began his musical studies in 1941 at the Venice Conservatory. He then studied law at the University of Padua, receiving a doctorate there, while at the same time studying with composer Bruno Maderna and conductor Hermann Scherchen. He came to public attention in 1950 with his work Variazioni Canoniche, orchestral variations on a 12-tone theme of Arnold Schoenberg, whose daughter Nuria he married in 1955.] [1:36:11] DnA Duo - "To A Wild Rose (by Edward MacDowall) (1896)" - No album - live performance - 2009 [This is a live concert performance by duo Alpha Hockett Walker (on piano) & David Weiss (on saw) / Weiss is the principal oboist with the L.A. Philharmonic] [1:52:25] Jan Jelinek - "Alice Schwarzer, Is It True That You're A Person Of Great Tenacity?" - Zwischen (Between) [Alice Schwarzer is a German feminist and the founder of EMMA magazine] [2:01:25] Shit & Shine - "Joy_10" - Joy Of Joys [2:03:15] Asher Tuil - "Opus (excerpt)" - Opus [2:04:52] Stefan Goldmann - "Planinar" - Veiki [2:13:19] Steve Roach & Robert Rich - "LightBorn" - Waves Of Now [album is a recording of their live concert performance in Tucson 2023] [2:19:21] Natalia Beylis - "Lost - For Annie (excerpt)" - Lost - For Annie [composed for the art installation by visual artist Anne Hogg, which explores the environmental destruction brought on by large-scale commercial farming] [2:29:56] Dali de Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling - "3" - Penumbra [taken from an improvised live set on BBC Radio's "Late Junction" recorded in 2023] [2:34:32] Edward Ka-Spel - "Loop 2/The Baker's Man" - Tanith & The Lion Tree [orig 1991 / remastered & reissued in 2020] [2:38:35] I Monster - "A Scarecrow's Tale" - Neveroddoreven [orig 2003] [2:42:50] Saint Etienne - "Wilson" - Foxbase Alpha [2:43:31] Linda Smith - "Salad Days" - Nothing Else...

The Glass Bead Band - "Among Our Friends We Certainly Have Enemies" - The Glass Bead Band [If you're local, Marshall Yarbrough of The Glass Bead Band will be doing a listening party & DJ set on May 9th at the Adirondack Bar in Brooklyn] [0:00:00] Mark Van Hoen - "This Is For Them" - Plan For A Miracle [album combines 2 EPs from last year / Van Hoen has been a member of Autocreation, Black Hearted Brother, Drøne, IHVH, Scala, Seefeel, Sine Bubble, & Sing-Sing. He's also released material under his Locust moniker] [0:04:44] Teresa Winter - "New Water" - Proserpine [Proserpine is the Roman version of the Greek goddess Persephone, who was taken from the heavens by Pluto and brought to the underworld to be his consort] [0:09:13] Sounds Of Space Project - "Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations 12 00pm" - Aurora Musicales [This Cambridge group uses field recordings made by the Very Low Frequency receiver at Halley Research Station in Antarctica / The Halley Very Low Frequency (VLF) receiver consists of two, orthogonal, 58m^2 single loop antennae designed to detect the magnetic fluctuations of the Earth’s low frequency radio waves. The weak signals are amplified, processed electronically and subsequently digitized at 96 kHz] [0:16:04] Mirt & Ter - "Phra Maha Chedi Tripob Trimongkol (February 2024)" - Phra Maha Chedi Tripob Trimongkol [Mirt & Ter are artists from Warsaw, Poland / Phra Maha Chedi Tripob Trimongkol is also known as the Stainless Pagoda. It is a Buddhist temple located in Thailand & it is made of chrome tubes & decorated in thousands of small bells] [0:22:33] Alessandro Ragazzo - "I" - La Deviazione del Profilo (The Deviation Of The Profile) [Italian artist Ragazzo recorded the pieces for this album between 2022-23 using effects pedals, electromagnetic wave antenna, field recordings, & magnetophones] [0:33:06] Thomas Fleischhauer - "Regensymphonie" - Aporee Illustrations [Fleischhauer used recordings from the radio ::: aporee project (https://aporee.org/maps/)] [0:41:24] Inutili - "Queen Crimson" - A Love Supreme ["Inutili" means "pointless, useless, unprofitable" in Italian / the group is based in Teramo, Italy] [0:56:44] Celer - "GEMS 1.11" - Gems I [1:16:24] Domenica Diavoleria - "Artificial Limb Reliquary" - Orange Cleaning [A "reliquary" is: a container or shrine in which sacred relics are kept / Catch last year's interview with Domenica here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/124856] [1:22:31] Lucy Railton - "Blush Study" - Corner Dancer [1:27:33] Ami Shavit - "Alpha 6" - In Alpha Mood [orig released in 1977 on Amis label / Alpha brain waves occur when the mind is in a state of deep relaxation – something not always possible for Ami Shavit to obtain, thanks to his experiences evacuating bodies from the Israeli West Bank during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. A multimedia artist interested in how technological advances can enhance psychological practices, in the early-to-mid- 70s Shavit was drawn to the burgeoning interest in biofeedback, fascinated that electrical sensors could not only send him information about his physical and mental condition, but also by the idea that it would then be possible to use his thoughts to control bodily functions that were giving less than desirable readings. Shavit’s aim? To induce “alpha mood” – that is, total relaxation. Recorded in Tel Aviv, using a collection of early 70s hardware he sent back home from the US (among them the ARP Odyssey and EMS Synthi AKS), "In Alpha Mood" is a meditative piece designed to induce such a state.] [1:32:28] Li Yilei - "++++" - Nonage ["Nonage" translates to childhood or "disheveled hair" in Chinese] [1:40:13] Ostrava New Orchestra (ONO)/cond by Jiri Rozen - "Allegory of the Cave II (by Frantisek Chaloupka)" - Ostrava Days 2023 Live [Album 3] [The Ostrava Center for New Music was created to promote new music. To that end, they organize the Ostrava Days Institute and Festival, a 3-week-long summer project for composers,...

Valentin Silvestrov/Warsaw Philharmonic Choir - "Prayer For The Ukraine (2014)" - A Concert in Aid Of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine & The 'Dunka" National Choir of Ukraine (2022) [Silvestrov left Ukraine when the war. He now resides in Germany] [0:00:00] Naomi Yang - "Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody" - Never Be a Punching Bag For Nobody (OST) [of Damon & Naomi / 20/20/20 is Damon & Naomi's label] [0:04:24] Mari & Hakon Samuelsen - "Divenire (by Ludovico Einaudi)" - James Horner - Pas de Deux [0:10:08] Andrey Vinogradov - "Ancestral Land" - single [0:14:35] Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - "Hey Hey My My" - Fall (EP) [0:18:16] Richie Culver - "Weakness" - Scream if You Don't Exist [0:24:02] Tim Gick - "Invade Your Neighbor's Cup Of Tea On The Window Sill" - Neighbor Invader [0:29:20] Daniel Bachman - "Now The Roses Come Again" - When The Roses Come Again [0:34:23] The Felice Brothers - "We Shall Live Again" - From Dreams To Dust [0:38:18] Anaïs Mitchell - "Why We Build The Wall (feat. Greg Brown)" - Hadestown [0:46:29] Sink - "Waking Up After a Long Day, Pt 2" - Sink [Sink is Andrea Ermke, Chris Abrahams, Marcello Busato, & Arthur Rother] [0:50:47] Kolner Akademie - "Mitridate, re di Ponto, K.87. Overture (by W.A. Mozart)" - Mozart: Overtures [1:14:52] Laura Cannell - "The Earth Beneath The Sea" - Sealore (EP) [1:20:02] Ocean Sounds - "Faleasao Bay" - Adriatic Adventure [AKA duo Grace Marie Guerrero & Rebeca Luna Carrera] [1:22:39] The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian - "Pythia (by G.I. Gurdjieff)" - Zartir [G.I. Gurdjieff was an Armenian-Greek mystic & composer] [1:25:30] Joëlle Léandre & Pascal Contet - "Miniature 2" - Miniatures [1:29:03] Viki Steiri - "Procession" - Balm [1:35:39] The Starless Oracle - "Where Do We Go Now?" - Seastones [AKA Brad E. Rose] [1:39:57] Jem Finer - "Will Arrive In 5 Minutes" - Underground [composed as an accompaniment to an exhibit of Jock McFayden's paintings of the London Underground] [1:47:16] Francois Bayle - "Eros Noir (1980)" - Erosphère [1:56:23] Ryan Marino - "Untitled (track 2)" - The Evidences [made using field recordings recorded in Hawai'i] [1:58:24] Ana Lua Caiano - "Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado" - ou Ficar Neste Quadrado [2:11:57] The Jesus And Mary Chain - "Girl71" - Glasgow Eyes [2:14:38] Salem Witch Army - "The Others" - Demos [2:17:37] Kurt Vonnegut - "Harrison Bergeron (1961)" - Welcome To the Monkey House [originally published in 1961 in "The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction" / That one is going out to my good friend & an amazing artist, Bonham (http://donbonham.com/)] [2:20:16] Red Largo - "Exodus (Transmission 2)" - Transmitting [Red largo is a Berlin-based theatre project of writer Sonja Kessner, Fredrik Kinborn (lap steel guitar), Andreas Dormann (bass clarinet), & Chris Farr (drums)] [2:34:45] Mick Harvey - "We Had An Island" - Five Ways To Say Goodbye [of The Birthday Party & Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / 1st solo album in a decade] [2:42:15] Kelly Moran - "Superhuman" - Moves In The Field [2:45:46] David Gilmour - "Arnold Layne (feat. David Bowie)" - Live from the Royal Albert Hall, May 2006 ["Arnold Layne" was Bowie's favorite Pink Floyd song] [2:50:06] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/139129

Blixa Bargeld - "Dumpfe Stimmen - Ouvertüre" - Commissioned Music [Music For The Play "Dumpfe Stimmen"] [0:00:00] Blixa Bargeld - "Hexagon (excerpt)" - Hexagon for Sonambiente Berlin [recorded in 2021 for the sound festival "Somambiente, which took over Berlin's recently decommissioned Tegel Airport] [0:04:49] Blixa Bargeld w/ The Tim Isfort Orchestra - "Mother" - Recycled (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [0:06:01] ANBB (Alva Noto / Blixa Bargeld) - "Once Again" - Mimikry [0:09:23] Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - "Ziegenfisch" - Fall (EP) [0:14:31] Blixa Bargeld - "About artists he's worked with" - Interview w/ Blixa Bargeld - recorded on April 10, 2024 [0:18:46] Kiku & Blixa Bargeld - "Eng, Düster Und Bang (feat. Blixa Bargeld)" - Eng, Düster Und Bang [0:20:31] Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld - "Pop Mix" - Ghosts... of the Civil Dead [soundtrack for the film] [0:25:54] Blixa Bargeld - "The NYTimes said I play guitar like I'm waiting for the bus...I like that..." - Interview w/ Blixa Bargeld - recorded on April 10, 2024 [0:28:40] Blixa Bargeld Liest Bertolt Brecht - "Erst Ließ Freude Mich Nicht Schlafen (1956)" - Erotische Gedichte (Erotic Poems) [0:29:06] Blixa Bargeld - "About Grazer Damm" - Interview w/ Blixa Bargeld - recorded on April 10, 2024 [0:29:25] Einstürzende Neubauten - "Grazer Damm" - Alles In Allem [0:34:19] Blixa Bargeld - "Interview - April 10, 2024 (excerpt)" - Interview w/ Blixa Bargeld - recorded on April 10, 2024 [0:40:42] Einstürzende Neubauten - "Negativ Nein" - Kollaps [0:42:30] Blixa Bargeld - "About Rampen" - Interview w/ Blixa Bargeld - recorded on April 10, 2024 [0:49:48] Blixa Bargeld - "About Working With Neubauten & "Wie Lange"" - Interview w/ Blixa Bargeld - recorded on April 10, 2024 [0:57:01] Einstürzende Neubauten - "Wie lange noch? (How Much Longer?)" - Rampen (apm: alien pop music) [Wie lange noch? | How much longer? || by Bargeld//Bargeld/Chudy/Hacke/Moser/Arbeit/Gebhard || Alles schon geschrieben | All been written || Alles schon gesagt | All been said || Das Innere der Zwiebel | Inside the onion || Längsschnitt – ausgelesen | Vertical cut – selection made || bis auf weiteres vertagt | Adjourned till further notice || Der Müll wird ausgewurzelt | Trash is being eradicated || Ein Solitär wird hergerollt | A solitaire is being rolled up || Alles schon besungen | everything’s been sung about || Alles schon passiert | everything’s already happened || Wie lange noch? | How much longer? || Wie wie wie wie lange noch? | How how how how much longer? || Der Schnitt durchs Ladekabel | The cut through the charger cable || Jetzt gilt: | To be done: || Die Brust wird ausgefegt | The chest is being swept clean || Wie lange noch? | How much longer? || near roses: sing | near roses: sing || Alles schon gesungen | already sung || Alles schon gedacht | Everything already thought || Die Tricks sind ausgegangen | The tricks all used up || Gedruckt mit Blut auf Flügeln | Printed in blood on wings || und unters Volk gebracht | and aired in public || In diesem Sinne: | In this vein: || Endmoräne | terminal moraine || Wie lange noch? | How much longer? || Wie wie wie wie lange noch? | How how how how much longer? || BB: vocals/NU: metal perc./AH: electric bass guitar/RM: pvc-buckets, amplified metal spring, recorder/JA: e-bow, “Homeswinger”-12-string harp/FG: synthesizer] [0:58:51] Einstürzende Neubauten - "Ist Ist (Is Is)" - Rampen (apm: alien pop music) [Ist Ist | Is Is || by Bargeld//Bargeld/Chudy/Hacke/Moser/Arbeit/Gebhard || I’ve been to Niagara Falls | I‘ve been to both great walls | but it wasn’t there | It wasn’t there | No, it was not there | ist ist | is is || I’ve been to the end of Europe | I’ve been to the other side | but it wasn’t there | It wasn’t there | No, it was not there | ist ist | is is || BB: vocals, piano,...

Woodleigh Research Facility - "Salacia" - Vernal Invocation [vernal • \VER-nul\ • adjective. 1 : of, relating to, or occurring in the spring 2 : fresh or new like the spring; also : youthful. (from Merriam-Webster Dictionary)] [0:00:00] Madeleine Cocolas - "Drift" - Bodies [0:05:46] Mike Cooper & Andrew Tuttle - "One Volt Per One Ampere (excerpt)" - One Volt Per One Ampere [0:11:09] Lack Lazuli - "Leaning Into A Western Chorus" - Trouts And Dipper [AKA Boulder, Colorado based artist Derek Pederson] [0:14:55] A Lily - "Kemm Nixtieq Li Qed" - Saru l​-​Qamar [A Lily is Phantom Limb label head James Vella / The album is constructed around vocals from home recordings made by Maltese émigrés. From the 60s onwards many would record themselves relating news and messages, often in the traditional song form of għana, to send back to family. UK-based but of Maltese heritage, Vella was given access to these tapes through the archive of Magna Żmien, a grassroots project begun in 2017 to digitize and preserve home made audio visual material.] [0:17:48] Sequences - "I Shall Pass To The Other Side" - Água Viva [Sequences is the long-running project of Antwerp's Niels Geybels. “Agua Viva,” borrows its title & inspiration from Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector's 1973 novel. "Agua Viva" has the dual meaning of both “living water” and the Portuguese word for “jellyfish”.] [0:22:05] Shuta Hiraki - "II" - Fossils And Vein [Japanese artist Hiraki composed this collection on a Nordmodular G2 keyboard synth] [0:26:46] Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard - "Coarse Grain" - Sound X Sound: Music For 15 Shakers (7" [Løkkegaard is based in Copenhagen] [0:28:10] Brunhild Ferrari - "Exterieur-jour (Outdoor-day)" - Exterieur-jour [This piece was recorded at her husband Luc Ferrari’s home studio in 2014 and is finally getting its first release here.] [0:30:45] Subroutine - "Untitled" - Echtzeitmusik Berlin (V/A) [0:39:56] Ivo Malec - "Dahovi (per nastro magnetico) 1961" - Sigma / Cantate Pour Elle / Dahovi / Miniatures Pour Lewis Carroll ["Dahovi" is the Serbo-Croatian word for "breathing." This music was originally composed for Piotr Kamler's short film, “Structures”] [0:43:09] Jean-Luc Guionnet - "Totality (excerpt)" - Totality [The full-length recording of Totality was 3 hours 53 minutes & 48 seconds long] [0:50:16] Heejin Jang - "Colors! I'm Here!" - Dream Signal [1:07:22] David E. Williams - "Get Me A Ladder" - Get Me a Ladder​.​.​. Get Me a Ladder! [1:11:03] Strafe - "Set It Off" - 12" single [1:14:01] Janek Schaefer - "Eyrie Of The Phoenix" - Meteorologia (V/A) [all tracks were composed with the weather in mind] [1:23:30] Viv Corringham - "January (Sag Harbor, NY)" - Soundwalkscapes [From the artist: A year-long project in which I made one piece of new sound work each month, based on walking.. On the first Monday of every month in 2023, wherever I found myself, I took a walk. I recorded the walk, the environment and my improvised sung response to the sounds and situation (though five journeys in New York State, and one in London).] [1:25:51] Tzu Ni - "Point Track" - 4 Methods of Loci ["Point Track" was recorded in Taiwan at a blacksmith shop] [1:37:48] Stanislav Abrahám - "VII" - D​ů​l Lazy [The recordings from the Lazy underground coal mine were made in 2010 as material for a forthcoming audiovisual installation in the Exposition of Mining at the National Technical Museum in Prague. This project did not come to fruition and the recordings remained unnoticed for over ten years. In the meantime, the mine was closed in 2019. From a total of 8 hours of sound recordings, the artist assembled a 43-minute selection, which was divided into seven parts.] [1:43:47] Karen Constance - "Positively Susan (excerpt)" - Positively Susan [1:50:08] Das Ding - "H.S.T.A." - Minimal Wave Tapes Volume Two (V/A) [orig 1982] [2:05:57] nosync - "Unregistered Hypercam" - Soundsystem Music [2:09:30] Hiroyuki Onogawa - "Oiyama" - August In The Water: Music For Film...