Favoriting Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from December 15, 2021 Favoriting

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

Wednesday 5 - 7pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
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Favoriting December 15, 2021: Floating Ideas

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Ambient and minimal music disrupters,
from Alvin Lucier to Tony Conrad to William Basinski.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Yat-Kha  Shaman   Favoriting Antropophagy  General Records  1993  From an album released on cassette in 1992 in Moscow called Khan-Party. In 1993 it was released on CD under the title Antropophagy (eating human flesh), with Albert Kuvezin, voice, Tuvan instruments; and Ivan Sokolovsky, synthesizer, programming.   
 
Forrest Fang  In Heaven There Are No Borders   Favoriting The Blind Messenger  Cuneiform  1997  Chinese-American composer performs on violin, electronics and keyboards, percussion, and non-western instruments: baglama, frame drum, valiha, bendir, kulintang, dumbek and many others.  0:06:29 (Pop-up)
Michel Redolfi  Sunny Afternoon at Bird Rock Beach   Favoriting Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-87  Sub Rosa  2021  From a collection of the French composer’s early work (with long stretches in the USA), generated with a Synclavier digital synthesizer.  0:17:02 (Pop-up)
 
William Basinski & Richard Chartier  Divertissement Pt. 1   Favoriting Divertissement  Important Records  2015  The duo utilize electronics, piano, tape-loops, and short wave radio evoking a reverberating cathedral and all its mysteries.  0:31:26 (Pop-up)
Ellen Fullman  Heart Wire, Study for Part 1   Favoriting Heartwire  Bandcamp  2021  This is a multitrack collage model for the composition, Heartwire. This sequence will be transcribed into Fullman's tablature notation for live performance on the composer’s Long String Instrument with The Living Earth Show.  0:51:06 (Pop-up)
 
Alvin Lucier  North American Time Capsule   Favoriting Vespers and other Early Works  New World Records  2002  Created 1967, for voices and vocoder, is described metaphorically by Lucier as a message to remote exotic humans or fabled "beings" in some other part of the universe, over time and transmission.  1:09:33 (Pop-up)
Yat-Kha  Teve-Khaya   Favoriting Antropophagy  General Records  1993  Albert Kuvezin, voice, other Tuvan instruments; and Ivan Sokolovsky, synthesizer, programming. The duo’s 1992 recording before going separate ways. Kuvezin continues to make albums as Yat-Khan, mixing Tuvan and rock influences.  1:19:48 (Pop-up)
 
Tony Conrad  Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain   Favoriting Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain  Superior Viaduct  2017  Conrad on violin with Rhys Chatham on the composer’s Long String Drone (a 6-foot strip of wood with bass strings, electric pickup, tuning keys, tape, rubber bands and metal hardware) and Laurie Spiegel on the bass pulse. Recorded March 11, 1972 at The Kitchen, New York. Excerpt.  1:31:29 (Pop-up)


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listener james from westwood:

Ohhhhh, look at those names. This'n's gonna be sweet!
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david w:

Welcome, james!
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Threemoons:

WOW that was a smooth transition! @DJBH thanks for your set if you're in here! Heyo RR peeps!
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Doug Schulkind:

Is the Weinstein-Kahn party?!
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david w:

Threemoons! And Doug!
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chresti:

Hi david and ruth and flesh eaters and ridgewoodians!
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ranjit:

Hello!
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david w:

chresti! ranjit! Glad to see everybody is ready to wander into reverie. Sort of.
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doctorjazz:

Hi. Be listening in the car, sounding great!
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david w:

Thanks, djazz! Be careful changing lanes!
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doctorjazz:

Waiting for feeling to return to the right side of me face...
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david w:

Oh, man. Blind spot!
  5:18pm
ruth:

Hey there Ridgies
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Webhamster Henry:

Helllooo Ridgewood!
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david w:

Henry, yesssss!
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WR:

hello David, Ruth and drummer streamers present.
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david w:

WR marked present and accountable!
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Webhamster Henry:

The upcoming Pauline Oliveros Doc is going to be really good. It needs a little gofunding to finish it up though. There was a little benefit performance at Roulette last weekend (that's the tie-in here).
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david w:

I've heard it is looking wonderful. How could it not? But yes, they need help to finish the making.
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ranjit:

the long string instrument is sounding a tiny bit hurdy gurdy here
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coelacanth∅:

greetings david and all
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david w:

Welcome, coelacanth∅!
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chresti:

I notice that when I talk to the gang of cats in a high squeaky voice they stop and look at me with interest instead of hiding.
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david w:

You encounter gangs of cats?
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coelacanth∅:

<haha ...those floater guys crack me up!
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david w:

@ranjit: well, they are kind of sisters with different blisters.
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david w:

@coel: you mean the levitating? Good trick, some assembly required.
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chresti:

Yes, they make the rounds on our block like trick or treaters except I give them some water and some food, they take a bite or two and then go to the next house.
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chresti:

He's holding on to the pole so he doesn't blast off?
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david w:

I'm sure that is what he tells people.
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coelacanth∅:

haha chresti exactly! ...and so he doesn't get so high that we see his bum
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chresti:

When we first moved here in 2oo5, there were kittens living on the front porch.

Haha coel!
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Webhamster Henry:

I'd like a LSI to be installed in the Widow Jane Mine, but I worry about rust, vandalism, etc.
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david w:

And the pressure of the strings caving in the place!
  6:11pm
Hank:

Hello DW, Ruth, and Ridgewoodians - just getting to the Sound Party. and Whoa !
  6:12pm
northguineahills:

Nice Alvin Lucier!
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StringOFperils:

If this is received elsewhere n the universe, it will serve as proof that we sound like balloon dogs.
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Webhamster Henry:

Here's photos of Taiko Masala inside of the mine: www.centuryhouse.org...
photos by former WFMU DJ Stefan.
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david w:

Hank! ngh! StringOFperils! What was that spacecraft, maybe Voyager? that carried sound files into the void.
  6:14pm
Hank:

Sorry to miss Ellen Fullman - I'm a big fan- I will have to spelunk in the archive.
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StringOFperils:

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov...
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david w:

Yes! Thanks!
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coelacanth∅:

i think it was voyager. it also had coordinates so beings from afar can find 7-8 billion arrogant and stupid sushi meals.
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StringOFperils:

Ha ha coel....guess I can expect company for dinner, or they can expect me for dinner I guess.
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chresti:

Olo StringO! Squeaky dog balloons
  6:26pm
Hank:

I think Tuvan covered some Dylan ?
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david w:

Here's the upcoming treats and surprises:
MUSIC FOR A FREE WORLD with Dave Sewelson 7-10pm ET: With special guest Paul Shapiro, a saxophonist/composer best known for his recordings on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. His wide-ranging recording credits include Lou Reed, Queen Latifah, Frankie Knuckles, David Byrne, The Microscopic Septet, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, his own band Foreign Legion and many others.
IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal 10-midnite
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chresti:

Yat-Kha covered the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin too
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david w:

chresti is not kidding. But maybe for permissions reasons these tracks are omitted from the Bandcamp page.
  6:41pm
heinseng:

tony c -- not exactly incunabula of drone, but close.
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david w:

heinseng! after his cup of coffee with LaMonte Young he was out to change the narrative around this time.
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david w:

Just about time to wrap it up here. Thanks, everybody!
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StringOFperils:

The precursor of VU's Venus In Furs...via Cale and LaMonte Young
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StringOFperils:

Or floating in the same sol'n at any rate
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Webhamster Henry:

I can hear drones all day. In fact, I kind of do (tinnitus at 10600Hz)
  6:53pm
Hank:

Love this ! Thanks DW
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WR:

It specifies the instrument that Chatham is playing, but assuming Spiegel is doing the bass pulse on the Long String Drone as well.
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david w:

Spiegel on synth.
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ranjit:

thanks David!
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WR:

Thank you David and Ruth!
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chresti:

Thanks David!
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StringOFperils:

Thank you, David! Most merciful holiday music.
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Webhamster Henry:

Next time: "Angels we have heard on high" run through Paulstretch for two hours.
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Dave Sewelson:

thanks David!...up next
wfmu.org...
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks David!
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david w:

Hi there Sewelson!
  6:59pm
Hank:

Yes String OFperils - best holiday music I've heard this season.
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Webhamster Henry:

Later tonight (10 PM EST), former GTDS DJ Mayuko is doing a fill in on WGXC.org
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