Optimized! Expanded Radio Stream from 6/10/2016

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Comment: 12.00pm The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon - At Union Square, Manhattan Video of Clay Pigeon at large at Union Square Park interviewing Charifa and Carlisa from Brooklyn Camilo from Columbia Everton from Jamaica Afsanabh from Luxembourg Benjamin & Teresa from Brooklyn Nfn from Guyana Keyadah and Brittany from New York Chuck from Nutley, New Jersey Michelle and Ayanna from Jersey City CAMERA OPERATORS: Ruth Hayduk; John Dalton GOPHER: Carol McCrossen EDITOR: Vicki Bennett http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/cp
Comment: Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016” a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
Comment: 12.35pm Jim Price - Ticket Giveaway Jim Price makes at least seventeen sounds: tooth-grinding, trills, twitters, tongue taps, hisses, grunts and has different sounds for when he bumps into something or when he’s disturbed or wounded.  He’s been a disc jockey at WFMU since 1976 and his band, NEBLUNG PRICE record all their material in an onion drying shed.  Without fatal accident, Jim has arrived to see the airbag and steam from the swelling minor.  http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/jp
Comment: Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016” a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
Comment: 12.37pm Wreck This Mess with Bart Plantenga - Extyo (Extreme Yodel) “Ext-yo” investigates the experimental, outsider, out-of-this-world vocalization called the yodel as used by experimental & eccentric vocalists & soundmakers. It is an extrapolation of his investigations begun in his 2 yodel books, his video lectures & yodel radio shows [Wreck Yodel Telematic 1177] the avant garde & extended vocalists who make use of this most traditional and yet very flexible vocal. It is at once unique and universal; it is found in almost every country & every musical genre.  bart plantenga is the author of 2 internationally acclaimed yodel books: Yodel In HiFi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica, Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, the producer of the Rough Guide to Yodel CD & YODEL IN HIFI Top 50+ Youtube. He has produced “Insane Logic of the Yodel” video-lectures in Amsterdam, Brussels, Rotterdam & London. His nonfiction has appeared in Guardian; Nation-KGB Reader, American Music Center Journal; American Book Review; Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music From Ska to Dub; Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America; Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, Sonic Geography Imagined and Remembered;Department of Public Sound #4 ... He also writes fiction: BEER MYSTIC, Spermatagonia: The Isle of Man & Wiggling Wishbone (Autonomedia); & creative memoirs – Paris Scratch, NY Sin Phoney in Face Flat Minor (Barncott, London). He’s currently working on the Amsterdam-Brooklyn novel Radio Activity Kills with his daughter. He has been a DJ since 1986, producing Wreck This Mess in NY (WFMU), Paris (Radio Libertaire), Amsterdam (100 & Patapoe) & currently online. His radio work has appeared on BBC, Resonance FM, WNYU, NPR, Aligre FM & on French, Canadian, Swiss, Belgian & Dutch radio. He’s a founding member of the NYC literary alliance, the Unbearables & co-edited the anthology The Unbearables. He won the David Tudor Memorial 4’33” Competition [2014] & designed the 2106 Korean Yodel Day postage stamp. He writes, bikes, does radio, & lives in Amsterdam with partner Nina & daughter Paloma Jet. http://bartplantenga.weebly.com Mockin' Bird Hill [reverse] > Ronnie Ronalde Grok Martian Love Call > Mij Yodeling Astrologer Swiss Lullaby in/outro > Gene Krupa, Dolores Hawkins & Bill Black In The Alps > Barbara Hannigan & Nederlands Blazers Ensemble Call of the Lonesome Quarkboy > Girilal Baars Ranch in the Alps [Alpsno Makiba] > Katsuhiko Haida Cheese Kit Diptych > Han Bennink Owl > Meredith Monk Kawaïmagikbox > Zazalie Zaz Kundi La Mapendo > Jackie Misfit Fluht Loop > Christina Zurbrügg Albino Chraie > Christine Lauterburg I Dreamt I Yodeled I Remixed > Alvin Curran Shades Of Grey > TR Kelly Angelica Silvestris > Anna Nacher [Magic Carpathians Project] Ledoj Express > Christine Lauterburg Sobre Saltos > Fatima Miranda Cuckoo in the Wood > Minna Reverelli Haiku Lingo > Shelley Hirsch Stop This Crazy Thing > Coldcut Frohmatt Jodel > Anonymous Yakut Song > Lioudmila Khandi Nils Juhán > Johan Anders Baer Shawnee Stomp Dance > Shawnee Tribe Whoa Buck > C.B. '88' Cook Intro Pygmé > Dobet Gnahore Cutting Trees for a Garden > The Kaluli of Bosavi Inuit Wedding > Sainkho Stueckisch > Erika Stucky The Great Grandfather > Bo Diddley Ihoyiya > Miriam Makeba John Cage’s Mesostics > Phil Minton Balkanization > Neil B. Rolnick Lullaby > Kutzkelina
Comment: Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016” a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
Comment: 1.05pm Andrew Sharpley - 1) Easy pickings for the cultural magpie from the dustbin of contemporary culture? or 2) A leisurely stroll optimism-spotting on the over-crowded boulevards of celebrity? or 3) A whistlestop tour down the backstreets of google, negotiating sharp corners requiring abrupt shifts of mental gear on a semi-functioning clutch? You decide. Featuring in order of appearance: Michael Craig-Martin, Lewis Carroll, Ronnie O' Sullivan, Steve Davis, Yazz and the Plastic Population, Cliff Richard, Antonio Gramsci, Nelson Mandela, Samuel Beckett, David Icke, Laurent Berlant, My parents, Alma Cogan, Yannis Varoufakis, Jeremy Saunders, Bernie Corbyn, Alasdair Gray, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, Katie Perry, Christina Aguilera, Burt Bacharach, Tony Bennett, Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Cher, Kelly Clarkson, Ellie Goulding, Ice-T, Ja Rule, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Janelle Monae, Morrissey, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Sting, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Usher, Will.i.am, Stevie Wonder, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin,Ella Fizgerald, Oliver Sacks, Thomas Bernhard, Paul McCartney, J G Ballard, Sam Cooke, Vicki Bennett, and Dr John. Andrew Sharpley has been active in European electronic / improvised music since the early 90's, including stints in the bands Stock, Hausen & Walkman; Dummy Run; A&E; IQ0; Mami Chan Band, and numerous collaborations and solo performances. Short films and videos since 2006. Songs since 2012.    www.index.ht script
Comment: Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016” a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
Comment: 1.35pm DW Robertson (formerly Ergo Phizmiz) - Morton Feldman Optimized for Time 1 & 2 / Morton Feldman Optimized For Time - The King of Denmark Three compositions by Morton Feldman, with the air taken out. If the old adage goes "Music is the space between the notes", we propose spaceless Feldman to throw a proverbial spanner in the works. DW Robertson is a writer, composer and collagist, who used to be known as Ergo Phizmiz. http://deedubyar.blogspot.co.uk
Comment: Dina Kelberman has created “Half Full, 2016” a series of animated GIFs depicting "optimism" using found images of water situations
Comment: 1.45pm Jem Finer - Shortplayer #3 (4VB) There are several layers of optimisation going on here : The system of composition is an optimisation of Longplayer's algorithm in which various variables have been changed, notably the duration, which is reduced to 14 minutes and 30 seconds, and the instrumentation - two tones, a bleep, a piano chord, a piano note, three voices singing a singing bowl and a couple of tuning forks - which is itself an optimisation of course, of all possible instruments.  I allowed the algorithm to play itself out and then optimised the result, by way of editing out some of the more unpleasant instances of bad playing. If humans were obeying the score one would hope that they would listen to each other and self-edit. So I had to step in and set the computer right.  The singing bowl was sung by Olivia Chaney as an experiment to see if human voices could “synthesise” the sound of a singing bowl. To this end she sang three of a bowl’s overtones. This was the first stage towards performing Longplayer with nothing other than the human voice (well, around 500 human voices !), a project that is still in development and will hopefully be first performed in 2018. http://longplayer.org/events/longplayer-for-voices-2/ http://longplayer.org/events/shortplayer/ Jem Finer is an artist, musician and composer. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, experimental and popular music and installation. Recent work, focusing on his interest in long-term sustainability and the reconfiguring of older technologies, includes Spiegelei, a 360-degree spherical camera obscura, Slowplayer, a 3 r.p.m. sound system and Supercomputer, a sculptural machine composing minimal musical scores. Supercollider code b = Buffer.read(s,"//Users/jemfiner/Music/Shortplayer\ \#3/sp3\ source\ bleeps\ and\ tuning\ forks\ and\ fx_4\ revised_14.aif"); var sourceLength,originalLength,passList,pitchList,totalIterations,duration,incPeriod,incLength; originalLength = 6262200; sourceLength = originalLength/b.sampleRate; passList = [1,3,5,7,11,2]; pitchList = [1,0.75,1.5,0.66,0.5,1.33]; duration = 870; incPeriod = 15; totalIterations = duration/incPeriod; incLength = (sourceLength/(duration/incPeriod))*b.sampleRate; r = Routine({ totalIterations.do({arg j; Synth("Shortplayer_VB3",['buffer',b.bufnum,'length',incPeriod,'realLength',originalLength,'incL',incLength, 'pitch1',pitchList@0,'pitch2',pitchList@1,'pitch3',pitchList@2,'pitch4',pitchList@3,'pitch5',pitchList@4, 'pitch6',pitchList@5, 'passes1',passList@0,'passes2',passList@1,'passes3',passList@2,'passes4',passList@3,'passes5',passList@4,'passes6',passList@5, 'yteration',j]); incPeriod.wait;      });    }); SystemClock.play(r);
Comment: 1.59pm Jim Price - I’m On The Air Jim Price makes at least seventeen sounds: tooth-grinding, trills, twitters, tongue taps, hisses, grunts and has different sounds for when he bumps into something or when he’s disturbed or wounded.  He’s been a disc jockey at WFMU since 1976 and his band, NEBLUNG PRICE record all their material in an onion drying shed.  Without fatal accident, Jim has arrived to see the airbag and steam from the swelling minor.  http://wfmu.org/playlists/jp
Comment: 2pm-3pm John Kilduff with Let’s Paint TV live from Monty Hall Mr Let's Paint (John Kilduff) does it all! Multitasking his way through life...exercising, painting, cooking and taking your calls! Taking your calls on Optimized! Live from Monty Hall at WFMU 6-10 June @2-3pm EST SKYPE call now to: letspaintwfmu Also, John can see your Comments in the Playlist and will respond! letspainttv.com
Comment: Many thanks all! Andrew Sharpley, Bodega Pop Live with Gary Sullivan, Brian J Davis, Brijet Murray, Bryce, Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie, Buttress O’Kneel, Carlo Patrão, Carol McCrossen, Dan, Dan Deacon, Daniel Menche, Dina Kelberman, DO or DIY with People Like Us, Drew Daniel, DW Robertson, Gwilly Edmondez, Hank Lewis, Heather Phillipson, Irene Moon, Jason Willett & MC Schmidt, Jeff Moore, Jem Finer, Jim Price, John, John Dalton, John Kilduff, Ken Freedman, Kimzilla, Leech, Liz Berg, Matt Warwick, Melissa, Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White, Nick the Bard, Osymyso, Pat Byrne’s Desk, Peter Knight, Porest, Pseu Braun, Roy, Ruth Hayduk, Scott Williams, Steinski, The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon, Tim Maloney, Tom, Vicki Bennett, Will, Wreck This Mess with Bart Plantenga, WFMU, Monty Hall and The National Endowment For The Arts
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