Ha. Brilliant! David Lynch reading Don Van Vliet. Uploaded by Gary Lucas. What not to be ecstatic about. I'd share this is I didn't want it for myself. Nevertheless, it goes into my Favourites set, so in effect I AM sharing it. Bah. Hoist by my own petard.

little dedicace to my friends nico and lejo :)

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SyntaktFirstJam

Just letting the Buchla 212 Dodeca module and the Buchla 258 Dual Oscillator build up random pitches via the TC Electronic Ditto x4 looper. Enjoy!

212 Looped Texture

Annea Lockwood - Tiger Balm (excerpt)

I'd Hear Voices While I Passed Out (In A Grey Dream)

Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlantic festival, rattled off a list of positive developments in the Middle East which he argued had allowed the Biden administration to focus on issues elsewhere in the world. Referencing the truce in Yemen, a decline in hostility in the US's relationship with Iran and what he characterised as America's stable presence in Iraq - where around 2,500 US soldiers remain -  he commented that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

On Saturday Sullivan's comments came back to haunt him as Hamas carried out an unprecedentedly large scale breakout from the Gaza strip and launched attacks on the Israeli military and Israeli civilians that have claimed over 1200 lives at the time of recording. Deaths on the Palestinian side from Israel's predictable assault on Gaza are heading towards parity, and undoubtedly those numbers will escalate dramatically as Israel continues its air campaign and prepares to launch a ground assault.  The following interview with Richard Seymour was recorded earlier today - the 11th of October - and before it became apparent that a national unity government would be formed in Israel.

Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict

recorded by David Lynch specially for Gary Lucas' 
"Beefheart Night at the Knit" 
Captain Beefheart Tribute
at the Knitting Factory NYC
April 9th 2008
special thanks to Dusty Wright

painting: "One Bent One Straight" 
by Don Van Vliet 
oil on canvas

"Pena"--composition by Don Van Vliet read by David Lynch

Flesh

SLOW ABYSS - RABBIT IN YOUR HEADLIGHTS

I've recently discovered (at long last) the music of Danish composer Per Nørgård. He developed a compositional techniques based on what he called the "infinity series", which is a simple formula for developing a series of numbers based on an interval such as a minor second. The series takes the initial interval and then slowly expands upon it both upwards and downwards in pitch, getting broader in scope as it progresses. This idea can be used to generate melodies, rhythms, or other aspect of a composition.

I decided to try playing around with this, but applying it to microtonal intervals, using Csound and a Python script to generate the Csound score according to the series. I ended up with this brief study, which takes the first 256 terms of the series and applies it to three of my favorite intervals simultaneously:
 - 9/8 (major whole tone from the 9th harmonic)
 - 11/8 (unidecimal tritone,from the 11th harmonic)
 - 7/4 (septimal minor seventh, from the 7th harmonic)

The starting tone (240 Hz) plays throughout the piece as the other notes unfold above and below it. I used sine waves processed with a touch of tanh distortion to add a slight amount of harmonic content.

Csound and Python source code: https://github.com/DaveSeidel/music-src/tree/master/infinity-study

References:
 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd
 - https://web.archive.org/web/20071010091253/http://www.pernoergaard.dk/eng/strukturer/uendelig/uindhold.html

"Pena"--composition by Don Van Vliet read by David Lynch

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