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1) 9T Antiope – Shapeshift
2) Sonny Sharrock – Promises Kept
3) Blaerg – Thrice Vexed
4) Mr Bungle – Ars Moriendi
5) The Admin – The Reset part 2
6) I’d M The F Table – Please be A Dream
7) PoiL – La Balade des Minouchoux
8] Go Genre Everything – Luxury Something Something
9) Go Genre Everything – Professional Alien
10) Vaetxh – List of Lists
11) Dave Phillips – Humanity is the Virus
12) Giraffes? Giraffes! – When The Catholic Schoolgirls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme
13) Mascara Sue – Jelly
14) Zappa – Filthy Habits
15) Venetian Snares – A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine
16) The Admin – The Reset part 3

Radio Earthling 17-06-2024 Gone Up A Notch

1) Black Midi  – John L
2) Bogdan Raczynski – Samurai Masu Bitsu
3) Clipping – Say The Name
4) Teeth Dreams – Mulched Starlings
5) Gnaumgn – Blupe
6) Ruinscapes – The Persistence of Depravity
7) Ian Andrews – Jaffa
8] Zappa – Alien Orifice
9) Deerhoof – Momentary Art of Soul!
10) Zeni Geva – Ground Zero
11) Manorexia – Toxodon Mourning
12) Matthew Herbert – Is Grooming
13) Aphex Twin – Vordhosbn
14) People Like Us – Hymn to Collage (Buttress Mix)
15) Hot Troche – Oka
16) Phish – Divided Sky

Radio Earthling 24-06-2024 The Strange Music Gippsland Deserves, Nay, Craves

1) Go Genre Everything – Dream of Eternal Youth
2) Cevin Key – Wind on Small Paws
3) The Shalabi Effect – On the Bowery
4) MC Yallah + Debmaster – TT12
5) MC Yallah + Debmaster – Kubali
6) Pryapisme – La Boetie Stochastic Process
7) Hermann Nitsch – Aktion 135 (A4)
8] Hermann Nitsch – Aktion 135 (A5)
9) Ni Zheng – Body of Immanence
10) Giannis Aggelakas + Nikos Veliotis – The Breath of Wolves
11) The End – Kra​̊​ka. Ro​̈​rde Sig Aldrig Mer
12) PoiL Ueda – Kujô Shakujô
13) Venetian Snares – My Half
14) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – A Hymn to the Morning Star
15) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – The Donkey Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion
16) Goblin Guts – Yellow Feverling
17) Senyawa + Lawrence English/Aviva Endean/Peter Knight/Helen Svoboda/Joe Talia – Perjamuan (The Supper)
18] Hiatus Kaiyote – BMO is Beautiful

Radio Earthling 08-07-2024 Enough Talking, More Transcendence

The Brian & Wolfgang Show. The Record Store That Turned Into A Podcast.
Episode 2 - The Bereft Savior & The Dual Anubis (Part 2 of 2)

Featuring guests Alex Layne of Runway Model, Pottymouth and Reptile House. 
Jamie Panzer Artist and Musician, best known for his work with the Baltimore Band Candy Machine and Jamie Panzer's Compendium Of No Hit Wonders.
Contributions from The Rocky Jones, my sister Deb and more

The Brain & Wolfgang Show - The Bereft Savior & The Dual Anubis (part 2)

1) Bogdan Raczynski – Untitled (Track 2 from Renegade Platinum Mega Dance Attack Party: Don The Plates)
2) Big Daddy - Memory
3) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – Hang On To Each Other
4) Haitus Kaiyote – Make Friends
5) Cevin Key – Wind on Small Paws
6) The Fire! Orchestra – Enter (part 1)
7) Savant – Fat Cat Shuffle
8] Deerhoof – My Lovely Cat!
9) Ratatat - Magnifique
10) Go Genre Everything - Biscuit
11) Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam OST - Nimbooda
12) Nine Inch Nails – This Isn’t The Place
13) Susumu Yokota – Flying Cat
14) Venetian Snares – Fluff Master
15) Gamelan of the Walking Warriors – Procession To The Cremation Ground
16) Kid606 – I Miss You
17) Matmos – Memento Mori

Radio Earthling 29-07-2024 A Life Without 𝓖𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓯 is a Life Without 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮

Interpreting a palindrome through sound is almost too easy a challenge. Record some music, process it to play backwards, then butt the two ends together to arrive at a "forward + backward" outcome. Instant palindrome.

To our benefit or detriment, Suss Müsik doesn't do anything the easy way. A typical Suss Müsik piece improves reductively and methodically over many iterations. It takes a long time to filter out the dodgy playing and sour notes to reveal any good stuff buried within. 

In this short piece, Suss Müsik began with a simple "forward + backward" rule: whatever one plays, try to trace it back to the origin. A bit of reverse-reverb was applied to the guitar to create the effect of coming and going in equal distance. 

The piano and percussion bits came out of an attempt to play "five-prime to three-prime" phrases. The intention was to match the nucleic composition of double-stranded DNA when it forms a double helix. In genetic science, this is known as a palindromic sequence. Now you know.

Eventually, "fives to threes" became "sixes to twos." Both add up to eight, so we called it a wash and built upon it. The reverse-reverb treatment was applied to the piano chords for the ending, which at one point sounded exactly the same played backwards or forwards. 

The result is a sloppy, sentimental mess of a piece, pretty much the opposite of what one would expect for this exercise. We're not really sure how it happened. Suss Müsik in a nutshell.

The piece is titled Detartrated, a palindrome word to describe the process of improving the taste of fruit juice by removing bitter citric tartrates.

More on this 252nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Sonic Palindrome: Make music that sounds the same backwards and forwards” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0252/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

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There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address totwitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Detartrated [Disquiet0252]

The first barcode was a graphical extension of Morse code. That's how Norman Joseph Woodland arrived at his barcode prototype in the 1940's while living in his father's beachfront apartment. One imagines Woodland drawing with a wooden stick in the soft Florida sands, extending a series of dots and dashes into the cryptic patterns we all recognize today.

Morse code is commonly thought to be a mechanism of distress. Everyone knows the code signifying "SOS," for example. The lyrics of "Dot Dash," a song by punk legends Wire, appear to reference a more neutral approach to crisis. The narrator's indifference to an upcoming automobile accident is oddly casual, almost clinically observant: "Progressive acceleration / Skidding, but the expression / Remains pan."

It's interesting how, decades after Woodland revolutionized the transactional landscape, our emotional response to barcodes is one of lax familiarity. We get bored with innovation when we're constantly exposed to it. Using a self-checkout scanner at the local grocer has all the excitement of waiting for a traffic light to change. We simply go through the motions: beep, navel oranges, two for a dollar. Beep, bag of crisps for one seventy-nine. Whatever.

For this piece, Suss Müsik created a nine-part sequence based on three barcodes. Each "hit" was played using pieces of wood and overlapped according to variances in line thickness. As the rotation became more dense, a bit of reverb and panning was used to separate the layers and compress the more piercing frequencies.

Noting that one of the barcodes resembled an elongated set of piano keys, Suss Müsik identified individual notes and arrived at a somewhat accidental chord sequence that deadens the senses after two measures. Perhaps that's what Wire was getting at with "Dot Dash" and the lesson of Woodland's invention: random discoveries and events are unavoidably circumstantial, and the emotional responses they elicit can be surprisingly mundane.

The piece is titled Philco, named after the company who purchased Woodland's patent in 1962 after IBM declined to pay his asking price. 

Postscript: the wood percussion by itself is actually quite interesting, if a bit dry. If there is interest among Junto participants in hearing this part as an isolated track, let Suss Müsik know via comment and we'll post it.

More on this 285th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Live Barcoding: Make rhythms from your packaged goods. — at:

https://disquiet.com/0285/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0285-live-barcoding/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Philco [Disquiet0285]

Suss Müsik knows all about insomnia for the mentally fragile. We’ll spare you the details, other than to say this: when one is dedicated to the craft of “post-classical ambient minimalism for crepuscular airports,” exploring the nuance between dusk and dawn is something of an occupational necessity. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.

“I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain / Let fall the tear of time; the sleeper’s eye,” writes the poet Dylan Thomas. “There grows the hours’ ladder to the sun / Each rung a love or losing to the last.” These two couplets succinctly describe the duality of insomnia, which in Suss Müsik’s experience takes two forms.

The first form of insomnia is a woozy precipice between not quite being asleep or awake — not exactly alert, yet consciously aware that time is passing. The second form (usually following the first) is a whirlpool of cognitive dissonance: the body may be tired, but the brain actively rages at an endless cycle of unanswerable questions. How many years do I have left? Did I remember to pay the insurance? Do I have cancer? What’s that sound downstairs? Who or what is touching my leg?

For this piece, Suss Müsik sought to represent both forms of insomnia through sound. The piece begins with the insistent tempo of a CR-78 drum machine, which signifies the ticking of a clock, its rhythm punctuated by jabs of piano. A field of electronic fog slowly emerges from within and builds to a quiet roar. With the whine of a saxophone, everything retreats back into the subconscious. The ticking CR-78 returns to close things out.

The piece is titled Chiasmus, named after a grammatical structure in which a phrase is reversed with no repetition in words. Next time you have insomnia, try to list as many of these as you can remember from when you were in school.

More on this 350th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Selected Insomniac Works / The Assignment: Make very quiet music for very late at night for very fragile psyches) at:
https://disquiet.com/0350/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

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http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

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There’s also a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet to join in.

Chiasmus

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The Brain & Wolfgang Show - The Bereft Savior & The Dual Anubis (part 2)

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