Platypus Music Hour Episode 7 was Hive-Mind-Conjured by:

Jeffrey Dorchen, Danny Thompson, Meredith Miller, Brooke Watkins, John Szymanski, T-Roy Martin, Emmy Bean, Daniel Knox, David Costanza, and Chris Hefner. Curated By Chris Schoen.

Track List:

O Koutlalianios, Giannis Kalatzis
Pickles, The Gourds
Shaw Nuff, Bud Powell
Mambo (Bernstein), Hal Leonard Concert Band
Candle Mambo, Captain Beefheart
King's Lead Hat, Brian Eno
Great Balls of Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Red Riding Hood (Rachmaninoff), Valentina Lisitsa, pno
Piano Rag Music (Stravinsky), Andrew Von Oeyen, pno
Are You Makin' Any Money?, Chick Bullock and His Orchestra
I Can't Get Started, Maynard Ferguson
To Die For Your Ideas (Brassens), Pierre de Gaillande
Me Untamed, Beat Happening

Episode 7: Buzzsaw Beetles Edition

Platypus Music Hour Episode 7 was Hive-Mind-Conjured by:

Heather Riordon, Jeffrey Dorchen, David Costanza, Edward Thomas-Herrera, Brooke Watkins, Danny Thompson, Chris Hefner, Joey Spilberg, and David Kodeski. Curated By Chris Schoen.

Track List:

La Rue Kétanou, La Rue Kétanou 
Poison Street, New Model Army
Posion, Marianne Faithful
Last Things Last, Rachels
Duda E Bolna, The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir 
Monte Adentro , Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban
The African Way, K'naan feat. Mwafrika
Niña y viña (Cancionero de la Biblioteca Colombina, 16th c.), Unknown
Fanitullen på hardingfele, Christian Bourlag
Remember, Cliff Edwards
Did You Really Mean It?, Marion Harris
My Sin, Georgia Gibbs
Me Untamed, Beat Happening
O Sarracino, Renato Carasone
Guitar El Chark, Omar Khorshid
Bo's Bounce, Bo Diddly
Tazca, Mr. D

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Episode 8: The Hissing of October Radiators

Platypus Music Hour Episode 9 was Hive-Mind-Conjured by:
David Costanza, Joey Spilberg, Chris Schoen, Edward Thomas-Herrera, Chris Hefner, David Kodeski, Emmy Bean, Brooke Watkins, and Danny Thompson. Curated By Chris Schoen.

Track List:

Mexico, Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido
Buenas Dias, El Grand Silencio
O Gene, Tom Ze
John Somebody, Scott Johnson
Donna Summer On The Radio, Steve Fisk
Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus, & Brains (Excerpt), John Giorno
Adir Adirim, Balkan Beat Box
Kadjembawe, Christine Salem
Enciendete Candela, Susana Baca
Quando Voglio,  Patricia Petibon
Kapsberger:  Libro Quarto d'Inta Volatura di Chitarone,  Rolf Lislevand
Helalisa (Nubian Song), Hamza El Din

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Episode 9: Zephirus Eek With His Sweete Breeth

The Platypus Music Hour is 100% memory-powered. Plato (no relation) believed that all true knowledge was derived from a form of memory called anamnesis, which could be accessed only intuitively, by “contemplation with the soul.” Such contemplation was thought to be cathartically purifying of all bias and desire. Later neoplatonists, like Plotinus and Porphyry, elaborated on Plato’s idea by locating the act of recollection not in the mind itself but in the world-soul.

Many years later, Marcel Proust echoed Plato in calling stark attention to the involuntary quality of memory, while at the same time persuasively demonstrating memory’s unavoidably creative nature. Every memory is a new being, and yet it is constructed effortlessly, and of an instant; simultaneously brand new and eternal. Simultaneously improbable and inevitable.

Each episode of The Platypus Music Hour begins with a song chosen by the playlist’s curator. This song is passed to the first of a rotating series of participants, who is tasked with allowing herself to remember or evoke some other song. This new song is then forwarded to another rememberer, who repeats the process. No single participant can see any further backwards or forwards than the single song he is given, or the single song she responds with.

Like the word game where you change  L-E-A-D  to  G-O-L-D  one letter at a time, The Platypus Music Hour changes one song at a time, starting from, let’s say, The Boswell Sisters, and ending with, say, The Ventures, Grace Jones, Tito Rossi, or Gorecki. Improbable yet inevitable, uncreated by any single mind, alchemized into being by an unorganized but related–and possibly fated–collection of private memory experiences.

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