Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 02/02/2025.

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This is the concluding part of a trilogy of episodes exploring the correspondence between contemporary electronic music from Italy and the Southern Italian miracle of Tarantism, the ecstatic dance and musical practice locally believed to be instigated by the bite of a spider. As de Martino shows, and as we have seen, whether or not the spider was ever a “real” actor in this web is irrelevant; it is the web itself that matters, a web of histories enacted, wounds reworked, and sensoriums transformed. Among this sensual abundance, this final part provides sensations to metabolize after the music has ended, with mutations from Valentina Magaletti, Caterina Barbieri, and Silvia Tarozzi.

SUNDAY SILENCE #11: The Land of Remorse, Part III

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 02/09/2025.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted—so Emily Dickinson warns us in the poem from which this episode takes its title. The ghosts we meet at Midnight’s hour, or any manner of wraith hidden in a House, so-called haunted, she insists, are far safer for confrontation than the veiled mysteries lurking in the immaterial corridors of the mind. It is the layering of this confrontation—“Ourself—behind Ourself—Concealed”—that interests us here, for between one self and another is the Superior Spectre of our accumulated histories. This episode addresses itself to these moonless encounters with such opaque horrors, featuring music from Yara Asmar, Gabriel Chwojnik, and Meitei.

SUNDAY SILENCE #12: Ourself—behind Ourself—Concealed—

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 02/16/2025.

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Silence is not the absence of sound, cannot be defined through negation. No—silence has a texture; it is an expression, a gift, a causeway. As John Cage insisted, silence is only ever a question of learning how to listen in abundance. This episode takes flight from both the snowy deathworlds of Sergio Corbucci’s 1968 spaghetti western, The Great Silence, as well as a short film installation by the Puerto Rico-based duo, Allora & Calzadilla. Collaborating with famed speculative fiction writer, Ted Chiang, they present to us a register of silence that is full—of the screams in disappearance, of the cries around neglect, of the soft whispers towards extinction—in a 17-minute piece also called, The Great Silence. Come and consider such discrete music, with KMRU, Nyokabi Kariũki, and Fred Frith.

SUNDAY SILENCE #13: The Great Silence

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 02/23/2025.

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This week we are leaving behind the impedimenta—no concepts, no large frameworks, just plain rapture. In lieu of the skeletons that have recently supported these shows, we here have only the lustrous simplicity of the body and its pleasures. In turning to the dubby, broken techno of the London-Based label, Well Street Records, I am hoping to find space in which to share and create nothing more/less than sincere enjoyment—with music from Sputnik One, Yushh, and Ruff Cherry.

SUNDAY SILENCE #14: The Passion according to Well Street

Originally aired on the Voice of Vashon KVSH 101.9FM on 03/02/2025.

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For French historiographer, Michel Foucault, the most threatening aspect of queerness for structures of power primed for normalization and discipline is its ability to create relationships of all kinds. This week we are responding to Foucault’s summons, his beckoning of gays to liaise, from his 1981 interview, “Friendship as a Way of Life”—sitting in sounds that instantiate this most boundless of desires. With contributions from Lamin Fofana, Kiss Facility, and Tomu DJ.

SUNDAY SILENCE #15: Friendship as a Way of Life

"How can one stand in the face of unstoppable evil? And should we even try? There’s a new film out which asks us to search our hearts for an answer to that question."

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ABR#33 Andrew Boyd Reflection March 25 - Bonhoeffer

If we take parts of the Scripture out of context, we could miss the meaning altogether.

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03/23/2025

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In light of the ongoing atrocities of the Israeli regime—in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Syria, in Lebanon, and elsewhere—this week we will once again be turning to the politics of noise. In order to do so, this hour is composed entirely of selections from Unexplained Sound Group’s Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music (2018 / https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-electroacoustic-lebanese-music). 

Overlaid on these challenging and revitalizing sounds will be the full narration from Lebanese artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s short film, The Diary of a Sky (http://lawrenceabuhamdan.com), translated from the original Arabic. I invite you to sit in the noise, let it disassemble you, and hear what is emergent.

SUNDAY SILENCE #16: Kilon Yaani Kilon

What if God never wanted you to live in fear, shame, or self-hate — but to know, without a doubt, that you are deeply loved? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail on her new book God Didn't Make Us to Hate Us: 40 Devotions to Liberate Your Faith from Fear and Reconnect with Joy.

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Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, a.k.a. “Father Lizzie,” is the vicar of Jubilee Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, which she planted in 2022. Known online for her trademark phrase “beloved babes of God,” she uses her social media platform to unravel toxic theology and reveal the abiding love of a joy-full God. She lives with her husband, Rev. Jonathan, and their two beloved daughters, who are often found on Lizzie’s hip or underfoot while she preaches.  https://revlizzie.com

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God Didnt Make Us to Hate Us with Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail

"What do you make of assisted dying? Is it an act of compassion, or does it cross a line? Would a change in the law put pressure on those who already feel they’re a burden on society? Could history have anything to tell us?"

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ABR#34 Andrew Boyd Reflection April 25 Assisted Dying

Dudley Anderson was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from Bible College in 1990, God opened the way for Dudley to branch out into Christian radio. As a musician and worship leader he developed a heart for Christian music, which became the main thrust of his radio work in South Africa. 

 In 1996 God called Dudley and his family to the United Kingdom where he now works as a radio programme producer and presenter. Dudley also writes a FREE weekly e-mail devotional called, GodTracker, available at surereality.net

Dudley Anderson is married to Karen-Leigh and has two adult children, Kerryn and Ryan.

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