This is a playlist of the live improvisational sets that we play every week on "In Synthesis with Infinite Is" is produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and can be heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm. The show also streams live on:

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"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" radio show on 91.5 WOOL.fm live sets

"By the 2030s, serving a prison sentence had evolved into an exceptionally cruel and bizarre experience, though potently efficient and, somehow, well-respected. Gone were the days of sitting around idly, just trying not to get beaten up while waiting for your sentence to be over. No, you were incarcerated in a virtual penal education portal. Imagine a video game that felt, sounded, and looked like reality, but where you were made, with vivid, graphic detail, to relive your crime against humanity from the receiving end in shocking and deeply moving ways that could only be imagined. Then, you were forced to learn, at length, the gaps in your ignorance. Through the brutal autocracy of supply-side economics, private prisons devolved into skyscrapers full of tiny cells, barely wider than the wingspan of a large adult. Strapped into "the machine," as they called it, and plugged into "Convict University", your body and mind were constantly in motion, while in reality, you were in a perpetual state of aestivation. A highly engineered fungus was both part of your daily sustenance and your captor. It was forced through a tube, along with a nutrient-rich slurry awash in hypnotic drugs and antibiotics. This was such a cheaper and more effective form of incarceration and re-education that it swept the globe. Even so, some estimated that a full 3.8% of the planet's global energy output was consumed by these towers of torpor and the systems that re-learned all those who needed their thinking corrected. Curiously, these systems had originally been designed by the Russians for keeping mortal bodies working and minds sharp during deep space travel and were adapted to this disturbingly efficacious purpose upon that once-proud nation’s plunge into the depths of cruel, capitalistic oligarchy..."

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Towers Of Torper

On this the week of 1-8-21 on “In Synthesis with Infinite Is”, we begin the show with some sounds reflecting on the seditious riot of the superstitious right at our nations capital. We are deeply saddened and disappointed at the lives lost and the trust that was squandered in service of despotic, superstitious lies and a selfish mans injured pride. We must steel ourselves against this blatant attack on our democracy and find a way forward that respects all those who built this great nation and look forward to a vision of a more just, rational, compassionate and truthful path.


We then convey a few area announcements and review a live in studio set from December of 2019 called "The Battle Of The Beeg". An ode to the biofreighter of legend and those who lived for it's mission. The show closes with a deep and melodic closing improv session.

You can stream or download this entire show for free at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/1-8-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

In Synthesis with Infinite Is” is a synthesizer themed radio showthat celebrates synthesized sounds, from ethereal to industrial on ourtiny insignificant planet spaceship, orbiting a minor star in our vast expanding and surprisingly noisy multiverse. Featuring fresh, original improvisational synthesizer jams. Produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 in Bellows falls"Black Sheep Radio" and Rewind 106.5 W293BH and WCFR 1480 AM in Springfield Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks. Every episode is a brand new synthesized musical journey or two performed live.

Typically the first hour long improvisational set is virtually uninterrupted, then we typically hear a few area announcements, then comes a recording of a past live set, or sometimes a synth piece or two sent in by listeners, after that the show usually closes with another live set, of about a half hour. In Synthesis with Infinite Is can be heard every Friday from 8 to 10pm est. on WOOL.fm

Stream it worldwide live at WOOL.fm:

http://blacksheepradio.org/WOOL/

The show also airs Saturday nights at 9 on Rewind 106.5 fm and WCFR 1480 on the AM dial

http://www.wcfram1480.com/

Both stations can be found on the Tunein app and Radio.Garden You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

Visit the official show blog for pictures, track lists, links, video and contact info :

http://infiniteis.org/

Would you like to play live improv sets with Infinite Is on the air? We are currently playing over the internet using an open source streaming program called "Jamulus", if you want to record some live improv sets with us, please let us know! Would you like us to consider playing your radio safe synthesized music on our show? Just want to say hi or tell us what you like about our show? Please drop us a line at: insynthesis@infiniteis.org

Sedition Of The Superstitious

"Stranded just a few kilometers from the fast moving kill zone, Basakai crawled away from the horrifying sounds and smells of the biofreighters approaching storm of deadly falling spikes. A great cloud of death, soil and debris reared up toward the upper atmosphere, like a giant poisonous wave, poised to smash down upon a tiny boat. Already the wind carried the first wisps of heat, fine dust and the smell of vaporizing infrastructure. There would be no escape from this erasure. Then looking back upon the last few maneuvers, this poor, wretched fool now began to see where it all went wrong. What a reckless idiot, how could anyone be so easily convinced to put all their eggs in one hatchettolite hole like that. Why oh why?

 A stench of fungus began to filter into the leading edge of the dust cloud and the acrid air tasted like metal. Basakai knew that this meant that there was only a short time before the poison scrambled every sensory input and jumbled every code. Breaking down atomic bonds of all living things, the experience was engineered with the final mercy of immeasurable bliss on behalf of the soon to be victims, the transition from living to dead would culminate in a brilliant flash of white hot pleasure. Once this poor soldier’s butterflies began floating, the terror washed away and there was nothing left to do but flip over and spread out on the trembling ground facing the sky.

 Deep breaths now, exhale slowly, the brilliant warm glow builds even through closed eyelids. It was over, it was time to give in to entropy. Basakai swallowed hard, belly quivering with adrenaline and the great shaking of the ground beneath.  There will be no one left to remember the sacrifice of this one life, in just a few revolutions, this planet will be unrecognizable, once the Rhizomes take hold. All Basakai could do now was to follow training and begin counting backwards..."

Listen to this entire show, free at you leisure at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/1-22-21-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

On this the week of 1-22-21 on "In Synthesis With Infinite Is" the show opens with a dramatic, high energy hour long live set. Then in the second hour we listen back to a live, in studio jam from 4-17-20 called "Loud Like Lisimbala".

https://soundcloud.com/theinfiniteis/loud-like-lisimbala-4-17-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is-closing-live-set

Then after the conveyance of a few area announcements the show closes with a melodic improv set. Clips were clipped, beats were beaten, tones were toned and much fun was had by all.


In Synthesis with Infinite Is” is a synthesizer themed radio showthat celebrates synthesized sounds, from ethereal to industrial on ourtiny insignificant planet spaceship, orbiting a minor star in our vast expanding and surprisingly noisy multiverse. Featuring fresh, original improvisational synthesizer jams. Produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 in Bellows falls"Black Sheep Radio" and Rewind 106.5 W293BH and WCFR 1480 AM in Springfield Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks. Every episode is a brand new synthesized musical journey or two performed live.

Typically the first hour long improvisational set is virtually uninterrupted, then we typically hear a few area announcements, then comes a recording of a past live set, or sometimes a synth piece or two sent in by listeners, after that the show usually closes with another live set, of about a half hour. In Synthesis with Infinite Is can be heard every Friday from 8 to 10pm est. on WOOL.fm

Stream it worldwide live at WOOL.fm:

http://blacksheepradio.org/WOOL/

The show also airs Saturday nights at 9 on Rewind 106.5 fm and WCFR 1480 on the AM dial

http://www.wcfram1480.com/

Both stations can be found on the Tunein app and Radio.Garden You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

Visit the official show blog

http://infiniteis.org/

Basakai's Bioconversion (pt 1)

Mirror
Lyrics by Jeff Ramen


because we live
because we die
because the stars
light up the sky

it’s not within
it’s not without
face to face
break through the doubt

because we live
because we die
because the summer
fireflies

its neither here
its neither there
empty rooms
there’s no one there

because we give
because we care
because its lost 
it’s always there

bright prisms
break the light
broken glass 
that splits the night

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Mirror

"The atmosphere shimmered emerald green with aurora that night, from horizon to horizon, it filled the sky. A single, hectic point, was visibly pulsing a dazzling array of color. It would be the last signal that the Arecibo observatory would receive before it was crippled. Some suspected that the damage was inflicted to prevent further communications from being heard. This massive dish was uniquely apt at sucking in the singing, broad spectrum signal. Flaring with great intensity, Proxima Centauri, a low mass main sequence star was somehow transmitting a bizarre data stream. Nobody seemed to be able to translate into useful information, yet there could be no doubt that the star was pulsing with this sort of obviously ordered transmission. Just shy of an hour, the recording presented such a startling rhythm, and the strangest alien sounding melody, the scientists tasked with trying to decode it would play the audible portion of the spectrum as they worked. In fact it was leaked and soon became a popular hit on all of the planets top 40 charts somehow, everyone seemed to become obsessed with it’s hypnotic draw. Almost overnight it was nearly impossible to escape it as it was broadcast 24 hours a day, on every frequency. It leapt from boomboxes, screeched from drive through speakers, careened out of car stereos, crept from clip on speakers, that began to hang from crowds of distracted pedestrians, like parasites. It echoed out of minarets, church steeples, it was on the subway, at the grocery store, in the elevator, blaring thinly from every phone, tablet and laptop. Gogo, somehow knew, like a very select few, that from the moment he heard it, he had to stop it, he had to shut down the mountain, and disable the massive dish and quick..."

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On this the week of 1-29-21 on "In Synthesis with Infinite Is", we begin with a robot voiced message from our closest star system, Proxima Centauri with a tune called "Proxima Calling". Then we travel back in spacetime where we listen in to jets whooshing toward a shimmering wall of wormhole called "All The Kings Horses". After a few area announcements we have a long suureal look at our reflection when Jeff seizes control of the vocoder for a piece entitled "Mirror". Contemplations were contemplated, Thoughts were thunk, counterpoints were pointed out, voices were vocoded and much fun was had by all.

In Synthesis with Infinite Is” was a synthesizer themed radio show that celebrates synthesized sounds, from ethereal to industrial on our tiny insignificant planet spaceship, orbiting a minor star in our vast expanding and surprisingly noisy multiverse. Featuring fresh, original improvisational synthesizer jams. Produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 in Bellows falls"Black Sheep Radio" and Rewind 106.5 W293BH and WCFR 1480 AM in Springfield Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks. Every episode is a brand new synthesized musical journey or two performed live.

You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

Visit the official show blog for pictures, track lists, links, video and contact info :

http://infiniteis.org/

Proxima Calling (pt 1)

Boson Spin / P a b l o - Aphica (arrhythmia mix)

Composer: haiphane Chang (on.soundcloud.com/GgsnK)

Light Forest (by haiphane Chang)

Get the whole recording (total length: 42:52) on Bandcamp now:
https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com/track/expedition-19-sxb2-next

This is maybe the most unexpected show I performed so far. The Next is a little nightclub located in the middle of the historical centre of Strasbourg. It's a neat venue, with a nice staff and a good sound-system, but one can say it's very mainstream music-driven, so the odds to hear experimental, or even electronica stuff there is near zero.

Actually that was quite a challenge for me to adapt my style to this peculiar place. I had to find the right balance between my usual weird no input sounds, and some more musical/danceable elements, so I wouldn't lose the whole audience instantly. Turned out it worked pretty well, as people looked like they were really enjoying the moment. Interestingly, the most receptive were the younger part of the audience. I remember that the deeper we went into the expedition, the larger was the physical separation between the older ones, chatting and smiling in the background, and the younger ones, nervously dancing and headbanging just in front of me.

Thank you very much Nico, Mich-Mich and all the Kollectiv Wolfgang for trusting me and making this weird crossover of genres happen, thank you Ricardo for the great conversation, thank you Flipper for hosting the party, and thank you Crash Server for recommanding my name to the team. It was both a fun and interesting project to work on.

PS: The water sound you can hear in the beginning comes from the entrance of the Next.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers

Expedition 20: SXB2 (Next) [Intro]

Music @jbscctype @duyiosirbed
Mixing engineer @musicstuffok (Ni-Chun Chung(Teni))

above information from instagram.

Walk 1 (Fractal)

Our version of "Always Something There To Remind ME" by Naked Eyes.  Recorded live at The Gaslight in Portsmouth, NH on 9/17/16.

Always Something There To Remind Me - Live (Naked Eyes cover)

Our version of "Take On Me" by AhHa. Recorded live at The Gaslight in Portsmouth, NH on 9/17/16.

Take On Me - Live (Ah Ha cover)

Our version of "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails. Recorded live at The Gaslight in Portsmouth, NH on 9/17/16.  Had to keep it clean due to it being an outdoor show.

Closer (Clean Version) - Live (Nine Inch Nails cover)

Your misleading friend, 
had a well loaded tongue
bending your ear
with the story she wrung

November damp air 
seeps through your coat again

You get bits of the truth
blended with fiction
she’s a rather well rehearsed
politician

a glass splinter in you mind without an end

Here comes another one
Speeding lies and having fun
Oh Misinformed Informant unload your gun

Waste breath to make my case
It's written all over your face
Oh Misinformed Informant unload your gun

'Cause I will never misinform you

Disproportionate size
the voice of the spies ,
take a knife and cut
every extravagant lie 

packed up the car
ready to make the drive

Got driving gas, 
and spending cash, 
a sleeping bag 
and a dime of weed

A head on the dash,  
makes it hard to leave

Why don’t they just say
Why don’t they just say what they mean
We could get out of dodge
We could leave it all behind

We could up and go
leave the world just wondering where we went
We are aging fast
It’s time we did one just last thing for us

Misinformed Informant

Daryl Davis is a boogie woogie pianist who’s played with Bill Clinton, Bruce Hornsby, and Chuck Berry. But we wanted to talk to him about another group of his friends.

Daryl Davis wrote a book about his experiences with the Klan in a book called “Klan-Destine Relationships.”

Check out a follow up to this story on Love And Radio.

Producer: Nick van der Kolk, with Renzo Gorrio

Snap Judgment

Daryl Davis and the KKK / Snap Judgment, "The Klan"

Forms In The Gaslight

"Wake tracing was a lonely, mostly boring, though sometimes terrifying way to make a quick profit for those fool enough to take the bounty hunt on. It took great skill, and powerful processing, to keep yourself in a blind spot where your quarry would not detect your surveillance. Holly Hawk’s ship Knifedge was purpose built for this task. Long and thin it presented very little for radar to bounce off, so long as the profile was properly oriented. Sometimes if a ship were trying to evade, it’s countermeasures included sounding buoys meant to flank such stealthy craft. Usually they would be dropped in pairs or quads, though any number of asymmetric configurations were possible. Many solutions involved tumbling through the trap in a precise dance that took the sort of steady finesse only a computer was able to calculate on such short notice. That is unless you were strong in predictive motion like our intrepid hunter Hawk. This was turning out to be a very difficult assignment indeed though, in fact she had never chased a ship that put so much effort into not wanting to be followed. Constantly clearing the baffles at all sorts of random intervals she was doing a lot more dancing than she could enjoy..."

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On this the week of 12-11-20 on In Synthesis with Infinite Is the show opens with a spaced out hour long improv number that rings the cosmic bells of the sparkling sky with rhythm and motion. Then Jeff brings us one of his strange projects called Octothorp. After a few area announcements the show closes with a shortish graceful ambient improv set. Melodies were mellowed, signatures were signed, Harmonies were harmed and much fun was had by all.

"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" ws produced live for 91.5 WOOL.fm Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band "Infinite Is", Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and was heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm throughout the Upper Connecticut river valley at 91.5 fm. Please consider helping to keep this member owned, volunteer run community radio station on the air, you can become a member, underwriter, donate and buy sweet Black Sheep Radio swag at the station website where the show streamed worldwide live at:

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Please swing by our website for info, pictures, track lists, links and sometimes video or even if you just want to say hi, we would love to hear from you!
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Angles and Dangles

Just like the photons that were created more than 13 billion years ago traveling at what we thought was a Cosmological Constant, time is an illusion. Were you that photon, you would not experience any time at all, the journey would happen in less than an instant. In fact everything to a photon moving at the speed of light happens in less than an instant, things do not appear or disappear, they are not created or destroyed, they just are, infinitely. The universe and everything that was ever and will ever begin and end, Is, infinitely.

When we get in touch with the present, we can be with the Is, all of the possible futures and pasts unfold before us, time and space are one and at once both static and dynamic. There are an infinite amount of ways to experience the Is, these are a few of our explorations of the Infinite Is.
∞              ∞   ∞                 ∞         ∞  ∞  ∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞  ∞
Infinite Is is:
Evan Parks and Jeff Ramen

Mike Descoteaux on Bass guitar on the track "Everyone's an ocean"

Angles and Dangles

Infinite Is

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