161: Evanston or the slowly melting snow or Milton Feldman was an immense, verbose man

Posted on 02/13/2022 by john

A new composition for watching the snow melt, or watching the ice float on the Lake, or to calm the mind as it awaits the future. Always remember, composer Milton Feldman worked at his family’s business (manufacturing children’s coats) until he was forty-four, so work tomorrow isn’t going to be that bad. This piece is the second in a series of works inspired by walking/biking around Evanston, IL; featuring computerized Tuba, Contrabass, Timpani, and a number of other semi-symphonic and sinewave instruments.

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159: Evanston or Midwest in Midwinter or I don’t understand Mark Rothko

Posted on 01/29/2022 by john

After an unintended 5 month hiatus, the stopGOstop podcast is back with episode 159. Evanston or Midwest in Midwinter or I don’t understand Mark Rothko is a 14-minute composition featuring field recordings of walking in the snow, a brass quintet, sine waves, and a positive attitude.

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154: Interlude before honesty

Posted on 05/11/2021 by john

A walk on the beach, a slow evolving melody, and computer-generated instruments. Episode 154 is an interlude between ISW episodes 4 and 5. As part of its inaugural season of the Idaho Street Workshop, the stopGOstop podcast is releasing parallel projects for each episode.

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153: Endless Night

Posted on 04/27/2021 by john

As part of its inaugural season of the Idaho Street Workshop, the stopGOstop podcast is releasing parallel projects for each episode. Episode 153 is a character study of Jerome, who is the lens that most of the story is told through. It features the sounds of traffic, riding public transportation, crickets, as well as computer-based guitars, synthesizers, and pipe organs.

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152: There is much we do not know

Posted on 04/13/2021 by john

A new sound collage featuring the beginnings of the Iraq war, existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons, with tuba, xylophone, clarinet, flute, pulsing feedback, and a field recording of the French countryside recorded in the summer of 2003.

. As part of its inaugural season of the Idaho Street Workshop, the podcast will be releasing parallel projects for each episode. This episode was supposed to be released on Tuesday, but I forgot.

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149: In the world

Posted on 02/14/2021 by john

A transformation/remix of how do you think i began in the world, an album I released in April 2020. In the wolrd rearranges and revoices about of a quarter of the orginal elements of the piece. I have also added bits and pieces of audio from the rehearsal launch of Apollo One.

If you would like to support the podcast, please think about purchasing the album via bandcamp. Use code PODCAST at check out for 50% off. Also, if you would like a free copy of the album, please email me at john(dot)wanzel(at)gmail.com and I will send you a free code.

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147: Spreckels Incantation

Posted on 12/13/2020 by john

Sometimes at lunch, I hear the organist practicing at the Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park. The organ is “the world’s largest outdoor instrument,” and has “more than 5,000 pipes” that are usually used to play a variety of show tunes and standard classical fare.

Episode 147 is an incantation to the great instrument, that has been underused these last months. Its pipes not adored by listeners, its tunes heard mostly by trees, buildings, and birds.