When you think about where you live, what do you see in your head? When you talk to yourself on a spaceship, too far away to communicate, what do you talk about?
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168: You know this, you’ve heard this before
167: Christmas has been ruined… or something like that.
stopGOstop and Idaho Street Workshop are proud to present: Christmas has been ruined… or something like that. A semi-narrative story about beepers, the before, and the thin film between life and work. Featuring marimbas, a pipe organ, a field recording, and much much more.
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166: LAKE
Looking out towards the horizon– the waves moving, the wind murmurs in melody, this morning there was a glimmer, then at noon a purple glow, as I look out now, I hear episode 166, a new composition for a small ensemble.
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165: How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life.
A field recording of Lake Michigan, interweaving chromatic scales, and arpeggios, episode 165 of the podcast features a new composition for a small ensemble (or rather a computer pretending to be a small ensemble).
The piece was partly inspired by several bike rides I took this weekend, from Evanston to a nature preserve near South Shore Cultural Center(Chicago). The weather was near perfect for bike riding, 70 degrees, with a slight wind. But the waves were rough, tossing and turning from every direction.
The piece takes its first note, middle C, from the book I finished this weekend, Orfeo, by Richard Powers. The title also appears in the novel, as the lyrics for an experimental piece Peter Els, the composer/DIY microbiologist in the novel, sees at a coffee house. He identifies it as Reich. Wittgenstein. Proverb. To paraphrase Els from later in the novel, I will never have anything to break; everything is already broken and glued back together in a mosaic of pretty bits…
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164: Thunderstruck, or how I stopped listening and learned to love the end of the world
stopGOstop and Idaho Street Workshop are proud to present: Thunderstruck, or how I stopped listening and learned to love the end of the world. Featuring field recordings as well as reflections about the weather, high fidelity recordings, war, and much much more.
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163: Endless variation or almost every day.
A new sound collage featuring rotary dial telephones, counting, Sadie Hawkins, Charles Darwin, and much much more!
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162: Circles and Birds; Birds and Circles
A new composition (I will/might update the description in a couple of weeks, but in short, sometimes a conversation can make circles and birds more interesting than before).
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161: Evanston or the slowly melting snow or Milton Feldman was an immense, verbose man
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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