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Overheard Music

Strange Music in Small Doses

Release Date: 01/20/2007

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Strange Music in Small Doses

ListenAbility Rating : 8.3  Musings and rumblings from the heart of the internet beast, a cornucopia of visions and exhaltations.

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From Chaos to calm show art From Chaos to calm

Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating : If you can make it deep into the freedom that pours forth from the man with the sax you are rewarded with openness on the other side.For this segment of time I have constructed a three part transition that anchors itself firmly in the year 1966. We are at Temple University and listening to one play "Leo." "This cat makes the horn go places I didn't even now existed", you take another puff on your joint and knowingly smile and nod your head.With the use of the ipad and the app Korg has made a cool instrument. The came out in 1978 and was introduction until 1983. The...

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Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating: If the sound of acapella voices, beautifully mangled guitars and various ruminations on the occult grabs your fancy than this podcast is for you....

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Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating: A wordy set of sounds, audio compounds, a homage to Beefheart......

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Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating: 9.9. The dissonance of times colliding. Mixed and matched often inappropriately....

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Listen Ability Rating: A CSI vs. Soap opera outakes mashup. You decide if he gets to the truth. Soothing to the mind and ears....

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Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating: <<<<9.2>>>> Take one part Glenn Beck, a smattering of frost covered Washington Monuments, and a short history of King of the Luthiers and you've got no idea what I'm talking about. You'll just have to do the prudent thing and listen....

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Listen Ability Rating: Going forward in the endless pursuit of time ... your ears are thus enabled to take an excursion you won't soon remember. Hauntology, Deep Dub, Cut and Paste, in other words. ...

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Strange Music in Small Doses

Listen Ability Rating: Born of controversy and extremely good looks this slumdog is waiting to inhabit your ears.

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Listen Ability Rating: I'll give this one a seven because it's July and I wanted to finish this in June.

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Listen Ability Rating: Given the approach many of these musicians and artists take, we might say: the instrument as body, the body as instrument.

For this sequence of sounds we ventured into the limitless universe that is ubuweb and found a recent "audio response" to an art exhibit at the ICA in Boston.  This compilation is called Music Overheard and was edited by Damon Krukowski.

"Rather than look to the latest computer-based electronica-the futuristic sounds of tomorrow-I wanted to gather work made by traditional means, which would not have been possible outside today's digital audio environment." - Damon Krukowski

Our set focuses on the body as instrument and starts with a piece by Matmos titled "Memnto Mori" which is composed entirely from samples of human skull, goat spine and connective tissue, and artificial teeth.

The second piece is "Ritual with Giant Hissing Madagascar Cockroaches"  and was performed by Miya Masaoka with thirteen Madagascar Cockroaches. She triggered the insects' amplified hissing noises while they were crawling over her body.

The last selection was "The Body is a Sound Factory" by Henri Chopin. He is one of the pioneers of sound poetry, both with his own works and with his work as a publisher. Since the 1950s, Chopin has explored the amplification of the voice and the body, the vibrations of the larynx, the labial snaps and the hiss of bodily systems.