The Third Road

1. I Hear a New World -Joe Meek
2. Cum Processit Factura Digiti Dei (Antiphon) -Hildegard Von Bingen composition performed by Sequentia- from Canticles of Ecstasy
3. Stymodern (Stepmother) -Garmarna- from Vittrad
4.  Oak, Ash & Thorn -Peter Bellamy (poem by Rudyard Kipling)
5.  Spirit of Albion -Damh the Bard
6. The False Knight Upon the Road -Tim Hart and Maddy Prior
7. Thomas the Rhymer -Steeleye Span
8. Klevebergselden (Klevbergs Fire) -Garmarna -fromVittrad
9. Algir-tien klanar -Wardruna- from Runajold gap var Ginnunga
10. A Prism for Annwn -Xenis Emputae Traveling Band- from A Prism for Annwn
11. O Frondens Virga -Hildegard von Bingen composition sung by Noirin Ni Riain
12. Levithan -Yngvee Maalmsteen
13. …mystery psych folk…
14. Scarborough Fair -Shirley Collins- from False True Lovers
15. The Cruel Mother -Shirley Collins-  from False True Lovers
16. The Wicker Man Song -Nature and Organisation – from Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
17. Tam Lin -Fairport Convention
18. Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter) -Patti Smith- from Banga
19. 500 Miles -Lonnie Donnegan- from Troubadors of Folk comp
20. Elvin -John Abercrombie - from The Third Quartet
21. The Kairn of Koirdwen: Bringing Out the Cauldron -Charles Griffes

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Trickster Coyote Nagual

IMage: Coyote, by Colleen Parker

“Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one’s way anew from the materials at hand.”
Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

1. I Hear A New World -Joe Meek
2. Los Angeles Mescal Buttons -Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens- from The Holy Dogs of Other Days
3. Coyote -Alice Shields- from CRI SD 495 (three track compilation w/ Arthur Kreiger & Roger Reynolds)

….And Now for Our Featured Orchestral Radio Mystery Play….

4. Wings of Nagual “A Musical Fable on the Writings of Carlos Castaneda” -Michael Colgrass- from Hearts Music a compilation by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
a) The Desert: Don Juan Emerges from the Mountains
b) Don Genaro Appears
c) Carlos Stares at the River and Becomes a Bubble
d) The Gait of Power
e) Asking Twilight for Calmness and Power
f) Don Juan Clowns for Carlos
g) Last Conversation and Farewell

5.  Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable -God’s Pee- from Allelujah! Don’t Bend Ascend!
6. Renascene for Clarinet, Tape Delay System and Pre-recorded Tape (1974) -Jonathan Kramer- from Music for Clarinet and Tape
7. Evening Scars (1982)-William Basinski- from Shortwavemusic
8.  Short wavelength (6 1/2 minute excerpt) (1980) -Michael Snow-  from Two Radio Solos
9.  an Overture to Something Else; in seven amply segregated manifestations, : ffff. : i.e., Loud—gnome sane? -J.K. Randall- from A Garland of C-sound
10. Only the Stars -Ak-Momo- from Return to N.Y.
11. Late Bloom -Amy Ray -from Stag
12. Midnight Song -Wild Nothing- from Nocturne
13. Same Old Night -Amor De Dias- from The House at Sea
14.  Three Wands -tHE hOLLOW cROWN

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May Cascade

 Originally broadcast on May 2, 2013

1. I Hear A New World -Joe Meek
2. Uptown Psychedelia – Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin- from Instrumental Tourist
3. Flep -Autechre- from Exai
4. Synchronisms No. 5 (1969) -Mario Davidovsky- from Pioneers of Electronic Music
5. Big Ship -Brian Eno- from Another Green World
6. Astrea’s Dream -The Sword- from Warp Riders
7. Celestina VIII -17 Pygmies- from Celestina
8. Shamble -Zoviet France- from Loh Land
9. Duet With Fogbound Oars -Kraig Grady-  Music from the Island Anaphoria

…And Now for our feature RADIO MYSTERY PLAY presentation….


10. Cascando (1977) Realization of Samuel Beckett’s Radio Play -Charles Dodge- from A Retrospective (1977-2009)
Cast -Opener: John Nesci
Voice: Computer synthesis based on a reading by Steven Gilborn
Music: Computer synthesis based on voice

11. Just As the Tide Was A’Flowing -Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band- from No Roses
12.  When The May Rain Comes -Current 93- from Thunder Perfect Mind
13. May-Starlight Nights -Alexander Raskatov- from The Russian Seasons
13. Taurus (Venus) -Capilla Flamenca & Het Collectief -12×12;  Tierkreis, Ars Nova & Ars Subtilior (Stockhausen composition)
14. De Toutes Floures -Capilla Flamenca & Het Collectief  -12×12; Tierkreis, Ars Nova & Ars Subtilior
15.  Country Rain -Slowdive- from Souvlaki

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Da Da Onomotopoextry

Dr. Jacques Cocteau and B.S. Elliott celebrate the Cruelest Month with further explorations the Ars Poetica.

1. I Hear A New World (Fear In A Handful of Dust mix) -Joe Meek
2. That Da Da Strain (1922) -Ethel Waters
3. The Swineburne Stomp – The Fugs
4. A Radio With Guts -Charles Bukowski
5.  Recitations About Roy Acuff -Gary Mullins
6. Six Fantasies on a Poem – Paul Lansky
7. Canto 1 -Ezra Pound
8. Robert Anton Wilson explains everything about Ezra Pound, the Imagists, et.al 20th Century literarture (Joyce, Eliot, etc.)
9.  Dr. Jacques Cocteau takes a stab at reading selections from The Walls Do Not Fall by H.D.
10. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right -Sebastian Cabot, Actor / Bob Dylan, Poet -a dramatic reading with music
10.  A. Subterranean Zappa Blues  B. My Saxy Baby-Nurse With Wound- from Second Pirate Session / Rock & Roll Session
11.  Badamajah: Epic Poem from the Tale of Jangarr -from Mongolia: Living Music of the Steppes
12.  A Cloud In Trousers -Vladimir Mayakovsky (in Russian)
13. The Larger Bowl -Rush- from Snakes & Arrows
14. -Paul Eluard
15. Old Western Movies -Jack Kerouac
16. Howl -Kronos Quartet: Reading by
17. L’Heautonimoroumenos -Diamanda Galas
18.  Lower Manhattan Pantoum -Tarwater- from Spider Smile
19. I’ll Catch the Sun-Glen Yarborough sings the songs of Rod McKuen

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Preserving Modern Architecture with Paul Muller

The Rauh House in Woodlawn

On April 18, 2013 I had the distinct honor of having architect Paul Muller in the studio to talk about his work as executive director of the Cincinnati Preservation Association. We start with the bedrock of the area, the foundation of the Cincinnati Arch, to Fort Ancient Culture and then a massive leap forward on up to the Art Deco and Modern Architecure periods. We also talked about the upcoming symposium on “Preserving Modern Architecture in the Midwest” April 24th & 25th.

 

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Invocation of Air

INVOCATION OF AIR 

I found these songs are scattered among the winds, and so could only play them in the order they fell into.

1. I Hear A New World -Joe Meek

2. a) A Song for Mary Magdalene b) Pater Superini Luminis (Our Father of Light) -Noirin Ni Riain and the Monks of Glenstal Abbey- from Vox de Nube
3. Aquarius -Karlheinz Stockhausen -from Tierkreis
4. And The Whole Air Is Tremulous (1985) -Kathryn Alexander- from None But The Lonely Flute
5. Wild Is The Wind -Nina Simone
6. Cloudbusting -Kate Bush- from Hounds of Love
7. Realm of Lightning -Sun Ra and His Solar Myth Arkestra- The Solar Myth Approach Vol. 1
8. The Word ‘Hurricane’ -Air- from the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack
9. Airborne 1 -Erik Wollo- from Airborne
10. Gemini -Karlheinz Stockhausen- from Tierkreis
11. Spirit of Air -Marilyn Mazur & Jan Garbarek- from Elixir
12. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) -Tom Waits- from Small Changes
13.  How Slow The Wind -Toru Takemitsu- from Quotation of Dream
14. Talking Wind  -Marilyn Mazur & Jan Garbarek- from Elixir
15. Windy -The Association
16. Song for the Dying Wind -Blacklight Braille- from Dietles Tavern
17.  Libra -Karlheinz Stockhausen- from Tierkreis
18. Scattered Winds -Studio Mix

 

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Garbage Pickin’ Cool Cats

1. I Hear A New World – Joe Meek
2. Forum -The Tower Recordings- from The Galaxies Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings
3.  Garbage Picker -Blanche- from If We Can’t Trust The Doctors
4. Garbage Dump -Charles Manson
5. Rubbish -Vicki clip from Do or DIY
6.  The Worm Waits It’s Turn -Throbbing Gristle-from Part Two: The Endless Not
7. recks -Autechre- from extai
8. 5. -Mem1 + Frank Bretschneider- from Mem1 +1
9. Improvisations on the Thoughts in the Mind of a Cat -David Deboor Canfield -from An Album of Cats
10. Musik fur Cats / Wind on Small Paws -cEvin Key- from Music for Cats
11. Coughing Up Cat Hair -Baby Dee- from Regifted Light
12. I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy -Antony and the Johnsons- from Cut the World
13. Knock Me on the Head -Stornoway- from Tales from Terra Firma
14. Turn Green -Billy Sugarfix- from Evil Weiner Present’s Billy Sugarfix’s Lost Gumdrop Kingdom
15. Deaf Camp Revival -Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People -from The Sacred Prune of Remembrance
16. Drifting -The Magic Carpathians- from Acousmatic Psychogeography
17. Perrier -Ecstatic Sunshine- from Way
18. i follow you follow me -Spires That In the Sunset Rise-  from self-titled release on Galactic Zoo Disk/Eclipse Records
19. track 13 from -Six Organs of Admittance- soundtrack that  accompanies the book Empty the Sun by Joseph Mattson
20. The Great Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World -Current 93 -from Of Ruine or Some Blazing Star

This episode of On the Way to the Peak of Normal was underwritten by Taylor Ellwood

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Waning Gibbous


Spazzmatazz Muzak for the Day After A Near April Fool Moon

1. I Hear A New World -Joe Meek
2. Papal Breakdance -Psychic TV- from Mr. Alien Brain vs. The Skinwalkers
3. Vampires -Godsmack- from Awake
4. Siphrodias -Shora- from Malval
5. Feel It -Cephalodidge- from Ostara
6. Every Direction – Junip -from Fields
7. More Action! Less Tears! -Thee Silver Mount Zion Reveries play “Pretty Lighting Paw”
8. Astronauts -Cranes- from Particles & Waves
9. Ghosts of American Astronauts -The Mekons- from Heaven & Hell comp
10. When The Sun Hits -Slowdive- from Soulvaki Station
11. Maraqopa -Damien Jurado- from Maraqopa
12. It Take’s Time -Patti Smith and Fred Smith- from Until the End of Time
13. Hey There Stranger -Pamela Blue (Joe Meek production)- from Let’s Go! Joe Meek’s Girls
14. Ecstatic Static -Stereolab- from Chemical Chords
15.  Lullaby – from Bali: Music from the Morning of the World
16. Cosmia -Joanna Newsom- from Ys
17. untitled -Faust- from The Faust Tapes
18. The Antlers of the Midnight Sun -Comets on Fire- from Blue Cathedral
19. Pattern’s Patterns -Paul Lansky- from The Alphabet Book
20. Premonition 18 (Part 2) -The Legendary Pink Dots- from Stained Glass Soma Fountains
21. A Farewell Ring -Kraig Grady- from Music from the Island of Anaphoria
22. Stairway to Britney -Evolution Control Committee, outro…

This episode of On the Way to the Peak of Normal, broadcast on March 28, 2013, was underwritten by Taylor Ellwood.

 

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Equinoctial Annunciations

Let the Light Continue to Arise!

1. I Hear A New World – Joe Meek
2. Truly Madly Deeply -One Direction
(dedication to my daughter Lucy for her 17th Birthday!)
3. Parsifal Narrative -Tod Machover- from Valis: The Opera
4. EquiNOXULiuqE Circle  - The Hermaphroditic Chaorder of the Silver Dusk -156=Musick
5. Spring Equinox (Prelude) -Erik Wollo-from Airborne
6. Moon’s Milk -Coil -from the “vernal equinox” phase of Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases)
7. Pojaton -Varttina- from kokko
8. Adventures In the Scandinavian Skin Trade – Hector Zazou feat Wimme Saari- from Songs from the Cold Seas
9. Zayin -Troum- from Tjukrrpa, Part One Harmonies
10. nightly cares -mum- from summer makes good
11. The Wand of Abaris -Therion- from Gothic Kabbalah
12. Heathen Child -Grinderman- from Grinderman II
13.  Viholliseni maalla -The Brian Jonestown Massacre- from Aufheben
14. Du ar fur fin fur mig -Dungen- from Ta Det Lugnt
15. Etimasia (reprise) -Josef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch- from The Mystery of Heaven
16.  Satan’s Sermon -George Todd- from Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
17. Fat’s Sacrament -Tod Machover- from Valis: the Opera
18. Let’s Get  There -YOKOKIMTHURSTON

Background music for this episode was the Nurse With Wound song Funeral Music for Perez Prado from the album of the same name.

This episode of On the Way to the Peak of Normal was underwritten by Taylor Ellwood.


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Inside the Collapse Gap with Dmitry Orlov

On Pi day Dmitry Orlov joined me over the wires to talk about his forthcoming book, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors Toolkit.  From his firsthand experiences witnessing the collapse of the Soviet Union Dmitry has drawn amazing parallels from the Soviet example and the possible prospects for America as our own imperialist superpower teeters over the edge.

After the first hour of the interview some thematically related songs were played.
1. Star Spangled Bologna -Evolution Control Committee- from Plagiarythm Nation v. 2.0
2. The End of Technology -Carlos Giffoni -from Lift
3. The Pope Smokes Dope -David Peel &  The Lower East Side
4.  excerpt from Testwave -Negativland -from Over the Edge vol. 7
5. mixed with some more …Timezones -Negativland
6. Industrial Estate -RBE- Raudive Bunker Experiment
7. Hatred of Music II -Tim Hecker- from Ravedeath, 1972
8.  …more Testwave…
9. Jesus Carp (Son of Cod) -Evolution Control Committee
…..

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