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February 1, 2010 – What happens happened because we made it so!

equinox — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:22:02 +0000

It’s Joe.

I’m excited about tonight’s show. I’m starting out with the latest Buffalo Stance record, Sugar Glider. Buffalo Stance is Jamey Robinson of Need New Body, which shared members with what would go on to be Man Man. John Fernandes over at wuxtry was playing this in the store and I had to pick it up, as I have yet to come across it anywhere else sans online.

The main course, however is this Klaus Nomi record I found recently. It’s called Za Bakdaz and is his attempt at a futuristic electro-pop-opera. His use of analogue synthesizers kinds of makes it oddly familiar, given the recent revival and obsession with these early devices (see Animal Collective, Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, that scene and others).

Regardless, it fits in well with the whole mission statement of this show: to play the most bizarre collection of musical pieces we can get our hands on.

I’m going to try really hard this semester to keep digging up the older experimental stuff. There is a self-filtering process that goes on when looking for old experimental music, for the only stuff that I am going to be able to get my hands on are those works which someone has deemed relevant enough to keep around. Unfortunately that means, I guess with any aging process, that a lot gets left behind that I’ll never even know about.

But for those interested in this stuff, I can always post where I gather this material. For now, though, you’ll have to be content with listening!

11.9.09 w/ samuel henry_ tonight: spiegel, amacher, o’rourke, and more

equinox — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:06:29 +0000

i started out w/ some random stuff tonight: sunn O)), john fahey, hisato higuchi, six organs of admittance.. then played some laurie spiegel, maryanne amacher, and a very extensive, excellent track by the one and only jim o’rourke.

(this an unedited podcast: the first few minutes of the recording have the tail end of wuog’s psychedelic show, sundialing- a great show as well, and then EQUINOX begins shortly thereafter. and my show starts out a little quiet as well, sorry)

PLAYLIST: http://old.wuog.org/dj/world/index.php?page=printplaylist&show_id=11913

Laurie Spiegel- composer of electronic-music compositions back in the ’70s and onward. she switched from writing music to working more with technology and coming up with material on the synthesizer as opposed to just writing down notations. check out these cool videos (one, where she’s playing in the Bell Laboratories on a Hal Alles synthesizer) and the interview.

Click here to view the embedded video.

MARYANNE AMACHER- installation artist and composer; just recently carried on:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2009/10/maryanne_amacher_1943-2009.html

here’s some material and a clip from a documentary (Daytrip Maryanne) w/ Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore:

Click here to view the embedded video.

O’rourke:

http://lostmonster.blogspot.com/2008/12/jim-orourke-happy-days.html