Good music and conversation with Sara Register and Andrya Ambro of Talk Normal. Chattin about music, engineering, Their new video by Alvarado, Werner Herzog, and more.
On today's show - airing out a musty old INTERVIEW WITH FLIPPER dated May 27, 1982! It's with host Tim Sommer on the now defunct WNYU show "The Music View." In 1982 Flipper was Will Shatter, Bruce Loose, Ted falconi and Steve DePace. They had just put out their debut full-length Album / Generic on Subterranean records. Where where YOU in '82? . . .
Flipper live in SF, Summer '09. Looks like a shitty photo but really my phone's camera only takes pics of people's auras.
Listen to this show in the archives HERE (The interview's near the end of the show round 7 PM EST)
*ATTN: Don't pay attention to the playlist for this show! Me and Jon G have been splitting Tuesday NAS's and for some reason my playlists aren't showing up.
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Thanks to The WNYU Archive Project, I've found some real hot-off-the-digitizer vintage gems, including this awesome acoustic version of "God Damn the Sun" by Swans in-studio.
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CACTUS MUSIC is jams played on a cactus that has been furbished with a contact mic and amplified. Cacti of the globulous Denmoza or Geohintonia varieties are preferable, for the acoustic properties latent in their long spines.
Although the repertoire of original compositions for the cactus to date is humble, there are two worth noting in particular, both authored by modern composer and amateur mycologist John Cage. It is said that while on tour in Arizona with the Cunningham Dance Company in 1975, Cage was introduced to the cactus as instrument by a dancer named Charles Moulton, who for reasons unguessed, plucked the spines of a dried cactus melodically next to Cage's ear. Cage was thus moved to compose Child of Tree (1975) and Branches (1976) for an orchestra of amplified cacti and other plant materials.
The score to Child of Tree is merely a set of instructions concerning the selection of ten instruments comprised of plant materials, employing certain I-Ching chance operations. It is advised that at least one of the instruments be a pod from the Poinciana tree, native to Mexico. This pod produces a distinctive rattle. The soloist who endeavors to perform Child of Tree improvises, indicating time structure through her use of the instruments at hand.
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DENMOZA FEVER: Best-of-cactus-music collage f/ original vids from Youtube::
Denmoza fever Pt. I: Shooting A Cactus With A 12 Gauge
Denmoza Fever Pt. II: Die Musikalische Kaktee
Denmoza Fever Pt. III: Cactuscrackling Klangspiel
Denmoza Fever Pt. IV: Child Of Tree
Denmoza Fever Pt. V: John Cage Playing Amplified Cacti And Plant Materials With A Feather
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CACTUS MANIA
Neil Young "Guitar Solo, No. 1" Dead Man (Vapor)
Earth "Tibetan Quaaludes" Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions (Sub Pop)
Ramleh "Bite the Bolster" Hole in the Heart (Dirter)
Skullflower "Valley of Scorpions" Circulus Vitiosus Deus II - Valley of Scorpions (Turgid Animal)
Hototogisu "Origami Skulls" Under the Rose [LP] (Heavy Blossom)