WFMU: Inner Ear Detour with David: Playlists and Archives

Inner Ear Detour with David: Playlists and Archives

Sounds from the archive of the future, sonic drilling into the past, dissonant rumbling, lyrical melodies, noises (human, animal, mechanical, digital) inscrutable yet honest, desultory but consistent.

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January 8, 2024: "Dreams are the only reality" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 26, 2023: Why Spend a Dark Night with Me? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 25, 2023: The wise cats never appeared | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 12, 2023: Slipping into Another World | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 26, 2022: Listening with the world | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 23, 2021: The poetry of persistence | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2019: Ear to the Ground | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 15, 2018: A good day for losing the blues | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 4, 2018: No Expectations | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 21, 2018: Cold Hard Times | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2018: Knuckling Down | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 23, 2018: An Organless Freedom | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 12, 2018: May I Explain My Situation? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 19, 2018: Strength Through Detour | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 27, 2018: Sounds Amid Senselessness | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 13, 2017: I'm not afraid of Justin Bieber | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 17, 2017: Facing the Future | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 15, 2016: "There is nothing erotical about the jungle" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 26, 2016: A Course in Ruination | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 17, 2016: The Dog Is Straining on the Chain | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 3, 2016: A Thimbleful of Hope | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 16, 2015: Freudians Keep Out Please! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 19, 2015: Did you learn nothing in America? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 15, 2015: Sounds Can Be Deceiving | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 1, 2014: The Facts about the Facts | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 13, 2014: Looking for Solace in Art | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 15, 2014: Not As Bad As All That | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 24, 2013: Let's Go to the Memory Shop | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 3, 2013: Best Intentions and Unintended Consequences | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 2, 2013: The Inner Ear Detour Has a Master Plan | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 23, 2013: Sin-sodden and cynical | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 27, 2013: Idol Curiosity | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 28, 2013: Dog-Eared | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 6, 2013: Saturday Night Didn't Happen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 28, 2012: RIP: A tribute to those we leave behind in 2012 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 9, 2012: I Don't Mind. I Really Don't Mind. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 24, 2012: Sounds to make you feel alive | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 4, 2012: Remembering Is Not the Opposite of Forgetting; It Is Its Lining (Chris Marker, R.I.P.) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2012: "No party is so noisy as the one you're not invited to." - Tony Schwartz | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 9, 2011: Music Better Than It Sounds | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 2, 2011: Sympathetic vibrations (including: Chris Knox birthday tribute) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 26, 2011: Dolce far niente, set to music | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 3, 2011: Driven to Distortion | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 1, 2010: All Wet -- with guests Uz Jsme Doma and Zuby Nehty | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 24, 2010: Where Are You, Boogie Shoe? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 17, 2010: "Sometimes you're the pigeon, sometimes you're the statue" -- Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 10, 2010: Seasonally Adjusted | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2010: They Put Coffee in the Coffee in Brazil | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 20, 2010: Atavistic but not out of touch | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 13, 2010: Filling Dead Composers' Staves with Irony and Thunder | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2010: The Well-Tempered Temper | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2010: The Poetry of Clouds | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 23, 2010: For a happy, experimental life | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2010: In the shadow of a good idea | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2010: Pseudonyms Are Real | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2010: Redeeming Order from Disorder | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 25, 2010: Hatch filled in.
June 18, 2010: The Indispensable Ballast of Theory | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 26, 2009: Thanksgiving Day Food Special | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 9, 2009: On the Weaponization of Music -- including an interview with Suzanne G. Cusick | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2009: Kurt Gottschalk filled in.

September 25, 2009: Cowboys' Secrets (+ Live Interview with James McNew of Yo La Tengo!!) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 18, 2009: Surprise Doughnut Day | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2009: Scott McDowell filled in.
September 4, 2009: Fall/Autumn: A season so special they gave it two names | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2009: Bad Music Makes You Weak | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2009: A Tribute to Jim Dickinson | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2009: Steve Krinsky filled in.
August 7, 2009: Genuine artifice and the eclipse of language | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2009: Making Seeming Seem Like Reality | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2009: "Musicians are the doctors of the sound world" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 17, 2009: The Master Plan Ain't Worth It | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2009: Where Is My Foolish Past? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2009: The Men Can't Line 'Em an' the Women Don' Try | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2009: Celebrity Appreciation Day | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2009: Things that give you a hot feeling | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 29, 2008: 44 Tracks in Search of a Show Title | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2008: Punctuation optional | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 14, 2007: A daytrip away from the hallucinated city | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 22, 2007: Vinyl Vacation | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 17, 2007: Rebroadcast of Mar. 1, 2007 show | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 11, 2007: Iggy would not lie to me | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 1, 2007: On the Day of Final Reckoning, Ye Shall Eat Pies (Web-only) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 7, 2006: The Universe Is Made of Stories, Not Atoms (Web-only) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 9, 2006: The Berry Gordian Knot | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 23, 2005: Web-Only rebroadcast of David's 12/4/04 program | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 24, 2005: Meat Logistics Solutions | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 17, 2005: Boys aren't just girls with muscles | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 29, 2005: Danger for Sale | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 27, 2005: Reasonable Doubt | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 7, 2005: Sweeping up wry fragments | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 22, 2004: Contains no known stocking-stuffers | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2004: In the suds | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 6, 2004: Grrrrrrr | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2004: T-minus 4 days, gulp | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 16, 2004: Ice -- It's real food | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 18, 2004: A sort of blues special - with interview with Elijah Wald | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 14, 2004: Purgatorial | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 10, 2004: Phase One: Complete, Provisionally - with interview with cross-species composer Kirk Nurock | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 3, 2004: The Beginning or (of?) the End | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 27, 2004: A Willingness to Be Persuaded | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 20, 2004: The Ambivalence of Destruction | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 13, 2004: Compromises with Creeps | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 6, 2004: The Americans Are in Our Garbage | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 29, 2004: Disintegration indeed | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 22, 2004: Tafel-musik | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 15, 2004: Wine and Cheese Reception | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 8, 2004: One Day Closer to Tomorrow | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2004: A detour into the Radio Thrift Shop: a fill-in for Laura Cantrell | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 1, 2004: Are you leading me on? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 25, 2004: That Warm and Fuzzy Feeling | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 18, 2004: 2004 Marathon - with Co-host Ken Freedman | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 11, 2004: 2004 Marathon - with Co-host Brian Turner | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 4, 2004: Chicken Head Men! - With live music from the Fat Possum blues caravan--Paul 'Wine' Jones, T-Model Ford, and Brown--and a visit from Townes Van Zandt biographer John Kruth | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2004: Pamela Balloon | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 19, 2004: Pretzel Power | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2004: Advice to the Wise and Otherwise | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 5, 2004: What else is there to do besides struggle, y'know? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2004: Really? Really. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2004: How 'bout that State of the Union address? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2004: Smiles not free, but cheap | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2004: Trouble filled in
January 1, 2004: Rich filled in.

December 25, 2003: Ho ho ho, part two | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 24, 2003: Ho ho ho, part one | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 18, 2003: Crossing the River Styx: A Salute to the Musicians We Leave Behind in 2003 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2003: (Wish I could remember that clever title I thought of a few days ago) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2003: Dappled. Gray. Mare. (With live music from Harris Newman) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2003: Bob W filled in.
November 20, 2003: What happens when you learn not to ask certain kinds of questions? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2003: When was the last time you took a road trip in the middle of the night? (With live music from John Wilkes Booze!) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2003: More Doughnuts in the Monitors, Please | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 30, 2003: The Silence between Ideas | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2003: Is the Medication Working? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2003: Donna Summer filled in
October 9, 2003: "Yeah, I like gravy, but gravy don't like me!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2003: I know you're going to enjoy today's broadcast | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2003: Better Living through Punctuation | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 18, 2003: Obsessed with bees | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2003: Time Has Told Me Too | See the playlist | Listen:
September 4, 2003: Now that Prince has changed his name back to Prince, would anyone mind if I changed my name to that funny glyph he used? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2003: No, today I will show GOOD judgment | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2003: Zoila, Zwack, Zema | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2003: Michael Shelley filled in.
August 7, 2003: More Dispatches from the Popaganda Ministry | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2003: Sucking face with the USA | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2003: If you lived inside this radio show, you'd be home by now | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2003: Tryin to heat the beat (with special live set from the MORNING 40 FEDERATION!!) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2003: Making gravity work for you | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2003: A right to be flippant | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2003: Kiddie Horn and the Sax Offender | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2003: The stars burn a little less brightly | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2003: Caligari's Hardware | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2003: A healthier musical diet | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2003: Garden is open | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2003: Don't believe anything anyone tells you today | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 8, 2003: The long hello | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2003: Gulp | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 26, 2003: It's kid-riffic (filling in for Greasy Kids Stuff!!)!!! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 24, 2003: "Expropriation is the only defense against robbery" (Dario Fo) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2003: Scared shtickless | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2003: I STILL wish I was a mole in the ground | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 27, 2003: Watchdogs and lapdogs | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2003: War starts, radio continues | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2003: Marathon! With co-host Scott! | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2003: Marathon! With co-host Trouble! | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 20, 2003: One Hundred Years of Solitaire | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 13, 2003: Chocolate Mouse (INCLUDING: Live set from the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 6, 2003: Feeling short-changed | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 30, 2003: The Headache Factory | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 23, 2003: Ice, ice, baby | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 9, 2003: Progress Marches On (Due to a darn computer malfunction, no archive is available for this show) | See the playlist

December 26, 2002: Steve Krinsky filled in.
December 19, 2002: Crossing the River Styx: A tribute to musicians we leave behind in 2002 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 12, 2002: Talk so cheap it's free | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 5, 2002: My life, riding on fumes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 28, 2002: Eat Up! Thanksgiving Day Food Special | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 21, 2002: Warming up for the meltdown | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 14, 2002: Sensational mystification | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 7, 2002: Detritus, unite us! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 31, 2002: Space Apothecary | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 24, 2002: Morning Is Broken | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 17, 2002: Bethany filled in.
October 10, 2002: Trouble filled in.
October 7, 2002: Ravel filled-in.

September 30, 2002: Farm Show Complex | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 23, 2002: "Public diplomacy"? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 17, 2002: Loose thoughts circling around like flies | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 16, 2002: The Drooling Class | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2002: Conundrum in the ear drum | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 2, 2002: The Utility of Futility | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2002: Climbing Stairs of Sand (fill-in for Brian Tuner) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 26, 2002: Paradox vs. Conundrum | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 19, 2002: For the Reluctant Heretic | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 12, 2002: Itchy Trigger Finger | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 5, 2002: A Catalogue of My Most Grievous Errors | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 29, 2002: Slouching toward . . . | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 22, 2002: Goodbye, Alan Lomax | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 15, 2002: PGB Filled In Click here for his archives.
July 8, 2002: The Fix Is In(stitutionalized) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 1, 2002: Hot & Sticky | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 24, 2002: Today you play jazz, tomorrow you will betray your country | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 17, 2002: Mumbo Jumbo | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 10, 2002: Frolicking in the color field | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 3, 2002: PGB filled in. Click here for PGB's archives.

May 27, 2002: Coincidence loops - Sorry no archive of this show available due to technical difficulties. | See the playlist
May 20, 2002: Monkey attacks | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 13, 2002: Fame is fleeting, but obscurity lasts forever | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 6, 2002: Hosted by a doppelganger, a facsimile, and a virtual DJ | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 22, 2002: Awkward silences vs. pregnant pauses | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 8, 2002: Three hours of itemized deductions | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 1, 2002: Welcome to the Cruelest Month | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 25, 2002: Doubly Blessed | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 18, 2002: Hey, Thanks! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 11, 2002: Marathon 2002 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 4, 2002: Overdrawn at the bank of good ideas | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 25, 2002: Anatomically incorrect, or at least questionable | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 18, 2002: Borborygmi (with guest co-host Michael Carter) | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 11, 2002: Chapter 17, in which the intrepid disc jockey scratches his head ponderously, rescues a stray kitten, wards off danger, and, with considerable bittersweetness, smiles | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 4, 2002: Boorish and inattentive, but in a good way | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 28, 2002: Putting the Sic Back in Music | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 21, 2002: Why so glum, chum? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 31, 2001: On that note, what about robots? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 17, 2001: Count Your Change! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 10, 2001: The Consumption of Chance | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 3, 2001: Apply Pressure, Twist Gently | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 26, 2001: Never the Same Mistake Twice! Except sometimes! | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 19, 2001: One Step Ahead of the Man | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 12, 2001: Commando Ensemble | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 5, 2001: More Purring, Less Growling | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 29, 2001: Cabalistic Innuendoes | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 22, 2001: White Knuckle Bliss, Pt. 2 | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 15, 2001: White Knuckle Bliss | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 8, 2001: Postlapsarian Reflections | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 11, 2001: The Pre-attack Broadcast (2-6 a.m.) | See the playlist

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