WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 26, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:21pm Austin Rich: I guess this is what the kids are into... linktr.ee...
	8:55pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	8:59pm Mr. X: Ready to put 2023 in the rear view.
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @8:59 Seriously.
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:55 Thanks for popping in!
	9:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:59 Always a pleasant experience
	9:01pm Mr. X: The Breeders are the real (Kim) Deal. Cranking it up.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 I LOVE The Breeders! All their albums are fantastic.
	9:02pm postconsumer: The Breeders. love them.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:02 postconsumer! Thanks for an excellent hour of radio!
	9:04pm postconsumer: great transition, I thought! between shows
	9:06pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Austin just be thankfuul it wasnt a repeat of 2020
	9:06pm Imaginos: Timey wimey
	9:07pm Imaginos: The Magna is unleashing its miasma
	9:08pm Imaginos: Except Dec 28
	9:08pm Aaron in Minneapolis: GET THE FUCK OUT
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Hanged Man" by "Verhalten" I got to play a show with this band, and when I asked if they had any merch, they handed me this LP. And I really enjoy it!
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: hi Austin Rich (again) and mutants
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:11 Ahoy
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:11 coelacanthø! I hope you have some stones to add to the pile?
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: The Lottery and the Teen Dances are managed by the same gentleman!
	9:13pm Mr. X: We had to read The Lottery in English class. Why did they have to impose such grimness on a young naive me?
	9:13pm postconsumer: Bet he runs a puppy mill, too.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 That's usually the year they make you watch, "Old Yeller," too.
	9:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Right? Your dog gets rabies and you have to kill it? And this is for kids to read!?!
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Vexed" by "Moebius Story Leidecker" I really love this record. I recall Wobbly telling me that working with Moebius was a really big deal for him.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:16 I feel like a lot of kids books are really depressing. I recall Peter Pan having a lot of darkness to it. Reading "Watership Down" was pretty traumatizing.
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 I was reading Poe before I read Jackson
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: Paper stands in for wood. Random punishment stands in for justice.
	9:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Nursery rhymes were dark as well. Like the Two Cats of Kilkenny
	9:19pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 I guess it's part of the process of turning us into good consumers, anticipating tragedy at every turn down the supermarket aisle.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: At my work, we have a large collection of vintage kids books, and so many of them read more like morbid books for adults. I think the expectation was that kids would be reading stuff that was pretty much like adult novels... but with more "kid-friendly" illustrations.
	9:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 I used to confuse Dieter Moebius with the French comics artist Mœbius.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Some of the illustrations weren't so kid friendly. Like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dar, like the one for Is Something Wrong?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: All three - Moebius, Story and Leidecker - are from different generations, and all three represent different corners of electronic music. And yet they blend together so well!
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Have you heard and seen the work of Beny Tchaikovsky?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 I have not. I'll have to investigate.
	9:26pm Mr. X: So about the space age... It was more like something you watched on tv and Life Magazine, while your own life was more about station wagons and Zenith televisions.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:26 A real case of branding more than anything. But behind the scenes, tech was being developed... it just wasn't being used by most Americans yet.
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 youtu.be...
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @9:27 Some flashing lights
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: We have a lot of DJs who have a name that ends in "O."
	9:31pm Imaginos: Looking forward to the28th
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 I'm excited for you! Like I said: you'll have to tell me all about it.
	9:38pm postconsumer: great show! Have a happy new year...
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @9:38 You too
	9:41pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of ... I first discovered Harry Partch when rummaging through the collection at the U of Oregon Library's Douglas Listening Room.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of ... I do love this Harry Partch record. He is wonderful, and I feel like I hear different things each time I listen.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: Tuned in with arts n crafts. Full Cold Moon tonight and this is a great accompaniment!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 Nice find! I'm sure my old roommate, The Ramen City Kid, probably told me about Harry Partch.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather! Hopefully the arts and crafts are going well for you!
	9:44pm Mr. X: Also it's weird that we had The Space Age and The Atomic Age at the same time. Shouldn't they only allow one Age at a time?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:44 It's probably like the way people mark generations, where they used to be separate, but over time, some wags just lump them together.
	👻 9:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 I'm bedazzling a little skeleton! I'll send you a pic. Good stuff. Keeps me off the streets.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Bedazzlilng is certainly a thing that can be done to skeletons. So I've heard.
	👻 9:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 As evidenced in the Bowie vid for Blackstar, even!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of ... Fun Fact: Castor & Pollux were the two names that I was going to give to my cats, before we settled on Oryx & Crake. But I do love the names Castor & Pollux.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: The NASA nerd in me could listen to the sounds of rockets launching all day long. I love that footage or their launches.
	9:50pm Mr. X: Wait, when was the Age of Reliability? I think I missed that one.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:50 Funny thing is: measuring The Age of Reliability has never been successful. We just can't get an accurate reading.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:50 That would be during the reign of the oysters
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: For those who have not yet identified her voice: Maureen Stapleton is the one who is reading "The Lottery." en.wikipedia.org...
	9:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 Ah yes, just prior to the Walrus and Carpenter regime.
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 ola Imaginos ...been rustlin' up some vittles. - never heard of "the lottery". Austin @911 i've been told i've got stones; but i ain't puttin' 'em on the pile
	9:54pm Dean: I'm confused. Castor & Pollux first appeared on a Partch recording from 1953. But that's way before Sputnik.
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: (and was never told to read ol' yeller)
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: I am told that John Charles Daly is the narrator for "The Space Age" LP. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:54 Yeah, I'm fudging my "mid-century" references, for sure. It's not so much a precise timeline, as it is a mish-mash.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:54 Maybe reading depressing kids books is a US thing? It certainly happened to me as a kid.
	9:56pm Dean: Got it! Partch didn't set "The Lottery." It did seem kind of odd to me, as if Partch were prophesying Robert Ashley.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Piece 3" by "ALTO!" I don't believe "ALTO!" is still together, but they were a PDX sensation back in the day, and I have some footage of them I shot, and an in-studio session I recorded. They were a lot of fun, and I miss their shows, which were often heavily improvised, and very interactive.
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 They even made us read Sylvia Plath.
	9:58pm Dean: Anyway, I bought a copy of Fast's Cords for two bucks a couple weeks ago. It had been ages since I'd last heard it.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Me too!
	9:58pm Imaginos: They changed our local palais into a bowling alley
	9:58pm Dean: (Are you in PDX, Austin? As it happens, so am I, until Friday.)
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:58 I'm down in Salem, but I used to live in PDX, for about 15 years.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Piece 3" by "ALTO!" I believe ALTO! gifted me this record, which I have played a lot since then. Thanks ALTO!
	10:04pm Dean: I'm reading David Wallace's The Emergent Multiverse. If he is even approximately correct, we are well beyond a Space Age.
	10:05pm Dean: It is my pleasure. A lovely way to wrap up an evening.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Going to get some rest so I will see you all next year.
	10:06pm Dean: Listen first to this interview with Wallace (not the Infinite Jest guy, by the way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86BmmUccF_U
	10:10pm Dean: You have to write new songs unless your Philip Glass. Who is the artist for the cover of The Lottery? Nice American Primitive.
	10:10pm Dean: Good lord: "unless you're..."
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:10 It says, "Robert LoGrippo" on the LP. I've never heard of him! Its nice, though.
	10:13pm Dean: New to me. He died in '21. He was younger than I was. https://robertlogrippo.pixels.com/
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:13 Hmmmm. I'll have to investigate.
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: This is one of my favorites!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:14 It was the jam of the Summer.
	10:15pm Dean: SCOTUS is the court of last resort, but not for state law matters that don't implicate the Constitution or federal preemption.
	👻 10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 Sadly, yes. And still stands.
	10:16pm Dean: It is no longer the Age of (Synth) Reliability.
	10:16pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 i agree - FUCK the supreme court... but then, it's probably a terrible lay
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:16 I just manage to break everything, somehow.
	10:17pm Dean: That, coelacanth∅, is why folks are forever addressing the Justices, "Your on her!"
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:16 Yeah. I think I have much better options.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Enhance The Sound" The sampled voices are John Hodgman and David Rees talking about noise music. They are both voice actors in the animated show, "Dicktown," which is remarkably funny, and weird.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Do You Have A Noise Label?"
	10:19pm Dean: Jeez, twice I messed up. "You're on her!"
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Yesss they played this on Judge John Hodgman, even, unless that was a fever dream I had!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:20 They did not. But Hodgman wrote back and said he was thankful for the link to the songs.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 It's canon in my memory they played it! I'm running with that, too. I bet I've even told friends they played your stuff on JJHO.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: i was holding a cd i'd just decorated on the porch (~12 years ago) and my neighbor said what's that? i said eh, just noise. he excitedly said "you make noise?!" it was then i realised there's a "genre" called "noise".
	10:24pm Dean: OED identifies four distinct (barely) pronunciations. TIN-uh-tuhss, tuh-NIGH-tuhss, TIN-uh-duhss, tuh-NIGH-duhss.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Remember the Rain" If memory serves, these voice samples of Bukowski are from him reading selections from his book, "Ham On Rye." The rain was recorded on my patio, earlier this year.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:23 Ha! That's fantastic!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:22 If only it happened!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: "Butter" is a deep, deep sub-theme for this episode.
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 the funny thing is, among other things i did make "noise"; but i didn't know i was supposed to call it that
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 He sounds exactly how I always imagined him to sound.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:27 "Noise" used to be a garage-rock genre, too, back in the 90's, so for a while I got confused when all this music we used to call "experimental" was now called "noise." But I guess "noise," in some ways, is more inclusive?
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 I have a bunch of recordings of him reading various things, including a "live" poetry reading, where the audience and he are yelling at each other between poems. It's pretty wild.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Sweet. Hope you'll play it on MVM some time.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:27 Do you have recordings? I would be curious!
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 wow, never heard of that! ...it's not a very descriptive term; but then, i always hated the term "experimental" for music... as if Varese or Cage or Partch had no idea what kind of sound would be created by what they were doing
	10:31pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Yes, let's hear some coelacanth∅ noise on MVM.
	10:32pm Dean: Is the attribution "noise" to Metal Machine Music anachronistic? I somehow recall that being used at the time, along with "industrial."
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:31 I used to like "experimental," as it seemed like we were experimenting in some ways. But I realize that it's also sort of derogatory, in some ways. It's just music, right?
	10:33pm coelacanth∅: hmm, it's been mostly on hold for about 8 years now.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:32 I think it was, if I'm not mistaken.
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:31 Yes!! I'd love to hear this!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:33 Old albums still sound good.
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: i guess i could send you a few pieces... i'm not proud of a lot of it - not because of content, but due to poor sound. but there may be a few i'm okay with, upon hearing again.
	10:35pm Dean: I know. Labels can be devious. But "noise," "experimental," even "avant-garde" signal that you can't hum it, at least not right away. (There's that guy who scored MMM and Xenakis's Persepolis for string ensembles.)
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:35 I usually assume my old stuff sucks, and then re-listen, and find that it's not that bad. I know for a fact: I am not the best judge of my own work.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:35 I guess that's what I usually mean: It's not pop music. A lot of stuff is "not pop music."
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: Go over! No one minds! It's the opposite even. The more MVM the better! It's still cool. Don't worry about that.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 Whew.
	10:42pm Mr. X: Austin, these pieces are brilliant. You should be more famous.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:42 Ahhhh, you are sweet. But I think I have self-selected out of being famous. At least, for now.
	👻 10:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:42 Seconding this statement.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 Or rather, the subjects I tackle are sort of working against fame as a concept.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Is This Your Homework?" This was the other banger of the summer, so I heard.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: (I hope all the Larrys in the world stand firm against being bullied by wanna-be cops.)
	👻 10:46pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 It was!!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Well, the cops are gonna harass you anyway. But at least you can stand strong, Larrys of the world...
	10:48pm Mr. X: No Walter, Larry was about to crack.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:48 I have seen that movie too many times. And the movie it was based on.
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: once again, gotta miss the Grand Finale Thanks Austin! 'night y'all
	10:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 It's up there in my top ten. I'm laughing just from hearing the dialog snippets.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:49 See ya next time, coelacanthø! Good luck out there. Don't take no guff from those swine.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:49 Night Coel! Happy new year!!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Exploring The A/V Department During Lunch" Based on a true story.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: FIRE.
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Staying tuned in but closing out of the chat! Happy new year, all, and thanks for a year of great programming, Austin!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pedal Lessons" What I love about FX Pedals is that they are absolutely a strange a bizarre sound element that is in the realm of "experimental," and yet some have been completely co-opted into the world of Pop Music. But the first person to use Reverb was considered a mad person! And eventually, it becomes standard and required.
	11:07pm Mr. X: Thanks for a splendid Tuesday, Austin. Good show!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: This tune was made with more samples of David Rees - a comedian and personality who now makes and records experimental music. (You can find his music on Bandcamp... but he's also on TV and whatnot.)
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: He is in conversation with Jackie Kashian, who is a comedian, too, and has a show where she asks people on to talk about their passions. en.wikipedia.org...
	11:11pm wenzo: Howdee Howdee
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:11 Howdy wenzo! Thanks for dropping in for the end-run!
	11:12pm Dean: "More Bounce to the Ounce." Tell me you don't like Autotune.
	👻 11:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @11:12 I've never used it! But I'm sure it's useful.
	11:14pm Dean: Just an example of pop music exhibiting the capabilities of a technological device.
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @11:14 Oh, yes! Of course!
	👻 11:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "End?" I miss Pee Wee a lot. That was a loss that hit me pretty hard. I imagine him on his bike, riding through the end credits of his show like this, for all time.
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @11:15 hit me, but I think you could tell...
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "New Year's Eve" by "Short Pockets" Another true story...

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 26, 2023

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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December 26, 2023: The Mini-Mutations End of The Year Celebration!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
To Begin With... "To Begin With..."
The Breeders	New Year "New Year" by "The Breeders"	Last Splash	4AD	1993
Vinyl Solution DJ Set: "The Space Age Lottery"
Synergy	On Presuming To Be Modern I	Cords	Passport Records	1978	0:00:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Residents	Side A [Excerpt 1] "Side A [Excerpt 1]" by "The Residents"	"Whatever Happened To" Vileness Fats	Ralph Records	1984	0:02:48 (Pop-up)
Verhalten	The Hanged Man "The Hanged Man" by "Verhalten"	Forgiveness	Modern Tapes	2017	0:07:52 (Pop-up)
Moebius Story Leidecker	Vexed "Vexed" by "Moebius Story Leidecker"	Familiar	Bureau B	2017	0:13:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Residents	Side A [Excerpt 2] "Side A [Excerpt 2]" by "The Residents"	"Whatever Happened To" Vileness Fats	Ralph Records	1984	0:32:42 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch	Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances	The World Of Harry Partch	Columbia	2009 Reissue	0:38:21 (Pop-up)
ALTO!	Piece 3 "Piece 3" by "ALTO!"	ALTO!	Raheem Records	2012	0:54:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Residents	Side A [Excerpt 3] "Side A [Excerpt 3]" by "The Residents"	"Whatever Happened To" Vileness Fats	Ralph Records	1984	1:03:05 (Pop-up)
(The Hour 1 Mixes Contained Excerpts from)
John Charles Daly	The Space Age: The Age Of Reliability (Excerpts)	The Space Age: The Age Of Reliability	Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.	1962	1:05:28 (Pop-up)
read by Maureen Stapleton	The Lottery by Shirley Jackson	The Lottery and Other Stories	Caedmon Records	1976	1:05:30 (Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations: The Last Live Performance of 2023!
Mini-Mutations	LIVE "LIVE" by "Mini-Mutations"	LIVE	MId-Valley Mutations	2023	1:09:05 (Pop-up)
	Night Time Control "Night Time Control"				1:09:10 (Pop-up)
	Fuck The Supreme Court "Fuck The Supreme Court"				1:12:09 (Pop-up)
	Enhance The Sound "Enhance The Sound"				1:16:01 (Pop-up)
	Remember the Rain "Remember the Rain"				1:21:44 (Pop-up)
	Gingerbread People & Places "Gingerbread People & Places"				1:30:40 (Pop-up)
	Why Should We Make Trouble? "Why Should We Make Trouble?"				1:38:26 (Pop-up)
	Is This Your Homework? "Is This Your Homework?"				1:42:35 (Pop-up)
	Exploring The A/V Department During Lunch				1:47:30 (Pop-up)
	It's Beginning To Sound A Lot Like Synth-Rock (2023 Version)				1:56:29 (Pop-up)
	Pedal Lessons "Pedal Lessons"				2:04:26 (Pop-up)
	End? "End?"				2:13:35 (Pop-up)
And In Closing... "And In Closing..."
Short Pockets	New Year's Eve "New Year's Eve" by "Short Pockets"	II	WTBC Records	2021	2:14:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:21pm Austin Rich: I guess this is what the kids are into... linktr.ee...
	8:55pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	8:59pm Mr. X: Ready to put 2023 in the rear view.
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @8:59 Seriously.
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:55 Thanks for popping in!
	9:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:59 Always a pleasant experience
	9:01pm Mr. X: The Breeders are the real (Kim) Deal. Cranking it up.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 I LOVE The Breeders! All their albums are fantastic.
	9:02pm postconsumer: The Breeders. love them.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:02 postconsumer! Thanks for an excellent hour of radio!
	9:04pm postconsumer: great transition, I thought! between shows
	9:06pm Aaron in Minneapolis: Austin just be thankfuul it wasnt a repeat of 2020
	9:06pm Imaginos: Timey wimey
	9:07pm Imaginos: The Magna is unleashing its miasma
	9:08pm Imaginos: Except Dec 28
	9:08pm Aaron in Minneapolis: GET THE FUCK OUT
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Hanged Man" by "Verhalten" I got to play a show with this band, and when I asked if they had any merch, they handed me this LP. And I really enjoy it!
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: hi Austin Rich (again) and mutants
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:11 Ahoy
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:11 coelacanthø! I hope you have some stones to add to the pile?
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: The Lottery and the Teen Dances are managed by the same gentleman!
	9:13pm Mr. X: We had to read The Lottery in English class. Why did they have to impose such grimness on a young naive me?
	9:13pm postconsumer: Bet he runs a puppy mill, too.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 That's usually the year they make you watch, "Old Yeller," too.
	9:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Right? Your dog gets rabies and you have to kill it? And this is for kids to read!?!
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Vexed" by "Moebius Story Leidecker" I really love this record. I recall Wobbly telling me that working with Moebius was a really big deal for him.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:16 I feel like a lot of kids books are really depressing. I recall Peter Pan having a lot of darkness to it. Reading "Watership Down" was pretty traumatizing.
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 I was reading Poe before I read Jackson
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: Paper stands in for wood. Random punishment stands in for justice.
	9:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Nursery rhymes were dark as well. Like the Two Cats of Kilkenny
	9:19pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 I guess it's part of the process of turning us into good consumers, anticipating tragedy at every turn down the supermarket aisle.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: At my work, we have a large collection of vintage kids books, and so many of them read more like morbid books for adults. I think the expectation was that kids would be reading stuff that was pretty much like adult novels... but with more "kid-friendly" illustrations.
	9:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 I used to confuse Dieter Moebius with the French comics artist Mœbius.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Some of the illustrations weren't so kid friendly. Like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dar, like the one for Is Something Wrong?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: All three - Moebius, Story and Leidecker - are from different generations, and all three represent different corners of electronic music. And yet they blend together so well!
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Have you heard and seen the work of Beny Tchaikovsky?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 I have not. I'll have to investigate.
	9:26pm Mr. X: So about the space age... It was more like something you watched on tv and Life Magazine, while your own life was more about station wagons and Zenith televisions.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:26 A real case of branding more than anything. But behind the scenes, tech was being developed... it just wasn't being used by most Americans yet.
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 youtu.be...
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @9:27 Some flashing lights
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: We have a lot of DJs who have a name that ends in "O."
	9:31pm Imaginos: Looking forward to the28th
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 I'm excited for you! Like I said: you'll have to tell me all about it.
	9:38pm postconsumer: great show! Have a happy new year...
	9:40pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @9:38 You too
	9:41pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of ... I first discovered Harry Partch when rummaging through the collection at the U of Oregon Library's Douglas Listening Room.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of ... I do love this Harry Partch record. He is wonderful, and I feel like I hear different things each time I listen.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: Tuned in with arts n crafts. Full Cold Moon tonight and this is a great accompaniment!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 Nice find! I'm sure my old roommate, The Ramen City Kid, probably told me about Harry Partch.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather! Hopefully the arts and crafts are going well for you!
	9:44pm Mr. X: Also it's weird that we had The Space Age and The Atomic Age at the same time. Shouldn't they only allow one Age at a time?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:44 It's probably like the way people mark generations, where they used to be separate, but over time, some wags just lump them together.
	👻 9:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 I'm bedazzling a little skeleton! I'll send you a pic. Good stuff. Keeps me off the streets.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Bedazzlilng is certainly a thing that can be done to skeletons. So I've heard.
	👻 9:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 As evidenced in the Bowie vid for Blackstar, even!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Castor & Pollux: A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of ... Fun Fact: Castor & Pollux were the two names that I was going to give to my cats, before we settled on Oryx & Crake. But I do love the names Castor & Pollux.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: The NASA nerd in me could listen to the sounds of rockets launching all day long. I love that footage or their launches.
	9:50pm Mr. X: Wait, when was the Age of Reliability? I think I missed that one.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:50 Funny thing is: measuring The Age of Reliability has never been successful. We just can't get an accurate reading.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:50 That would be during the reign of the oysters
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: For those who have not yet identified her voice: Maureen Stapleton is the one who is reading "The Lottery." en.wikipedia.org...
	9:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 Ah yes, just prior to the Walrus and Carpenter regime.
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 ola Imaginos ...been rustlin' up some vittles. - never heard of "the lottery". Austin @911 i've been told i've got stones; but i ain't puttin' 'em on the pile
	9:54pm Dean: I'm confused. Castor & Pollux first appeared on a Partch recording from 1953. But that's way before Sputnik.
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: (and was never told to read ol' yeller)
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: I am told that John Charles Daly is the narrator for "The Space Age" LP. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:54 Yeah, I'm fudging my "mid-century" references, for sure. It's not so much a precise timeline, as it is a mish-mash.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:54 Maybe reading depressing kids books is a US thing? It certainly happened to me as a kid.
	9:56pm Dean: Got it! Partch didn't set "The Lottery." It did seem kind of odd to me, as if Partch were prophesying Robert Ashley.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Piece 3" by "ALTO!" I don't believe "ALTO!" is still together, but they were a PDX sensation back in the day, and I have some footage of them I shot, and an in-studio session I recorded. They were a lot of fun, and I miss their shows, which were often heavily improvised, and very interactive.
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 They even made us read Sylvia Plath.
	9:58pm Dean: Anyway, I bought a copy of Fast's Cords for two bucks a couple weeks ago. It had been ages since I'd last heard it.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Me too!
	9:58pm Imaginos: They changed our local palais into a bowling alley
	9:58pm Dean: (Are you in PDX, Austin? As it happens, so am I, until Friday.)
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:58 I'm down in Salem, but I used to live in PDX, for about 15 years.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Piece 3" by "ALTO!" I believe ALTO! gifted me this record, which I have played a lot since then. Thanks ALTO!
	10:04pm Dean: I'm reading David Wallace's The Emergent Multiverse. If he is even approximately correct, we are well beyond a Space Age.
	10:05pm Dean: It is my pleasure. A lovely way to wrap up an evening.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Going to get some rest so I will see you all next year.
	10:06pm Dean: Listen first to this interview with Wallace (not the Infinite Jest guy, by the way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86BmmUccF_U
	10:10pm Dean: You have to write new songs unless your Philip Glass. Who is the artist for the cover of The Lottery? Nice American Primitive.
	10:10pm Dean: Good lord: "unless you're..."
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:10 It says, "Robert LoGrippo" on the LP. I've never heard of him! Its nice, though.
	10:13pm Dean: New to me. He died in '21. He was younger than I was. https://robertlogrippo.pixels.com/
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:13 Hmmmm. I'll have to investigate.
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: This is one of my favorites!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:14 It was the jam of the Summer.
	10:15pm Dean: SCOTUS is the court of last resort, but not for state law matters that don't implicate the Constitution or federal preemption.
	👻 10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 Sadly, yes. And still stands.
	10:16pm Dean: It is no longer the Age of (Synth) Reliability.
	10:16pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 i agree - FUCK the supreme court... but then, it's probably a terrible lay
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:16 I just manage to break everything, somehow.
	10:17pm Dean: That, coelacanth∅, is why folks are forever addressing the Justices, "Your on her!"
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:16 Yeah. I think I have much better options.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Enhance The Sound" The sampled voices are John Hodgman and David Rees talking about noise music. They are both voice actors in the animated show, "Dicktown," which is remarkably funny, and weird.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Do You Have A Noise Label?"
	10:19pm Dean: Jeez, twice I messed up. "You're on her!"
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Yesss they played this on Judge John Hodgman, even, unless that was a fever dream I had!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:20 They did not. But Hodgman wrote back and said he was thankful for the link to the songs.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 It's canon in my memory they played it! I'm running with that, too. I bet I've even told friends they played your stuff on JJHO.
	10:23pm coelacanth∅: i was holding a cd i'd just decorated on the porch (~12 years ago) and my neighbor said what's that? i said eh, just noise. he excitedly said "you make noise?!" it was then i realised there's a "genre" called "noise".
	10:24pm Dean: OED identifies four distinct (barely) pronunciations. TIN-uh-tuhss, tuh-NIGH-tuhss, TIN-uh-duhss, tuh-NIGH-duhss.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Remember the Rain" If memory serves, these voice samples of Bukowski are from him reading selections from his book, "Ham On Rye." The rain was recorded on my patio, earlier this year.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:23 Ha! That's fantastic!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:22 If only it happened!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: "Butter" is a deep, deep sub-theme for this episode.
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 the funny thing is, among other things i did make "noise"; but i didn't know i was supposed to call it that
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 He sounds exactly how I always imagined him to sound.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:27 "Noise" used to be a garage-rock genre, too, back in the 90's, so for a while I got confused when all this music we used to call "experimental" was now called "noise." But I guess "noise," in some ways, is more inclusive?
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 I have a bunch of recordings of him reading various things, including a "live" poetry reading, where the audience and he are yelling at each other between poems. It's pretty wild.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Sweet. Hope you'll play it on MVM some time.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:27 Do you have recordings? I would be curious!
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 wow, never heard of that! ...it's not a very descriptive term; but then, i always hated the term "experimental" for music... as if Varese or Cage or Partch had no idea what kind of sound would be created by what they were doing
	10:31pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Yes, let's hear some coelacanth∅ noise on MVM.
	10:32pm Dean: Is the attribution "noise" to Metal Machine Music anachronistic? I somehow recall that being used at the time, along with "industrial."
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:31 I used to like "experimental," as it seemed like we were experimenting in some ways. But I realize that it's also sort of derogatory, in some ways. It's just music, right?
	10:33pm coelacanth∅: hmm, it's been mostly on hold for about 8 years now.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:32 I think it was, if I'm not mistaken.
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:31 Yes!! I'd love to hear this!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:33 Old albums still sound good.
	10:35pm coelacanth∅: i guess i could send you a few pieces... i'm not proud of a lot of it - not because of content, but due to poor sound. but there may be a few i'm okay with, upon hearing again.
	10:35pm Dean: I know. Labels can be devious. But "noise," "experimental," even "avant-garde" signal that you can't hum it, at least not right away. (There's that guy who scored MMM and Xenakis's Persepolis for string ensembles.)
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:35 I usually assume my old stuff sucks, and then re-listen, and find that it's not that bad. I know for a fact: I am not the best judge of my own work.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:35 I guess that's what I usually mean: It's not pop music. A lot of stuff is "not pop music."
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: Go over! No one minds! It's the opposite even. The more MVM the better! It's still cool. Don't worry about that.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 Whew.
	10:42pm Mr. X: Austin, these pieces are brilliant. You should be more famous.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:42 Ahhhh, you are sweet. But I think I have self-selected out of being famous. At least, for now.
	👻 10:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:42 Seconding this statement.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 Or rather, the subjects I tackle are sort of working against fame as a concept.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Is This Your Homework?" This was the other banger of the summer, so I heard.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: (I hope all the Larrys in the world stand firm against being bullied by wanna-be cops.)
	👻 10:46pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 It was!!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Well, the cops are gonna harass you anyway. But at least you can stand strong, Larrys of the world...
	10:48pm Mr. X: No Walter, Larry was about to crack.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:48 I have seen that movie too many times. And the movie it was based on.
	10:49pm coelacanth∅: once again, gotta miss the Grand Finale Thanks Austin! 'night y'all
	10:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 It's up there in my top ten. I'm laughing just from hearing the dialog snippets.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:49 See ya next time, coelacanthø! Good luck out there. Don't take no guff from those swine.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:49 Night Coel! Happy new year!!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Exploring The A/V Department During Lunch" Based on a true story.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: FIRE.
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Staying tuned in but closing out of the chat! Happy new year, all, and thanks for a year of great programming, Austin!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pedal Lessons" What I love about FX Pedals is that they are absolutely a strange a bizarre sound element that is in the realm of "experimental," and yet some have been completely co-opted into the world of Pop Music. But the first person to use Reverb was considered a mad person! And eventually, it becomes standard and required.
	11:07pm Mr. X: Thanks for a splendid Tuesday, Austin. Good show!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: This tune was made with more samples of David Rees - a comedian and personality who now makes and records experimental music. (You can find his music on Bandcamp... but he's also on TV and whatnot.)
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: He is in conversation with Jackie Kashian, who is a comedian, too, and has a show where she asks people on to talk about their passions. en.wikipedia.org...
	11:11pm wenzo: Howdee Howdee
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:11 Howdy wenzo! Thanks for dropping in for the end-run!
	11:12pm Dean: "More Bounce to the Ounce." Tell me you don't like Autotune.
	👻 11:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @11:12 I've never used it! But I'm sure it's useful.
	11:14pm Dean: Just an example of pop music exhibiting the capabilities of a technological device.
	👻 11:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @11:14 Oh, yes! Of course!
	👻 11:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "End?" I miss Pee Wee a lot. That was a loss that hit me pretty hard. I imagine him on his bike, riding through the end credits of his show like this, for all time.
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @11:15 hit me, but I think you could tell...
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "New Year's Eve" by "Short Pockets" Another true story...

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 26, 2023

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