WFMU: A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from January 31, 2017

Listener comments!
	8:02pm Linda Lee: good evening Bethany! thank you for opening with Cage!
	8:03pm Bethany Ryker: Thanks, Linda! Welcome all - get PREPARED for Prepared Piano throughout this show!
	8:03pm Linda Lee: yay!!!!!
	8:06pm JakeGould: Hello!
	♥ 8:10pm common: hey
	8:11pm Kurt Gottschalk: any sound was ok by cage so long as it wasn't jazz!
	♥ 8:11pm Ken From Hyde Park: Yippee!
	8:11pm JakeGould: @Kurt: Cage hated jazz?
	♥ 8:12pm ranjit: Cage put those poor percussion orchestras out of business
	8:12pm Linda Lee: have we seen the short film called Sound? with Cage & Rahsaan Roland Kirk? doubt he hated jazz.
	♥ 8:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Speaking of Glass - Philip 80 today.
	♥ 8:12pm ranjit: I hope you're gonna play something from Kathy Supové's Exploding Piano tonight!
	♥ 8:13pm ranjit: @Revolution Rabbit: I went to Glass's 75th birthday event at LPR a while back - I might even say five years ago
	8:14pm Linda Lee: i'm sitting in a chair Cage sat in once or twice :-D
	8:14pm Kurt Gottschalk: cage was anti-improvisation, and jazz represented - to him - the height of pure ego. he was trying to create music with no composer or performer ego. in his later years he softened on that stance... a little.
	♥ 8:14pm ranjit: I am sitting in a chair Different from the one you are in now :)
	8:15pm Linda Lee: ranjit ~ only apparently. :-D
	8:16pm Bethany Ryker: @Ranjit....look at you with the ALVIN LUCIER reference. Made my day.
	8:17pm Linda Lee: missed it. what a plebe. :-D
	8:17pm Bethany Ryker: We are all open minded, right - except for the things we aren't open minded about. Was always curious to me that Cage loved chance but not improv, as Kurt points out.
	8:18pm Linda Lee: i can see it. improv is assertion, chance is surrender ..
	8:19pm Kurt Gottschalk: chance operations were to be determined before the performance, not all willy nilly based on if your feet are sore or you think the violinist is cute.
	♥ 8:19pm ranjit: @Kurt - thanks, that's really interesting
	8:20pm Bethany Ryker: ...or the saxophone has a bad reed
	8:20pm Kurt Gottschalk: there's good saxophone reeds?
	8:21pm Linda Lee: he definitely softened a bit on the anti-improv stance eventually
	♥ 8:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: John Cale: How did you develop all these what in 'serious' music we would call 'prepared instruments'? Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth): We just acquired all these really really cheap guitars...which were only good for one sound... Interesting - as people often say in Improv - it's not your last note - but your next one...to me that implies Listening - in a very Cage sense - @ same time as expressing yerself...but that's Jazz, & Cage was after something very specific...aren't sore feet & cute violinists Chance occurrences? Only determined chance...To think that all that great Sax is basically built on a duck call for a mouthpiece (& brass all a raspberry)...
	♥ 8:23pm ranjit: this Stravinsky reminds me of John Adams - or it should be vice versa I suppose...
	♥ 8:24pm ranjit: @Revolution Rabbit - I love that quote!
	8:27pm geezerette: Howdy! I see improv as surrender in the form of countless rapid responses. A sense of unselfconscious play.
	8:27pm Bethany Ryker: Ranjit - tomorrow is FEBRUARY 1st. Plans for the month?
	♥ 8:28pm ranjit: Yes! It'll be the tenth year of instrument-a-day, so I can't give up yet.
	8:30pm Bethany Ryker: That's truly amazing. Be sure to hold a concert on March 1st with however many of the 282 have survived.
	♥ 8:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: Cool....is there a web site to follow the instrument-a-day?
	8:31pm Bethany Ryker: And yes, I was going to say 280 until I remembered there would have been 2 LEAP years in there.
	♥ 8:33pm ranjit: Very few have survived :) - there's maybe a dozen from the 9 years that I still play regularly, and most of those are away at an exhibit. I do want to have a show, though! @Ken - I'll post 'em all at moonmilk.com.
	♥ 8:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @geez: For me - that is thee most extraordinary thing - when you're playing w/ others & not even thinking about it - it's all just happening. But I suppose Cage was really about the Audition - the Listening w/ nothing else... What is the 'instrument-a-day' ?? : )
	8:41pm Listening Out There: This might be the only John cage piece that I've ever liked...
	♥ 8:45pm Dave in Vermont: Thanks, Bethany.
	8:46pm JakeGould: @Kurt: Ah! So he’s the classic artist with an ego who pretends he has no ego so he can cast judgement on others. Maybe? Just saying! Enjoying anyway.
	♥ 8:49pm common: great!
	♥ 8:51pm Dave in Vermont: Hey, Kurt, great opening set on your show today. I only heard the first set, walking to campus.
	♥ 8:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hard not to grant Cage his intellectual rigor...there's all that stuff that WyntonMarsalis said about Jazz & Democracy - yerknow - you really do have to determine your space w/ people - so if Cage was about trying to remove the people & letting what happened happen maybe that was a valid attempt.
	8:53pm Bethany Ryker: @RevRabbit - Ranjit makes an instrument each day of February. Additionally, he was the mastermind behind the 8-bit violin that was the Grand Prize for my last Marathon show.
	♥ 8:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - February - makes one! Thx! Wow.
	8:55pm geezerette: @RevRab:What is the "instrument-a-day"? I was out for a bit. Always loved Cage,and Calder's Circus knocks me out! I found Cage to be very funny, maybe that was a matter of timing.
	♥ 8:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Calder was way kewl!
	8:57pm Marc Francis: Beautiful. Thank you Bethany.
	♥ 8:58pm ranjit: Calder and Cage were both way kewl! And Margaret Leng Tan is too. Thanks, Bethany!
	8:59pm geezerette: @Bethany: What a wonderful program, have to listen often. FMU , such an embarrasment of riches. :D

A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from January 31, 2017

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January 31, 2017: A440, Op. 4, No. 16: Prepare for Piano Preparation with Stephen Scott, Toshiro Mayuzumi, The Flashbulb, Aphex Twin, Arvo Pärt and - of course - John Cage

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
John Cage	Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos (1945)			0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Aphex Twin	Jynweythek Ylow (2001)	Drukqs		0:05:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Flashbulb	Windup Glass (prepared) (2015)	Compositions for Piano		0:08:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Toshiro Mayuzumi	Pieces for Prepared Piano and Strings, III. Finale		Benjamin Owen, Prepared piano with the Louisville Orchestra	0:14:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Igor Stravinsky	Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, I. Presto (1929, rev. 1949)		Valery Gergiev, piano with Mariinsky Orchestra directed by Denis Matsuev	0:18:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephen Scott	Baltic Sketches: Hocket I	Fire and Ice	Performed by the Bowed Piano Ensemble http://bowedpianoensemble.com/	0:25:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephen Scott	Baltic Sketches: Four-Note Aria			0:27:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephen Scott	Baltic Sketches: Hocket II			0:28:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephen Scott	Baltic Sketches: Lament			0:29:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stephen Scott	Baltic Sketches: Dance			0:31:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
	a song			0:40:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Cage	Tossed As It Is Untroubled (Meditation) (1944)		Philipp Vandre, Prepared Piano	0:37:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Cage	Works of Calder, I. Prepared Piano		Margaret Leng Tan, prepared piano	0:40:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Cage	Works of Calder, II. Film Soundtrack with Narration			0:42:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Cage	Works of Calder, III. Film Soundtrack with Percussion			0:45:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Arvo Pärt	Tabula Rasa, II. Silentium (1977)	Tabula Rasa	Alfred Schnittke, Preparedb Piano, Gidon Kremer, violin, Tatjana Grindenko - violin, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra	0:50:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:02pm Linda Lee: good evening Bethany! thank you for opening with Cage!
	8:03pm Bethany Ryker: Thanks, Linda! Welcome all - get PREPARED for Prepared Piano throughout this show!
	8:03pm Linda Lee: yay!!!!!
	8:06pm JakeGould: Hello!
	♥ 8:10pm common: hey
	8:11pm Kurt Gottschalk: any sound was ok by cage so long as it wasn't jazz!
	♥ 8:11pm Ken From Hyde Park: Yippee!
	8:11pm JakeGould: @Kurt: Cage hated jazz?
	♥ 8:12pm ranjit: Cage put those poor percussion orchestras out of business
	8:12pm Linda Lee: have we seen the short film called Sound? with Cage & Rahsaan Roland Kirk? doubt he hated jazz.
	♥ 8:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Speaking of Glass - Philip 80 today.
	♥ 8:12pm ranjit: I hope you're gonna play something from Kathy Supové's Exploding Piano tonight!
	♥ 8:13pm ranjit: @Revolution Rabbit: I went to Glass's 75th birthday event at LPR a while back - I might even say five years ago
	8:14pm Linda Lee: i'm sitting in a chair Cage sat in once or twice :-D
	8:14pm Kurt Gottschalk: cage was anti-improvisation, and jazz represented - to him - the height of pure ego. he was trying to create music with no composer or performer ego. in his later years he softened on that stance... a little.
	♥ 8:14pm ranjit: I am sitting in a chair Different from the one you are in now :)
	8:15pm Linda Lee: ranjit ~ only apparently. :-D
	8:16pm Bethany Ryker: @Ranjit....look at you with the ALVIN LUCIER reference. Made my day.
	8:17pm Linda Lee: missed it. what a plebe. :-D
	8:17pm Bethany Ryker: We are all open minded, right - except for the things we aren't open minded about. Was always curious to me that Cage loved chance but not improv, as Kurt points out.
	8:18pm Linda Lee: i can see it. improv is assertion, chance is surrender ..
	8:19pm Kurt Gottschalk: chance operations were to be determined before the performance, not all willy nilly based on if your feet are sore or you think the violinist is cute.
	♥ 8:19pm ranjit: @Kurt - thanks, that's really interesting
	8:20pm Bethany Ryker: ...or the saxophone has a bad reed
	8:20pm Kurt Gottschalk: there's good saxophone reeds?
	8:21pm Linda Lee: he definitely softened a bit on the anti-improv stance eventually
	♥ 8:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: John Cale: How did you develop all these what in 'serious' music we would call 'prepared instruments'? Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth): We just acquired all these really really cheap guitars...which were only good for one sound... Interesting - as people often say in Improv - it's not your last note - but your next one...to me that implies Listening - in a very Cage sense - @ same time as expressing yerself...but that's Jazz, & Cage was after something very specific...aren't sore feet & cute violinists Chance occurrences? Only determined chance...To think that all that great Sax is basically built on a duck call for a mouthpiece (& brass all a raspberry)...
	♥ 8:23pm ranjit: this Stravinsky reminds me of John Adams - or it should be vice versa I suppose...
	♥ 8:24pm ranjit: @Revolution Rabbit - I love that quote!
	8:27pm geezerette: Howdy! I see improv as surrender in the form of countless rapid responses. A sense of unselfconscious play.
	8:27pm Bethany Ryker: Ranjit - tomorrow is FEBRUARY 1st. Plans for the month?
	♥ 8:28pm ranjit: Yes! It'll be the tenth year of instrument-a-day, so I can't give up yet.
	8:30pm Bethany Ryker: That's truly amazing. Be sure to hold a concert on March 1st with however many of the 282 have survived.
	♥ 8:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: Cool....is there a web site to follow the instrument-a-day?
	8:31pm Bethany Ryker: And yes, I was going to say 280 until I remembered there would have been 2 LEAP years in there.
	♥ 8:33pm ranjit: Very few have survived :) - there's maybe a dozen from the 9 years that I still play regularly, and most of those are away at an exhibit. I do want to have a show, though! @Ken - I'll post 'em all at moonmilk.com.
	♥ 8:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @geez: For me - that is thee most extraordinary thing - when you're playing w/ others & not even thinking about it - it's all just happening. But I suppose Cage was really about the Audition - the Listening w/ nothing else... What is the 'instrument-a-day' ?? : )
	8:41pm Listening Out There: This might be the only John cage piece that I've ever liked...
	♥ 8:45pm Dave in Vermont: Thanks, Bethany.
	8:46pm JakeGould: @Kurt: Ah! So he’s the classic artist with an ego who pretends he has no ego so he can cast judgement on others. Maybe? Just saying! Enjoying anyway.
	♥ 8:49pm common: great!
	♥ 8:51pm Dave in Vermont: Hey, Kurt, great opening set on your show today. I only heard the first set, walking to campus.
	♥ 8:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hard not to grant Cage his intellectual rigor...there's all that stuff that WyntonMarsalis said about Jazz & Democracy - yerknow - you really do have to determine your space w/ people - so if Cage was about trying to remove the people & letting what happened happen maybe that was a valid attempt.
	8:53pm Bethany Ryker: @RevRabbit - Ranjit makes an instrument each day of February. Additionally, he was the mastermind behind the 8-bit violin that was the Grand Prize for my last Marathon show.
	♥ 8:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - February - makes one! Thx! Wow.
	8:55pm geezerette: @RevRab:What is the "instrument-a-day"? I was out for a bit. Always loved Cage,and Calder's Circus knocks me out! I found Cage to be very funny, maybe that was a matter of timing.
	♥ 8:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Calder was way kewl!
	8:57pm Marc Francis: Beautiful. Thank you Bethany.
	♥ 8:58pm ranjit: Calder and Cage were both way kewl! And Margaret Leng Tan is too. Thanks, Bethany!
	8:59pm geezerette: @Bethany: What a wonderful program, have to listen often. FMU , such an embarrasment of riches. :D

A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from January 31, 2017

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