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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 28 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. [On hiatus.]
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June 13, 2018: There's So Much Left to Do (Show #435) | Download full MP3
(What's the secret? Finding out by doing.) Hypnotic drifts and optimism.
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Listener love: "I'm falling more and more in love with it with every passing moment. Your monologues are delightfully hypnotic. Thank you so much for doing this beautiful work(/p l a y). It's incredible."
Contains samples from: The Stone Roses, Rushmore, 3-2-1 Contact, Dr. Seuss, True Romance, Hal Hartley, Mogwai, Schubert, Bob Dylan, John Carpenter, Golden Arm Trio, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Mark Mothersbaugh, Yann Tiersen, Hans Zimmer, Spiro Agnew, Jimmy Carter, Bach, Wendy Carlos, The Beatles, Michael Crighton, and many others.
Working titles:
perfection | memory | when something is over | acting without thinking | good night | escape from new york | down here at the bottom, we too should have rights
Artist | Track | Album | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | There's So Much Left to Do (what's the secret? finding out by doing) | Show #435, from June 21, 2012 | 2012 | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Graham Chapman | I'd like to tell you about a minority group of people who have never been deprived | Monty Python's Flying Circus | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
John Carpenter | Escape From New York | 0:00:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
3-2-1 Contact | You do have the tendency to regard the computer as your friend. Do you ever throw your coffee cup at your computer? | 1980 | 0:02:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Ken | 2012 | 0:03:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Dr. Seuss | Yertle the Turtle | 0:04:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Disney World | Electric Light Parade | 0:06:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Wendy Carlos | Brandenburg Concerto No. 3? | 0:07:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
J.S. Bach | Brandenburg Concerto? | 0:08:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Margarita Levieva | The whole secret of power is to make it unresponsive | Noise (movie) | 2007 | 0:09:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Alan Oppenheimer | A disease of machinery | Westworld (movie) | 1973 | We don't know exactly how they work | 0:10:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Yann Tiersen | Amelie music backwards | 0:12:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater | When it comes to relationships, I'm 100% | True Romance (movie) | 1993 | 0:12:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Melvyn Douglas | There's so much left to do | Being There (movie) | 1979 | 0:15:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Hans Zimmer | You're So Cool | True Romance s.t. | 1993 | Like Carl Orff Badlands | 0:15:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Ken | Is there something underneath? I'm trying not to think | 2012 | 0:15:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Melvyn Douglas | There's so much left to do | Being There | 1979 | 0:18:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Billy Bob Thornton | It seemed like I knew a secret, something none of them knew | The Man Who Wasn't There (movie) | 2001 | Like I had made it to the outside, and they were all still struggling below | 0:18:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Radiohead | Let Down | OK Computer | Layers | 0:19:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Self-help guy | 0:22:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Current electropoppy music | 0:23:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Mark Mothersbaugh | Sharp Little Guy | Rushmore s.t. | 1998 | 0:23:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Bill Murray | What's the secret, Max? | Rushmore (movie) | 1998 | 0:24:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Mel Harris, Ken Olin | It wasn't any good. You make it look so easy! | thirtySomething | 0:25:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson | When I feel this, I'm usually thinking of you. I appreciate being taken seriously, but I'm always concerned I'm not sufficiently serios | Surviving Desire (movie) | 1992 | Hal Hartley | 0:26:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Max Gail | An operator pressed the wrong button | Whiz Kids | 1983 | 80's computer tv show | 0:27:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Rebecca Nelson | I'm afraid of seeming gullible, so I'm argumentative more than I should be | Surviving Desire (movie) | 1992 | 0:28:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Mark Mothersbaugh | The secret? | Rushmore (movie) | 1998 | 0:29:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Penguin Café Orchestra | 0:29:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson, Hal Hartley | But we're not! (Not what?) Sleeping together. (Not yet, anyway.) | Surviving Desire (movie) | 1992 | 0:30:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Bill Murray | Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out. | Rushmore (movie) | 1998 | 0:31:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Bob Dylan | A Series of Dreams | Loops | 0:31:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Neutral Milk Hotel | The King of Carrot Flowers (Part One) | Loops | 0:36:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Yann Tiersen | Amelie music backwards | Amélie s.t. | 0:37:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Stone Roses | Elephant Stone | Loops | 0:37:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez | You have problems. Where do you want me to go? Go away! | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | with loops of scene's ambient music | 0:39:27 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Mark Margolis | When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere | Pi (movie) | 1998 | 0:43:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Kyle MacLachlan | Every day, once a day, give yourself a present | Twin Peaks | 1990 | 0:46:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Penguin Café Orchestra | 0:46:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ken | I never know what it is (something must be making sense) I wasn't thinking anything, so everything was fine. | 2012 | 0:48:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Mark Mothersbaugh | Snowflake Music | Bottle Rocket s.t. | 1996 | 0:51:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Rebecca Nelson, Hal Hartley | Do you think I'm very beautiful? | Surviving Desire (movie) | 1992 | If you never see me again after tonight, will you be sad? Will you be tortured by the memory of having been with me, of having caressed me? Will you wonder if I've been with other men? Will you become jealous, will you become obsessed? Will you carry your disappointment around with you forever? Will you be maudlin and anti-social? Will you get into fights? Will you expect other women to be somehow more like me? My mouth, my eyes, the way I wear my hair? Will you? Will you be like that, you think? It's the nature of things, you know: Regret. | 0:53:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Schubert | 0:55:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Mogwai | 0:57:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Léo Delibes | Lakmé: The Flower Duet | 0:57:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
John Carpenter | Escape From New York | 0:58:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Malcolm X | You and I have never seen democracy, all we've seen is hypocrisy | Stop talking about The South. As long as you're south of the Canadian border, you're south | 0:59:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Malcolm X | There were two kinds of slaves: House negroes and field negroes | Whenever the master said we, he said we. That's how you could tell it was a house negro. If the master got sick, the house negro would say, what's the matter, boss, we sick? | 1:00:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Spiro Agnew | Their powers of choice are broad. They decide what 50 million Americans will learn of today's world. These men can create national issues overnight. | 1:02:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Whale sounds | 1:04:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Modest Mouse | sleepwalkin' | Loop | 1:04:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Jimmy Carter | A Crisis of Confidence | 1979 | Our people are losing their faith. We've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. Speech text | 1:05:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
WTJU | Promo fragment | 1:11:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken | What happens now? | 2012 | 1:11:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Modest Mouse | sleepwalkin' | Loops forward and backward | 1:17:09 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Judy Garland | I'm outraged about many things | Judy Garland Speaks! | Now I'm going to talk back | 1:18:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Firesign Theatre | Hey, man, you broke the president! | I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus | 1971 | Read me doctor memory? | 1:18:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Ken | Dream recording | 1:21:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Air Supply | Making Love (Out of Nothing at All) | Piano loop | 1:23:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Golden Arm Trio | 1:24:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Spiro Agnew | Networks | 1:23:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Diane Cluck | Talking live before show in Denver, CO | 2008 | 1:26:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Yann Tiersen | Amelie music | Amélie s.t. | 1:27:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Camper Van Beethoven | Sweethearts | Key Lime Pie | 1989 | 1:28:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Peter Finch | The people spoke! The people won! That sort of thing is not likely to happen again | Network (movie) | 1976 | 1:29:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Golden Arm Trio? | Mysterious music | 1:30:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Malcolm X | What do you mean, separate? Where can I find better clothes than this? | 1:31:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Loopy | 1:32:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Fleetwood Mac | Big Love (live) | Repeating | 1:33:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Radiohead | Let Down | 1:34:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
The Carpenters | Calling Occupants (of Interplanetary Craft) | Passage | 1977 | By Klaatu | 1:35:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Hans Zimmer | You're So Cool | True Romance s.t. | 1993 | 1:37:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Ken | Transitions: How it all started | 2012 | 1:37:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman | What's the secret? You seem to have it pretty figured out. I think you've got to find something you love to do, and then do it for the rest of your life | Rushmore (movie) | 1998 | 1:40:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
The Beatles | Good Night | The White Album | 1968 | 1:44:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
David Cronenberg | Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place that had great resonance for you | The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg | 1:46:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Matthew Broderick | Let's say all you ever knew were apples. Now you can make a decision. That's democracy | Election | 1999 | 1:47:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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