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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 20, 2018: Back In The Light (Show #597) | Download full MP3
Brand new experimental sound collage, a fun 2-hour improvised plunderphonic journey, with live calls, new music loops, daylight-inspired word-thoughts and spontaneous music-drifts.
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Now in its 25th year! "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."
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Artist | Track | Album | Year | Comments | Images | Approx. start time |
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Bloc Party | The Pioneers (M83 Remix) | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ween | The Mollusk | Loop | 0:03:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken | We're here now | 2018 | 0:05:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Live phone caller | Introducing, from The Bronx | 0:05:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Generationals | Avery | Loops | 0:08:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Gary Oldman | Bring me everyone. Everyone! | Leon: The Professional movie | 1994 | 0:08:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Anois | A Noise | 0:09:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
War on Drugs | You Don't Have to Go | Loops | 0:09:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Beach Fossils | This Year | Loops | 0:11:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
If You Believe in Yourself (I feel happy of myself) | 2011 | You will get the hang of it, I know it! (I feel, I feel, I feel...) | 0:12:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Derek Sivers | Obvious to you, amazing to others | 0:15:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Lara Flynn-Boyle | It's like I'm having the most beautiful dream, and the most terrible nightmare, all at once | Twin Peaks | 0:15:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Jack Kornfield | Meditations, part 12 | Your Buddha Nature | 0:16:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Dan Seals | Three Time Loser | Loops | 0:17:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Orson Welles | There is no wisdom in compromise | I cannot compromise. My pictures don't work at all unless they work my way. They simply fall apart unless they're done my way. | 0:20:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ricky Gervais | More people hate it than love it. Luckily, you don't need everyone on the planet to like it | You do it for you and like-minded people | 0:21:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue | Show #586, from 5/15/18 | 2018 | With other bits, like Latter-Day Saints, background loops, Liz Phair Shatter | 0:22:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Live phone caller | Hangs up, busy tone | 2018 | 0:23:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken | It all belongs to you and everyone | 2018 | 0:23:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue | Show #586, from 5/15/18 | 2018 | You may not get what you want, but it's OK to ask | 0:25:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Liz Phair | Shatter | Loops | 0:26:09 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Live phone caller & Ken | Interruptions. How do we accept that it's all part of the same thing? Talk without thinking. | 2018 | A word you haven't thought of yet. Look without knowing. | 0:26:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue | Show #586, from 5/15/18 | 2018 | Take turns not giving the thing that's asked for | 0:32:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
James Spader | I wanna thank you with all sincerity, I've been sleepwalking my whole life and you've woken me up, and I feel alive now | Dream Lover | 1993 | 0:34:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
I feel happy of myself | 2011 | 0:34:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Live phone caller (Rich) | Have you ever had a dream? | 0:36:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Liz Phair | Shatter | Loops | 0:38:10 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken | You don't have to know what it is | 2018 | 0:38:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue | Show #586, from 5/15/18 | 2018 | The door | 0:39:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Walter Murch | You must defend your dreams, they're your most prized possession | 0:40:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Lara Flynn-Boyle | I know I should be sad, it's like I'm having the most beautiful dream and the most terrible nightmare all at once | Twin Peaks | 0:40:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Jane Seymour | The man of my dreams is almost faded now | Somewhere in Time movie | 1980 | Time travel romance | 0:41:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer | They don't hang a man for that | Gaslight | 1944 | There were times when I thought I'd only dreamed those days. | 0:42:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
William Hurt, Albert Brooks | What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams? (Keep it to yourself) | Broadcast News movie | 0:43:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Rossano Brazzi | I am a man, and you are a woman. You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat. No, you say, I want beefsteak. You are hungry. Eat the ravioli | Summertime | 1955 | 0:44:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Adrien Brody | How are you to imagine anything, if the images are always provided for you | Detachment movie | 2011 | 0:45:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Geneviève Bujold | Imagine whatever you say has impact. You can't just listen to me. I'm just a clown! | Choose Me | 1984 | Dir. Alan Rudolph | 0:46:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Tycho | Awake | Loops | 0:48:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Georges Delerue | Le Grand choral | 0:48:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ken | You felt inspired. It all worked. Was it witnessed, could you capture it? How do you make any decisions? You mutate and fit your life into sections. | 2018 | 0:52:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Liz Phair | Shatter | Loops, more of song | 0:59:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Dan Seals | Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold) | Intro looping, then whole song | 1:02:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Spoon | Can I Sit | Loop pitch shifting, with Dan Seals | 1:04:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Dan Seals | Three Time Loser | Loops | 1:06:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Steely Dan | Midnite Cruiser | Loops | 1:08:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
David Weinstein | The great wall of Kenzo | 2018 | 1:09:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Beach Fossils | This Year | Loops | 1:09:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Walter Murch | You get things you'd be unlikely to get if you'd set them up intentionally (Li) | You can't predict when it's going to happen. The price you pay for it is a lot of material | 1:10:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Dare to Live Without Limits | Brief | 1:11:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Walter Murch | Tapestry of mono and stereo, shifts in environment | 1:11:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Radiohead | Exit Music (for a film) | Loops | 1:12:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | I'm going to put these earplugs in right now | Limits (taking care) | 2018 | I am not available right now | 1:14:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Radiohead | Exit Music (for a film) | Backwards loops | 1:16:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Monsters coming from above and below | 1:19:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||||
Ken | You can't be wrong about yourself | Show #586, from 5/15/18 | 2018 | 1:18:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Tycho | Awake | Loops | 1:20:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Robert Redford | Are there any questions? Any comments? Suggestions? I'd be happy to respond to anything that's on your mind | The Candidate movie | 1972 | 1:23:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Patrick McGoohan | It means what it is | The Prisoner | 1:24:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Melvyn Douglas | There's so much left to do | Being There | 1979 | 1:25:36 (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 (1x10) | 1:26:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Hal Hartley | You work and you work, and you make sacrifices. They don't let you do what it is that you're good at | Ambition | 1991 | 1:26:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Walter Murch | The power of sound | 1:29:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Walter Murch | Make an alloy out of two metals that normally don't go together | 1:30:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ween | The Mollusk | Loop | 1:30:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Generationals | When They Fight, They Fight | Loops | 1:31:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Hal Hartley | No one told me, it wasn't my fault | Ambition | 1991 | 1:32:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Live phone caller | Guitar | 2018 | 1:33:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ken and live stream feedback | You're still here | 1:34:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
george | Le Grand choral | 1:36:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Alexandre Desplat | Mr. Fox in the Fields | Fantastic Mr. Fox OST | 1:37:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Alexandre Desplat | Prologue Scene | Birth s.t. | 1:38:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Hal Hartley | You know I would. How can you say that? It won't happen again, I promise. I did everything right. I didn't do exactly what you told me to... | Ambition | 1991 | I did what I could, and I did everything right. | 1:38:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Justin Hurwitz | Mia & Sebastian’s Theme | La La Land s.t. | 2016 | 1:40:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Aimee Mann | Wise Up | Magnolia s.t. | 1999 | Loops | 1:41:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Hal Hartley | No matter what I achieve, I always have this irritating sensation of emptiness and futility. I want the image I have of myself and myself to become one. | Ambition | 1991 | I want to change people's minds. | 1:42:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Aimee Mann | Wise Up | Magnolia s.t. | 1999 | Loops, layers | 1:42:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Ken | Everybody waited for everybody else. All will sparkle if you come out | 2018 | Some of the sparkles will be spikey, but they will shine. | 1:46:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Console with Der Dritte Raum | Upon (Der Dritte Raum Trance Mix) | Layers | 1:52:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
fujitsu | Azure | 1:53:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
dj BC | Nothing In Its Right Place (Roots, Radiohead) | 1:53:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Moby | Grace | 1:53:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ken and live stream feedback | I guess that's it. I don't know how to make it stop | 2018 | 1:56:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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