WFMU: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from August 7, 2019

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from August 7, 2019

Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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August 7, 2019: Ben Johnston's Hand

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Ben Johnston’s Hand, in honor of the composer,
a semi-survey of microtonal music from Harry Partch to Tony Conrad,
with visits from Rozalie Hirs, Charlemagne Palestine, James Tenney, and Terry Riley.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ben Johnston	Sonnets of Desolation	Ben Johnston ‎– Visions And Spels / Sonnets Of Desolation	Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)	1984	Sonnet #4 of the piece, entitled That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection. Written for the New Swingle Singers, who premiered the piece in 1981 in Urbana, Illinois. Recognized as masters of the classical scat, the British octet’s repertoire ranges from works of the 16th century to the present.
Malawi Mouse Boys	Kulira Kwambewa (The Crying of the Mouse)	Forever is 4 U	Omnivore Records	2016	Ridgewood Radio Theme https://lovesupportunite.org	0:03:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David W	Music of the Spheres. "Music of the Spheres." by "David W"	Ridgewood Radio Noise Library	Beautiful Drummer	2019	Yo, Pythagoras.	0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Rozalie Hirs	Venus [Morning Star]	Six	Slagwerk Den Haag	2010	For six percussionists and electronic sounds. Hirs was inspired by the mobius-like curves of Zaha Hadid's pavilion in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and by the “Sixxen”, a set of percussion instruments developed by Iannis Xenakis for his work, Pléïades.	0:08:18 (Pop-up)
James Tenney	Septet "Septet" by "James Tenney"	Modern Hearts - New Music For Electric Guitar	Redshift	2014	For six electric guitars and electric bass (1981/2000) performed by Canadian Adrian Verdejo.Guitars re-tuned to the harmonic series of the fundamentals (A and E). The piece traverses these two tonalities using temporal modulation. A canon, each voice rhythmically reflects the ratio of the partials (overtones) as they emerge (3:2, 5:4, etc.).	0:16:31 (Pop-up)
Ben Johnston	String Quartet #4 (Amazing Grace)	Jacaranda	YouTube	2009	Composed 1983, considered the composer's signature masterpiece, performed by Denali Quartet (presented by new-music organization, Jacaranda, Music at the Edge) in Santa Monica, CA.	0:26:47 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch	Daphne of the Dunes "Daphne of the Dunes" by "Harry Partch"	The World Of Harry Partch	Columbia Masterworks	1969	Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 tones generated by the overtone series, outlined in his book Genesis of a Music. Just for curiosity, the names of Partch’s instruments on this piece: Kithara, Surrogate Kithara, Harmonic Canons, Chromelodeon, Cloud-chamber Bowls, Spoils Of War, Gourd Tree, Diamond/Boo/Bass Marimba (with tones so low it is virtually unrecordable!), and Adapted Viola.	0:38:10 (Pop-up)
Ben Johnston	Knocking Piece "Knocking Piece" by "Ben Johnston"	Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 3: Ensembles	NEOS Music	2016	Composed 1963, performed by two percussionists from the University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, September 1966, Darmstadt, Stadthalle. Another example where harmonic ratios are transposed into rhythmic counterpoint: 6 against 5 or 11 against 8, etc. Johnston championed this as a compositional tool.	0:58:57 (Pop-up)
Terry Riley	Persian Surgery Dervishes (#2 Paris)	Persian Surgery Dervishes	Shanti	1972	Recorded live in Paris, France at Théâtre de la Musique on 24 May 1972, using a modified Yamaha electric organ tuned in just intonation.	1:04:13 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch	Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California	The World Of Harry Partch	Columbia Masterworks	1969	The composer spent some time riding the rails as a "hobo" (in search off truth while eschewing commonpractice traditions) and knew this marginal culture well.	1:20:11 (Pop-up)
Charlemagne Palestine, Tony Conrad	An Aural Symbiotic Mystery	An Aural Symbiotic Mystery	Sub Rosa	2006	Recorded at Petit Théâtre Mercelis, September 7, 2005, Brussels. Palestine, piano, drone; Conrad, violin. Excerpt.	1:29:25 (Pop-up)
The Who	Baba O'Riley "Baba O'Riley" by "The Who"	Who's Next	Polydor	1971	Composer Pete Townshend recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its note multi-attack feature as the backing track. The song's title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, among Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors. The song is often mistakenly called "Teenage Wasteland", after the phrase repeated in the song. Weinstein edit.	1:55:46 (Pop-up)

Ben Johnston

Listener comments!
	🥁 3:01pm listener james from westwood: Hoooo, high-hand bonus! Pay that royal flush!
	🥁 3:01pm david w: james, a winner!
	3:03pm steveo: good afternoon. I've got a royal flush, but hearts. ♥♥♥♥♥
	🥁 3:03pm david w: thanks, steveo!
	3:07pm Ike: You’re a wee bit quiet there, David, but getting a bit better now.
	3:11pm Webhamster Henry: Hi David & Ruth ! My kind of show (again) today!
	🥁 3:11pm david w: Thank, Ike. Something is off in the studio today. Have to figure as we go along. Today's tracks vary wildly in dynamics, always a radio challenge.
	🥁 3:11pm david w: Hello, Henry! (again!)
	3:14pm Ike: Music sounds fine though.
	3:21pm northguineahills: James Tenney!
	🥁 3:21pm david w: ngh!
	3:25pm Ike: You are quieter now. Turn up your mic a bit.
	3:26pm Webhamster Henry: People can explore overtones on my ToneSpiral webpage: jhhl.net...
	3:39pm doctorjazz: So purty, the Been Johnson.
	3:39pm Webhamster Henry: There's Harry! I have the videotape from Innova around here somewhere.
	🥁 3:41pm david w: Yes, doctor. An all time fave here. And Henry, it is really good to see the instruments, crazy gorgeous and wacky.
	3:41pm northguineahills: what doctorjazz said...
	3:42pm Webhamster Henry: Harry would bristle at the mention of his "43-tone" scale; that was just used for tuning some of his fixed pitch instruments. He was simply devoted to "Monophony".
	🥁 3:43pm david w: Yes, Henry. Of course. Just getting at the basics. Explaining monophony is going to kill some folks.
	3:44pm Webhamster Henry: They will die happy!
	3:44pm Webhamster Henry: Or they'll get happy making spare notes for the Xymo-Xyl.
	3:57pm coelacanth∅: greetings David & Ruth and 'woodies
	3:57pm coelacanth∅: (mic break quite quiet)
	3:59pm Ike: Sounds good to me now.
	🥁 4:01pm david w: Thanks, Coel and Ike. We think we found the beast and I'll also have to talk louder!
	🥁 4:02pm listener james from westwood: "Is it just me, or did someone let a brace of woodpeckers in here?"
	4:09pm fred: Good afternoon David, Ruth and listeners
	🥁 4:09pm david w: @james: I just noticed that use of "brace" is that the official gang name for woodpeckers?
	🥁 4:10pm david w: Fred! Welcome to the celebration!
	4:11pm steveo: great listening; i'm rapt
	4:11pm Ike: Yes, this is awesome.
	4:13pm Webhamster Henry: This is the future we were going to have after 1972.
	4:19pm Webhamster Henry: You're even overmodulating a little.
	4:21pm Webhamster Henry: Barstow: because you are on the stream, you won't have to bleep what was not coming instead of "just a truck."
	🥁 4:22pm david w: Ah my legendary inclination to overcompensate!
	🥁 4:23pm listener james from westwood: @david w: Is it? Then Groucho was most accurate when he dropped that line in A Night at the Opera!
	🥁 4:25pm david w: Whoa, james. You're good. I'm getting a dose today...
	🥁 4:29pm david w: There's that naughty line...
	4:31pm Webhamster Henry: The original journal entries with the inscriptions can be found in Bitter Music, pp 201-203 .
	4:32pm Webhamster Henry: The truck passage isn't in there. Maybe he made it up!
	🥁 4:34pm david w: Thanks, Henry. I'm no Partch scholar, just fascinated for decades. One thing for sure, Harry enjoyed hyperbole (and perhaps a tall tale now and then).
	4:36pm fred: I was wondering about "Théâtre de la Musique". Turns out that was how what is now "Gaîté Lyrique" was called for a few years. Now it's focused on digital arts, including music (and a major hipster haunt)
	🥁 4:38pm david w: Thanks, fred. Is it a nice, traditional theatre or some kind of raw space?
	4:42pm Webhamster Henry: The Innova 4-CD "Enclosure" set is pretty good for a good chunk of Partch background, including Warren Burt's reading/playing of Bitter music and "Harry's Wake", recorded at... Harry's wake.
	4:43pm fred: I've only been there once, so I don't really know. More of an arts center than a theater, I think. The original theater room was destroyed when the place was turned into an amusement park for a short while
	🥁 4:45pm david w: Ah, the places we've been! (Dr. Seuss paraphrase seems appropriate for today).
	4:48pm fred: A Charlemagne Palestine concert was the first time I went to Instants Chavirés, which is now my favorite venue.
	4:54pm steveo: thanks david & ruth & any mysterious forces. did not know about baba o'riley -- nice
	🥁 4:54pm david w: steveo, you dreamer!
	4:55pm northguineahills: Am I the only one getting Teenaged Wasteland?
	4:55pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yeah, this is confusing.
	4:55pm steveo: i'm not the only one
	4:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Especially since I"m about to start my show and I once ended my show with loops of Teenage Wasteland.
	4:56pm still b/p: ..Yeah, with a weird abbreviating edit in it, too.
	4:56pm fred: Thanks David!
	4:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Speaking of that, here comes soon: "Layers of Indirection (The party is over when the host serves you a pumpkin.)" A Ken's Last Ever... sound collage: wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:57pm david w: Sorry, I did make an edit. Apologies. But Townshend did honor Terry Riley for real!
	4:58pm northguineahills: I was on the phone, and missed it.....
	🥁 4:59pm david w: Thanks, everybody!
	5:02pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for this personalized show!
	5:02pm andrew Neumann: Great show David, heard so many thing's new to my ears, inclu that British band, The "Who"? I'll have to look 'em up....
	6:24pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ben Johnston	Sonnets of Desolation	Ben Johnston ‎– Visions And Spels / Sonnets Of Desolation	Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)	1984	Sonnet #4 of the piece, entitled That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection. Written for the New Swingle Singers, who premiered the piece in 1981 in Urbana, Illinois. Recognized as masters of the classical scat, the British octet’s repertoire ranges from works of the 16th century to the present.
Malawi Mouse Boys	Kulira Kwambewa (The Crying of the Mouse)	Forever is 4 U	Omnivore Records	2016	Ridgewood Radio Theme https://lovesupportunite.org	0:03:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David W	Music of the Spheres. "Music of the Spheres." by "David W"	Ridgewood Radio Noise Library	Beautiful Drummer	2019	Yo, Pythagoras.	0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Rozalie Hirs	Venus [Morning Star]	Six	Slagwerk Den Haag	2010	For six percussionists and electronic sounds. Hirs was inspired by the mobius-like curves of Zaha Hadid's pavilion in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and by the “Sixxen”, a set of percussion instruments developed by Iannis Xenakis for his work, Pléïades.	0:08:18 (Pop-up)
James Tenney	Septet "Septet" by "James Tenney"	Modern Hearts - New Music For Electric Guitar	Redshift	2014	For six electric guitars and electric bass (1981/2000) performed by Canadian Adrian Verdejo.Guitars re-tuned to the harmonic series of the fundamentals (A and E). The piece traverses these two tonalities using temporal modulation. A canon, each voice rhythmically reflects the ratio of the partials (overtones) as they emerge (3:2, 5:4, etc.).	0:16:31 (Pop-up)
Ben Johnston	String Quartet #4 (Amazing Grace)	Jacaranda	YouTube	2009	Composed 1983, considered the composer's signature masterpiece, performed by Denali Quartet (presented by new-music organization, Jacaranda, Music at the Edge) in Santa Monica, CA.	0:26:47 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch	Daphne of the Dunes "Daphne of the Dunes" by "Harry Partch"	The World Of Harry Partch	Columbia Masterworks	1969	Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 tones generated by the overtone series, outlined in his book Genesis of a Music. Just for curiosity, the names of Partch’s instruments on this piece: Kithara, Surrogate Kithara, Harmonic Canons, Chromelodeon, Cloud-chamber Bowls, Spoils Of War, Gourd Tree, Diamond/Boo/Bass Marimba (with tones so low it is virtually unrecordable!), and Adapted Viola.	0:38:10 (Pop-up)
Ben Johnston	Knocking Piece "Knocking Piece" by "Ben Johnston"	Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 3: Ensembles	NEOS Music	2016	Composed 1963, performed by two percussionists from the University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, September 1966, Darmstadt, Stadthalle. Another example where harmonic ratios are transposed into rhythmic counterpoint: 6 against 5 or 11 against 8, etc. Johnston championed this as a compositional tool.	0:58:57 (Pop-up)
Terry Riley	Persian Surgery Dervishes (#2 Paris)	Persian Surgery Dervishes	Shanti	1972	Recorded live in Paris, France at Théâtre de la Musique on 24 May 1972, using a modified Yamaha electric organ tuned in just intonation.	1:04:13 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch	Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California	The World Of Harry Partch	Columbia Masterworks	1969	The composer spent some time riding the rails as a "hobo" (in search off truth while eschewing commonpractice traditions) and knew this marginal culture well.	1:20:11 (Pop-up)
Charlemagne Palestine, Tony Conrad	An Aural Symbiotic Mystery	An Aural Symbiotic Mystery	Sub Rosa	2006	Recorded at Petit Théâtre Mercelis, September 7, 2005, Brussels. Palestine, piano, drone; Conrad, violin. Excerpt.	1:29:25 (Pop-up)
The Who	Baba O'Riley "Baba O'Riley" by "The Who"	Who's Next	Polydor	1971	Composer Pete Townshend recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its note multi-attack feature as the backing track. The song's title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, among Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors. The song is often mistakenly called "Teenage Wasteland", after the phrase repeated in the song. Weinstein edit.	1:55:46 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 3:01pm listener james from westwood: Hoooo, high-hand bonus! Pay that royal flush!
	🥁 3:01pm david w: james, a winner!
	3:03pm steveo: good afternoon. I've got a royal flush, but hearts. ♥♥♥♥♥
	🥁 3:03pm david w: thanks, steveo!
	3:07pm Ike: You’re a wee bit quiet there, David, but getting a bit better now.
	3:11pm Webhamster Henry: Hi David & Ruth ! My kind of show (again) today!
	🥁 3:11pm david w: Thank, Ike. Something is off in the studio today. Have to figure as we go along. Today's tracks vary wildly in dynamics, always a radio challenge.
	🥁 3:11pm david w: Hello, Henry! (again!)
	3:14pm Ike: Music sounds fine though.
	3:21pm northguineahills: James Tenney!
	🥁 3:21pm david w: ngh!
	3:25pm Ike: You are quieter now. Turn up your mic a bit.
	3:26pm Webhamster Henry: People can explore overtones on my ToneSpiral webpage: jhhl.net...
	3:39pm doctorjazz: So purty, the Been Johnson.
	3:39pm Webhamster Henry: There's Harry! I have the videotape from Innova around here somewhere.
	🥁 3:41pm david w: Yes, doctor. An all time fave here. And Henry, it is really good to see the instruments, crazy gorgeous and wacky.
	3:41pm northguineahills: what doctorjazz said...
	3:42pm Webhamster Henry: Harry would bristle at the mention of his "43-tone" scale; that was just used for tuning some of his fixed pitch instruments. He was simply devoted to "Monophony".
	🥁 3:43pm david w: Yes, Henry. Of course. Just getting at the basics. Explaining monophony is going to kill some folks.
	3:44pm Webhamster Henry: They will die happy!
	3:44pm Webhamster Henry: Or they'll get happy making spare notes for the Xymo-Xyl.
	3:57pm coelacanth∅: greetings David & Ruth and 'woodies
	3:57pm coelacanth∅: (mic break quite quiet)
	3:59pm Ike: Sounds good to me now.
	🥁 4:01pm david w: Thanks, Coel and Ike. We think we found the beast and I'll also have to talk louder!
	🥁 4:02pm listener james from westwood: "Is it just me, or did someone let a brace of woodpeckers in here?"
	4:09pm fred: Good afternoon David, Ruth and listeners
	🥁 4:09pm david w: @james: I just noticed that use of "brace" is that the official gang name for woodpeckers?
	🥁 4:10pm david w: Fred! Welcome to the celebration!
	4:11pm steveo: great listening; i'm rapt
	4:11pm Ike: Yes, this is awesome.
	4:13pm Webhamster Henry: This is the future we were going to have after 1972.
	4:19pm Webhamster Henry: You're even overmodulating a little.
	4:21pm Webhamster Henry: Barstow: because you are on the stream, you won't have to bleep what was not coming instead of "just a truck."
	🥁 4:22pm david w: Ah my legendary inclination to overcompensate!
	🥁 4:23pm listener james from westwood: @david w: Is it? Then Groucho was most accurate when he dropped that line in A Night at the Opera!
	🥁 4:25pm david w: Whoa, james. You're good. I'm getting a dose today...
	🥁 4:29pm david w: There's that naughty line...
	4:31pm Webhamster Henry: The original journal entries with the inscriptions can be found in Bitter Music, pp 201-203 .
	4:32pm Webhamster Henry: The truck passage isn't in there. Maybe he made it up!
	🥁 4:34pm david w: Thanks, Henry. I'm no Partch scholar, just fascinated for decades. One thing for sure, Harry enjoyed hyperbole (and perhaps a tall tale now and then).
	4:36pm fred: I was wondering about "Théâtre de la Musique". Turns out that was how what is now "Gaîté Lyrique" was called for a few years. Now it's focused on digital arts, including music (and a major hipster haunt)
	🥁 4:38pm david w: Thanks, fred. Is it a nice, traditional theatre or some kind of raw space?
	4:42pm Webhamster Henry: The Innova 4-CD "Enclosure" set is pretty good for a good chunk of Partch background, including Warren Burt's reading/playing of Bitter music and "Harry's Wake", recorded at... Harry's wake.
	4:43pm fred: I've only been there once, so I don't really know. More of an arts center than a theater, I think. The original theater room was destroyed when the place was turned into an amusement park for a short while
	🥁 4:45pm david w: Ah, the places we've been! (Dr. Seuss paraphrase seems appropriate for today).
	4:48pm fred: A Charlemagne Palestine concert was the first time I went to Instants Chavirés, which is now my favorite venue.
	4:54pm steveo: thanks david & ruth & any mysterious forces. did not know about baba o'riley -- nice
	🥁 4:54pm david w: steveo, you dreamer!
	4:55pm northguineahills: Am I the only one getting Teenaged Wasteland?
	4:55pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Yeah, this is confusing.
	4:55pm steveo: i'm not the only one
	4:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Especially since I"m about to start my show and I once ended my show with loops of Teenage Wasteland.
	4:56pm still b/p: ..Yeah, with a weird abbreviating edit in it, too.
	4:56pm fred: Thanks David!
	4:56pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Speaking of that, here comes soon: "Layers of Indirection (The party is over when the host serves you a pumpkin.)" A Ken's Last Ever... sound collage: wfmu.org...
	🥁 4:57pm david w: Sorry, I did make an edit. Apologies. But Townshend did honor Terry Riley for real!
	4:58pm northguineahills: I was on the phone, and missed it.....
	🥁 4:59pm david w: Thanks, everybody!
	5:02pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for this personalized show!
	5:02pm andrew Neumann: Great show David, heard so many thing's new to my ears, inclu that British band, The "Who"? I'll have to look 'em up....
	6:24pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David!

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from August 7, 2019

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