Favoriting Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from March 31, 2021 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting March 31, 2021: The Mills Phenom

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The Center for Contemporary Music and art programs at Mills College in Oakland
have been an essential resource for global artistic culture for decades.
Hear from some of those who kept it ticking including Robert Ashley, David Behrman,
Maggi Payne, David Rosenboom, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, and Pauline Oliveros.
For Tony Martin.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Maggi Payne  Gamelan   Favoriting Ahh-Ahh  Root Strata  2012  Composed and recorded in 1984-1987 for Technological Feets - a performance group led by video artist Ed Tannenbaum.   
 
Chris Brown, Frank Gratowski, William Winant  Concert Recording   Favoriting Interpretations Concert Series  Roulette Concert Archive  11 Dec 2014  Chris Brown, piano and electronics; Frank Gratowski, woodwinds; and William Winant, percussion.  0:07:01 (Pop-up)
Roscoe Mitchell Sextet  One Little Suite   Favoriting Sound  Delmark Records  1966  Composer Mitchell – alto saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder; Lester Bowie – trumpet, flugelhorn, harmonica; Malachi Favors – bass; Maurice McIntyre – tenor saxophone; Lester Lashley – trombone, cello; Alvin Fielder – percussion.  0:24:13 (Pop-up)
 
David Rosenboom  Chilean Drought   Favoriting Brainwave Music  A.R.C. Records  1975  Composer Rosenboom (piano and brainwave-capturing electronics) in collaboration with Jacqueline Humbert (voice, text) performed with vocalists Dug Spitznagel, Robin Engleman, Ellen Band. Recently re-released on Black Truffle.  0:38:48 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women   Favoriting In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women  Nova Musicha  1974  Based on John Barton Wolgamot's experimental book-length poem of 128 stanzas, each made of the same phrase into which are introduced variables of names, groups of names, constructions of names, and the adverb of the active verb. With Paul DeMarinis, electronics and Ashley speaking.  0:46:39 (Pop-up)
 
Maggi Payne  Scirocco   Favoriting Crystal  Lovely Music  1991  From the composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, vocal works, and works involving visuals.  1:07:19 (Pop-up)
David Behrman  Runthrough   Favoriting Wave Train  Alga Marghen  1998  Composed (and recorded?) in 1967-1968 for homemade synthesizers and electronics performed by Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and Robert Ashley. About the project Behrman writes, “We used to stir sounds around multi-channel surround sound systems by waving little flashlights over the photocell mixers in darkened halls”.  1:16:47 (Pop-up)
Zeena Parkins  Muted   Favoriting Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics  Good Child Music  2017  Harpists: Nuiko Wadden, Kristen Theriault, Megan Conley, and composer Parkins.  1:28:55 (Pop-up)
 
Pauline Oliveros  Drifting Depths   Favoriting Eleh / Pauline Oliveros The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton / Drifting Depths  Important Records  2008  For harmonica processed through Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System (EIS).  1:40:53 (Pop-up)



Tony Martin's view from from his light show console, Tokyo 1970.


 
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Listener Gregory:

Good afternoon. I'm here for almost the first hour.
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david w:

Hello, Gregory!
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listener james from westwood:

Internet conked out just as the show started. Unjust! We're back on now. Howdy all!
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Doug Schulkind:

Extremely horrible news about Mills.
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david w:

Hello james and hello Doug. And yeah...
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Listener Gregory:

Almost the only thing I have ever heard about Mills involves this Center. So, it is insane for a small school to choose this to close. Rather, it should double down on it to take advantage of its unique reputation, for fund raising and attracting students.
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david w:

I only know what we can read in the news, no inside scoops here, but it looks like it is going down.
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WR:

Hello david w, ruth if you are out there and listeners everywhere.
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david w:

Hello, WR. I'm pretty sure ruth is lurking.
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doctorjazz:

Hi, David, Ruth, listeners!
  5:15pm
ruth:

Hi everybody!
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david w:

djazzification achieved!
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Listener Gregory:

Wikipedia: On March 17, 2021, Mills announced that starting in fall 2021 it would transition away from being a degree-granting college, instead becoming Mills Institute, and expected to graduate its last students in 2023.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:29pm
david w:

Apparently there is still some resistance to this plan. As ruth said to me today, why doesn't silicon valley recognize this as an historic treasure and rescue the place?
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Listener Gregory:

Seems that the Center closure was just one step on a complete closure. Their announcement suggests they don't really know what the Institute will be that continues after the College ends. www.mills.edu...
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Doug Schulkind:

One Silicon Valley tech bro could save Mills with a month of lunch money.
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WR:

That Roscoe Mitchell Sextet is fundamental to my music DNA. Soul comforting sounds.
  5:52pm
ruth:

I like this. Never heard it before--or forgot...
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northguineahills:

Bob Ashley!
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Webhamster Henry:

My kinda music here.
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Listener Gregory:

David Weinstein very heroically presented show (so far), Listener Gregory very altruistically listened but must go very tragically now. Thanks very sincerely.
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northguineahills:

I have this in a LP box set I found in a stoop sale....
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david w:

ngh! Henry! And thanks Gregory ha!
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Listener Gregory:

@ngh, hold on to that one.
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chresti:

Hi David and ruth and Ridgewoodians!
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david w:

chresti! off the court on on the stream hello!
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Webhamster Henry:

My Mills connections are Dr. PO and Phil Burk, of HMSL and JMSL fame.
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WR:

In 2011 I saw excerpt of Ashley's Perfect Lives in Spanish with Ned Sublette doing the narration. Before that I didn't really know Ashley's work. Having since heard lots of Ashley, curious to revisit Sublette's reading to balance the again Ashley's distinctive reading voice.
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northguineahills:

@Gregory: There are some rekkids I will never part w/....
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david w:

Oliveros will make an appearance today. Phil Burk good to note!
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david w:

Perfect Lives gets a lot of play, I always loved this lesser known piece.
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Webhamster Henry:

HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) was developed by Phil and Larry Polansky and a few others, Larry did more on the music side of it.
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WR:

This and other Ashley pieces I've heard are what I would term as much more dense than Perfect Lives, if that makes sense. Perfect Lives I would term as elegiac. clumsy attempts on my part terming this and that.
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northguineahills:

I heart Larry Polansky (not to be confused w/ Paul Lansky)

Experimental music is a process to create. Otherwise, it's just a lazy term for music you don't "get".
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david w:

Did Polansky go through Mills? I wouldn't be surprised. I met him as he was moving towards his looong career at Dartmouth.
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WR:

I put on head phones today because my partner is in work meeting across the room. Liking it. Is now my listening mode of choice for Ridgewood Radio.
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david w:

The next piece (Behrman) was designed to be spatial so...enjoy!
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northguineahills:

I got to see Behrman once. Unfortunately, I was very drunk (came from a bday party), and don't remember much.
  6:20pm
ruth:

Mmm Put it on the speaker.
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chresti:

I need surround sound in the shower.
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david w:

chresti, that is an invention that might make you a fortune!
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doctorjazz:

Heading home, thanks, David and Ruth!
  6:28pm
ruth:

See you next time dr.j
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WR:

laters doc
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david w:

Thank you doctorjazz.
  6:32pm
ruth:

Zeena! I love this one.
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Webhamster Henry:

Saw Behman lots of times at EIF. Was on jury duty once with Zeena.
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northguineahills:

fuck, I had a friend that went to Mills in 2009.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
david w:

Coming up:
Gary Sullivan hosts Bodega Pop 7-10pm EDT: East Main Street: Tracks by Asian American & Pacific Islander artists, from Honolulu to NYC, and a special guest appearance by Rattana
Sam Segal hosts If You Lose Your Horse 10-midnite
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Webhamster Henry:

I gotta get bigger speakers.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
david w:

Always on my wish list. Anybody following the Malcolm Cecil (TONTO) story this week? Incredible.
Avatar 6:53pm
northguineahills:

Thanks, david and ruth!
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Webhamster Henry:

The old Deep Listening Space here in Kingston had a 5.1 system I think.
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david w:

Wrapping up... stay tuned for Gary S and thanks everybody. Save Mills!
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks David & Ruth ! I hope something can be saved from Mills.
Ready for some Bodega snacks!
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WR:

Wonderful program today, and upon reflection, there are many many others you could include in a program of The Mills Phenom. Ah, limitations of time and space.
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listener james from westwood:

Always a joy, y'all!
  6:57pm
Hank:

Hey ! Thanks !
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
WR:

Thank you, thank you! Onward.
  6:59pm
ruth:

Indeed! Another great coupla hours David! And another week with all our pals- a bright spot. And Spring!
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chresti:

Thank you David!
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