Favoriting Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from November 8, 2021 Favoriting

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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.] (Visit homepage.)

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Favoriting November 8, 2021: Back in the Light + 2021 ending | Download 2021 MP3

Revisiting a fun 2-hour improvised plunderphonic journey, with live calls, new music loops, daylight-inspired word-thoughts and spontaneous music-drifts.

"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."

Listen to 2021 variation, here!

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(* = new, *** = special)

Artist Track Album Year Comments New / Special Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Back In the Light (2019 update)   Favoriting Show #597, from June 20, 2018  2018  Updated Sept. 9, 2019, played here Sept. 11, 2019, here we are layering it some more in 2021. Fall back.    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Bloc Party  The Pioneers (M83 Remix)   Favoriting          
Ween  The Mollusk   Favoriting     Loop     
Ken  We're here now   Favoriting   2018    * ***    
Live phone caller  Introducing, from The Bronx   Favoriting          
Generationals  Avery   Favoriting     Loops     
Gary Oldman  Bring me everyone. Everyone!   Favoriting Leon: The Professional movie  1994       
Anois  A Noise   Favoriting          
War on Drugs  You Don't Have to Go   Favoriting     Loops     
Beach Fossils  This Year   Favoriting     Loops     
  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...)     
Derek Sivers  Obvious to you, amazing to others   Favoriting          
Lara Flynn-Boyle  It's like I'm having the most beautiful dream, and the most terrible nightmare, all at once   Favoriting Twin Peaks         
Jack Kornfield  Meditations, part 12   Favoriting Your Buddha Nature         
Dan Seals  Three Time Loser   Favoriting     Loops     
Orson Welles  There is no wisdom in compromise   Favoriting     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.     
Ricky Gervais  More people hate it than love it. Luckily, you don't need everyone on the planet to like it   Favoriting     You do it for you and like-minded people     
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue   Favoriting Show #586, from 5/15/18  2018  With other bits, like Latter-Day Saints, background loops, Liz Phair Shatter  * ***    
Live phone caller  Hangs up, busy tone   Favoriting   2018       
Ken  It all belongs to you and everyone   Favoriting   2018       
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue   Favoriting Show #586, from 5/15/18  2018  You may not get what you want, but it's OK to ask  * ***    
Liz Phair  Shatter   Favoriting     Loops     
Live phone caller & Ken  Interruptions. How do we accept that it's all part of the same thing? Talk without thinking.   Favoriting   2018  A word you haven't thought of yet. Look without knowing.     
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue   Favoriting Show #586, from 5/15/18  2018  Take turns not giving the thing that's asked for  * ***    
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   Favoriting Dream Lover  1993       
  I feel happy of myself     2011       
Live phone caller (Rich)  Have you ever had a dream?   Favoriting          
Liz Phair  Shatter   Favoriting     Loops     
Ken  You don't have to know what it is   Favoriting   2018    * ***    
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Ken's "Limits (taking care)" monologue   Favoriting Show #586, from 5/15/18  2018  The door  * ***    
Walter Murch  You must defend your dreams, they're your most prized possession   Favoriting          
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   Favoriting Twin Peaks         
Jane Seymour  The man of my dreams is almost faded now   Favoriting Somewhere in Time movie  1980  Time travel romance     
Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer  They don't hang a man for that   Favoriting Gaslight  1944  There were times when I thought I'd only dreamed those days.     
William Hurt, Albert Brooks  What do you do when your real life exceeds your dreams? (Keep it to yourself)   Favoriting Broadcast News movie         
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   Favoriting Summertime  1955       
Adrien Brody  How are you to imagine anything, if the images are always provided for you   Favoriting Detachment movie  2011       
Geneviève Bujold  Imagine whatever you say has impact. You can't just listen to me. I'm just a clown!   Favoriting Choose Me  1984  Dir. Alan Rudolph     
Tycho  Awake   Favoriting     Loops     
Georges Delerue  Le Grand choral   Favoriting          
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.   Favoriting   2018    * ***    
Liz Phair  Shatter   Favoriting     Loops, more of song     
Dan Seals  Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)   Favoriting     Intro looping, then whole song     
Spoon  Can I Sit   Favoriting     Loop pitch shifting, with Dan Seals     
Dan Seals  Three Time Loser   Favoriting     Loops     
Steely Dan  Midnite Cruiser   Favoriting     Loops     
David Weinstein  The great wall of Kenzo   Favoriting   2018       
Beach Fossils  This Year   Favoriting     Loops     
Walter Murch  You get things you'd be unlikely to get if you'd set them up intentionally (Li)   Favoriting     You can't predict when it's going to happen. The price you pay for it is a lot of material     
  Dare to Live Without Limits       Brief     
Walter Murch  Tapestry of mono and stereo, shifts in environment   Favoriting          
Radiohead  Exit Music (for a film)   Favoriting     Loops     
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  I'm going to put these earplugs in right now   Favoriting Limits (taking care)  2018  I am not available right now     
Radiohead  Exit Music (for a film)   Favoriting     Backwards loops     
 
Monsters coming from above and below
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Ken  You can't be wrong about yourself   Favoriting Show #586, from 5/15/18  2018    * ***    
Tycho  Awake   Favoriting     Loops     
Robert Redford  Are there any questions? Any comments? Suggestions? I'd be happy to respond to anything that's on your mind   Favoriting The Candidate movie  1972       
Patrick McGoohan  It means what it is   Favoriting The Prisoner         
Melvyn Douglas  There's so much left to do   Favoriting Being There  1979       
David Cronenberg  Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place that had great resonance for you   Favoriting The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (1x10)         
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   Favoriting Ambition  1991       
Walter Murch  The power of sound   Favoriting          
Walter Murch  Make an alloy out of two metals that normally don't go together   Favoriting          
Ween  The Mollusk   Favoriting     Loop     
Generationals  When They Fight, They Fight   Favoriting     Loops     
Hal Hartley  No one told me, it wasn't my fault   Favoriting Ambition  1991       
Live phone caller  Guitar   Favoriting   2018       
Ken and live stream feedback  You're still here   Favoriting          
george  Le Grand choral   Favoriting          
Alexandre Desplat  Mr. Fox in the Fields   Favoriting Fantastic Mr. Fox OST         
Alexandre Desplat  Prologue Scene   Favoriting Birth s.t.         
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...   Favoriting Ambition  1991  I did what I could, and I did everything right.     
Justin Hurwitz  Mia & Sebastian’s Theme   Favoriting La La Land s.t.  2016       
Aimee Mann  Wise Up   Favoriting Magnolia s.t.  1999  Loops     
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.   Favoriting Ambition  1991  I want to change people's minds.     
Aimee Mann  Wise Up   Favoriting Magnolia s.t.  1999  Loops, layers     
Ken  Everybody waited for everybody else. All will sparkle if you come out   Favoriting   2018  Some of the sparkles will be spikey, but they will shine.  * ***    
Console with Der Dritte Raum  Upon (Der Dritte Raum Trance Mix)   Favoriting     Layers     
fujitsu  Azure   Favoriting          
dj BC  Nothing In Its Right Place (Roots, Radiohead)   Favoriting          
Moby  Grace   Favoriting          
Ken and live stream feedback  I guess that's it. I don't know how to make it stop   Favoriting   2018    * ***    
 
Ken and apprentice  2021 feedback loop (I'm not saying anything)   Favoriting   2021      1:59:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Listener comments!

Avatar 6/19/18 6:49pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It's a fun one, with live calls and new loops and daylight-inspired word-thoughts and music-drifts.
Avatar 6/20/18 5:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

You're on the air
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:14pm
northguineahills:

I'm not hear..... or their..... ;0
Avatar 6/20/18 5:16pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yes no you are
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:18pm
northguineahills:

@Kenzo: I agree to not agree, unless your don't then I do.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:19pm
northguineahills:

errr..unless you don't....
Avatar 6/20/18 5:20pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Our weekly stand off
Avatar 6/20/18 5:24pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

ngh I don't think you called this week (Mon 2-4pm ET)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:25pm
melinda:

hi all
Avatar 6/20/18 5:26pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Long time no soundy, melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:26pm
northguineahills:

I was buried w/ work. Crap, I'll be in Miami next week and my boss will be out.
Avatar 6/20/18 5:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

So your boss can't call. Rats.
Avatar 6/20/18 5:30pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Talk without thinking
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:31pm
northguineahills:

walk w/o blinking....
Avatar 6/20/18 5:32pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

We don't know
Avatar 6/20/18 5:33pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Have you ever had to ask someone to please stop breaking your door open?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:34pm
Rich in Washington:

In a dumb meeting until just now.
Avatar 6/20/18 5:35pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

So much dumb. Where's The Weatherman when you need him
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:35pm
northguineahills:

@Kenzo: Only myself....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:36pm
Rich in Washington:

Damnation! We should get him here!
Avatar 6/20/18 5:38pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks Rich!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 5:40pm
northguineahills:

I had a friend learn to ride a bike when she was 30. Now, she rides all over NYC (I helped teach her).
Avatar 6/20/18 5:43pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

There were times when I thought I'd only dreamed those days.
Avatar 6/20/18 5:48pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I love Alan Rudolph films
Avatar 6/20/18 5:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

First time Tycho on WFMU since Keili
Avatar 6/20/18 5:54pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The faders on this board are all full of fuzz and no fixes coming. I need to slide faders constantly! They must be smooth.
Avatar 6/20/18 5:55pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I am confused af when I watch a sound engineer at a live show and they're sitting back. Even when I'm running sound for a single person giving a speech, I am on the knobs the entire time.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:01pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Here I raced to look up lyrics to make sure no American-radio-unsafe words. What a strange thing to have to do.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:02pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Photo taken last week in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:05pm
Rich in Washington:

I went for a walk but could listen via headphonium. There are fluffy little clouds in the sky where I am at.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Cloud monsters here too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:06pm
Rich in Washington:

piled really high. Like they might spill over at any moment.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:09pm
northguineahills:

@Rich: Cue the Orb....
Avatar 6/20/18 6:11pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The price you pay for it is a lot of material
Avatar 6/20/18 6:12pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I hope The Weatherman loves Walter Murch
Avatar 6/20/18 6:18pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Rich: I just added last night's cloud pile to the playlist. Monsters coming from above and below.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:18pm
Rich in Washington:

I do know he loves THX-1138.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:25pm
βrian:

print STDOUT "Say what?\n";
Avatar 6/20/18 6:26pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

echo "hi Brian";
Avatar 6/20/18 6:29pm
βrian:

I, for one, have never taken a cab to work.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:32pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And now they try to make you feel guilty for trying to work yourself to death
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:32pm
melinda:

I love the Mollusk
Avatar 6/20/18 6:34pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I looped it in a mix for my freeform dance group Sunday. And in a show back in the mid 90's using the CD player A-B loop I miss so so much.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:35pm
βrian:

@melinda: It's the brine, isn't it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:36pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Kenzo, exiting work!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:37pm
Rich in Washington:

A-B looping is fantastic. I used to have a really old portable Sony CD Discman that had seamless looping.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:38pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah, the Sony A-B looping was totally seamless. Amazing. Then computers came along and couldn't do that reliably.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6/20/18 6:41pm
Rich in Washington:

I think the only thing that approaches that ability to loop on the fly like that are some of those looper pedals for guitar
Avatar 6/20/18 6:41pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Birth, amazing film. Harris Savides, amazing cinematographer (rip)
Avatar 6/20/18 6:42pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I want the image I have of myself and myself to become one.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:49pm
βrian:

Where's Jack Kornfield?
Avatar 6/20/18 6:49pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

He got interrupted
Avatar 6/20/18 6:51pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Maybe I'll merge the two. Maybe not.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:51pm
βrian:

Oh, golly. We're coming to an end. Sadness. But thanks, Kenzo. I'll be Bach.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:52pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Brian: You can go backwards right to what you missed; the archive links will be up in a couple of moments.
Avatar 6/20/18 6:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

(I recommend it!)
Avatar 9/11/19 5:03pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Feedback test
Avatar 9/11/19 5:04pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

You start every communication by listening to the mirror
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 5:12pm
chresti:

Hello Kenzo and everybody in Kenzoland!
Avatar 9/11/19 5:12pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hello and back from a very long computer crash.
Avatar 9/11/19 5:24pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Storm comin', apologies if connection goes out. Trees, wires, freedom...
Avatar 9/11/19 5:33pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thank you know
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 5:46pm
chresti:

You are huangry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 5:48pm
chresti:

I'm a clown
Avatar 9/11/19 5:48pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

No, I want beefsteak.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 5:49pm
chresti:

I am a huangry clown
Avatar 9/11/19 5:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I like this combo
Avatar 9/11/19 6:03pm
Carmichael:

i really liked the movie Choose Me.
Avatar 9/11/19 6:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I like this combo too
Avatar 9/11/19 6:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Carm Oooh, let's talk about Alan Rudolph
Avatar 9/11/19 6:06pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

His films are like no other to me. And how it takes a few to get into his universe.
Avatar 9/11/19 6:09pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Sounds like an optigan
  9/11/19 6:29pm
Gary via app on his long commute home:

Hola, been listening since the beginning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 6:29pm
melinda:

hello
Avatar 9/11/19 6:31pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hi here, beginning Gary, middle Carmichael, always chresti, sometimes melinda, spiralling me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 6:31pm
melinda:

I love the Mollusk
Avatar 9/11/19 6:32pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

("and introducing, northguineahills.")
Avatar 9/11/19 6:32pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I like this mix too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9/11/19 6:32pm
melinda:

I remember being intrigued by the trailer for Choose Me.
Avatar 9/11/19 6:33pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I CD-player-looped the Mollusk in a mid-90's show and then forgot about it until 10 years later and then again here.
Avatar 9/11/19 6:34pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

You can't predict when it's going to happen. The price you pay for it is a lot of material.
Avatar 9/11/19 6:34pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I can't remember if I know who called in with this guitar
Avatar 9/11/19 6:44pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I was just watching the Tom Cruise deathbed scene in Magnolia.
Avatar 9/11/19 6:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

That's it! Life/love everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
Rich in Washington:

here we are
Avatar 3:01pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I suppose you're right! I can't remember I know who will have called in with that guitar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
fred:

I need this
  3:02pm
Listener Robert:

Did you set your calendar back on Sunday?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Bas NL:

Hi Kenzo,all.
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spodiodi:

ahoy, ahoy, Kenzo and everyone
Avatar 3:04pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yes, fall back
Avatar 3:12pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Welcome, Rich, fred, Robert, Bas, spodiodi, and...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
Webhamster Henry:

Back again again.
Avatar 3:19pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Henry, you're early
Avatar 3:27pm
spodiodi:

i'll need to give that some thought, Kenzo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
fred:

I want to die, right now this show is my lifeline
Avatar 3:28pm
bill hanke:

hello. am I on the air?
Avatar 3:31pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It's ok to die, and ok not to, hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Bas NL:

Stumped. Dumbfounded.
Avatar 4:08pm
spodiodi:

cutting this rug to shreds
Avatar 4:09pm
johnec:

Are you okay Fred? I just tuned in so maybe I missed something?
  4:11pm
Kenzo:

Fred, you are a good being to be here on this planet.
Avatar 4:14pm
bill hanke:

I'd like to request Town Without Pity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
Bas NL:

I love my live mix shaking and stirring.
  4:23pm
Kenzo:

Thanks for your request, Bill. I appreciate it.
  4:35pm
Jon:

This is all very incredible
  4:37pm
Kenzo:

Thanks Jon. Hi John.
  4:37pm
Kenzo:

johnec, that is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Webhamster Henry:

This part is a lot like "Electronic Voice Phenomena" - voices of the dead heard on radios.
Avatar 4:42pm
bill hanke:

I wish Tom Delay was here
  4:42pm
Kenzo:

Uh oh who else died, did I?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
WR:

Some animals have urge to mark certain objects or places. I know little about but that I sometimes do it too.
  4:47pm
Kenzo:

Well played, WR
  4:48pm
Ross:

tuning in from Glasgow, this sounds great, thanks for chilling me out
Avatar 4:50pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Glad, Ross! Come back. Here 3-5pm EST Mondays plus whatever it says on lastever.org
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Bas NL:

Nice one Kenzo. Thanks for sharing!
Avatar 4:50pm
spodiodi:

thank you, Kenzo! hear you next *
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

You could do a whole show where you are guessing that "that's it."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

You could cut in a bit of Joe Frank's No Show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Rich in Washington:

thats it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
WR:

Thank you Kenzo!
Avatar 5:05pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks everyone for not saying anything. See you Monday 3-5pm Eastern Standard Time or you could hear the archive right now!
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