WFMU: Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from December 12, 2022

Listener comments!
	12:40am Jim the Poet: Comments are an illusion! Fiiiiiiiirst
	3:00am Scott67: Conjuring up a comment.💫💥 G'day Jim & Shamfaces. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌮
	3:03am greenlight: Hi Jim!
	3:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Snow good to be here.
	3:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Billy triggering some GeneClark receptors.
	3:10am Rory: Hey Jim and heads. Continue the all nighter!
	3:11am Alessandro_Italy: I didn't know that sitting in a room cover !!!
	3:29am Jim the Poet: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.
	3:33am S.: It took a while to pick up, but now it has mutated itself into something wonderful.
	3:34am Alessandro_Italy: Yes Jim, Alvin Lucier CIT
	3:34am Rory: Let’s smash rhythm and call it speech.
	3:35am Jim the Poet: "This is a reinterpretation of the important intersonic work "I Am Sitting in a Room" by the American composer Alvin Lucier from 1969. In the original work, Alvin Lucier is in a room and records his voice on a tape recorder. This tape recording is played back and recorded in the room at the same time, thus amplifying the frequencies that resonate in the room, beginning to reveal reverberations or imperfections that affect the recording of his initial phrase. He repeats this process 32 times breaking down his voice, destroying the pronunciation of the words with each repetition, bringing out the sound or noise that each word hides. The original phrase is completely lost like this, his voice evolving into a piece of noise. This work explained in the 19th century. I have tried to bring it to the century, to the era of automatic text readers used in social networks in 2022. In my case the reader is not a person, the reader is Mike (UK) from the Naturalreaders website. His pronunciation is almost perfect in a way, he is phonetically a representation of a standard human. The recording of the voice was done digitally and in this case inside a computer. To soften his pronunciation, I superimposed each repetition with a delay of 120ms, so that with each repetition the phrase changes, until we get a noise track with the initial phrase, through the digital additions and overlaps that occur between his pronunciations."
	4:18am greenlight: yesterday I was going through my archive of late night improvised experimental recordings captured mainly during lockdowns (electronica/drone/minimal/noise/ambient) looking for them right sounds trying to finish more of "proper" tracks I am working on (whenever I have time). I found so many interesting stuff I forgot about. I might just create an bandcamp page and release them as an experimental obscure stuff/ep.
	4:19am greenlight: I absolutely love your show Jim
	4:31am Jim the Poet: I can't handle compliments
	4:31am Steiner: All night snow excitement, with jams!
	4:32am greenlight: sorry
	4:34am Jim the Poet: Not your fault
	4:58am Strandlund: Good Morning Jim...I hope this is the only snow I see today.
	5:00am AndrewC.: Good Morning, I am pleased to report this is music where you can sign in to your weekly team meeting on Zoom and just leave WFMU playing while you do! Very helpful.
	5:09am Fredericks: You don't have to shout, J the P.
	5:10am Toutevoix: that sounded great !!! 12 claps
	5:49am Jim the Poet: "Four pieces composed on the Meng Qi Wing Pinger, a duophonic electronic instrument consisting of 2x 4-pole resonant low pass filters. These filters can be cross “pinged” and modulated, both directly and by generated step signals. These tracks are the result of trials and happy accidents during my first days with the Wing Pinger. A deliberately minimal approach which gives birth to empirical generative soundscapes and random noises. This album is a tribute to the work of Morton Subotnick and refers specifically to his third record composed entirely on Buchla's 100 Series modular synth “Touch” in 1969. Special thanks to Meng Qi for creating such a unique and inspiring instrument."
	5:51am radioronan: Well I enjoyed what sounds Ive heard this morn....thanks. Jim!
	5:57am Scott67: Thanks Jim! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	5:57am greenlight: thanks!
	5:59am LiXiviated Life: Thea last to say “ hello”

Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from December 12, 2022

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Classic overnight radio with that feel of an unanticipated fill-in! Hour-long installation pieces, murmurs in the dark, endless hurtling to the bottomless abyss! Hi Mom!

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Wed. Dec 25th, Midnight - 3am: Jim the Poet fills in for Radio Futura
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Fri. Jan 3rd, 2025, 6pm - 7pm: Jim the Poet fills in for Bucci

December 12, 2022: If Free Will Is An Illusion That Must Be The Reason Why You're Still Tuned In

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy	Beware Your Only Friend	Beware			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Iker Munduate	Repetition 1-32 "Repetition 1-32" by "Iker Munduate"	I Am Sitting In A Room			0:03:45 (Pop-up)
Breakdancing Ronald Reagan	Untitled	Neuroscience Is Dumb			0:39:16 (Pop-up)

RICHARD CHARTIER + TAYLOR DEUPREE	Specification.Twelve	Specification.Twelve			1:00:13 (Pop-up)

foresteppe	+++ (abandon) "+++ (abandon)" by "foresteppe"	'black' covers: exercises for two tabletop organs			2:07:34 (Pop-up)
Dan Cooper	Coopurge "Coopurge" by "Dan Cooper"	Dan Dan Cooper Dan Cooper Dan Dan Cooper Cooper Dan Dan Dan Cooper Cooper Dan Cooper Dan Dan Dan Cooper			2:15:01 (Pop-up)
United Entities for Well-Being of Earth	Calibration_Sonarak	Interception of Alien Intelligence Communications			2:23:01 (Pop-up)
Ichiro Mizuki	Ultraman + UltraSeven theme (Ultraman + UltraSeven theme (Ichiro Mizuki Ver) Ver)		Rest in Peace		2:35:03 (Pop-up)
Guidewire	Paaa "Paaa" by "Guidewire"	The Waiting Room			2:39:22 (Pop-up)
KHAGE	TASTE (Beginning) "TASTE (Beginning)" by "KHAGE"	TASTE [Created by KHAGE on the Meng Qi Wing Pinger Electronic Music System]			2:45:40 (Pop-up)
Kindsight	Sun is Always in My Eyes	Swedish Punk		*	2:54:42 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:40am Jim the Poet: Comments are an illusion! Fiiiiiiiirst
	3:00am Scott67: Conjuring up a comment.💫💥 G'day Jim & Shamfaces. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌮
	3:03am greenlight: Hi Jim!
	3:03am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Snow good to be here.
	3:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Billy triggering some GeneClark receptors.
	3:10am Rory: Hey Jim and heads. Continue the all nighter!
	3:11am Alessandro_Italy: I didn't know that sitting in a room cover !!!
	3:29am Jim the Poet: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.
	3:33am S.: It took a while to pick up, but now it has mutated itself into something wonderful.
	3:34am Alessandro_Italy: Yes Jim, Alvin Lucier CIT
	3:34am Rory: Let’s smash rhythm and call it speech.
	3:35am Jim the Poet: "This is a reinterpretation of the important intersonic work "I Am Sitting in a Room" by the American composer Alvin Lucier from 1969. In the original work, Alvin Lucier is in a room and records his voice on a tape recorder. This tape recording is played back and recorded in the room at the same time, thus amplifying the frequencies that resonate in the room, beginning to reveal reverberations or imperfections that affect the recording of his initial phrase. He repeats this process 32 times breaking down his voice, destroying the pronunciation of the words with each repetition, bringing out the sound or noise that each word hides. The original phrase is completely lost like this, his voice evolving into a piece of noise. This work explained in the 19th century. I have tried to bring it to the century, to the era of automatic text readers used in social networks in 2022. In my case the reader is not a person, the reader is Mike (UK) from the Naturalreaders website. His pronunciation is almost perfect in a way, he is phonetically a representation of a standard human. The recording of the voice was done digitally and in this case inside a computer. To soften his pronunciation, I superimposed each repetition with a delay of 120ms, so that with each repetition the phrase changes, until we get a noise track with the initial phrase, through the digital additions and overlaps that occur between his pronunciations."
	4:18am greenlight: yesterday I was going through my archive of late night improvised experimental recordings captured mainly during lockdowns (electronica/drone/minimal/noise/ambient) looking for them right sounds trying to finish more of "proper" tracks I am working on (whenever I have time). I found so many interesting stuff I forgot about. I might just create an bandcamp page and release them as an experimental obscure stuff/ep.
	4:19am greenlight: I absolutely love your show Jim
	4:31am Jim the Poet: I can't handle compliments
	4:31am Steiner: All night snow excitement, with jams!
	4:32am greenlight: sorry
	4:34am Jim the Poet: Not your fault
	4:58am Strandlund: Good Morning Jim...I hope this is the only snow I see today.
	5:00am AndrewC.: Good Morning, I am pleased to report this is music where you can sign in to your weekly team meeting on Zoom and just leave WFMU playing while you do! Very helpful.
	5:09am Fredericks: You don't have to shout, J the P.
	5:10am Toutevoix: that sounded great !!! 12 claps
	5:49am Jim the Poet: "Four pieces composed on the Meng Qi Wing Pinger, a duophonic electronic instrument consisting of 2x 4-pole resonant low pass filters. These filters can be cross “pinged” and modulated, both directly and by generated step signals. These tracks are the result of trials and happy accidents during my first days with the Wing Pinger. A deliberately minimal approach which gives birth to empirical generative soundscapes and random noises. This album is a tribute to the work of Morton Subotnick and refers specifically to his third record composed entirely on Buchla's 100 Series modular synth “Touch” in 1969. Special thanks to Meng Qi for creating such a unique and inspiring instrument."
	5:51am radioronan: Well I enjoyed what sounds Ive heard this morn....thanks. Jim!
	5:57am Scott67: Thanks Jim! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	5:57am greenlight: thanks!
	5:59am LiXiviated Life: Thea last to say “ hello”

Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from December 12, 2022

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