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I never miscue a record. I am punctual, well-prepared, and dislike clutter. Outgoing and helpful, I'm always appropriately dressed. I do not behave erratically and have excellent penmanship. My CD's never skip, and I am in good health. I like all the notes, in any order.

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Favoriting September 19, 2008

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Artist Track Album Comments
Dick Raaijmakers  Achter de Schermen   Favoriting Popular Electronics   
Aldo Clementi  GiAn(ca)rlo CArDini   Favoriting Punctum Contra Punctum   
Nu Creative Methods  [untitled]   Favoriting    
Bradford Reed  Motivational Music for Pedestrians   Favoriting Live! At Home   
Cooper-Moore  Duo take 11   Favoriting Outtakes 1978   
Anima-Sound  n da da uum da   Favoriting Musik für Alle   
Berthet - Le Junter  J'entends Les Avions   Favoriting    
 
  holy crap, kagel bit it.
Mauricio Kagel  Music for Renaissance Instruments   Favoriting    
Mauricio Kagel  Blue's Blue   Favoriting    
 
Mauricio Kagel  String Quartet II   Favoriting   Arditti String Quartet 
Mauricio Kagel  Acustica, part 1   Favoriting   Arditti String Quartet 
Mauricio Kagel  Acustica, part 2   Favoriting   Arditti String Quartet 
 

Stuff He Made for Acustica

Castanette-Keyboard
with a scale of diameters from 1 4/5" to 7 1/5" which can be "tuned" by means of double-bass pegs in the action-tention (with the result that even deep-sounding castanettes will sound clearly when played extremely quickly); two sets of Bull-Roarers (one with an aerodynamic profile, the other out of plain pieces of wood), which are wielded by hand and worked by twisted rubber band.

Nail-Violin
a form of the idiophonic friction-instrument invented in the mid-18th century, with 16 iron rods of equal width but of different lengths (between 2 1/25 and 16 4/5"; temperature 15√8) which vibrate transversally when played with a cello or double-bass bow.

Roundpeg-Violin
a version of the nail-violin (9 wooden sticks between 3 23/25" and 3'; temperature 8√9);

Scabella
clapper-sandals worn by Ancient Roman choir-leaders, but fitted with a hinge in the middle of the sole, so that the performer can achieve audible results with the minimum of effort;

Hinged-board (Crepitacolo),
a flat piece of wood with various handles attached which the iron parts hit according to the force with which it is shaken back and forth ( a new version of the original church bell);

Five-Tongued Ratchet
with common crankshaft, the cogwheel frequency of which is tuned in five stages, so that the loudness of the noise can be influenced by altering the tongue-setting;

Pick-ups and Diaphragms
in as many forms as possible (other than the usual ones), in order to explore the devious route to higher sub-fidelity: e.g. plastic funnel and knife-feather and ukelele, sandpaper and drawing pin, matches with and without box

Cross-blower
for the timbre-modulation of the pages of a book;

Balloons
as resonators for wind instruments and as (regained) air-supply in the production of oral processes;

Pipe-branch
a piece of narrow hose approx. 130' long with connections (on the ends of which organ pipes [mixtures] and penny-whistles are attached), which is fed by a compressed-air cylinder of 27 cubic feet capacity (an "aerophone" for collective use, where only generously-minded players can play together: should one of the performers divert the air-current for himself alone, all the others will be made silent);

Gas blow-lamp
to produce vibrations in pipes, the fundamental frequency of which is reached by altering its total length;

Mutes for wind instruments with built-in loudspeakers
which permit a perfect diaphony with the simultaneous playback from the tape recorder of the blown notes;

Megaphones
likewise with built-in loudspeakers (also to be used by contestants, in which case power-saving cassette-recorders are switched on to drown the puny volume of the official side);

Humming-loudspeaker
(the German term "Summenlautsprecher" derives both from "Summe" = sum and from "summen" = to hum), the diaphragm of which is worked on with various articles during the performance (so that the loudspeaker becomes more of an instrument than an actual loudspeaker).


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Listener comments!

  12:06pm
stingy d:

20 milligrams yep, i'm feeling good
  12:11pm
bryce:

milligrams????? hurry, unplug the phone!
  12:11pm
Max:

Byrce is to clean... and schizophrenic for drugs, stingy
  12:13pm
bryce:

hmmm.... that's an intriguing theory.....
  12:14pm
Bad Ronald:

Gimme Gimme!!
  12:14pm
north guinea hills:

in the words of j spaceman, i need to take my medication......
  12:15pm
stingy d:

megagrams
  12:15pm
Max:

Death
  12:19pm
stingy d:

sleepy boobs?

ok nevermind bryce!
  12:20pm
stingy d:

that might make sense eventually or something
  12:21pm
2600:

Haven't heard this one for a very long time.

What year was "Popular Electronics" released?
  12:22pm
listener x:

What is the date of the Raaijmakers piece.
  12:25pm
maria:

hi Bryce
  12:37pm
gz:

nice stuff - but compared to Kagel ...
by the way he died yesterday
play it again sam
  12:39pm
Sean Daily:

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!
  12:40pm
kent:

from google: the raaijamkers piece is from 1960
  12:46pm
Max:

Good music, but the question we have all been trying to ignore: is its spirit force food or evil?

:(
  12:47pm
stingy d:

its sleepy boobs max.
  12:50pm
RD:

food is evil. lunchtime.
  12:53pm
pillows and blankets:

stingy d
  12:53pm
stingy d:

yes?
  12:53pm
bryce:

heya-- yup 1960, the raaijmakers, but went unreleased till this box set.

gz, brian turner just told me. oh shit!

MLALIA! good meowk to you.
  12:54pm
pillows and blankets:

let me show you something.
  12:55pm
stingy d:

ok then
  12:56pm
pillows and blankets:

you are a cat, and you are asleep, you have pillows and blankets surrounding you and have wrapped yourself into a burrito, it is a cold day, you feel like toast
  12:57pm
M:

Enjoying the show here in Helsinki, Finland.
Sounds good to me, again!
  12:58pm
stingy d:

yea i know
  1:15pm
lambchop:

greece here .greetings from the wfmu fan club!!
  1:18pm
gz:

thanx for the Kagel - Bryce
he was the greatest - and taken seriously!
his sound-theater was brilliant
you'll find films on UBU-web
he had invented all these game pieces long time before Zorn took off on such themes
  1:18pm
north guinea hills:

i never got the impression that Kagel was looked down from the academic establishment outside of the occasional 'madhatter' comment. a darn sham, tretastical composer. now i must have a drink in his honor during lunch!
  1:29pm
stingy d:

i wanna sleep on the floor
  1:34pm
bryce:

gz, ngh-- that's great to hear! i have no connection to academia (i can assure you)....maybe it's the odd critcal dismissals that stick in my head.

when those films went up on ubu, i immediately made dvds & duped them for everyone's mom. so great. so great.
  1:37pm
listener x:

KAGEL Request Line

Something from "ACUSUSTICA: For Experimental Sound-Producers and Loud-Speakers" would be nice.
  1:38pm
dc pat:

sounds like a drunk pirate--it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day y'know.
  1:38pm
bryce:

would you believe it's already in the player?
  1:46pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Yarrr! I be knowin' it already, DC Pat.
  1:48pm
R. P.:

If you're in the DC area, please check out tonight's benefit for the Sonic Circuits festival of experimental and electronic music. It's @ Jackie's Restaurant, 8081 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD. Five acts, doors @ 8:30. dc-soniccircuits.org
  1:49pm
dc pat:

ARRRrrr Wendy!! Ye be a fine joiner-inner, indeed! How's the cheese a'bein'?
  1:49pm
gz:

speaking of academia (no connections here either, assured)
Kagel was rejected from the music department in his early days
that's why he turned on literature and philosophy
  1:49pm
food bank:

the food bank understands.
  1:52pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Yarrr! Ahoy, DC Pat. The cheese be fine. How are ye?

BTW, this bit sounds like the adults on Peanuts cartoons.
  1:52pm
Bad Ronald:

Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum!!
  1:59pm
dc pat:

Arrrrr, I be diggin this fine grand Kagel at the moment. Alas, I can't be makin' the Sonic Circuits for I be settin sail for Philly come sundown......arr.
  2:04pm
Parq:

Yarr, Missy Patsy. Aye be completely fergettin' what day it be! Mighty obliged to ye for rememberin' me. Now I can confuse these scurvy dogs on board me ship here.
  2:04pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Yarr! Will ye be sackin' the port of Philadelphia, DC Pat? I hear thar be many doubloons for the takin'.
  2:08pm
dc pat:

Aye, aye...an' raidin' me many Philly friends' liquor cabinets with 2 scurvy barnacled kids in tow...
  2:12pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Well, matey, Aye sincerely hope ye and yer scurvy kidlets have a fine time in olde Philadelphia.
This Cheese Snob is sailin' off into the horizon now. Hasta la Yarrr!
  2:20pm
dc pat:

So long, Wendy--may the cheese be settin' lightly in your belly..
  2:29pm
B. Bonden, cox'un:

Our captain was wery prosperous
And o' so wery kind to us
He dip'd his dick in phosphorus
And led us thru the Bosporus
  2:49pm
gz:

once more to Kagel (instead of cheese)
he had conducted the piece "finale with chamber orchester"
- part of this he pretended in the midlle to have a heart attack
- people were shocked -
the best child...
  2:52pm
stingy d:

yo i felt asleep
  2:57pm
bryce:

type yourself into a coma?
  3:03pm
bryce:

see ya, all
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