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An avant nerd remixing smooth disco in a dancehall stylee.

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Favoriting March 28, 2012: Put me on hold

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Collage from corporations putting me on hold and late '90s r&b jams    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Trying to convince customer service representatives to keep me on hold  Downsampled hold music cheese with bad reception. Gives me a serious art boner.  0:28:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

A little intuitive discussion of "foldover" in downsampling from Max Matthew's book "The Technology of Computer Music". 


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Downsampled Ella Fitzgerald played on a Commodore 64    0:43:42 (Pop-up)
June Valli  "You saw me crying in the chapel" downsampled 20 times.  0:46:24 (Pop-up)
Cory Arcangel  He downsampled Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast 666 times. One of the greatest (and succinctly stated) creative uses of foldover exploitation.  0:49:48 (Pop-up)
 
Max Matthews  Some of the first algorithmic composition, from 1962. You can download this file here. Max Matthews (who is the namesake of "Max" in Max/MSP, btw) was one of the first folks to teach computers to compose and synthesize their own music.  0:56:51 (Pop-up)
Lots of Trumpet Screams  A lot of this content tonight is courtesy the boys from Grasshopper. Here are a few supercuts of "trumpet screams" on youtube, people playing the highest note possible.  1:10:21 (Pop-up)
Customer Service Survey + Kenny Loggins  How satisfied are you, from 1-5?  1:17:12 (Pop-up)
 
Terry Riley  A tape composition by Terry Riley! From 1967, for moog and tape loops. Samples the soul song "You're No Good" and throws it through the Time Lag Accumulator. Wonderful.

 

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Xhol Caravan  Xhol/NWW collab called "Radio", a cut-up of Xhol Caravan recordings with radio static interspersed.  1:51:22 (Pop-up)
  ...and back to the Terry Riley.  2:03:47 (Pop-up)
Default Ringtones Remixathon  That part of getting a new phone where you scroll through all the ringtones. Except I remix them.

Here's a moving diagram that shows the development of Western Dance music in 20 seconds. 

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Golan Levin and Collaborators  Dialtones (A Telesymphony)...More info here. It's a "Large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones."  2:13:37 (Pop-up)
Tiffany's Collections  Low key audio smoosh of piano music, jazz, etc...you can download here.  2:22:13 (Pop-up)
Aki Onda  Contemporary analog cassette manipulation god. From the CD Ancient & Modern.  2:26:35 (Pop-up)
Jandek  Nobody on WFMU has played my favorite Jandek song since we started doing playlists. It's "Quinn Boys II" off "You Walk Alone". He just recorded for Brian Turner's show, to be aired in early April.  2:31:46 (Pop-up)
Pulse Emitter  New LP called Aeonis, out on Aguirre. Love Pulse Emitter to death.  2:43:13 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:13am
fred:

Good morning Nat
Marty played a nice cut up yesterday: The Mae Shi's Old Skool Beats Vol 2
  3:15am
Deepak:

hey Nat, Fred. I was about to mention marty's thing yesterday, it was pretty nice.
  3:15am
Nat:

I will check that out! That also reminds me to find this Nurse With Wound cut-up that I heard Fabio play not long ago.
  3:35am
Deepak:

oh man, its Blondie haha.
  3:35am
neil:

crunch yea fun ear candy kundalini meow indede dada mucho bueno!
  3:37am
Bas, NL:

Wow.. you actually got me listening to 'phone hold' music.. it's awesome!
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Nat:

Yeah, such jammers. Waiting music almost never disappoints.
  3:38am
pierre:

Marriiiiiaaaaa…!
Bonjour Nat
Bonjour Fred
Bonjour Deepak
Bonjour Neil
Bonjour Bas
  3:39am
Deepak:

'Waiting music almost never disappoints.'
True dat.
  3:40am
Bas, NL:

Hi Nat! Hi Pierre! Hi All!
  3:41am
pierre:

yesterday i had Angelo Badalamenti (twin peaks theme) for waiting tune… i guess it's pretty common, althought i love this tune, i'm not sure it's the best music to listen to when you're waiting for someone.
  3:42am
Scuttle:

Loooove this
  3:48am
Bas, NL:

The effect you describe here is called 'aliasing'...
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Nat:

Indeed. Aliasing and foldover are the same.
  3:50am
Bas, NL:

@Nat: *nod*
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Nat:

Whew...glad you weren't pointing out that I was wrong. Haha!
  3:56am
Deepak:

btw Iron Maiden introduced me to metal
  3:56am
fred:

DSP lessons on the station... I might have a case that I'm actually working right now...
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Nat:

Haha, well it's basic stuff, of course, but it's so powerful for creative exploitation!
  3:58am
neil:

brion gysins dream machine subconcious filling in the missing pieces. as on a visuial level. the process is often used in advertising.i think hitler used some principle of distortion in his early radio broadcasts. the words come out ov the air.
  3:58am
fred:

Though if we're going there, mp3 compression involves more than just downsampling.
  4:01am
fred:

And there's Alvin Lucier's analog experiment "I am sitting in a room"
  4:04am
fred:

re mp3 and cymbals: a sound engineer told me last week that mp3 encoding is so bad at transients that to get a good encoding of percussion you need such a high bit rate that the mp3 ends up bigger than the original
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Nat:

Ah yes, well what's wonderful about Cory Arcangel's piece is that it is recursive (ie, takes many go-throughs of the same sound) in creation, but it happens at once with processing, whereas Lucier's piece takes quite a while for the recursion to take effect. Digital recursion is instantaneous, while analog is slooooowwww!!!!
  4:09am
fred:

If digital was that fast, I'd be out of a job
  4:10am
fax machine:

\m/ ( ^o^ ) \m/
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Nat:

It's funny, in this book, Max Matthews is talking about "expertly used modern computers" that can handle 30,000 samples a second. The average meh quality mp3 today is 441,000 samples/sec.
  4:14am
fred:

CD quality is 44100 samples/sec.
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Nat:

Ah...of course you're right.
  4:23am
fred von helsing:

did you know that in france they call it a royale ?
  4:27am
Marmalade kitty:

good morning Nat! listeners! my wednesday morning alarm always more interesting
  4:31am
Nat:

Morning. Is everybody listening in Europe? Is there anybody not listening in Europe?
  4:33am
Deepak:

India.
  4:34am
curt:

Listening out here in Portland OR! I like the everyday sounds.
  4:36am
fred von helsing:

There is nobody not listening in Europe. You are controlling transmission. If you wish to make it louder, you will bring up the volume. If you wish to make it softer, you will tune it to a whisper. You will control the horizontal. You will control the vertical. You can roll the turntable, make it flutter. You can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, we will sit quietly and you will control all that we hear. You repeat: there is nothing wrong with our radios. We are about to participate in a great adventure. We are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to — The Roe Zone.
  4:37am
Jay/ London:

Good Morning Nat marmalade Kitty Fred And Fred von Helsing and all
  4:37am
Rob W:

Hoboken!
  4:39am
bugs bunny:

Hoboken?! OOHH I'm dyin' again !
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Nat:

Haha! Very nice, Fred. I'm surprised to see an east coast listener! Isn't it past your bedtime?
  4:40am
fred:

Good morning FVH, MK, Jay, Rob and Curt!
@Marmalade Kitty: Pierre told me last week that you'll be coming to Paris soon. I think BSI arrives today for a few days. Will you be there too?
  4:44am
fred von helsing:

No this is Helsinki calling, at the top of the dial
  4:47am
fred:

I love this Terry Riley track. Has it been reissued?
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Nat:

Well, this CD is from 2001, not sure if it's been reissued after that.
  4:57am
Marmalade kitty:

Hi fred! yes, but no arrangement as of yet. sounds like fun!
  5:07am
Marmalade kitty:

awesome track! Bryce had a Terry Riley fest last friday
  5:13am
Marmalade kitty:

"Frank fest" 31st march.. many bands playing in tribute to raise money for Frank Sidebottom statue in manchester uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17202965
  5:20am
neil:

R2 D2 where are you?
  5:22am
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welcome! you have mail...
  5:48am
groucho:

manchester, England signing in
  5:50am
groucho:

I saw Frank Sidebottom supporting John Cooper Clarke in Stockport a couple of years ago, he was amazing as always
  5:52am
Marmalade kitty:

there is a frank sidebottom show on wfmu archive, somewhere..
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Nat:

Jersey City, Signing out. Thanks for listening and commenting!
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Nat:

I am so tired.
  5:57am
Marmalade kitty:

wfmu.org/playlists/shows/30946

blog.wfmu.org/.../ergo-phizmiz-remembers-frank-sidebottom.html
  5:57am
fred:

Nat, in keeping with the DSP lesson, I'm going to a Miller Puckette talk today
  5:58am
Marmalade kitty:

take it easy, nat!
  12:38pm
Einstein_Concubine2:

Hey Nat, they made up ADD to make money on healthy children. There's no proof it exists other than corporate money and its doctors saying it does.
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