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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 May 15, 2019: Contraptions

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Valerie Skakun & Pat Spadine's See Saw

Gadgets, gear, (and some gimmicks) in service of ritual and immersive interplay
(and some entertainment), with a variety of audio documents from
Ranjit Bhatnagar, Horst Rickels & Dick Raaijmakers, Valerie Skakun & Pat Spadine,
Michael Schumacher, Val Jeanty, and quick visits from
Trimpin, Ekho::Women in Sonic Art, and a YouTube hoax.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments
Conlon Nancarrow  Blues (arr. Trimpin)   Favoriting Lost Works, Last Works  Other Minds  2000  Seattle composer/instrument builder Trimpin converted Nancarrow’s piano rolls into MIDI files, making automated reconstruction widely available. 
Malawi Mouse Boys  Kulira Kwambewa   Favoriting Forever is 4 U  Omnivore Records  2016  Ridgewood Radio Theme https://lovesupportunite.org 

Music behind DJ:
David W 

Some Assembly Required   Favoriting

Ridgewood Radio Noise Library 

Beautiful Drummer 

2019 

Instructions included 
Animusic  Pipe Dream   Favoriting Animusic HD DVD  Animusic.com  2006  Animusic is an American company specializing in 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. This piece (see video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjCtuEea00) was attached to a highly detailed hoax claiming that the instruments were real and made from farm equipment. 
Wintergatan  Marble Machine   Favoriting Marble Machine  Bandcamp/Vimeo  2016  Powered by 2000 marbles, this (real) machine was built by Martin Molin and filmed by Hannes Knutsson (see https://vimeo.com/157743578). Wintergatan (Milky Way) is a Swedish folktronica band. 
Ranjit Bhatnagar  Singing Room for a Shy Person   Favoriting Clocktower Gallery  Clocktower.org  2013  Installation visitors are invited to sing in a sound proof booth while the musical instruments outside abstractly interpret their efforts (Arduino, solenoids, custom software). 
Johanna Bramli  Atom   Favoriting Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference  Ekho::Women in Sonic Art  2014  Stereo mix of 8-channel surround piece utilizing two fundamental sources; the human voice and the sine wave – one organic, one processed. 
Walter Maioli, Horst Rickels & Dick Raaijmakers  Fort Klank   Favoriting Fort Klank  Artists' Collection  1993  Sound samples from a massive architectural/acoustic installation at Fort Asperen in The Netherlands featuring mechanical devices that drag stones, bang canons, scratch walls, and a two-story waterfall dump. 
Michael Schumacher  Mixology: Dance & Installation   Favoriting Roulette Series  Roulette Archives  25 Feb 2017  The sound artist's 12-channel design for Liz Gerring Dancers with Leila Bordreuil, cello and Ursula Scherrer, video. Stereo mix excerpt from a 4-hour durational piece. 
Valerie Skakun & Pat Spadine  See Saw   Favoriting Fire Over Heaven Series  Outpost Artists Resoures  16 April 2019  A ten+ foot teeter totter driving bellows that activate a battery of flutes (and balloons). Take a peek at https://vimeo.com/333859713. 
Caterina Barbieri  Undular   Favoriting Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference  Ekho::Women in Sonic Art  2014  Stereo mix of 8-channel piece made of primary waveforms, microtonality and the polyrhythm of harmonics, on the boundary between drone, minimalism, and techno. 
Val Jeanty  AfroElectronica Dancing The Divine   Favoriting Roulette Series  Roulette Archives  22 May 2017  The Haitian composer and virtuoso DJ/percussionist in a performance with dancer Ra Nubi combining the medium of electronic voudou with the fire spirit element. Excerpt. 


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Listener comments!

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listener james from westwood:

Glorious sunny Wednesday, David and Ruth!
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david w:

Hi, James from me and Ruth!
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steveo:

Hello Ruth & David!!
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Webhamster Henry:

Trimpin is a busy guy.
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steveo:

@WH, that Sunsine link you posted over on Mary's board is great, thanks
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Stanley:

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

Fun Fact: Woodstock Chimes's Garry Kvistad has the set of recut Nancarrow rolls that he can play on his AMPICO. (No tacks in the hammers, though)
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Sem:

I'm having what Stanley's having.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hey maybe Ranjit will pop in. He's fixing up one of his pieces at Caramoor.
www.caramoor.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Sem:

Hello, David, Rurg, the OAR ensemble, and all. Experimental is my middle name (long story, Dad had a wicked sense of humour.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

One of the very first animated - in - synch music videos was done by Bob Sabiston at the Media Lab "Beat Dedication" (1988)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
david w:

steveo! Stanley (oy), WebHen, and Sem and yes, Rajit will make an appearnce!
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Sem:

*Ruth*
Rugr? Cripes.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
doctorjazz:

Hi. These are fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
david w:

Sem, Ruth says you are brethren in typos. and hello djazz!
  3:15pm
chresti:

Hello! Leaving work. Sounds good!
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geezerette:

Howdy David and Ruth!, and fellow Ridgewoodians!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
david w:

Yay, geez! Yay, chresti!
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Sem:

Greets, g.
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geezerette:

Sem! Hiya!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
listener james from westwood:

Arduiiiiiiiiino. I proofread how-to books on making various projects with those. They always make me wish I could program worth a fig.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
david w:

James, I'm with you on that... I can't program and I love the concept behind arduino gadgetry.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

Percussionist Jesse Stewart uses my movement-to-music app AUMI to drive servos beating drums in one of his pieces.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
david w:

Cool, Henry. So many interesting examples in this realm these days. I'm hardly scratching the surface.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

I'd like to do it myself; arduinos, FPGAs and Raspberry Pis mean a lot of work is cheap and off the shelf!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

Something like the Pendulum Harp that was built for Bjork's Biophilia tour would fit in with this show pretty well. www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
david w:

I could not find good documentation of Trimpin's large installations (I started this show with his Nancarrow project). Suggestions? He has hardly released any recordings. Am I wrong?
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geezerette:

Decades ago Carl Stone's girlfriend made a beautiful device of bamboo in which pebbles in a water-filled vessel were frozen in such a way that they fell randomly as the ice melted. As I recall, the stones fell into a pool of water and the sound was amplified in some way. The result was music that had the effect of setting you next to an imaginary mountain stream, meditative and lovely. I'm sure the specifics are hazy and partly incorrect but not the effect. Can't remember her name.
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david w:

Thanks, geez. Sounds lovely. Let's fine the name!
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Webhamster Henry:

@david - there are some Trimpin pieces here, but I don't know if they are just excepts (probably are) arts.mit.edu...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
david w:

Thanks, Henry. Ruth suspects that his gallery keeps a tight lid on his distribution.
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northguineahills:

Been busy, Valerie Skakun and Pat Spadine are new to me!

Good to hear Michael Schumacher!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
david w:

Heya, ngh. Spadine often appears under the name Ashcan Orchestra (known for pieces with bells, lightbulbs, and hacked oscillators).
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Webhamster Henry:

This piece fits in well with with my dormant project Acoustic Modular Synthesis.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

The idea behind that is to standardize connectors and pressures and speeds so that acoustic "modules" can be connected together just like electronic ones.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
david w:

Well, wake that puppy up, Henry!
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geezerette:

David @4:02: uh...Mineko Grimmer!
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

Help me out, folks! github.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
david w:

Thanks, geez. I have nothing. But what a cool name!
Avatar 4:27pm
geezerette:

latimesblogs.latimes.com...
Image of similar device included.
Avatar 4:36pm
geezerette:

Cutting out early but still listening.
Thanks, David,Ruth and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
david w:

Always a pleasure, g.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
steveo:

sorry i missed a chunk in the middle, got this show flagged for archive-ville. digging the jeanty. oh and the videos I got to go back and watch the videos...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
david w:

The videos are a trip, no matter the "music".
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Sem:

A joyful two hours of "I wonder what's going to happen next?" I am blessed to have ears to hear it.. Thank you all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
david w:

Thanks, Sem. And all. This one is hard to map. All over the place!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

"What's going to happen next?" Here comes delightful sonic drifty journey, the sound collage entitled "the World Opens Up when you Take Structure Away". Next on this Drummer stream, on Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza:
wfmu.org...
  4:55pm
chresti:

Thanks David, excellent!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Smooooooth teleprompter teamwork
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david w:

Ken! Yeah I like that.
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david w:

See you everybody. Been a delight as always.
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listener james from westwood:

Thanks!!
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david w:

Yes, james, thank yooo!
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Webhamster Henry:

That was a lively show! thanks!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Filler
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david w:

Ha! Kind of madness.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

daB!
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