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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 August 7, 2019: Ben Johnston's Hand

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Ben Johnston’s Hand, in honor of the composer,
a semi-survey of microtonal music from Harry Partch to Tony Conrad,
with visits from Rozalie Hirs, Charlemagne Palestine, James Tenney, and Terry Riley.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Ben Johnston  Sonnets of Desolation   Favoriting Ben Johnston ‎– Visions And Spels / Sonnets Of Desolation  Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)  1984  Sonnet #4 of the piece, entitled That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection. Written for the New Swingle Singers, who premiered the piece in 1981 in Urbana, Illinois. Recognized as masters of the classical scat, the British octet’s repertoire ranges from works of the 16th century to the present.   
Malawi Mouse Boys  Kulira Kwambewa (The Crying of the Mouse)   Favoriting Forever is 4 U  Omnivore Records  2016  Ridgewood Radio Theme https://lovesupportunite.org  0:03:07 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David W 

Music of the Spheres.   Favoriting

Ridgewood Radio Noise Library 

Beautiful Drummer 

2019 

Yo, Pythagoras. 

0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Rozalie Hirs  Venus [Morning Star]   Favoriting Six  Slagwerk Den Haag  2010  For six percussionists and electronic sounds. Hirs was inspired by the mobius-like curves of Zaha Hadid's pavilion in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and by the “Sixxen”, a set of percussion instruments developed by Iannis Xenakis for his work, Pléïades.  0:08:18 (Pop-up)
James Tenney  Septet   Favoriting Modern Hearts - New Music For Electric Guitar  Redshift  2014  For six electric guitars and electric bass (1981/2000) performed by Canadian Adrian Verdejo.Guitars re-tuned to the harmonic series of the fundamentals (A and E). The piece traverses these two tonalities using temporal modulation. A canon, each voice rhythmically reflects the ratio of the partials (overtones) as they emerge (3:2, 5:4, etc.).  0:16:31 (Pop-up)
Ben Johnston  String Quartet #4 (Amazing Grace)   Favoriting Jacaranda  YouTube  2009  Composed 1983, considered the composer's signature masterpiece, performed by Denali Quartet (presented by new-music organization, Jacaranda, Music at the Edge) in Santa Monica, CA.  0:26:47 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch  Daphne of the Dunes   Favoriting The World Of Harry Partch  Columbia Masterworks  1969  Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 tones generated by the overtone series, outlined in his book Genesis of a Music. Just for curiosity, the names of Partch’s instruments on this piece: Kithara, Surrogate Kithara, Harmonic Canons, Chromelodeon, Cloud-chamber Bowls, Spoils Of War, Gourd Tree, Diamond/Boo/Bass Marimba (with tones so low it is virtually unrecordable!), and Adapted Viola.  0:38:10 (Pop-up)
Ben Johnston  Knocking Piece   Favoriting Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 3: Ensembles  NEOS Music  2016  Composed 1963, performed by two percussionists from the University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, September 1966, Darmstadt, Stadthalle. Another example where harmonic ratios are transposed into rhythmic counterpoint: 6 against 5 or 11 against 8, etc. Johnston championed this as a compositional tool.  0:58:57 (Pop-up)
Terry Riley  Persian Surgery Dervishes (#2 Paris)   Favoriting Persian Surgery Dervishes  Shanti  1972  Recorded live in Paris, France at Théâtre de la Musique on 24 May 1972, using a modified Yamaha electric organ tuned in just intonation.  1:04:13 (Pop-up)
Harry Partch  Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California   Favoriting The World Of Harry Partch  Columbia Masterworks  1969  The composer spent some time riding the rails as a "hobo" (in search off truth while eschewing commonpractice traditions) and knew this marginal culture well.  1:20:11 (Pop-up)
Charlemagne Palestine, Tony Conrad  An Aural Symbiotic Mystery   Favoriting An Aural Symbiotic Mystery  Sub Rosa  2006  Recorded at Petit Théâtre Mercelis, September 7, 2005, Brussels. Palestine, piano, drone; Conrad, violin. Excerpt.  1:29:25 (Pop-up)
The Who  Baba O'Riley   Favoriting Who's Next  Polydor  1971  Composer Pete Townshend recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its note multi-attack feature as the backing track. The song's title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, among Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors. The song is often mistakenly called "Teenage Wasteland", after the phrase repeated in the song. Weinstein edit.  1:55:46 (Pop-up)


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listener james from westwood:

Hoooo, high-hand bonus! Pay that royal flush!
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david w:

james, a winner!
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steveo:

good afternoon. I've got a royal flush, but hearts. ♥♥♥♥♥
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david w:

thanks, steveo!
  3:07pm
Ike:

You’re a wee bit quiet there, David, but getting a bit better now.
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Webhamster Henry:

Hi David & Ruth ! My kind of show (again) today!
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david w:

Thank, Ike. Something is off in the studio today. Have to figure as we go along. Today's tracks vary wildly in dynamics, always a radio challenge.
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david w:

Hello, Henry! (again!)
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Ike:

Music sounds fine though.
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northguineahills:

James Tenney!
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david w:

ngh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Ike:

You are quieter now. Turn up your mic a bit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

People can explore overtones on my ToneSpiral webpage: jhhl.net...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
doctorjazz:

So purty, the Been Johnson.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Webhamster Henry:

There's Harry! I have the videotape from Innova around here somewhere.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
david w:

Yes, doctor. An all time fave here. And Henry, it is really good to see the instruments, crazy gorgeous and wacky.
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northguineahills:

what doctorjazz said...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

Harry would bristle at the mention of his "43-tone" scale; that was just used for tuning some of his fixed pitch instruments. He was simply devoted to "Monophony".
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david w:

Yes, Henry. Of course. Just getting at the basics. Explaining monophony is going to kill some folks.
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Webhamster Henry:

They will die happy!
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Webhamster Henry:

Or they'll get happy making spare notes for the Xymo-Xyl.
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coelacanth∅:

greetings David & Ruth and 'woodies
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coelacanth∅:

(mic break quite quiet)
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Ike:

Sounds good to me now.
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david w:

Thanks, Coel and Ike. We think we found the beast and I'll also have to talk louder!
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listener james from westwood:

"Is it just me, or did someone let a brace of woodpeckers in here?"
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fred:

Good afternoon David, Ruth and listeners
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david w:

@james: I just noticed that use of "brace" is that the official gang name for woodpeckers?
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david w:

Fred! Welcome to the celebration!
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steveo:

great listening; i'm rapt
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Ike:

Yes, this is awesome.
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Webhamster Henry:

This is the future we were going to have after 1972.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

You're even overmodulating a little.
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Webhamster Henry:

Barstow: because you are on the stream, you won't have to bleep what was not coming instead of "just a truck."
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david w:

Ah my legendary inclination to overcompensate!
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listener james from westwood:

@david w: Is it? Then Groucho was most accurate when he dropped that line in A Night at the Opera!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
david w:

Whoa, james. You're good. I'm getting a dose today...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
david w:

There's that naughty line...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

The original journal entries with the inscriptions can be found in Bitter Music, pp 201-203 .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Webhamster Henry:

The truck passage isn't in there. Maybe he made it up!
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david w:

Thanks, Henry. I'm no Partch scholar, just fascinated for decades. One thing for sure, Harry enjoyed hyperbole (and perhaps a tall tale now and then).
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fred:

I was wondering about "Théâtre de la Musique". Turns out that was how what is now "Gaîté Lyrique" was called for a few years. Now it's focused on digital arts, including music (and a major hipster haunt)
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david w:

Thanks, fred. Is it a nice, traditional theatre or some kind of raw space?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Innova 4-CD "Enclosure" set is pretty good for a good chunk of Partch background, including Warren Burt's reading/playing of Bitter music and "Harry's Wake", recorded at... Harry's wake.
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fred:

I've only been there once, so I don't really know. More of an arts center than a theater, I think. The original theater room was destroyed when the place was turned into an amusement park for a short while
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david w:

Ah, the places we've been! (Dr. Seuss paraphrase seems appropriate for today).
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fred:

A Charlemagne Palestine concert was the first time I went to Instants Chavirés, which is now my favorite venue.
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steveo:

thanks david & ruth & any mysterious forces. did not know about baba o'riley -- nice
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david w:

steveo, you dreamer!
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northguineahills:

Am I the only one getting Teenaged Wasteland?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah, this is confusing.
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steveo:

i'm not the only one
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Especially since I"m about to start my show and I once ended my show with loops of Teenage Wasteland.
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still b/p:

..Yeah, with a weird abbreviating edit in it, too.
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fred:

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

Speaking of that, here comes soon: "Layers of Indirection (The party is over when the host serves you a pumpkin.)"

A Ken's Last Ever... sound collage: wfmu.org...
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david w:

Sorry, I did make an edit. Apologies. But Townshend did honor Terry Riley for real!
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northguineahills:

I was on the phone, and missed it.....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
david w:

Thanks, everybody!
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for this personalized show!
  5:02pm
andrew Neumann:

Great show David, heard so many thing's new to my ears, inclu that British band, The "Who"? I'll have to look 'em up....
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks David!
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