Eclectic
Seizure
Psyclectic Schizophradio
OMIGOD... IT'S ALIVE! on BSR 88.1 Providence, RI. BSRLIVE.COM
ECLECTIC SEIZURE LIVE POETS
& WILLIAM'S MIX, THE SHOW DEDICATED TO JOHN CAGE & TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW MUSIC
Wednesday September 22nd
9-10 PM Anselm Berrigan & The Prince Myshkins. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
Thursday September 23rd PLAYLIST
1-2 AM Rick Burkhardt, Chamber Music. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
Wednesday September 29th
1-2AM The
Prince Myshkins LIVE IN CONCERT AN UNBELIEVABLE EVENT YOU WILL
NOT WANT TO MISS AND ANYWAY IT IS ARCHIVED ON THE WEB SO YOU HAVE
NO EXCUSE. LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE THE ELECTION.
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"It's good that you got out of California, because even
though you've been complaining about it since you moved there, and even though
you've written many
songs about how terrible it is, since Schwarzenegger became governor of that
supposedly left wing state, just living there makes you look bad. It would be
like saying: 'Yeah we live at Disneyland. It's got its charm. We live on the
Matterhorn, our apartment has a view of the pirate ship. There's a strong
activist community
there actually...'"
Sunday
October 3rd PLAYLIST
"I Am Sitting In A Room," by Alvin Lucier, with
John Cage, Uncle Bonsai, David Bowie singing Jacques Brel, and the Monks
of Doom singing Frank Zappa. Listen to the archive: 128k
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Wednesday October 6th Playlist
Mairead Byrne Interview. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio. "...too much attention is paid to poetry, i think, not enough to the poet. so much of the literary industry seems dedicated to the cult of content. so for this show, i'd like to focus on the poet. the you. your writing is now, but you are forever. your poetry writes you. people know your poetry by you. i would if i could talk to your poetry about you, get it to answer a few questions."
October
10th PLAYLIST
1-2 AM, Herbert
Brün Listen to the archive: 128k
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October
17th PLAYLIST
György Ligeti Listen to the archive: 128k
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BERNADETTE MAYER. OCTOBER 20th. Playlist. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
24 October 2004 Sunday Morning 1-2 AM. Lorien's Mix. PLAYLIST. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
31 October 2004 Election
Day is Halloween. "Autumn brought election
day so closely on the heels of Halloween that the final moments of
the presidential campaign were
revealed as masquerade. The crescendo of the pageant, two homecoming
kings. Plastic so lifelike, their rehearsed mannerisms, the sturdy
brushstrokes of the world they paint."
PLAYLIST.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3rd 9 PM STEVE LACY MEMORIAL w/ ROBERT CREELEY & IRENE AEBI. playlist. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
Sunday November 7th, 1-2 AM John Gulino Plugged PLAYLIST Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
Sunday November 14th, 1-2AM Tyler's Mix. Soundcollage and
John Zorn's Spillane. PLAYLIST.
2004 Nov 17 ENGLISH 10 FM. PLAYLIST. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio. "English 10, Electronic Writing, a class at Brown University this fall and next spring, including the writing and performing of Samantha Cornwall, Nicholas Friesner, Ming Holden, Sunil Hebbar, Francesca Rios, Malika Rubens-Davis, Alex Sears & Donald Tetto along with incidental guitar music by Giga Shane, a guy I met in the grreen pastures of New College in Sarasota FL, & Jimi Hendrix performing most of a Bob Dylan song live at the historic Monterey Pop Festival concert in 1967, & and 2 b-sides not on Robyn Hitchock & Gillian Welsh's new album Spooked. This has been electric literature."
2004 November 18, midnight in the morning, Kaija Saariaho. The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (born 1952) has been living and working in Paris since 1982. In 1982 she attended courses in computer music at IRCAM in Paris, since when the computer has been an important element of her composing technique. PLAYLIST. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
2004 December 1, Nick Montfort. Electronic Music and Electronic Literature. Setlist. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
2004 December 6, Captain Beefheart. Setlist. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio.
2004 December 12, Pure Radio: Eclectic Seizure Archives. Season Finale. Setlist. Listen to the archive: 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | Real Audio. "I'm really sad that the next hour of programming will be the last before BSR goes off the air FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR (sniff) so I wanted to use this last hour to explore pure radio, the purest radio. What is pure radio? Let's work backward from dirty polluted corrupted radio: commercial pop radio. Lame pop songs, vapid DJs, commercials. Lame pop songs available on other stations, on albums, on the internet. Lame pop songs available everywhere. Redundant radio, content-free radio. Formats forever unchanging. Song song blab commercial. Verse chorus verse chorus bridge. According to information theory: noise. Commercial radio is static. Superfluity..................................................... This is impure radio. Commercial radio. Radio that is merely another echo of the same information, news and music, available everywhere else. Repetition muddies the waters. Inbred, stagnant, claustrophobic radio.
Working backward, what is pure radio? Keeping the vapid DJ - that's me - new information. Music not available everywhere. Not available on other radio stations, not available on the internet, not available in music stores. Not even available live in concert. I'm speaking of radio pre-produced for one specific radio occasion. Information available once.
I’m speaking of the best radio shows in America: Democracy Now, Word Jazz, This American Life, the Hour of Slack, Bike Talk, the Curious Person’s Guide, the Mixtape Chronicles, and this whole semester at BSR.
Music is change, starting with the oscillating waveforms of pitches--a drone is change--moving into the changing itches of melodies, the changing chords of harmonic progressions, a composer's style changing over time, music evolving into new forms never played on the radio. The same song is no longer music.
If you play a three minute song at 1000 times the normal speed, it becomes a click. If you play 1000 3-minute songs at 100 times the normal speed, you will hear a tone: one note. Commercial radio is always the same: one sustained pitch.
Information is change. What follows is an hour of the finest moments from my decade in independent radio art. You may hear the call letters for other stations in what follows but don't be confused. This is BSR. Er, I mean, WELH...
But the airwaves are in the public domain. They’re all you. Fly them."
