Rare Frequency Podcast

  Rare Frequency Podcast 17: Domestic Bliss 1 Daphne Oram, "Rotolock" Oramics (Paradigm) CD 2007 2 Klaaro, "001-eg" …a gift for… (Grey Sparkle) CDr 2006 3 Sleepararchive?, "L-A-C" Stamp Release EP(Sleeparchive) 12” 2007 4 alva noto, "Haliod_Xerrox_Copy_6" Xerrox (Raster Noton) CD 2007 5 Scott Taylor, "Monkey Puzzle" Five Dreams for Sleepers (Con-v) CDr 2006 6 Janek Schaefer, "Accident Assistant" Wire Tapper 6 (The Wire) CD 2005 7 Oren Ambarchi, "Lost Time Not Found Again" An Evening At Room40 (Room40) CD 2006 8 C-Schulz, "Flimm II" 5.Flicker Tunes (Sonig) CD 2005 9 Svalastog, "Slow-Blowing Wireless" An Evening At Room40 (Room40) CD 2006 10 Jorg Follert, "By Car" Visor (Tomlab) CD 1997 11 Senking, "Graue Musik" List (Raster Noton) CD 2007 12 Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band, "Egypt Strut" Egyptian Jazz (Art Yard) CD/LP 2006

  This podcast features a live set by local sound artist Asher Thal-nir, which was first broadcast on February 02, 2007. Asher’s work is composed using recordings of acoustic and electronic instruments, location recordings and found recordings which are manipulated in various ways. His work has been published online by 12k/term, Conv, Laboratoire Moderne, and Homophoni, and on CDr by Conv and Leerraum, as well as upcoming cdr and dvd-r releases on Conv, Mystery Sea, and Leerraum. For more information about Asher, check out my interview with him. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 12): Asher Live 02/01/07

  This podcast features a live set by Boston native, Murmer, aka Patrick McGinley. A longtime resident of London, Patrick works with field recordings and found sounds, framing sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognizable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath. Patrick was in town to play at the Intransitive Recordings show as part of Boston’s First Night 2007. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 11): Murmer Live 12/21/06

  Rare Frequency Podcast 16: Prickled Ice, Torn Asunder (opening loop from Raymond Scott, “Wheels That Go” Manhattan Research Inc. (Basta) 2CD) 1 Mika Vainio, "Hampaat III" Revitty (Wavetrap) CD 2007 2 Pixel, "Sinus" Set Your Center Between Your Parts In Order To (Raster Noton) CDr 2006 3 Holden, "Lump" The Idiots Are Winning (Border Community) CD 2006 4 Jazzkammer & Sir Duperman, "Spor Uten Navn 3" Duperkammer (Smalltown Supersound) CD 2003 5 Seht & Stelzer, "Untitled 3" Exactly What You Lost (Intransitive) CD 2007 6 Lithops, "Blasmusik" Queries (Sonig) CD 2006 7 György Kurtág, "Hommage á Ferenc Berenyi 70 (Kelemen Mikes says: )" Játékok (BMC) CD 2006

  This podcast features a live set by recent Boston transplant, Derek Hoffend. Derek creates sound-sculpture installations and performs live audio-works involving composed and improvised pieces for computer, hand-made circuits, and modified electronic and acoustic instruments. For more information, check out his website. The performance was recorded live in the WZBC studio on December 07, 2006. Rare Frequency Podcast Special Ed. 10: Derek Hoffend Live

  Here is a merry little podcast, featuring experimental holiday classics both new and old. Happy Holidays! Rare Frequency Podcast 15: A Very Rare Holiday Podcast 1 i8u, "Christmas Give Ideas" 60 Sound Artists Protest the War (ATAK) CD 2003 2 Maurice Blackburn, "Christmas Cracker (Caprice de Noël" Music of the N.F.B. (Creel Pone) CDr 2006 3 Pietro Grossi, "Untitled 02" Buon Natale 1967 e Felice Anno Nuevo (Creel Pone) CDr 2006 4 Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers, "Turkey Song" Heroin (Brombron) CD 2001 5 RLW, "Ihr Kinderlein" Merry Merry (Meuw Muzak) 7" 2003 6 Brian Whitman, "Radiant Bells" A Singular Christmas (Eigenradio) mp3 2004 7 Tod Dockstader, "Holiday Meltdown" Electronic Music (Creel Pone) CDr 2005 8 Hematic Sunsets with Okko Bekker, "Weihnachten im Aroma Club" Weihnachten im Aroma Club (Meuw Muzak) 7" 2004

  In honor of this week's holiday preemption, RF gives thanks with music, both old and new. There are no musical turkeys here. Rare Frequency Podcast 14: You Charcoal It, Chamberlain 1 My Fun, "The Pursuit of Old Pleasures" Idyll EP (Test Tube) mp3 2006 2 Harmonia, "Ahoi!" Musik von Harmonia (Lilith) CD 2006 3 Priscilla McLean, "Archangels" Electronic Landscapes (Em Records) CD 2006 4 Harvester, "Nar Lingonen Mognar" Hemat (Silence) CD 2001 5 Autistici, "Attaching Softness to a Shell (A)" Blueprints (12k) CD 2006 6 Marc McNulty, "00011 " Faraday Cage (Earphone) CDr 2006 7 Conrad Schnitzler, "Untitled 03 " Conrad & Sohn (Creel Pone) CD 2005 8 Goodiepal, "Time and Money" 60 Sound Artists Protest the War (ATAK) CD 2005 9 R. Tilsley, "Sexy Sox" Music DeWolfe Vol. 1 (Megaphone) CD 2006

  This podcast features a live set by recent Boston transplant, Marc McNulty. The performance was recorded live in the WZBC studio on October 26, 2006. Rare Frequency Podcast Special Ed. 09: Marc McNulty Live

  We tempt fate with lots of new music on podcast 13, but all the while hold a trump card in the form of a classic piece by Pita. Fear not lucky 13! Rare Frequency Podcast 13: Lucky 13 1 Ryoji Ikeda, "Untitled #25" Touch 25 (Touch) CD 2006 2 Alvars Orkester, "Lighthouse Service" Organic Woodtrip (1991-1992) (Kning Disk) CD 2006 3 Christina Kubisch, "Travel" For (Die Schachtel) CD 2004 4 Pita, "Untitled" Get Out (Mego) CD 2000 5 Kanding Ray, "n.n/peaks" Stabil (Raster Noton) CD 2006 6 Reanimator, "Clicks and Drones May... " Special Powers (Community Library) CD 2006 7 Martin Tetreault & Otomo Yoshihide, "Tradition " 21 Situations ("DAME") CD 1999 Photo: Shaun Gummere

  This podcast features an extended interview with an RF favorite, Ivan Pavlov, aka COH, from March 2006. The interview first aired on Rare Frequency on WZBC in April 16, 2006. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 08): Ivan Pavlov/COH Interview As always, if you have any questions or problems downloading or subscribing to the RF podcast, drop me an email at

  There is a lot of scratchy vinyl and much to enjoy on this latest program, which is the first non-special edition podcast in quite some time. Enjoy! Note: In the podcast, I neglect to mention that "Sunny-Side Up" is a duo between Christian Marclay and Gunter Muller. Very bad form. Consider yourself fully informed now. Rare Frequency Podcast 12: Untitled #12 1 Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer, "Maori Love Song" Hidden Name (Cronica) CD 2006 2 Philip Samartzis & Lawrence English, "Goin' Back Home" One Plus One (Room 40) CD 2006 3 Alva.Noto, "Gulf Night" For (Line) CD 2006 4 Lithops, "Cephlapod" Mound Magnet (Thrill Jockey) CD 2006 5 Alvars Orkester, "Track 3 (untitled)" Organic Woodtrip (1991-1992) (Kning Disk) CD 2006 6 COH, "Path #3 " Patherns E.P. (Raster Noton) CD 2006 7 Kuniharu Akiyama, "Noh-Miso (1962), Part 6 " Music For Puppet Theatre of HITOMI-ZA (Edition Omega Point) CD 2006 8 Christian Marclay & Gunter Muller, "Sunny-Side Up " Live Improvisations (For4Ears) CD 1994 8 Blind Roosevelt Graves & Uaroy Graves, "I Shall Not Be Moved " The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Yazoo Records) CD 2006 9 Satoru Wono, "Nice Trip" Sauvage (Kaeru Cafe) CD 1998 Photo: Shaun Gummere

  This podcast features a live set by Bernhard Gal and i8u. It was first broadcast on August 24, 2006 on WZBC. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 07): Bernhard Gal & i8u Live 08.24.06 Austrian-born composer and sound artist Bernhard Gal creates electronic and electro-acoustic music, as well as compositions for acoustic instruments. His projects and sound installations incorporate light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. He runs the record label Gromoga Records and is director of the Austrian art organization "sp ce". Currently, Gal divides his time between Vienna and Berlin, where he also teaches sound art at the University of Arts. France Jobin, aka i8u, is a sound / installation / web artist residing in Montreal, Canada. i8u’s audio art can be qualified as sound-sculpture. It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. I8u has created solo recordings for (bake/staalplaat) (piehead) (oral) as well as collaborative works with Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and Tomas Phillips. She has been included in compilations on ATAK (Japan), bremsstrahlung (USA) and Mutek (Canada).

  This podcast features a live set by Yuko Nexus6 in her Boston debut. It was first broadcast on August 24, 2006 on WZBC. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 06): Yuko Nexus6 Live 08.24.06 Yuko Nexus 6 is a sound artist based in Hikone, Japan. Using a mixture of field recordings, cut-up samples, digital processing, and her own voice, Yuko creates beguiling, often slyly humorous, always wonderfully idiosyncratic sonic collages and compositions. Conscious of the unspectacular dryness of an artist in front of her computer, in performance she is constantly inventing and adding little elements like grains of sand that derail her music towards something alive and astute. She received an honorary mention in Europe's Prix Ars Electronic competition in 2003.

  This podcast features a very special live set by Bernhard Gal, i8u, and Yuko Nexus6. This was first broadcast live on Rare Frequency on WZBC 90.3FM on August 24, 2006. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 04: Gal, i8u, Yuko Nexus6 Live 08.24.06 Austrian-born composer and sound artist Bernhard Gal creates electronic and electro-acoustic music, as well as compositions for acoustic instruments. His projects and sound installations incorporate light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. He runs the record label Gromoga Records and is director of the Austrian art organization "sp ce". Currently, Gal divides his time between Vienna and Berlin, where he also teaches sound art at the University of Arts. France Jobin, aka i8u, is a sound / installation / web artist residing in Montreal, Canada. I8u's audio art can be qualified as sound-sculpture. It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her installation/web art follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. I8u has created solo recordings for (bake/staalplaat) (piehead) (oral) as well as collaborative works with Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and Tomas Phillips. She has been included in compilations on ATAK (Japan), bremsstrahlung (USA) and Mutek (Canada). Yuko Nexus 6 is a sound artist based in Hikone, Japan. Using a mixture of field recordings, cut-up samples, digital processing, and her own voice, Yuko creates beguiling, often slyly humorous, always wonderfully idiosyncratic sonic collages and compositions. Conscious of the unspectacular dryness of an artist in front of her computer, in performance she is constantly inventing and adding little elements like grains of sand that derail her music towards something alive and astute. She received an honorary mention in Europe's Prix Ars Electronic competition in 2003.

  A new podcast dedicated to recent favorites from a formidable line-up of RF workhorses like Pan Sonic, Carsten Nicolai, Lionel Marchetti, and Norbert Moslang, as well as a lovely track by a newcomer, Michael Santos. Rare Frequency Podcast 11: Arc of a Driver 1 Pan Sonic, "Slovakian Rauta" Touch 25 (Touch) CD 2006 2 Lionel Marchetti with Yoko Higashi, "Red Dust 3:3 " Red Dust" (Crouton) 3x3"CD 2005 3 Norbert Moslang, "b1_6" Burst_Log (For4Ears) CD 2006 4 Alva.Noto, "Transit (for Suchan Kinoshita)" For (Line) CD 2006 5 Micheal Santos, "Light 8" Matters (Benbecula) CD 2006