Summary: The guest this week Michael Karman. Karman is the editor of Asymmetry Music Magazine, a magazine dedicated to exposing the general public to new and interesting art music, and we discuss how to listen, the problem of tradition, concrete music, John Cage, Coca-Cola bottles and more. The music and sound in this episode includes A String Quartet playing Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga herself only mashed up, reversed, and filtered, an excerpt of Michael Rodd from the BBC 1979 documentary "The New Sound of Music," Emmanuelle-Gibello's "Crashtest 10," Ernst Krenek's "Sinfonia no. 4", John Cage talking about Coca-Cola bottles, and Luc Ferrari's "Exploitation of Concepts." I want to thank Jacob L, Andrew M, Tracy V, Ted F, and John L who are regular subscribers to the podcast. I also want to thank Terry T, Andrew M (a second time), Adrien S, and Babafemi M for their very generous one time donations. If you'd like to donate you can find the paypal buttons on douglaslain.com and at the podomatic page for Diet Soap. And in the next two months I'll be starting a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund a Diet Soap tour that I plan to call "Think the Impossible!" The music you're listening to right now is Paul's Dance by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, but in just a moment you'll be listening to Michael Karman and I discuss How to Listen to the New.
