Listen Ability Rating: A cross pollination of my own with the sounds of Mr. OJ Simpson and the curse of literature.

So to be brief in a sense I will make it clear that this is not anything you would be interested in hearing. But go ahead and listen anyway. "I got a bullseye on my front and a dollar sign on my back," laments the Juice while we ponder the purgatory of his existence.

Following this we listened to Arnold Dreyblatt's poetic langour termed "Brushtones". Off of an Atlantic Waves compilation from 2006.

Running thru the street with the green knife and infected by Polish novels while stranded...We close the trio of sound with Danças Ocultas and their piece, "Alchimie."

Listen Ability Rating: This episode may be more easily digested than a burger at Mickey D's!

This time I've decided to create a free flowing mix of sound fom a variety of  recordings.  The first excerpt that comes into your ears is a snippet from that crazy bagpiper Rufus Harley. His Re-Creation of the Gods gets us locked and loaded with "Nobody knows the trouble we've seen".

The "Missing Voice" comes hautingly forward from the mind of Janet Cardiff. Fragments of the voice find their way into the many crevices of this episode.

From the city to the jungle we enter the world of Flourescent Gray with their quaintly titled sonnet, "A Peruvian Shaman Sits Down To Make IDM On His Laptop." 

Amid the filter can we can also make out the mildly manipulated sounds of Haco's "Start up + no wave."

Enjoy the return for a while!

Listen Ability Rating; This one may prove to be a challenge for those less accustomed to random weirdness but hang on tight and you may have your sonic appetite satiated. (24.3mb/ 17:13)

Posted from the trusty and ever present iPhone. This podcast initiates a series of undetermined number, they are titled "Music to live by." These will include extensive use of a recent invention curiously called "remote control." Sourced from the random vibrations of AM radio a sound continues to appear and begs to be revealed. Inkxpotter has promised to explore this new instrument and all results will be posted with utmost haste.

Although the sounds from this side of the web have been far and few between lately this montage is sure to make you wonder if I did truly wait long enough between episodes. Enjoy!

Oh and ALOG played "Change Position" off of Miniatures to close this podcast.

Keep on listening!

Listen Ability Rating: Apocalypse on the brain can lead in strange directions. A delicious sampling of 50's inspired hysteria mixed in with unusual musics. (27.4mb, 19:47)

This week I have filled in the gaps between my musical selections with snippets from a record titled "If the Bomb Falls". An interesting and completely serious synopsis of what to do in case of a nuclear attack. Enjoy!

In the first stages of the apocalypse their will be mass confusion. I found this selection by Dokaka to be a rather stunning representation of the chaos and discomfort this might cause for everyone involved. "Economy Parcel Post" is the name of this piece and it's another cut off of the Atlantic Waves sampler that I played on the last show.

In a more literal vein I chose William S. Burroughs intoning "Apocalypse" from his Dead City Radio album. Amidst the confusion arises something recognizable, long hidden and well worth the wait.

In the aftermath Albert Ayler gives us a hint of what we might see. The piece we heard is "untitled blues" but don't let that title fool you. With what starts out as a standard blues tune for a moment is quickly reconfigured into something else entirely. Be prepared.

And now, off to the shelter we go!

Listen Ability Rating:  An interesting conversation with a film maker amid my usual smorgasborg of music.

This episode intermingles some interesting thoughts from film maker Guillermo Del Toro. He talks about insects, fantasy and reality and other cool stuff.

Musically we start with Jonas Braasch off his Global Reflections CD. This Cd features six sound recordings from various sites around the world. We listened to the one from Montreal. But he takes the idea in an interesting direction by using motifs he's recorded on site and then translates them into the language of the solo soprano sax.

Secondly our ears get a bit arythmic with our old friend Jon Oswald. These works continue to fascinate me. There use of recognizable tunes reconstructed yet still retaining an aural reference to the original, it's something about their ability to invoke and reconfigure that intrigues me. Here in "Rose" the echoes of Captain Beefheart's peculair brand of rhythm and chaos is turned in to chaos and a lilting twisted flower unfolds.

Z'EV takes us to the outro. We sampled the sounds of "The Smoking Key" off of the latest sampler from the Atlantic Waves music fest. The piece may sound like it is overly saturated in reverb, muddied and indistinct. But the medium is the message. Listen closely for the sounds of insects, archangels, and fauns speaking in tongues.

Listen Ability Rating: Odd Dj makes mix of sounds with a coincidental letter.

Yes there are some new sounds awaiting your ears, hear they are here. Been reading about the Return of Quetzlcoatl, a book by Daniel Pinchbeck.  Got me motivated to assemble this mix.

First up, after my "intro", we listen to Sonic Youth off of their latest CD Rather Ripped and the track "Do you beleive in rapture?"

There are a few tracks in the mix by Curium and the CD Nowever. The CD is built around poems by ee cummings and it's cool. I played "When God Decided To Invent" and "O Purple Finch/ Please Tell Me Why."

Sandwiched in between the Curium is a group called The Dead C. We listened to "Voodoo Spell" off of Vain, Erudite And Stupid .

Closing out the set we heard @C and their found sound masterpiece Int 10_34. Enjoy.

Listen Ability?Another hiatus of unknown origin brings this wrongly dated podcast to your ears. Better later than nevered.

First slab o sound we listen to is a piece by Satanicpornocultshop titled Anorexia Gas balloon, this is a tasty little treatise on candy and all the disturbing things in her mind circa 1960s Velvet Underground and beyond.

Following that your ears were treated to a slice of minimilsm via Fred Frith and his solo CD Clearing. One of my favorite guitar masters he always has a thing to say in his own unique way.

Lastly I sampled a cut off of an LP that came out in the 60's (and more recently was found on the 365 day project) that features a couple chatting away about nothing in particular. The fun thing about it is that the LP was designed to be played while you were not at home in order to discourage burgalars from popping in unexpectedly. Follow the 365 day link for a full hour of this fun!

Listen Ability Rating: Given the approach many of these musicians and artists take, we might say: the instrument as body, the body as instrument.

For this sequence of sounds we ventured into the limitless universe that is ubuweb and found a recent "audio response" to an art exhibit at the ICA in Boston.  This compilation is called Music Overheard and was edited by Damon Krukowski.


Our set focuses on the body as instrument and starts with a piece by Matmos titled "Memnto Mori" which is composed entirely from samples of human skull, goat spine and connective tissue, and artificial teeth.

The second piece is "Ritual with Giant Hissing Madagascar Cockroaches"  and was performed by Miya Masaoka with thirteen Madagascar Cockroaches. She triggered the insects' amplified hissing noises while they were crawling over her body.

The last selection was "The Body is a Sound Factory" by Henri Chopin. He is one of the pioneers of sound poetry, both with his own works and with his work as a publisher. Since the 1950s, Chopin has explored the amplification of the voice and the body, the vibrations of the larynx, the labial snaps and the hiss of bodily systems.

Listen Ability Rating: Odd droning sounds overlayed with tasty bits of sampled bytes. Have a listen.

On this episode we start off with the sounds of "New York, New York" played by a chorus of car horns. Hear it and hum along. But the show really begins with the sounds of Ubique and their sound sculpture titled "neglect of those In between." Ubique, the Latin word for "everywhere" is the motto of the British Royal Artillery.

Bardo Pond offers our next sonic flavor in the form of "Moonshine" off of Ticket Crystals. I've listened to this CD only as background sounds while reading Charles burns graphic novel "Black Hole" the merging of the two mediums was perfection and highly reccommended. Follow the link above to a lengthy and scholarly review of the novel.

The final spice added to our sonic palette was courtesy of Telectu and their piece "Kraula Alviazul II". I found this on a Cd of Exploratory music from Portugul. Mixed in with the sounds of Telectu was William S Burroughs and Malcom X. Enjoy!

Listen Ability Rating: From a circuit bent chipmunk to avant electro jazz and the indigenious sounds of urban improv this podcast is full of surprises. (22:30, 30.2mb)

The first piece that enters our collective ears is from a CD I came across in the Amoeba record store in SF. "Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones" is a collection of odd sounds from makers of unusual instruments. It comes with a cool booklet that goes into detail about the instrument makers. Reed Ghazala's "Silence the Tongues of Prophecy" is a part of this collection, he is known as the father of Circuit Bending, if you don't know what that is check out his site for more info. Or have a listen to his piece which features a collection of his hand built instruments.

Following the silence we have a cut off of David Toop's 1996 solo album titled, "Pink Noir". We have a listen to the cool title track. I've played some of the music that he has written about on past shows but this is the first time we get a chance to listen to his own music. Highly reccommended!

Rounding out the shape is the cut "After Marja's Cats" off of the recently released No Neck Blues Band and Embryo collaboration, EmbryoNNCK. Seven tracks and 44 minutes of concentrated musical collaboration, a fierce and uncompromising mesh of artistic visions that will surely be among the year’s best experimental releases.

Enjoy!