12.00pm The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon - At Union Square, Manhattan

Video of Clay Pigeon at large at Union Square Park interviewing
Charifa and Carlisa from Brooklyn
Camilo from Columbia
Everton from Jamaica
Afsanabh from Luxembourg
Benjamin & Teresa from Brooklyn
Nfn from Guyana
Keyadah and Brittany from New York
Chuck from Nutley, New Jersey
Michelle and Ayanna from Jersey City

CAMERA OPERATORS: Ruth Hayduk; John Dalton
GOPHER: Carol McCrossen
EDITOR: Vicki Bennett

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/cp

12.35pm Jim Price - Ticket Giveaway

Jim Price makes at least seventeen sounds: tooth-grinding, trills, twitters, tongue taps, hisses, grunts and has different sounds for when he bumps into something or when he’s disturbed or wounded.  He’s been a disc jockey at WFMU since 1976 and his band, NEBLUNG PRICE record all their material in an onion drying shed.  Without fatal accident, Jim has arrived to see the airbag and steam from the swelling minor. 

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/jp

12.37pm Wreck This Mess with Bart Plantenga - Extyo (Extreme Yodel)

“Ext-yo” investigates the experimental, outsider, out-of-this-world vocalization called the yodel as used by experimental & eccentric vocalists & soundmakers. It is an extrapolation of his investigations begun in his 2 yodel books, his video lectures & yodel radio shows [Wreck Yodel Telematic 1177] the avant garde & extended vocalists who make use of this most traditional and yet very flexible vocal. It is at once unique and universal; it is found in almost every country & every musical genre. 

bart plantenga is the author of 2 internationally acclaimed yodel books: Yodel In HiFi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica, Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, the producer of the Rough Guide to Yodel CD & YODEL IN HIFI Top 50+ Youtube. He has produced “Insane Logic of the Yodel” video-lectures in Amsterdam, Brussels, Rotterdam & London.
His nonfiction has appeared in Guardian; Nation-KGB Reader, American Music Center Journal; American Book Review; Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music From Ska to Dub; Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America; Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, Sonic Geography Imagined and Remembered;Department of Public Sound #4 ...
He also writes fiction: BEER MYSTIC, Spermatagonia: The Isle of Man & Wiggling Wishbone (Autonomedia); & creative memoirs – Paris Scratch, NY Sin Phoney in Face Flat Minor (Barncott, London). He’s currently working on the Amsterdam-Brooklyn novel Radio Activity Kills with his daughter. He has been a DJ since 1986, producing Wreck This Mess in NY (WFMU), Paris (Radio Libertaire), Amsterdam (100 & Patapoe) & currently online. His radio work has appeared on BBC, Resonance FM, WNYU, NPR, Aligre FM & on French, Canadian, Swiss, Belgian & Dutch radio. He’s a founding member of the NYC literary alliance, the Unbearables & co-edited the anthology The Unbearables. He won the David Tudor Memorial 4’33” Competition [2014] & designed the 2106 Korean Yodel Day postage stamp. He writes, bikes, does radio, & lives in Amsterdam with partner Nina & daughter Paloma Jet.

http://bartplantenga.weebly.com

Mockin' Bird Hill [reverse] > Ronnie Ronalde
Grok Martian Love Call > Mij Yodeling Astrologer
Swiss Lullaby in/outro > Gene Krupa, Dolores Hawkins & Bill Black
In The Alps > Barbara Hannigan & Nederlands Blazers Ensemble
Call of the Lonesome Quarkboy > Girilal Baars
Ranch in the Alps [Alpsno Makiba] > Katsuhiko Haida
Cheese Kit Diptych > Han Bennink
Owl > Meredith Monk
Kawaïmagikbox > Zazalie Zaz
Kundi La Mapendo > Jackie Misfit
Fluht Loop > Christina Zurbrügg
Albino Chraie > Christine Lauterburg
I Dreamt I Yodeled I Remixed > Alvin Curran
Shades Of Grey > TR Kelly
Angelica Silvestris > Anna Nacher [Magic Carpathians Project]
Ledoj Express > Christine Lauterburg
Sobre Saltos > Fatima Miranda
Cuckoo in the Wood > Minna Reverelli
Haiku Lingo > Shelley Hirsch
Stop This Crazy Thing > Coldcut
Frohmatt Jodel > Anonymous
Yakut Song > Lioudmila Khandi
Nils Juhán > Johan Anders Baer
Shawnee Stomp Dance > Shawnee Tribe
Whoa Buck > C.B. '88' Cook
Intro Pygmé > Dobet Gnahore
Cutting Trees for a Garden > The Kaluli of Bosavi
Inuit Wedding > Sainkho
Stueckisch > Erika Stucky
The Great Grandfather > Bo Diddley
Ihoyiya > Miriam Makeba
John Cage’s Mesostics > Phil Minton
Balkanization > Neil B. Rolnick
Lullaby > Kutzkelina

1.05pm Andrew Sharpley - 1) Easy pickings for the cultural magpie from the dustbin of contemporary culture? or
2) A leisurely stroll optimism-spotting on the over-crowded boulevards of celebrity? or
3) A whistlestop tour down the backstreets of google, negotiating sharp corners requiring abrupt shifts of mental gear on a semi-functioning clutch?
You decide.

Featuring in order of appearance: Michael Craig-Martin, Lewis Carroll, Ronnie O' Sullivan, Steve Davis, Yazz and the Plastic Population, Cliff Richard, Antonio Gramsci, Nelson Mandela, Samuel Beckett, David Icke, Laurent Berlant, My parents, Alma Cogan, Yannis Varoufakis, Jeremy Saunders, Bernie Corbyn, Alasdair Gray, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, Katie Perry, Christina Aguilera, Burt Bacharach, Tony Bennett, Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Cher, Kelly Clarkson, Ellie Goulding, Ice-T, Ja Rule, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Janelle Monae, Morrissey, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Sting, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Usher, Will.i.am, Stevie Wonder, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin,Ella Fizgerald, Oliver Sacks, Thomas Bernhard, Paul McCartney, J G Ballard, Sam Cooke, Vicki Bennett, and Dr John.

Andrew Sharpley has been active in European electronic / improvised music since the early 90's, including stints in the bands Stock, Hausen & Walkman; Dummy Run; A&E; IQ0; Mami Chan Band, and numerous collaborations and solo performances. Short films and videos since 2006. Songs since 2012.   

www.index.ht

script

1.35pm DW Robertson (formerly Ergo Phizmiz) - Morton Feldman Optimized for Time 1 & 2 / Morton Feldman Optimized For Time - The King of Denmark

Three compositions by Morton Feldman, with the air taken out. If the old adage goes "Music is the space between the notes", we propose spaceless Feldman to throw a proverbial spanner in the works.

DW Robertson is a writer, composer and collagist, who used to be known as Ergo Phizmiz.

http://deedubyar.blogspot.co.uk

1.45pm Jem Finer - Shortplayer #3 (4VB)

There are several layers of optimisation going on here : The system of composition is an optimisation of Longplayer's algorithm in which various variables have been changed, notably the duration, which is reduced to 14 minutes and 30 seconds, and the instrumentation - two tones, a bleep, a piano chord, a piano note, three voices singing a singing bowl and a couple of tuning forks - which is itself an optimisation of course, of all possible instruments. 

I allowed the algorithm to play itself out and then optimised the result, by way of editing out some of the more unpleasant instances of bad playing. If humans were obeying the score one would hope that they would listen to each other and self-edit. So I had to step in and set the computer right. 

The singing bowl was sung by Olivia Chaney as an experiment to see if human voices could “synthesise” the sound of a singing bowl. To this end she sang three of a bowl’s overtones. This was the first stage towards performing Longplayer with nothing other than the human voice (well, around 500 human voices !), a project that is still in development and will hopefully be first performed in 2018.

http://longplayer.org/events/longplayer-for-voices-2/
http://longplayer.org/events/shortplayer/

Jem Finer is an artist, musician and composer. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, experimental and popular music and installation. Recent work, focusing on his interest in long-term sustainability and the reconfiguring of older technologies, includes Spiegelei, a 360-degree spherical camera obscura, Slowplayer, a 3 r.p.m. sound system and Supercomputer, a sculptural machine composing minimal musical scores.

Supercollider code

b = Buffer.read(s,"//Users/jemfiner/Music/Shortplayer\ \#3/sp3\ source\ bleeps\ and\ tuning\ forks\ and\ fx_4\ revised_14.aif");

var sourceLength,originalLength,passList,pitchList,totalIterations,duration,incPeriod,incLength;

originalLength = 6262200;
sourceLength = originalLength/b.sampleRate;
passList = [1,3,5,7,11,2];
pitchList = [1,0.75,1.5,0.66,0.5,1.33];
duration = 870;
incPeriod = 15;
totalIterations = duration/incPeriod;
incLength = (sourceLength/(duration/incPeriod))*b.sampleRate;

r = Routine({
totalIterations.do({arg j;
Synth("Shortplayer_VB3",['buffer',b.bufnum,'length',incPeriod,'realLength',originalLength,'incL',incLength,
'pitch1',pitchList@0,'pitch2',pitchList@1,'pitch3',pitchList@2,'pitch4',pitchList@3,'pitch5',pitchList@4,
'pitch6',pitchList@5, 'passes1',passList@0,'passes2',passList@1,'passes3',passList@2,'passes4',passList@3,'passes5',passList@4,'passes6',passList@5,
'yteration',j]);
incPeriod.wait;
     });
   });

SystemClock.play(r);

1.59pm Jim Price - I’m On The Air

Jim Price makes at least seventeen sounds: tooth-grinding, trills, twitters, tongue taps, hisses, grunts and has different sounds for when he bumps into something or when he’s disturbed or wounded.  He’s been a disc jockey at WFMU since 1976 and his band, NEBLUNG PRICE record all their material in an onion drying shed.  Without fatal accident, Jim has arrived to see the airbag and steam from the swelling minor. 

http://wfmu.org/playlists/jp

Many thanks all! Andrew Sharpley, Bodega Pop Live with Gary Sullivan, Brian J Davis, Brijet Murray, Bryce, Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie, Buttress O’Kneel, Carlo Patrão, Carol McCrossen, Dan, Dan Deacon, Daniel Menche, Dina Kelberman, DO or DIY with People Like Us, Drew Daniel, DW Robertson, Gwilly Edmondez, Hank Lewis, Heather Phillipson, Irene Moon, Jason Willett & MC Schmidt, Jeff Moore, Jem Finer, Jim Price, John, John Dalton, John Kilduff, Ken Freedman, Kimzilla, Leech, Liz Berg, Matt Warwick, Melissa, Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White, Nick the Bard, Osymyso, Pat Byrne’s Desk, Peter Knight, Porest, Pseu Braun, Roy, Ruth Hayduk, Scott Williams, Steinski, The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon, Tim Maloney, Tom, Vicki Bennett, Will, Wreck This Mess with Bart Plantenga, WFMU, Monty Hall and The National Endowment For The Arts