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July 26, 2008 (#28) - The Remix Show
Originally broadcast July 17, 2005
Producers and sound artists go to the audio playground and remix to their heart’s content.
Sopranos in the West Wing and Terminally Blonde
Jonathan Mitchell- Independent Producer
Producer Jonathan Mitchell edits together disparate TV shows (Sopranos and The West Wing) and movies (Terminator 2 and Legally Blonde) to create hilarious pop culture remixes. We play two of them and talk to Jonathan about his work.
The Neighborhood Freaks
Jay Allison- Independent Producer
A fictional narrative comprised of completely unrelated radio stories. Veteran radio producer Jay Allison describes it this way: all these interview tapes were sitting side by side on the shelf and one day the people on the tapes just started talking to one another.
Nickelback
Sean Cole- Senior Reporter, WBUR
It's happened to all of us: you're in your car and song X comes on the radio. In a nanosecond, your brain digs through all your dusty memory files and sends out an alert: this sounds just like song Y! And you wonder, did someone steal song X from song Y? Maybe. You'll never know. But what if song X and song Y were sung by the same band? Can a band steal from itself... or are they just being…consistent? One music fan remixed two songs and put them to the ultimate test.
Mashups
DJ Paul V. (Host of The Smash Mix on Indie 103.1 in LA) gives a brief introduction to the Mash-up: Two songs digtally combined to form a new, seamless pop masterpiece.
Featured Mashes:
Go Home Productions, “Genie’s Revenge” (Strokes/Christina Aguilera)
Ben Wheatley, “Puppet Rock” (Queen/The Fifth Dimension)
Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob” (Madonna/Sex Pistols)
DJBC, “Whatca Want, Lady?” (Beastie Boys/Beatles)
Change in Farming
Adam Goddard- Composer
Steve Wadhams- Producer, CBC
Adam Goddard, a composer in Toronto, whose passion is music, interviews his 90 year-old grandfather whose passion is farming. Then, he combines his grandfather's words with his own music and the result is a little like.....rap.
The Books
Paul de Jong—Musician
Nick Zammuta—Musician
Julie Shapiro—Managing Director, Third Coast International Audio Festival
One of our favorite bands is The Books: Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto. On their first national tour, they stopped by our studio to talk to us about their music and how they put it all together. If you enjoy rich sound from a lot of different sources—thrift store records, found tape, TV shows—then this is the band for you.
Featured Music:
Caribou, “Drumheller,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Caribou, “Subtonik,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Caribou, “Lord Leopard,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Go Home Productions, “Genie’s Revenge” (Strokes/Christina Aguilera)
Ben Wheatley, “Puppet Rock” (Queen/The Fifth Dimension)
Go Home Productions, “Ray of Gob” (Madonna/Sex Pistols)
DJBC, “Whatca Want, Lady?” (Beastie Boys/Beatles)
Caribou, “Yeti,” The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino, 2005)
Mark Vernon, “Splicing,” Derby Tape Club (found tape)
The Books, “If Not Now, Whenever,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
The Books, “Be Good to Them Always,” Lost and Safe (Tomlab, 2005)
RX, “Imagine,” The Party Party (2005) (George W. Bush/Lou Reed/John Lennon)
Extras:
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The Books, "read, eat, sleep"
(Thought for Food, 2002, 3:46) |
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July 19, 2008 (#97)- The Migration Show
Legs, Hope and Water
Peggy Giakoumelos and Lea Redfern - Producers, Radio Eye (Australia)
The fragments of sounds, smells, and images that you remember from your youth form an imperfect mental roadmap of the particular place where you grew up. And as an adult, that roadmap usually remains folded away. But on occasion, something might inspire you to find it and spread it out before you, to re-trace old roads and rivers you knew before. The map, of course, is an artifact: the places of your childhood have changed since you left them. But that doesn't quash your innate curiousity or, in some cases, the need to return.
Peggy Giakoumelos was born in Australia to Greek parents. She also lived in Greece for part of her childhood. She returned again as an adult - retaining childhood memories of a place, that because of mass migration into Greece, no longer existed at all. In 2003 she travelled back to find out about the changes.
What's Your Status?
Judith Sloan - Independent Producer, Earsay
Immigrating to a new country is always hard : new language, new culture, new people... But when you're young, and you're here illegally, living with the threat of deportation all the time, well, it doesn’t exactly seem like the proverbial pot of gold. Judith Sloan works with at-risk youth, teaching theater, writing, and juggling in alternative schools and jails. What's Your Status? was inspired by her work with undocumented students.
An American Tail
Anastasia Ivonova - Independent Producer, TCF Dollar Storeys
And finally, here's a story about a cat and a mouse, peace and war, Russia and America. All in two minutes and thirty seconds.
Music:
Andrew Coleman, "Pi Four", Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (Thrill Jockey, 2001)
Thomas Belhom, "Pink Turns to Blue", No Border ( Ici D'ailleurs/Darla, 2008)
Hauschka, "Paddington", Room to Expand (Fat Cat, 2007)
J. Spaceman and Sun City Girls, "Music Box Underwater", Mister Lonely (Drag City, 2008)
Extras:
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Hear more stories from Radio Eye on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. |
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Check out Judith Sloan's website and read a Third Coast interview with her here. |
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That tape at the beginning of the show? "You're stepping on my shadow"? That was from the wonderful (and recently deceased) Tony Schwartz. Hear more. |
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July 12, 2008 (#96)- The Singing Show
Opera Mom
Dean Olsher - Producer, The Next Big Thing
Jazz violinist Matt Glazer grew up in a musical household. And the connection his mother had to music was so strong that, in her later years, despite her debilitating loss of memory, it was one of the only things that kept her connected to her surroundings and her family.
Musical Migrants: Yoko Noge
Rachel Hopkin - Producer, Falling Tree Productions
Music can move you -- to tears in some cases. But can it move you ….to another country? Well, Yoko Noge moved from Osaka, Japan halfway around the world to the west side of Chicago for one reason only: the blues. Her first home here in the windy city was a cockroach-infested, $20-a-night hotel, but she was too excited to care. She just wanted to learn how to sing.
Langley Schools Music Project
Katie Mingle - Independent Producer, Re:sound
Some people use the term “outsider music” for music that seems to come from a certain place of innocence. Music that isn’t trying to get at anything and yet somehow gets at everything.
In Canada in the 1970s, music teacher Hans Fenger (pictured on the right) recorded 60 of his students singing in a gymnasium and pressed a few records to hand out to parents. The recording, which was done in a single take, eventually found itself gathering dust in a Canadian thrift store. But in 2000, a collector of outsider music came across the recordings and decided they had to be re-released. The resulting album, called Innocence and Despair, really spoke to people. It turned out to be an unexpected hit, climbing to the top of the billboard charts and spawning a VH1 documentary. Not bad for an amateur kid's choir.
Middle C
Tristan Whiston and Carma Jolly - Producers, Outfront
Tristan Whiston performed as a solo soprano for the first time and the age of six and, after years of hard work, enjoyed an accomplished singing career. But a few years, Tristan gave up one of the most precious things a singer has -- the voice. Tristan made the transition from female to male.
Music:
Illoin, The Only Book He Ever Read, "Pinafore" (Notenuf, 2003)
Chihei Hatakeyama, Bonfire on the Field, "Minima Moralia" (Kranky, 2006)
Langley Schools Music Project, "Innocence and Despair" (Bar/None, 2001)
Colleen, Blue Sands, "Les Ondes Silencieuses" (Leaf Spain, 2007)
Extras:
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Hear more from The Next Big Thing on WNYC. |
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See Yoko Noge (of Musical Migrants) sing in Chicago! Here's her website. |
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Hear Re:sound host Gwen Macsai belt it out in her story National Anthem. |
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CBC's Outfront produces a fifteen minute story everyday of the week. Listen here. |
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