Stone Cold Lampin’ #13
9/26/15
This show marks a milestone. I’ve completed 13 graveyard shifts, and I can move on to daytime shifts. I’ve had a good time working the graveyard shifts and I will miss it. My family won’t. I’d go to bed around 7 PM the night before, wake up by alarm at 12:20 AM, and head in to the studio. Nami left me a banana, some granola, and a pot of coffee in a thermos. It worked pretty well. I didn’t get tired and I was often able to get calm enough to really contemplate the sound. I played some spaced-out music. I told my friend that I felt like a man holding a torch next to a vast ocean, surrounded by the dark night. I let the sound ring out into the darkness. Embers fell from my torch. When I got home, I napped for an hour or two right after breakfast.
For my last shift, I tried to find out something about contemporary composers. I played music of stringed instruments. I took a trip around the world.
Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. After a short stop at Norcal Noisefest 2000, the hour is bookended by Ligeti, older and younger. In between, traditional sounds from Korea, North America, Japan, Morocco, and Mexico.
Hour 2: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century sounds, the results of an inquiry into contemporary western classical music.
Hour 3: Sun Ra and Voicehandler set the tone for the second hour of inquiry about a contemporary.
Hour 4: I just had to figure it out, “What does classical music sound like now?” No conclusion.
Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until October 2.
Streams via kfjc.org.