Episode , Some Assembly Required. David Bowie vs. Thursday, December 27, Sawako. The album is composed largely of artists working with samples, but it's not clear whether or not Sawako works exclusively with media samples. She may not use them at all, in fact. This is one of those projects I've played on the good possibility that it fits the format of the show, and since we have played her work on Some Assembly Required, I invited her to be our featured artist this week.
Sawako has been a practicing digital artist since and has three albums of such material. She also has experience playing the piano and Nohgaku, and has played in a band. She has appeared on more than 20 compilations, remixes and CDs as a guest musician and currently lives and works in New York City. Only 1 girl. And from my experience living in Japan and the USA and traveling the world, I can say that the genre categories are different between different cities and countries.
I enjoy living in between categories, rather than settling down under one specific community. I was in the interdisciplinary departments, so I was also taking biology class, computer science class, ethnography class, the pop culture critic class and so on.
It was the era of mp3. At that time, I wanted to be an art curator and was working at the art space in Tokyo. Although checking record shops in Tokyo at least 3 times per week at that time, I was not a big music fan and never be longing to be a musician. I kept making the handmade CDR for my friends all over the world, and my friend list became bigger and bigger. Then, I had released my 2nd album "hum" from 12k in and my 3rd album "madoromi" from Anticipate Recordings in But I feel the experiences as the programmer, the interaction designer and the art curator are closer and deeper to connect with what I am doing with audible media than the so-called musical experiences.
I feel that I am closer to the Japanese "Mingei" designers than to the idea of the individualistic Western artist who is "creative," "doing something unique," "artistic," etc. For me, making things — from music, visual, and networked programming works to everyday food and accessories — is just like breathing in everyday life. Some of these works may disappear in the long term for one reason or another, but everything happens in the natural flow of subtle daily things.
So I don't care whether what I do will remain in history or not, or how it is contextualized. I am a tiny existence floating in a big river.
The only difference for me between cooking a meal for friends and making music is that, with music, I have a wider audience, influence and responsibility. Sunday, December 16, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas , from Some Assembly Required! In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy this week's Christmas themed episode, originally broadcast in Minneapolis exactly two years ago.
I'm uploading it a week early, so that our syndicating stations will have access to it in time to air before Christmas I started the podcast of this program almost two years ago now it has been on the air since , and the first thing I uploaded was a special mix of Christmas-themed sample based music and audio art.
The mix was very popular, which was really encouraging as I began to podcast regular episodes a week later. The episode I'm uploading this week is the December, radio show I put together using the same playlist as the Christmas mix I'd produced for that first podcast Monday, December 10, Wax Tailor. Wax Tailor. He often works with guest musicians and vocalists.
For more information, check out his website and myspace page. Wax Tailor is the pseudonym. Of the three, tape manipulations might be the most appropriate, although it is restrictive because my influences often come from Movie dialogues I like. In a way you could say that I am trying to expand Hip-Hop's boundaries. It feels to me that previously Hip-Hop was a broader musical genre, and that it got defined in a very restrictive way.
I'm hoping to give people outside of Hip-Hop a new perspective on this movement. Friday, November 30, Wesley Nisker. A quote on the back said the book would serve as the missing link between sit-down meditation and stand-up comedy. Of course, I bought and read it right away. I've since referred to it as a kind of life-long companion So very much of it rang so very true, for me, especially at the time. My interest in sound collage pre-dates having read this book, which is why it's strange I somehow missed this fact initially, especially considering what an impact his book had on me at the time.
Hopefully you've made your way through a period like this at some point in your own life as well. If not, check out this book if you want to get started. Nisker was a newscaster and commentator, from , at a radio station known as a voice of the anti-war movement, and had the freedom there to present his views in the form of some seriously edited audio tape, featuring the voices of then-current politicians, rock and roll samples, sound effects and other recordings of the era.
The results were broadcast at KSAN in the late sixties and seventies and the best tracks were, more recently, put together on one CD for a program on National Public Radio. He's worked as a morning show radio host, in addition to his roles as radio producer and commentator, and is cofounder and coeditor of the International Buddhist journal, Inquiring Mind. He's a comedian, author, Buddhist meditation instructor and sound collage artist I got my nickname Scoop in the late 60's, when I was the news commentator for the infamous underground station KSAN in San Francisco, and was receiving communiques from various groups about their protests and manifestos.
I also had an inside witness to the Chicago Conspiracy trial, and the DJ's started calling me "the Scoop. I was the only Jewish kid in my schools, and as I grew up, which may have been the beginning of my life as an "outsider.
Friday, November 23, The Piss. The Piss "The Piss" is an artist who I have to say I've always had to hesitate to play, on the show, thanks entirely to the project name he was using.
I'm still not sure if it's legal to say it on the air, though I have on occasion. He's a sound collage artist who has worked very hard at his craft though, so of course I have to give him credit, though I do still worry about whether it's okay to actually give him credit, when I play his stuff on the airwaves. Who knows what the standards of decency are from one area to the next, in this country the rules change from one neighborhood to another, as I understand things.
So, this might be a good story to illustrate the value of choosing a name wisely Or not. A lot of sound artists are much more focused on the internet these days, and the on-air radio programs which will actually air this type of material are extremely few and far between.
He's a huge Negativland fan, and a proud member of the Snuggles Collective , an email newsgroup for audiophiles, culture jammers, and digital cut-and-paste collage artists which began as a fan club for the band.
There are sound files at his myspace page and videos at his page at YouTube. His work is very politically motivated, and he's been censored by the popular video sharing site at least once. Further proof of the fact that he's certainly not afraid of offending anyone These days they call me Pissy Steve, as I'm generally an arrogant and argumentat ive person despite being a skinny geek in my thirties.
My noms de guerre are really dumb but honest. As a temporary house rule, I once forced guests to tape re cord the sounds of themselves using the bathroom and to provide commentary, or else they couldn't use it. When it felt as though enough material had been collected, the most notable moments were assembled into a forty-five minute collage called "The Piss Tape.
Culler working title for a project which is currently marinating. I had been mixing feedback and other noise onto cassettes from to When you switch from a trusty, comfortable setup to a series of tools which truly make your job easier, it feels like you're cheating on your girlfriend or trading in your trusted spouse for a newer model. But then you two begin to make a new kind of sweet love together, and it's on. Lately, most of my audio tracks and videos have been focused on U.
Their songs fills me with the indecipherable joy that comes only from really great music. With them in my ear, nothing can bother me. Not even Monday. Newer Post Older Post Home.
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For me, making things — from music, visual, and networked programming works to everyday food and accessories — is just like breathing in everyday life. Some of these works may disappear in the long term for one reason or another, but everything happens in the natural flow of subtle daily things.
So I don't care whether what I do will remain in history or not, or how it is contextualized. I am a tiny existence floating in a big river. The only difference for me between cooking a meal for friends and making music is that, with music, I have a wider audience, influence and responsibility. Sunday, December 16, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas , from Some Assembly Required!
In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy this week's Christmas themed episode, originally broadcast in Minneapolis exactly two years ago. I'm uploading it a week early, so that our syndicating stations will have access to it in time to air before Christmas I started the podcast of this program almost two years ago now it has been on the air since , and the first thing I uploaded was a special mix of Christmas-themed sample based music and audio art.
The mix was very popular, which was really encouraging as I began to podcast regular episodes a week later. The episode I'm uploading this week is the December, radio show I put together using the same playlist as the Christmas mix I'd produced for that first podcast Monday, December 10, Wax Tailor.
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