- (Added 5/14/12) The Decadence of Obsolescence (5/11/12)
(Complete show, 1 hour 9 minutes)
- (Added 7/5/10) (2 Hours on WFMU) (7/4/10)
(Complete show, 2 hours)
- (Added 12/24/09) Mangler Seen (12/24/09)
(Live 3-hour NYC-area radio show / internet broadcast, on WFMU-FM.
Complete show, 3 hours)
- (Added 12/14/09) The Shattering of Many Illusions (12/12/09)
(You don't have to be sick. We'll make sandwiches in the morning.
Live in Hudson, NY @ Jean Deux Books and Records, w/Diane Cluck.
Complete show, 45 mins.)
- (Added 10/21/09) You get back from the world what you put out there (8/26/09)
(In NYC @ Sidewalk Cafe.
Complete show, 53 mins.)
- (Added 8/25/09) You can't grow if you feel there's a lack in your life (6/30/09)
(Europe tour, show 6 of 12. In Duisburg, Germany @ Cafe Steinbruch.
Complete show, 42 mins.)
- (Added 6/14/09) Present Mulch (5/19/09)
(Live at Sidewalk Cafe, NYC.
Complete show, 43 mins.)
- (Added 1/1/09) mmm noise (12/31/08)
(@ WFMU.
Complete show, 3 hours)
- (Added 12/25/08) Technology Excess @ WFMU (12/24/08)
(@ WFMU.
Complete show, 3 hours)
- (Added 9/19/08) Outside (8/2/08)
(Outdoor show, under a large tree, as sun went down. @ Hot Mama's in Austin, w/Diane Cluck.
Complete show (v2), 58 mins.)
- (Added 2/29/08) Let('s) Go (1/8/08)
(Live show at Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO. People came, sat, ate, I played,
people finished eating, Diane Cluck played, and I ate. There was a birthday.
Use headphones and experience differently. Or sit and eat, and have a birthday.
Complete show, 54 mins.)
- (Added 6/12/07) Rocks are not dead (6/11/07)
(Watch out! (They may people.)
Complete show, 57 mins.)
- (Added 6/10/07) Something Like Nothing (6/8/07)
(Develop subtler senses and everything will come to you.
Complete show, 1 hour 25 mins.)
- (Added 9/2/04) Four-show RNC collage (9/2/04)
(Four shows tightly edited down to two hours:
"Beautiful Terror", "Children's Television Voteshop", "The Wizard of War", and "The Great Communicator."
Used in
WFMU's Republican National Convention Re-mix, part of The Imagine Festival Of Arts, Issues and Ideas.
2 hours)
- Beautiful Terror (12/22/03)
(George W. again, more beautiful than ever.
Complete show, 1 hour 57 mins.)
- (Added 2/25/04) It's a World of Laughter (2/24/04)
(While the price of freedom and security is high, it is never too high!
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- George & Adolf (9/24/03)
(#3 in George W. Bush / Adolf Hitler collage series.
Complete show, 56 mins.)
- I'm Going To Kill Myself Tomorrow (The failure of America to live up to its ideals) (6/25/03)
(One hour moving musically through melancholy and despair.
Complete show, 1 hour)
- It's Too Much @ WFMU (7/28/02)
(Floating, then thick mid-night collage, until it was too much. Complete show, 87 mins.)
- The Kinship of Grief and Terrorism (12/23/03)
(More beautiful terror.
Complete show, 1 hour 25 mins.)
- Karen's Dead (Give Her the Goddamned Camera) (7/23/03)
(Soundtrack to the beautiful unending experience.
Complete show, 28 mins.)
- They Ignore Me (12/2/03)
(What do they do to you?
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- (Added 4/24/04) Following the Leader (4/24/04)
(1 hour on presidents and plastics.
Complete show, 56 mins.)
- (Added 8/20/04) Children's Television Voteshop (Behavior Modification) (7/27/04)
(The electoral college will have the final voice, 'cause people helping other people is what this world's about.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 4/24/05) A Sense of Recognition (4/12/05)
(Just like snowflakes.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 11/4/04) The Need for Creative Inquiry (Just sit on the bench and watch the ballgame) (11/2/04)
(Free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coersive institutions.
Complete show, 59 mins.)
- Polyphonic Potato Head (12/16/03)
(A speech irony plop.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- Light (12/9/03)
(A polyphonic spree.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- (Added 4/28/04) The Wake is Not What Drives the Boat (4/27/04)
(And neither is the wake of your life the reason your life is going in the direction that it is. The wake is a trail that is left behind.
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 12/27/04) You Have Nowhere to Go (What's wrong?) (12/21/04)
(An ode to Walter Murch's THX-1138.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- Can I Help Someone? (9/30/03)
(Marimbas, regret and love on a real train.
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 1/12/05) Swirled Freely (1/4/05)
(Field recordings and musical electronics.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 11/30/04, updated 1/10/06) The Retina of the Mind's Eye (11/23/04)
(The battle for the mind of North America.
Complete show, 55 mins.)
- (Added 3/25/05) Go at the Speed You'd Like to Go (3/22/05)
(Today, our whole downtown is completely enclosed, and we have a welcome neighbor: A GE nuclear power plant.
Complete show, 1 hour 2 mins.)
- (Added 3/30/05) Inside of the Ending (3/29/05)
(I won't dream any further than my own backyard. What do we mean when we differentiate work from play?
Complete show, 59 mins.)
- (Added 12/21/04) Loops in Isolation (10/19/04)
(Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 4/14/04) Now (Rippling Water) (4/13/04)
(The past flows back from now.
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 5/22/05) None of This is What I Intended (5/17/05)
(Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 4/23/04) Around the Town Soundscape (4/8/04)
(Soundtrack to a remote world.
Complete show, 1 hour 56 mins.)
- (Added 5/6/05) Just Wanted to Say Goodbye (4/26/05)
(Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.
Complete show, 1 hour)
- (Added 2/25/05) Uncertainty is OK (2/22/05)
(The more you look, the less you really know. Nothing can go wrong. Show us your papers. Stay calm. Suffer peacefully.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 6/1/05) Surely Laughter Brings You Closer to the Guy (5/24/05)
(I think the cat just fell: Should I go (a way)?
Complete show, 59 mins.)
- (Added 6/7/05) Layered Laughter Brings New Closure to the Guy (5/31/05)
(She doesn't believe it was a cat. I don't know if it's good or bad, but it happens all the same. (always transforming and again)
Complete show, 1 hour)
- (Added 5/12/05) Redefining Freedom (5/10/05)
("We are a great society because we are free society; on the other hand, it is very important for there to be limits." - George W. Bush
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 9/8/04) Terminal Sunshine (9/7/04)
(Like a Rainbow Canon.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 5/19/04) Rewrite Your Agreement with Reality (5/18/04)
(Complete show, 28 mins.)
- (Added 4/22/04) The Coming Storms (4/20/04)
(Complete show, 30 mins.)
- (Added 4/7/05) No Tomorrow Life (4/5/05)
(Tranquility is sudden; I look for conclusions.
Complete show, 59 mins.)
- Beatles Chaos Fugue @ WHRW (11/25/98)
(A true last ever, this 3 hour show moves through surrounding chaos and then finds itself lost within a rich Beatles Fugue in the second half. Hear mistakes, become lost in the totality.
Complete show, 2 hours 48 mins.)
- Beatles Crop Fugue (11/11/03)
(30-minute hi-fi excerpt from Beatles Chaos Fugue (see above).
31 mins.)
- (Added 8/23/04) Thank You For Making Noise (4/17/04)
(Complete show, 1 hour 23 mins.)
- (Added 1/29/05) schnappi schnappi schnappi (1/11/05)
(We all live on a stage where many infinities gather. Dance to the music.
Complete show, 57 mins.)
- (Added 1/21/05) Pure Imagination (Inaugural) (1/18/05)
(God wants us to be free (and to maintain full productivity).
Complete show, 57 mins.)
- (Added 5/5/04) Coincident Symphony (5/4/04)
(Classical cut-ups and synchronicity.
Complete show, 27 mins.)
- (Added 1/29/05) So Now You Take My Breath Away (1/25/05)
(Self-induced hyperventilation & the silence between the notes.
Complete show, 59 mins.)
- (Added 8/26/04) I Torture Myself (Art & Music as Confessional) (8/24/04)
(How could one not have all of this somehow find its way into their creative work?
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 2/4/04) What Is It About? (2/3/04)
(Drifting, into a crowd of phone callers.
Complete show, 31 mins.)
- (Added 12/29/04) Don't Fear the Rumsfeld (12/28/04)
(The people who shot down the plane over Pennsylvania.
Complete show, 1 hour)
- (Added 6/4/04) Decades of Dictatorship (the slippery slope) (6/1/04)
(There's no stopping progress.
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 7/15/04) The Importance of Having a Voice (7/13/04)
(Lords & peasants, factories & workers; outraged about many things; things you are going to say to people; the right time and the wrong week; just to be able to say that you don't agree; no place like home.
Complete show, 57 mins.)
- (Added 11/17/04) A Little Scream (of me) (11/9/04)
(The greatest gift is the smile you give to your brother. - McDonald's Corp., 1972.
Complete show, 1 hour)
- (Added 2/13/05) It's All Forgotten Now (2/8/05)
(Chaotic, delightful, and terrifying, all at once. 12th anniversary show.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 8/21/04) Torture US (8/17/04)
(What has been charged thus far is abuse, which I believe, technically, is different from torture.
Complete show, 59 mins.)
- (Added 2/21/05) Don't Know (2/15/05)
(Some shared feeling that goes on.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 6/13/05) Smoking: Isn't it About Dads? (6/7/05, 1/16/98)
(One-hour edit of show #163, 1/16/1998: "Public Service Announcement fest, spliced, collaged and reinterpreted in real time."
Complete show, 1 hour)
- Mommy? @ Chama Teahouse (2/6/02)
(Scary, hypnotic weaving, with three-year old niece as glue.
Complete show, 2 hours)
- (Added 12/15/04) A Weird Sense of Cognitive Dissonance (12/14/04)
(The polarized quality of life these days...)
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 6/23/04) Morally Ambiguous Hypnosis (6/22/04)
(The past does not equal the future.
Complete show, 28 mins.)
- (Added 7/22/04) I Approve This Message (A Few More of Those Unknown Unknowns) (7/20/04)
(How did this tradition get started? I don't know, but it's a tradition.
Complete show, 56 mins.)
- (Added 7/1/04) Sheep's Clothing (6/29/04)
(One of my assistants was eating a great-looking salad, so I asked her to order one for me.
Complete show, 27 mins.)
- (Added 4/10/04) A Little Dream (of me) (4/6/04)
(Complete show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 6/9/04) The Great Communicator (6/8/04)
(Ronald Reagan said, "We can leave our children with an unrepayable, massive debt, and a shattered economy."
Complete show, 27 mins.)
- (Added 6/16/04) Better Off Dead (6/15/04)
(Is it easier for you to buy things in a store than it was four years ago? (The sound of someone shooting Ronald Reagan.)
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 12/11/04) Giggle Gaggle Gurgle (12/7/04)
(Going against your doctor's recommendation.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- (Added 4/1/04) Act Without Deliberation (3/30/04)
(Overlooking the significance of the world; a picture of anxiety.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- (Added 9/6/04) Why Go On? (Despair) (8/31/04)
(When Will the Surprise Happen?
Complete show, 56 mins.)
- (Added 2/11/05) Our Jill? (Latter Day Sainthood) (2/1/05)
(Complete show, 57 mins.)
- (Added 7/8/04) The Hills Are Alive (7/6/04)
(Failure is impossible.
Complete show, 58 mins.)
- Headache Connection (7/19/02, rebroadcast 11/4/03)
(Complete show, 48 mins.)
- Elsewhere @ Momenta Art on free103point9 (9/24/00)
(Noise, layers, building terror and hypnotic immersion from within a claustrophobia-inducing cement bunker, during the Williamsburg Elsewhere Festival. Answering machine loop songs, Q*Bert Terror, Short Attention Collage, National Pride, etc.
Show excerpts, 35 mins. total so far)
- The Flying Sarabande Machine @ free103point9 (6/16/02)
(Getting back to my radio roots: Drifty collage of what was stuck in my head, so it can be stuck in your head. Listen all the way through and find the themes.
Complete show, 47 mins.)
- (Added 3/24/04) The Wizard of War (3/23/04)
(Complete show, 31 mins.)
- (Added 9/30/04) One Step Closer (9/28/04)
(Complete show, 56 mins.)
- (Added 3/17/04) These Documents (3/16/04)
(Complete show, 26 mins.)
- (Added 2/20/04) Uniquely American (2/17/04)
(Complete show, 27 mins.)
- Doin' it Our Way (A Compassionate Nation) (9/23/03)
(#2 in George W. Bush collage series.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- This Mess is True (12/20/03)
(87 mins.)
- Insert Coin @ COMA Benefit for ABC No-Rio (6/4/00)
(Budweiser Permission, Even As We Speak w/Kid Lucky, Sluggish Tape Phone, Rushing Pianos Pacman Phone, Sluggish Pianos, Decomposing Pianos.
Show excerpts, 48 mins. total so far)
- World Manipulation @ WFMU (8/25/01)
(In the first hour, Rob Weisberg played world music selections from the OCORA series of ethnographic recordings. In the second hour, Ken took Rob's hour and manipulated, layered, collaged, and rearranged it, creating a trance-inducing aural environment.
Complete show, 1 or 2 hours)
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (7/30/03)
(Number 2 of 3.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- Rainbow Dementia (Kids are strange) (8/6/03)
(Final installment in three-week series, either a children's show, a political show, or a soundtrack to an unknown world.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- (Added 2/12/04) Indistinguishable Layers (2/10/04)
(Someone left cake out in the rain. It's melted now.
Complete show, 28 mins.)
- (Added 2/12/04) Bludgeoning the Unconvinced (2/7/04)
(We don't plan to let people influence us. The hour is here.
Complete show, 1 hour)
- Back and Forth (9/3/03)
(Self-reference.
Complete show, 27 mins.)
- 2001: A War Odyssey (10/1/03)
(George & Adolf on a space carousel.
Complete show, 28 mins.)
- (Added 1/22/04) Evil Turned Out Rather Well (1/20/04)
(Complete show, 30 mins.)
- (Added 1/29/04) Last in Translation (1/27/04)
(Lost in translation.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- Penguin Pacman Phone (10/28/03)
(Complete show, 30 mins.)
- I Just Had to Kill a Lot of People (9/16/03)
(Terrorism, the moon, and a radio pledge drive.
Complete show, 29 mins.)
- Cranes, Clocks, Ghosts (10/14/03)
(Complete show, 27 mins.)
- (Added 1/14/04) Splashing Strumming, Sometimes Stereo (1/13/04)
(Sanity squandered solving sound snafu.
Almost complete show, 26 mins.)
- (Added 5/7/04) Please Call Stella (4/30/04)
(Complete show, 3 hours 24 mins.)
- Murmuring Mumbling Muttering (11/18/03)
(Complete show, 30 mins.)
- Excess Vitamin C @ The Knitting Factory (4/23/01)
(Full-bladder-inspired sound experiments, sound attack, ending with Dufus collaboration.
Nearly complete show, 2 sets, 37 mins. total)
- Neuborns Feel Pain @ WFMU (4/17/01)
(Noise crunch; ummm uh you know ummm whatever; torturous Dufus loop excess; more Microsoft sounds; machine density; hello?; infinite Karma disjoint combination resolution.
Complete show, 1 hour 15 mins.)
- Cat's Meow (Kids are fun) (8/5/03)
(Filled in for "Cat's Meow," weekly children's radio show.
Complete show, 30 mins.)
- Hypnotic WFMU show (5/27/00)
(Some layered, loopy, ambient experiments, some a little scary, and a Magnetic Fields remix at the end.
Complete show, low-fi, 1 hour)
- (Added 3/16/04) Downloadable pre-made show: Senseless Sequencing #1 (3/2/04)
(Frenetic and mindless sequential collage of dozens of past shows. Not live.
Complete pre-made show, 29 mins.)
- (Added 3/16/04) Downloadable pre-made show: Senseless Sequencing #2 (3/9/04)
(Part 2 of frenetic sequential collage of dozens of past shows. Not live.
Complete pre-made show, 29 mins.)
- Downloadable show clip: The Hello MS Regurgitation Loop (3/24/01),
a Windows-inspired loop excerpt from the live Regurgitation Show performance. It's hypnotic: download it and see. (1 min. 30 secs.)
- Downloadable production: Falling Out of Love (Forever) (10/11/00), inspired by The 6ths - "Falling Out of Love (With You)".
(Part of the Magnetic Fields Remixes project, an extended exaggeration, also catchy. 9 mins.)
- Downloadable production: Claudia's Heavy Hopeless Duet (First draft) (11/8/02), inspired by Future Bible Heroes - "Hopeless".
(Part of the Magnetic Fields Remixes project, the duet Claudia and Stephin never did (or did they?). 3.5 mins.)
- Downloadable production: The Book of Dumb (First draft) (2000), inspired by Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love".
(Part of the Magnetic Fields Remixes project, early draft of confused love. 4.5 mins.)
- Downloadable production: Extended Karma (Unfinished) (5/5/98), inspired by Radiohead - "Karma Police".
(15 mins.)
- Downloadable production: More Hanson, Please, inspired by Hanson - "Mmmbop" and nearly impossible to listen to.
(Aired on 8/27/98, it well complemented an impossibly-annoying show. 11 mins.)
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