The Ticks Turn Into Tocks and the Tocks Turn Into Ticks: Derek Bailey

Derek Bailey is a controversial guitarist. (Just look at the comments under these videos at YouTube.) For my part, while I would never want to completely give up traditional melody, dynamics, or even good old power chords, when I hear this I feel like I should put down the guitar forever if I can't find something new to say, or at least develop my own voice with it.

Episode #16: Cosmic Chaos: The Music of Uqbar

Playlist

1. Heliocentric- Sun Ra
2. Imaginary Landscape- John Cage
3. Variations on a Mexican Flute- Pierre Schaeffer
4. Piece for a Tape Recorder- Vladimir Ussachevsky
5. Agricultural Em Crateras- Hronir
6. Flotenmenschen 2- Dom
7. James- Cluster
8. Tides of Manaunaun- Henry Cowell
9. 4 (glagolitico)- Catasto Elettrico
10. Incantation- Otto Luening & Vladimir Ussachevsky
11. Womb of My Mind- Szbuta Soroh
12. Pfigstoratorium (Spiritus Intelligentiae Sanctus)- Ernst Krenek
13. Fantasy in Space- Otto Luening
14. Untitled- Blank Realm
15. Dogstar Regions Episodes 1, 3, 5 &7- R.S.P. (Radigast Space Project featuring Heartfieldjohnny)
16. Arnold School 1- The Mighty Acts of God
17. Cosmic Chaos- Sun Ra

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Sonny Sharrock Live at the Knitting Factory, 1988

Sun Ra, Brother from Another Planet

Like so many music documentaries, there's too many talking heads here. Still, it's cool to have a Ra doc out there, and there's a lot of clips of Ra being freaky & awesome.


 

Episode #3: A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise

Warning: Please do not listen to this episode if you have an aversion to dissonance and atonality. If you do choose to listen to this episode, please play it fucking loud.

Playlist

1. Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black- Sonny and Linda Sharrock
2. Spirits Rejoice- Albert Ayler
3. I Heard Her Call My Name- The Velvet Underground
4. Metal Machine Music excerpt #1- Lou Reed
5. Moonlight on Vermont- Captain Beefheart
6. Lore- Tom Verlaine
7. L.A. Blues- The Stooges
8. Metaphors in a Mixmaster- Sun City Girls
9. Neon Meat Dream of a Octafish- Captain Beefheart
10. Metal Machine Music excerpt #2- Lou Reed
11. Soup- Can
12. Mars- Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian
13. First Take- Ornette Coleman
14. Metal Machine Music excerpt #3- Lou Reed
15. Bassomat- Spacebox



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