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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 25 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming.
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July 17, 2019: It Can Be Simple (witnessing) (Show #662) | Download MP3
New! Everything easier, long drones, a story monologue, collage play near end.
With: Pythagoron, Brian Eno, Seconds, True Romance, Stars of the Lid, Leyland Kirby, Carly Rae Jepsen, Ken.
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Artist | Track | Album | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Pythagoron™ |
Untitled (1)
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Pythagoron | 1977 | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Pythagoron™ |
Untitled (2)
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Pythagoron | 1977 | 0:20:20 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
So simple today
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2019 | 0:40:33 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Brian Eno |
New Space Music
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Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition) | 2014 | 0:41:35 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
Young lovers monologue
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2019 |
Everywhere I go, people are talking. They're just talking. I'm not sure if they're talking about anything. Last night, they talked and talked, up into an almost frenzied anxiety. And suddenly, there wasn't any talking. Suddenly, it was very sudden, no talking at all. I thought maybe I heard...liquidy sounds...touching, sticking, rubbing...sounds of contact... It cast the talking in a new light. Maybe they didn't want to be talking at all. I wondered what that transitional moment looked like. Who began it? And had that been the plan all along? Or was it just a plan for one of them? Maybe one of them really wanted to talk. The other one just wanted to feel. So they implicitly agreed to do both, take turns. They closed the door. Not for very long. It wasn't much longer. And then she showed him to the door, and said goodnight. I didn't notice that he said anything. It didn't seem like they talked about it. I'm not sure how they felt. Satisfied, tired, desirous, in a trance, finished, infinite. They've been here for about 20 years. Maybe they'll be here for another 60 more. I wonder what else they'll find to talk about. And what ways they'll find to move together. And who else they'll find out that they are. And how often will they feel complete, how often will they be striving, how often will they feel infinite. Maybe everything they know will be gone. And they'll be learning anew. They'll be adapting. And they'll be regressing. They'll be playing games, designed to keep them comfortable, and to relive their childhood, to relive their twentyhood. Maybe they'll always remember this night. Maybe he'll remember everything that was said. Maybe she'll remember everything that was felt. Or maybe only you'll remember. I'm waiting up for you. I'm sitting around the corners. I'm off in the edges. I'm just waiting quietly. And I'm witnessing with curiosity, with kindness. I'm also trying to figure it all out. Maybe I'll be here for 60 more years. And maybe I'll remember this, and what was said, and what was felt. Thank you for witnessing. |
0:41:57 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
Identification (waiting right around the edge)
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2019 | I'll keep going until I'm done. | 0:49:45 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Brian Eno |
New Space Music
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Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition) | 2014 | 0:51:40 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
Find the way to make everything easier. It can be simple. You can decide.
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2019 | Just a few things, just a few people, just what's right around you right now. | 1:00:29 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
Identification
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2019 | 1:01:45 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Brian Eno |
New Space Music
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Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition) | 2014 | 1:05:57 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Carly Rae Jepsen |
Call Me Maybe (pitch and speed shifted)
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Layered with Brian Eno | 1:32:13 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Brian Eno |
New Space Music
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Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition) | 2014 | 1:40:28 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
Constrasts to simplicity. Up all night waiting in the shadows
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2019 | I said good morning as she came from her morning run with her dog. The sun was behind her, rising. She glistened. She'd been running in the morning heat with her dog, as I headed off towards bed, up all night waiting in the shadows. | 1:40:55 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Ken |
What else is left to do?
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2019 | The alarm goes off. All the time's up. And then it goes quiet again. What else could I do? What else is left to do? There's nothing. Just nothing. There's nothing left. | 1:42:26 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Will Geer, Rock Hudson (actors), Lewis John Carlino (screenplay), David Ely (novel), John Frankenheimer (director) |
I sure hoped you'd made it, find your dream come true
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Seconds | 1966 | (Maybe I never had a dream.) Life is built on wishes, and you've gotta keep plugging away at them. You can't give up, and you can't let the mistakes jeopardize the dream. | 1:45:32 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Stars of the Lid |
Another Ballad for Heavy Lids
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1:49:21 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||
Leyland Kirby |
This is the Story of Paradise Lost
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Eager To Tear Apart The Stars | 2011 | (Possibly No Longer Distance) | 1:49:57 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Murray Hamilton (written by Lewis John Carlino, David Ely) |
I had to find out where I went wrong (it's going to be different from now on)
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Seconds | 1966 | 1:50:37 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |
Leyland Kirby |
No Longer Distance Than Death
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Eager To Tear Apart The Stars | 2011 | (Possibly This is the Story) | 1:51:50 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Ken |
It's almost too late to start
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2019 | 1:53:20 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Patricia Arquette (actor), Quentin Tarantino (writer), Hans Zimmer (music), Tony Scott (director) |
Sometimes it goes the other way, too
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True Romance | 1993 | Amid the chaos of that day | 1:53:45 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
Ken |
That's it; as disjoint as reality
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2019 | 1:55:10 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | ||
Leyland Kirby |
No Longer Distance Than Death
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Eager To Tear Apart The Stars | (Possibly This is the Story) | 1:56:40 (MP3 | Pop‑up) |
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Tue. 7/16/19 11:58pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Listen now, check in below, or come back for the live playlist party, today 5-7pm ET. |
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![]() Checking in now since I will probably forget to check in this evening. |
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![]() ![]() Hello! |
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Wed. 7/17/19 4:58pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Well come |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:03pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Well come™ |
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![]() ![]() Hello Ken and all, it's been a while |
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![]() I'm singing along with this catchy drone. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:15pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Repetitive hooks before coining of "earworm" |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:16pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Hiya, Henry, fred, chresti, and forgetting Rand. |
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![]() just what i needed, frankly! hello. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:20pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
What we need |
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![]() ![]() Get your Pythagor on! |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:21pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I should've named this episode Untitled (0) |
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![]() Untitled (null pointer exception) |
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![]() Been in since the start but was snowed under with work; hello, Ken and all! |
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![]() ![]() I hope this tone drives away mosquitos. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:35pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Tone loc |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:36pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Hi, Linda, Rich, and james! |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:36pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Warning: Something else will happen. |
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![]() I wonder if Pythagoron was using David Rayna's oscillators. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 5:55pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Oh you mean Pythagoron™? |
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![]() ah ha |
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![]() I remembered to check in. Hello all. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:03pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
mi chael |
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![]() Enosophication ! |
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![]() greetings Kenzo & last ever people |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:14pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Never Remember, Revo+coela. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:18pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Too many notes |
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![]() Nothing lasts, nothing's first. Who's on nothing? |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:26pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
There I go, back on third again |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:36pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Reference to my Feb. 11, 2001 show on the Lower East Side, at the C.O.M.A. Winter 2001 Benefit for ABC No-Rio, where I played Britney Spears really really slowly for the high-browed experimental audience, very gradually bringing it up into disappointingly recognizable range. |
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![]() fabulous. |
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![]() Hah. |
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![]() You know Eno's down... |
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![]() Call me Eno. |
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![]() A little PaulStretch on Carly might have been appropriate. |
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![]() Eno call me. |
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![]() me a clone |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:46pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I think I'm a clone now |
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![]() Are we firing anybody else today? Let's all fire away. Pow pow pow! |
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![]() ![]() haha Ike@6:25 |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:47pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Gosh so obviously an inspiration for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:48pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Life is built on wishes, and you've gotta keep plugging away at them. You can't give up, and you can't let the mistakes jeopardize the dream. |
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![]() ![]() I finally just saw this film for the first time last month. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:49pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
"So you won't fall off" line also appears in Return to Oz gurney scene. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:49pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Rich, did you survive it? |
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![]() ![]() It occurred to me that they should've ended Mad Men the same way. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:51pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
As mentioned before, this monologue suspiciously similar to one in THX 1138 5 years later. |
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![]() ![]() Walter Murch directed Return to Oz. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:53pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Walter Murch, takin' all the ideas! |
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![]() ciao, all |
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![]() ![]() Thanks Kenzo! |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Heeeeeey where ya goin. There's nothing |
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Wed. 7/17/19 6:56pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Thanks thanks love and care and experiments |
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![]() Thank you for the show, Kenzo! |
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![]() ![]() Thanks, Kenzo! |
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![]() Thanks Kenzo - nice to have a listen to the legendary Pythagoron™! and now I have to see SECONDS. |
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Wed. 7/17/19 7:00pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
Beware, harrowing. The Requiem for a Dream of its time |
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Wed. 7/17/19 7:00pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
(while also having a lot of slow parts) |
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![]() ![]() It's quite good, Webhamster Henry. You won't be sorry. |
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![]() Thanks Ken! |
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