Listener comments!

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:05pm From: Nikola

Hello! I will be joining you today. With bunnies.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:12pm From: jackie burkhardt

heey bethany,,i hope you had a great groooooov week,,,i sure did,,i'm always shoppin,,i love to shop, it relieves my tension,,,do you shop also?? well heres to a groooooooovy wonderful show 2nite,,ohhhhh i hope 2008 is good to you also..=)

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:16pm From: pierre

OMG this is better than the aarvo part stuff in There will be Blood

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:19pm From: Nikola

I ran out of sleeping pills. I *do* have a monkey wrench though.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:30pm From: bethany

Thank you for your input. Speaking is necessary for two reasons 1: to give credit to the artists who've made the music I am playing and 2: to appear as a human, not a randomly generated playlist maker.

My apologies if you don't like this aspect of my show. You are free to turn off your radio or listen to the archive and skip through the talk. I'd rather we keep the comments here on other things.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:44pm From: Jon

I'm psyched I finally found something interesting to listen to! Thanks!

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:47pm From: andrew

I learn lots of things from bethany's mic breaks - don't change anything please!

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:50pm From: dave

what andrew said.

also: more audio scavenger hunts planned any time soon?

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:50pm From: dave

oh, and this steel cello ensemble thing is incredible.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:51pm From: Nikola

Agreed, dave.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:54pm From: dave

(sorry for the spam)
i didn't know anything about rutman and got curious what a "steel cello" was. turns out (maybe everybody but me knows this) he built them himself. pix:
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/03/robert-rutman-us-steel-cello-ensemble.html

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 9:56pm From: Nikola

Those looks awesome. Dan Rathbun has probably drooled all over them. And spam is good. I learn from spam.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:00pm From: dave

hey, speaking of mic breaks (belatedly): what's this nice airy thing and the sort of plucked-string-and-whistling that bethany typically uses as bed music? i like both of 'em a lot.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:07pm From: bethany

The string/whistling piece is by Andrew Bird from Weather Systems - an early version of the piece that evolved into "Skin, Is My"

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:09pm From: bethany

Oh, and you guys have caught on to something: my 2008 Marathon Premium will feature artist-made instruments. We'll have Rutman, Harry Partch, Henry Reichl and many others. Feel free to suggest something that you like!

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:16pm From: eric

A really interesting artist-made instrument is the 'long string instrument' of Ellen Fullman. The set of strings were at least 50ft long, played by walking alongside them rubbing the strings.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:16pm From: dave

thanks! i've heard of Weather Systems before it's obviously time for me to pick up a copy.

yay on the artist-made instruments thing. the electronic version of that is something that i'm really obsessed with right now. so i'd push for something in that vein, like maybe the loud objects or someone from the festival you played recordings from a few weeks back.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:20pm From: bethany

Indeed I'm looking for acoustic and electronic stuff. The Mr. Resistor stuff will be there and I have a few hand-made electronic gadgets I'll mess with for a short piece. But please suggest more!

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:24pm From: jackie b.

bethany,,
i sent u mail,,please write back,,thank you
J. BURKHARDT,,=)

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:25pm From: dave

ooh, also along the lines of ellen fullman: terry fox.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:28pm From: Nikola

I highly suggest Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh. :]

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 10:52pm From: Scott M

Cooper-Moore's selfmade instruments are pretty amazing!

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 11:11pm From: ranjit

Bart Hopkin is the patron saint of contemporary handmade acoustic instruments. http://www.windworld.com/

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 11:20pm From: bethany

Ranjit is the patron saint of contemporary handmade electronic instruments.

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 11:45pm From: Listener David

On one of Hatch's recent shows, he played a guy who made his own "electronic bagpipes" Yoshi Wada http://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=25939&archive=40343&starttime=1:07:24

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 11:49pm From: sm

how about mario bertoncini and his harps. sculptures?

http://www.die-schachtel.com/editions/ds15.htm

Sun Jan. 20, 2008 11:57pm From: bethany

Thanks everyone for your handmade instrument suggestions! Feel free to comment further or email me: bethany {at} wfmu {dot} org

Sun Feb. 24, 2008 1:45pm From: ?

please have a great afternoon itsearly evening over here and yes baddental work goe s on here to. i will yogic habit endurehandstand and rush.float down stream../....thank for acute ear you have.,,.,..,

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