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I never miscue a record. I am punctual, well-prepared, and dislike clutter. Outgoing and helpful, I'm always appropriately dressed. I do not behave erratically and have excellent penmanship. My CD's never skip, and I am in good health. I like all the notes, in any order.

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Options November 30, 2018

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
Luc Ferrari  Éphémère I: L'ordinateur ça sert à quoi?   Options Éphémère I & II    0:00:00 ()
Julian Bayle  [tracks 2–4]   Options Violent Grains of Silence  very high-quality recordings of silence
in an anechoic chamber, processed  		0:26:34 ()
Taming Power  26-3-02   Options For Electric Guitar and Tape Recorders    0:35:11 ()
Sub Loam  Elevation, a map unfolding and simultaneous apprehension of a pineapple mayweed — an experiential topography of concrete sensations   Options The Unfolding Map    0:52:16 ()
 
Kim Myhr  Passing Through   Options Pressing Clouds Passing Crowds    1:04:12 ()
Lois V. Vierk  To Stare Astonished at the Sea   Options Words Fail Me    1:17:18 ()
Denman Maroney  Artemesia   Options Hyperpiano    1:23:39 ()
Gordon Monahan  Piano Mechanics   Options This Piano Thing    1:46:45 ()
 
György Ligeti  Continuum   Options György Ligeti Edition 5: Mechanical Music  Pierre Charial, player piano wrangler  2:19:51 ()
Sylvie Courvoisier  Machines-à-Sons   Options Ocre  piece by Pierre Charial  2:23:36 ()
Sylvie Courvoisier  Tabular   Options Ocre  piece by Pierre Charial  2:32:02 ()
Pietro Grossi  Fuga XII Inversa
Arte Della Fuga Elaborata
Fuga XIII Inversa
Arte Della Fuga Elaborata   Options 		Combinatoria    2:39:59 ()
Ruth White  Snowflakes Are Dancing   Options Short Circuits  Debussy  2:46:09 ()
Clara Rockmore  The Swan   Options The Art of the Theremin  Saint-Saëns  2:48:20 ()
Lydia Kavina  "Spellbound" Concerto   Options Spellbound!  Miklós Rósza  2:51:46 ()

Listener comments!

Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:19pm Booz:

*polite clapping*
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:20pm Bryce:

oops forgot to unlock the doors
  Fri. 11/30/18 12:20pm Hi from Holland:

hello!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:20pm Ike:

The mutant 8-foot 16-stomached cow from Saturn slowly began to nibble on Don Felder's delicious brainstem... oops, sorry, wrong playlist!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:21pm tim from champaign:

Hi Bryce and Bryce-a-maniacs!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:21pm Bryce:

no that's about right
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:22pm KenW:

HellooOOOoo Bryce, and fellow Marbelers>>> WOWWOWOW, tremendous start with Sir Ferrari, fantastique!!!!!!!!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:24pm sphere:

hullo all
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:24pm steveo:

salutations. l'ordinateur est utilisé pour le streaming audio et les commentaires.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:25pm Booz:

Mmmm, that's good bass! I mean marbles. In any case, well blended.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:26pm sphere:

i had a rental car with a Bluetooth interface last week, so it was all WFMU all the time! woot. no comments tho....
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:26pm Booz:

L'ordinateur sert à pulveriser des billes.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:26pm Sem:

Hellllllo, Bryce, brycelettes, the well-prepared, the punctual, and the never erratic, unless you are a granite boulder, then erratic in mandatory.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:28pm steveo:

easy sem, i'm sure traffic was simply glacial today
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:29pm Krys O.:

Thanks for letting us in from the rain, Bryce. The giant cows are falling from the sky and it's much nicer in here.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:29pm Booz:

Erratics get blended sloooooooowly.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:29pm sphere:

Bryce would never steer us wrong!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:30pm tim from champaign:

Bryce, when are you going to use your telekenetic superpowers to jam all broadcast channels and avenues and send your vibes to everyone?
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:31pm Kat in Chicago:

@Booz Google hilariously translated that as "the computer is used to pulverize the balls"
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:32pm Kat in Chicago:

(ouch)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:34pm Bryce:

i got "The computer is used to spray logs"
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:34pm tim from champaign:

What if Bryce's show was featured on Music for Mind Control?
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:36pm Rev. Turnip Druid:

My kingdom for a subwoofer the size of something bigger than an extremely large thing.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:36pm Rev. Turnip Druid:

also: hello.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:36pm Booz:

@Krys - ha! the translation surpasses the original (billes is also marbles)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:37pm Booz:

Sorry, @Kat, not @Krys
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:37pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Marbles for mind control.
  Fri. 11/30/18 12:37pm Question mark:

Looked up some more info: "Tiny random variations of physical electronic noises coming from the recording system itself, as uncontrolled spectres haunting the wires, have been captured and amplified, cut into tiny slices and grains, and used, both as basic sound sources feeding the Bayle’s machinery, and as modulation sources influencing pre-existing sound textures and continua performed live by the artist"
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:38pm sphere:

granular synthesis?
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:38pm blee:

Shiny happy marbles holding marbles.
  Fri. 11/30/18 12:40pm Question mark:

It's granular I guess but not really synthesis - processed noise
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:41pm Bryce:

thanks, qmark!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:41pm George of Troy:

Hello, Bryce and crew
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:43pm Kat in Chicago:

@Booz yeah I figured it was a marbles/blender reference
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:44pm Kat in Chicago:

I'm only a few months into my Duolingo French
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:45pm Carmichael:

The Grains of Silence. I'm seeing Paul Simon calling his lawyer ...
  Fri. 11/30/18 12:52pm Question mark:

@Carmichael haha. Maybe Simon's lurking here - not so long ago he was saying he's into Harry Partch and microtonal experiments, if you can imagine
  Fri. 11/30/18 12:57pm karen eliot:

good afternoon. can understand how wind chimes annoy, but i enjoy them. had to remove mine . neighbor complaint and need to keep the peace for now. meditative. love this.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:59pm Bryce:

mr. cantsin, you should take up the semantron!

www.youtube.com...
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 12:59pm Fox:

Hullo.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:00pm Bryce:

hey :)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:01pm coelacanth∅:

hallo Bryce und Brycelings
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:04pm karen eliot:

Yes! Wow can he play! Thanks for the encouragement!
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:05pm laska:

hey hey
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:08pm Ken From Hyde Park:

What do sunspots sound like?
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:09pm sphere:

www.youtube.com...
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:13pm Bryce:

people were all tweaked out on y2k, but i'm saving my champagne for a monster coronal mass ejection
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:14pm Bryce:

dzzzzzzzzzzt
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:15pm Michael 98145:

spaceweather.com: "GEOMAGNETIC STORM PREDICTED: NOAA forecasters say there is a 70% chance of minor G1-class geomagnetic storms on Dec. 1st and 2nd when a stream of solar wind hits Earth's magnetic field. The gaseous material is flowing from a large hole in the sun's atmosphere. This is a long-lasting hole that has lashed Earth with solar wind about once a month since July. "
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:16pm karen eliot:

Poet Caroline Bergvall!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:16pm Kat in Chicago:

I love this
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:20pm karen eliot:

Cool website http://carolinebergvall.com/
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:38pm Chris from DC:

Yay, Denman Maroney.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:40pm sphere:

Yay indeed.
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:41pm brainiac:

Wotta coincidence; monster coronal mass ejection was my old AOL instant messenger handle.
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:41pm Brendan:

Hello
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:46pm Brendan:

Monster colonal mass ejection
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:47pm Ken From Hyde Park:

There have been approximately 4x10^^84 photons during the history of the universe. What a bloody noisy universe! www.sciencealert.com...
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:49pm Mike tp:

the ol boney Maroney
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:50pm Brendan:

+ 1 (that I found in my pocket after laundry).
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:51pm steveo:

oops pardon me, i seem to have dropped my piano
  Fri. 11/30/18 1:55pm Brendan:

He’s bangin on the bongos like a chimpanz ... no wait he’s playin the piano like a harpsichord. Strum us a song you’re the pianoman.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 1:56pm sphere:

oops pardon me, i seem to have chopped up my piano
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:00pm Brendan:

Try that Rick Wakeman!
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:01pm brainiac:

This riff should precede every legal ID on 'FMU.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:02pm Chris from DC:

Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano preparer.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:06pm coelacanth∅:

haha!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:09pm steveo:

Anaemic Phonics
Companies Chain
Peach Insomniac
Spinach Encomia
Casein Champion
Piano Mechanics
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:09pm Brendan:

Beethoven is rolling over in his grave at this piece. Van Cliburn however is always rolling over and deliciously brown at a temperature of 140 Fahrenheit as he opted to be interned on a set of hot dog rollers.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:09pm northguineahills:

I wish I prepared pianos for Ross Bolleter (composer who uses ruined pianos), I just would have to find old ruined pianos (or ruin them myself).
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:13pm steveo:

this movement is called "tapping out my tooth fillings with a tiny hammer"
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:13pm tim from champaign:

My friends' dad had a piano repair shop. On his birthday he would have a piano burning party. It was a blast seeing some 60 year olds get drunk and crazy and burn a piano.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:17pm Bryce:

:'(

www.nytimes.com...
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:18pm Bryce:

also.....

youtu.be...
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:19pm northguineahills:

@Bryce: Well, now i have a sad. When my family moved to Japan, we sold our 1880 upright which sounded amazing. I missed that old piano, it's where I learned how to play music (still trying to learn).
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:19pm chresti:

That's a crime! Dumping pianos!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:20pm pinholga:

www.annealockwood.com...
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:20pm coelacanth∅:

Gordon's been listening to Somei Satoh - but taking it to incredible heights
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:21pm Bryce:

no one wants 'em. churches are dumping their pipe organs too, i shit you not.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:21pm coelacanth∅:

..and that article kills me Bryce.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:22pm Krys O.:

That's sad, Bryce. Former FMU dj, the late David Quinlan repaired/restored pipe organs.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:22pm chresti:

Bloody Hell!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:23pm northguineahills:

Thanks pinholga! (loves me some annea lockwood sounds!) I believe that was a Fluxus happening....
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:23pm Chris from DC:

That Annea Lockwood page is awesome.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:24pm tim from champaign:

Whoa! The sacrificed pianos were beyond repair and had been used for parts. My friends' dad would play the pianos while they were on fire like in the Yamashita video except without any protective gear.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:25pm sphere:

@ Chris from DC - "PLEASE NOTE: All pianos used should already be beyond repair." Phew! Annea had me worried for a second.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:26pm northguineahills:

I knew this was Ligeti!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:26pm coelacanth∅:

i grew up with a piano in the house. when my parents separated my mother took it, as she was the only one that could (but never did) play, and said whoever moves into a first-floor dwelling first may have it, but i never did that until long after she gave up and gave it to an old family friend - who has since died and i don't know what became of the piano.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:26pm Chris from DC:

Play whatever pleases you for as long as you can.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:26pm Chris from DC:

Also, a second: Ligeti!
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:27pm Brendan:

I think blame folk music on the demise of the piano. . Vagabond happy-go-lucky minstrels were more apt to lug a guitar and go walking down the railroad tracks than to carry a piano.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:28pm coelacanth∅:

tim, i assumed that! (everyone else probably did too)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:28pm chresti:

I miss having a piano at home
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:29pm Bryce:

i have a baby grand shivering in a storage unit. it's killing me.....
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:29pm coelacanth∅:

i wish i had ours back.
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:30pm karen eliot:

I like the Annea Lockwood pieces. piano garden =decomposition
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:31pm sphere:

my family had a piano too but neither my brother nor i had any desire to play it. even now, i don't know whether i made a mistake or not.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:31pm chresti:

Yeah tim, I was freaking out about Bryce's article link
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:31pm coelacanth∅:

my sister has a grand piano i mess around with a bit when no one's home. that's good enough for now.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:32pm tim from champaign:

That's nuts, especially pipe organs getting dumped!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:32pm northguineahills:

I had a friend who had a third story apt, and paid piano movers to move and old piano he bought on craigslist into his apt (It was fun hanging out there).
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:32pm Bryce:

krys, i didn't know that! i never crossed paths with david.

dover publications has a great 2-vol set on pipe organ repair. i may be insane, but it's kind of engaging reading to flip through?
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:33pm northguineahills:

I got to use my parents' church's pipe organ and sample it (mostly glassian/minimalism). I finally edited it an used when I played w/ a good synth-wave genius friend of mine in June
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:34pm brainiac:

Those snot-nosed MIT undergrads drop a piano of the dorm roof every. damn. year.
http://news.mit.edu/2018/just-drop-it-mit-baker-house-piano-drop-0524
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:34pm Bryce:

the best thing about having a non-upright in your home is having trash crammed in it at all times
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:34pm coelacanth∅:

my younger sister was the only one of us to take lessons...the one with absolutely no sense of rhythm. i just made noise with it; and my mother only played 2 songs, and played them well. wagon wheels and malagueña
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:35pm chresti:

there's an old piano in the lobby where my studio is, I poke around on that once in a while. Pipe organs should never be dumped, either
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:35pm northguineahills:

Ok, I'm off to lunch, thanks Bryce and Bryciacs!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:36pm Bryce:

seeya, nhg!

oh yeahhhh, i forgot about the mit thing! those guys have some serious fun, i must say....
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:37pm Chris from DC:

This pipe organ talk has me ready for some Nitsch.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:37pm coelacanth∅:

i had a church organ - not a pipe organ, but it was lethally powerful. my housemate worked with deaf people and was good friends with one (at least) who'd come over and play the organ.
then i traded it for a car.
i had to.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:42pm chresti:

we have a couple organ rescues here and up north, at my brother's house.
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:42pm karen eliot:

brown university has one of the remaining operational hutchings-votey organ. it is fantastic. have a great weekend!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:45pm coelacanth∅:

Bryce @2.29 poor baby. you at least slide some hot soup to it now and then i hope
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:46pm steveo:

this sounds like the "glissando bar" my grandmother had on her organ (which was sold when she died)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:48pm chresti:

Uprights are great for stashing things behind it
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:49pm Rev. Turnip Druid:

BAH! Missed Ligeti! Must punch self with reckless abandon innagaddadaFACE!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:49pm sphere:

RTD, what did your face ever do to you?
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:50pm Rev. Turnip Druid:

too many meetings. This does look like a classic playlist for archive-plundering later. My compliments to the chef.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:50pm Rev. Turnip Druid:

@sphere, seriously. My face and I have a history..
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:50pm sphere:

lol
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:55pm Granny Spicy Tuna:

Such an excellent program today, thank you!!!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:55pm Krys O.:

Thanks, Bryce!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:56pm Granny Spicy Tuna:

Sorry, didn't mean to yell. Still adjusting to the day.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:56pm sphere:

have a nice weekend all :)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:56pm steveo:

is this the happy ending music? thanks bryce. see you next time.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:57pm Bryce:

thanks you guys! lovely to hang out as always! :)
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:58pm Bryce:

GST is that......rafella carra??
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:59pm pinholga:

Top shelf stuff. Thanks Bryce!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 2:59pm Bryce:

youtu.be...
  Fri. 11/30/18 2:59pm PGB:

Parallel lines on a white background make me crazy.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 3:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna:

Bryce: this avatar? it's Ann-Margret as Tommy's mama
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 3:00pm chresti:

Thanks Bryce! Glad I was able to crash the party!
  Fri. 11/30/18 3:00pm Brendan:

Place roses on the piano as we say farewell to those dearly departed instruments of yesteryear. And make way for tulips on your organ. Its a brave new world.
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 3:01pm uuee:

A Mighty show today! coelacanth∅:, I was alone in a Lutheran church one day, installing stalls in the rest rooms. I went up to the organ, powered it up, and made some cool sounds
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 3:03pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Bryce!
Avatar Fri. 11/30/18 3:06pm coelacanth∅:

uuee! Woowee that sounds fun!
Avatar Wed. 12/12/18 9:11am bit rot:

Even weeks later, I'm still completely possessed by the Luc Ferrari piece. It is an extraordinary release. I wish it was more readily available for purchase.
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