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Favoriting June 10, 2020: This Must Be the Beginning (you have to speak truth) (Show #719) | Download MP3

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And the crowd is growing, the crowd is growing...
And the crowd is growing, the crowd is growing...
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And the crowd is growing, the crowd is growing...

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Special Approx. start time
Previous DJ  Brings up remote feed   Favoriting   2020      0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Live stream feedback loop   Favoriting   2020      0:00:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Claude Debussy  Clair De Lune   Favoriting         0:00:33 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Live stream feedback loop   Favoriting   2020      0:00:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Live radio feedback loop   Favoriting   2020      0:02:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  All the loops need to work   Favoriting   2020      0:02:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Keith Holzman  Small clock ticking   Favoriting         0:04:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Daft Punk  Outlands, part II   Favoriting TRON Legacy Soundtrack        0:05:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  Warming up loops   Favoriting   2020      0:05:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sound effect  Ringer   Favoriting         0:06:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
George Freeman  Fully Fashioned   Favoriting         0:06:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alan Braden  Starlight Revue (a.k.a. Curtain Raiser)   Favoriting         0:08:45 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  Identification: In the next moment, it sounds a different way   Favoriting   2020      0:11:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Claude Debussy / Nintendo  Untitled Goose Game   Favoriting         0:13:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gilbert Vinter  Mists of Illusion   Favoriting         0:14:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Camille Saint-Saëns  Aquarium   Favoriting         0:15:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ronald Hanmer  Bits and Pieces   Favoriting         0:19:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Four Tet  Parks   Favoriting         0:19:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Clint Mansell  Together We Will Live Forever   Favoriting The Fountain soundtrack        0:21:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Chi-Lites  Have You Seen Her? loops   Favoriting         0:23:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Clem Leek  Mystery Moor clock loop   Favoriting         0:25:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Clem Leek  Mystery Moor   Favoriting         0:25:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ifny  Howdy is the Portal to the Future   Favoriting   2020      0:26:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cowboy Junkies  Sweet Jane loop   Favoriting         0:28:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dustin O'Halloran  Opus 20   Favoriting         0:29:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  You Have to Speak Truth   Favoriting   2020  Spontaneous monologue, over Dustin O'Halloran layers & Clem Leek clock loop.
What happens if I stop being silent? Maybe they see me speaking and it gives them an idea.
Other people are now realizing it's OK to speak, and we're a little crowd now, a whole lot of people, who are happy to finally start speaking some truth. And the crowd is growing, the crowd is growing...
 
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Dustin O'Halloran  Opus 20   Favoriting         0:45:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Keith Holzman  Small clock ticking   Favoriting         0:45:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sound effect  Cuckoo clock   Favoriting         0:46:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Keith Holzman  Grandmother clock strikes twelve   Favoriting         0:46:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Boards of Canada  Wildlife Analysis   Favoriting         0:47:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Daft Punk  Outlands, part II   Favoriting TRON Legacy Soundtrack        0:47:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  It isn't planned ahead. It's possible still to express free things   Favoriting   2020  "Find your platforms to speak from. Eschew the technology. It's always going to be messy."     0:48:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  Identification   Favoriting   2020      0:50:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Boards of Canada  Wildlife Analysis   Favoriting         0:50:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross  Complication with Optimistic Outcome   Favoriting The Social Network Soundtrack        0:50:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  I would invite your phone call   Favoriting   2020      0:51:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross  Complication with Optimistic Outcome   Favoriting The Social Network Soundtrack        0:52:36 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Infinite Third  fr ee f o rm   Favoriting         0:53:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Peer Gynt  Morning   Favoriting Incidental Music  1957  The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beech. 1998 remastered    0:54:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ifny  Howdy is the Portal to the Future   Favoriting   2020      0:55:23 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bright Eyes  Clairaudients   Favoriting Kill or Be Killed        0:55:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons  Candy Girl   Favoriting         0:57:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tangerine Dream / State Azure  Love On A Real Train   Favoriting         0:57:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  It's What We Do   Favoriting The Endless River        0:59:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  Police use statistics to make Harlem look crimnal   Favoriting         1:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  Police brutality speech   Favoriting         1:03:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Daft Punk  Outlands, part II   Favoriting TRON Legacy Soundtrack        1:06:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  Encouraging police to take whatever measures necessary to hold negroes in check   Favoriting         1:08:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lullatone  perfectly organized cleaning supplies   Favoriting The Sounds of Spring  2015      1:09:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  The police have infiltrated the black movement   Favoriting         1:09:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lullatone  a little song about hail drops   Favoriting Room Loops  2020      1:11:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  The middle of your hypnosis session, the nature of performance, illusion, a culture that doesn't value truth   Favoriting   2020    ***   1:13:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  It's completely honest; you hear the mistakes the entire time   Favoriting   2020    ***   1:15:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  Qualified immunity (if this exact show has never happened before, mistakes are not possible?)   Favoriting   2020  Qualified Immunity (if this exact police misconduct has never been ruled against in court before, then it will not be ruled against in court in the future)   ***   1:16:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Live stream feedback loop   Favoriting   2020      1:18:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lullatone  ambient sketch #1   Favoriting Room Loops  2020      1:18:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  My house was bombed   Favoriting         1:20:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  By Any Means Necessary   Favoriting         1:21:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Malcolm X  I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy (We have only known hypocrisy)   Favoriting         1:22:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cranberries  Dreams loops   Favoriting         1:25:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  It can't just be the few speaking to the many, it can't just be like this anymore. And don't be fooled by the online media illusion.   Favoriting   2020  Don't look up to the top. Look next to you.   ***   1:31:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  Identification: Might be recontextualized broadcast   Favoriting   2020      1:35:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cranberries  Dreams loops   Favoriting         1:37:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cowboy Junkies  Brothers Under the Bridge loop   Favoriting         1:38:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cowboy Junkies  Ring on the Sill loops   Favoriting         1:38:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ifny  Howdy is the Portal to the Future   Favoriting   2020      1:43:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Random Rab  Rain on the World   Favoriting         1:48:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  This must be the beginning (show opening)   Favoriting Show #717, from June 3, 2020  2020  Live stream feedback of GTDR song, Ken & newest co-host song loop "This must be the beginning," Philip Glass,"This must be the end"  ***   1:49:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lou Reed  Street Hassle loops   Favoriting         1:51:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ken  You should take your chances. We are strong when we are many. This must be the beginning.   Favoriting   2020  It took its chances. You've made it all the way back to the beginning.  ***   1:54:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  This Must Be the Beginning (you have to speak truth)   Favoriting Show #719, from June 10, 2020  2020       


Listener comments!

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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Listen now, or skip ahead to the relevant monologue: wfmu.org...

Say a thing, here, if you like:
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chresti:

A thing. There, I said it.
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northguineahills:

I'm not sure what timeline or where I am, so it doesn't really matter,,,
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david w:

The thing is...
Avatar 5:06pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Is, the thing. Hi!
Avatar 5:07pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The app seems to know what sample is playing and I kinda don't understand how it knows.
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david w:

Is a loop a thing or an anti-thing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:08pm
WR:

I've been informed I should be here now so I am trying to be here now. So far so good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:08pm
chresti:

Another thing, hello.
Avatar 5:10pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

You are or I am we are. Welcome, chresti, northguineahills, david w, and WR!
  5:11pm
Miranda:

hullo Ken and fellow listeners! Happy to be here.
Avatar 5:14pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Miranda, hello! Luca says hi!
  5:16pm
Miranda:

Hi Luca!!!
  5:24pm
Isa:

Hi everyone!
Avatar 5:25pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Welcome back, Isa!
  5:26pm
Isa:

Thank you! Sounds beautiful, with the wind here!
Avatar 5:28pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Here's ifny.
Avatar 5:38pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It looks like an essay, the transcript. I'd never have read such a thing if it had been handed to me.
  5:50pm
Isa:

You mean you just started speaking... and that's what came out?
Avatar 5:52pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

That's it. As I said in the first sentence, "if I had something to say...," because I knew I didn't. I just turned on the mic and tried. By sentence 3, huh, there's something, all right...
  5:52pm
kate:

hi ken!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I wouldn't have even done the show at all except I'm scheduled to. So, surprise, every little bit of all of this, this is what happens when one gets out of one's way.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

kate, hi!
  5:53pm
Isa:

Big Magic!!!
Avatar 5:54pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

When we speak up even though we believe we have no voice, no permission, no expertise, no support...
  5:58pm
Isa:

You got support here, right?
Avatar 6:03pm
Carmichael:

Heya Kenzo and hep cats.
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WR:

What is email to send aud clip to you?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
WR:

Or I can do the FMU contact process. I'm just too slow to grab the address when it was announced.
Avatar 6:10pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I most often don't believe I have support. Belief is everything. A lot of people have a lot more power than they believe. Lessons start early, run deep.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

ken at lastever dot org
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

A crowd of people will stand by and let two people do great harm, because each person in the crowd believes they don't have enough power to stop those two people.
  6:17pm
Miranda:

And they believe someone else will stop them; or worse, that it must be wrong to stop them because no one else is doing it.
Avatar 6:18pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Decorum.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It's not polite to point (out truths).
  6:22pm
Miranda:

I'll be there for you as you learn rudeness, Ken.
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WR:

What I sent is of little content of low value unless you are able to drop it into a point where it might have a context in others POV.
Avatar 6:23pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

(and low volume, to boot) thanks!
  6:28pm
Isa:

Or that they will be next at suffering from the same harm
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh I just remembered a show from around 1995, where I had some Malcolm X speeches on reel-to-reel tapes, and I was live mixing them with a sampling machine and production studio console and dancing.
Avatar 6:29pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Isa Because, like them until that point, nobody will join in and become the powerful mass.
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Aitch:

Only noticed your show recently, the alt streams on WFMU generally, very interesting. Watching the USA unravel from afar (Sydney) very disturbing.
Avatar 6:31pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

...watching the unravel get closer to the surface...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hi, Carmichael, WR, and Aitch!
  6:35pm
Isa:

Sometimes somebody reacts with great courage, even without support. Thank you for speaking Ken.
  6:36pm
Miranda:

@Aitch I'd argue the USA has been this unraveled the whole time. Yes, just getting closer to the externally visible surfaces.
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Aitch:

If the whole Trump fiasco does anything positive it's the overdue revolution in the way (at least some people) think, as horrible as the actuality is.
Looking at the French solution in 1793, they gave you that statue for a reason.
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WR:

RE: your comment about people standing by waiting for approval from others before doing something; this is very much a generalization but have experienced instances of individuals who speak up right away. And can recall tragic instance a year or so ago in the northwest USA when some men were murdered by a racist who was harassing two women of color and they spoke up. It is scary out there.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yes, individuals are not always that powerful.
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WR:

But yes, most often people lower their eyes and avoid conflict. PS: Malcom X was such an amazing human. Words spoken to public resonating forward and backward for the history of this country.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

So so so so so many individuals could be enmassing.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This MUST be the beginning.
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

That's what HE said!
  6:57pm
Isa:

Ciao, something is beginning
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

WR: are you referring to the incident in Portland? That was horrible, i remember.
Avatar 6:57pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This is where you came in, GST. (The beginning, is here, the archive link, it plays.)
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

We'll always be together in electric dreams
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chresti:

Thank you for this thing, Kenzo!
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Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em):

And so it begins…
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WR:

Yes GST.
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WR:

Thank you Kenzo
Avatar 11:12pm
Otis Fodder:

Thanks for the collage to the message today, catching the archive. Had me humming Ochs' "Small Circle of Friends" at one point. Cheers Kenzo!
Avatar 11:16pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Always a pleasure, Otis!
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