WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from June 17, 2019

Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
In his podcast and book "Ways of Hearing," Damon Krukowski explores "the nature of listening in our digital world." Krukowski, formerly the drummer for Galaxie 500, talks with Mark about how the switch from analog to digital has changed the way we listen to music, to radio, and to each other.
Tomaš Dvořák	Game Boy Tune	Machinarium Soundtrack
	Mark's intro
	Interview with Damon Krukowski		0:16:43 (MP3 \| Pop‑up)
	Your comments		0:38:02 (MP3 \| Pop‑up)
Dan Bodah	Live at RRRecords	Massachusetts	0:55:48 (MP3 \| Pop‑up)

Listener comments!

♥ 6:00pm Rich in Washington:

Bloop!

♥ 6:00pm ultradamno:

Hello Mark! Techyringas!

♥ 6:01pm Webhamster Henry:

Hi Friends! I bet I'll be piping in a lot on this show.

6:01pm geezerette:

Howdy.

♥ 6:01pm chresti:

Hey Mark and Techtonicas!

♥ 6:01pm TDK60:

I'm "presente" but not present enough lately, Mr. Hurst.

♥ 6:01pm Bas NL:

Mark! Markoids! Why do i feel scared already?

♥ 6:03pm Folsom:

@Bas how about Markanoids?

6:03pm geezerette:

Bas, same! :{

♥ 6:03pm listener james from westwood:

Evening, Mark and all!

6:03pm geezerette:

♥ 6:03pm ultradamno:

desperateexes.com...

♥ 6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Greetings, Mark and Techtophytes. On this 100th anniversary of Barney Google, do we laud him or vilify him? With those goo- goo- googly eyes?

6:04pm Dave Miss:

Hello from Brooklyn

♥ 6:04pm Bas NL:

Markanoids sounds excellent!

6:04pm BigCat:

Welcome
"TeCHRONIC"

♥ 6:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

OK - Musics!
...See how much I can keep up this week!...

6:05pm dr.doppler:

Best show ever

6:05pm dale:

all i can think of when i hear 'utrecht' is the little tubes of oil paint i used to buy.

♥ 6:10pm ultradamno:

I see Japan has outlawed droning while drunk. Who would fly a drone sober?

♥ 6:10pm TDK60:

"radical" is such a difficult term as it can mean many different things...

♥ 6:11pm listener james from westwood:

ISIS: The quicker blower-upper!

♥ 6:12pm chresti:

Paper towels to soak up spills!

♥ 6:12pm ultradamno:

You Tube really seems into making me into a fan of Yugoslavian 'darkwave' from the eighties.

♥ 6:16pm ultradamno:

Axios did a whole thing about self-driving cars this week that culminated in a demonstration of 'supercruise' semi-autonomous cars (from Cadillac, I think). It did nothing to convince me this is a feature anyone would want.

6:19pm BigCat:

What a fucking tweezer, this CEO!

♥ 6:19pm Mister Dobalina:

..its ummm..like..

♥ 6:19pm chresti:

She's stuck, she needs a shove

6:19pm dale:

this woman is a ceo? did she NOT have to take a toastmaster's class?

6:20pm BigCat:

"Mom, Dad. I just got hired as the CEO of YouTube!"
"Honey, that's terrific. By the way, are you coming home this weekend for you 25th Birthday?"

6:21pm JakeGould:

The problem is all these business models are based on extreme automation… Which is not there yet… But they really want it to be. So we’re all a distraction from their end goal: Reading our minds and giving us exactly what we want before we even know we want it.

6:23pm JakeGould:

But this is all a distraction from John McAfee’s body double going missing. WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN MCAFEE’S BODY DOUBLE!!! twitter.com...

6:23pm geezerette:

Trying very hard to convince myself we are not already engulfed by a corporate totalitarian state.

6:24pm JakeGould:

@geezerette: But we have cuter mascots. EAT YOUR HEART OUT PAUL RAND!!!

6:25pm geezerette:

(laughs weakly.) ha. ha.

♥ 6:25pm Mark Hurst:

Any comments or questions for Damon? Post 'em here...

6:28pm JakeGould:

For Damn K: Does digital audio production lead to more comfort, confusion or complication?

♥ 6:29pm Webhamster Henry:

Digital recording is under constant media changing, so old digital recordings are actually harder to reproduce in their original form than , say 78s and cylinders. That's just the audio formats - disk file systems and audio DAWS all are difficult to make futureproof.

6:29pm geezerette:

Piano rolls for player pianos were actually recordings of performances by people.Gershwin recorded some.

♥ 6:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

How does self-promoting & distributing on YouTube & podcasts relate to being a 20thCentury garage band making one 45 & hoping to get on a local station? & from there to major distribution...
Labels used to Promote - but now in the unwieldy firehose of Choice - who Promotes anything? Have the interwebz balanced out the Clear Channel corporate centralization in any positive way?

♥ 6:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

They change Platforms specifically to NOT be retro-compatible. You must have this year's Apple...

6:30pm JakeGould:

Tiny wind up music boxes are just tiny kalimbas that work with tiny digital rolls.

♥ 6:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Compare hand animation to CGI. Everything on 'Electric Ladyland' or Sgt. Pepper is - 'handmade' - not the same thing dialed in by everyone...

6:31pm geezerette:

RevRab,Jake:Good points.

♥ 6:32pm mrdonutsu:

Steely Dan never had no mumble.

♥ 6:32pm Webhamster Henry:

@geezerette - that could be, but they were definitely edited! Ofthen there was a third hand stuck in there. Some of the rolls I had for my Ampico were definitely augmented, and here's where I drop the name "Conlon Nancarrow".

♥ 6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Brian Eno said - a long time ago - the problem is not that there aren't enuff things a Studio can do. There are too many! The thing is having something to record...

6:34pm geezerette:

@Webhamster, thanks, makes sense!

♥ 6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The series 'Soundbreaking' is very good. Beck notes - all periods of Recording exist @ once now.

6:35pm JakeGould:

Digitally remaster “Metal Machine Music.”

♥ 6:35pm Bas NL:

It's very popular to master perfect digital recordings through old vintage gear! To give it that little organic feel.

6:35pm BigCat:

Developers will always use digital to get their way, or just to make things easier.
So they'll take shortcuts without asking anyone.

H.... almost forgot: They're all a bunch of fucking males!

6:36pm JakeGould:

A lot of digital recording has brought the painful tedium of going to a music store (*cough* Guitar Center *cough*) to the comfort of your home.

6:36pm geezerette:

Bas, yes, very popular.

♥ 6:36pm Bas NL:

(I fix a lot of old gear used for that purpose..)

6:36pm JakeGould:

All of these ad algorithms are bias amplifiers.

6:36pm random listener abroad:

Whilst I’m all for imperfections and happy accidents on analogue recording, digital provides a full studio for any diy band. From experience, the cost of hiring an engineer and renting a studio is getting so costly (in the recent 5 years) many of my friends/bands just record to laptop and use the money for touring.

♥ 6:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Medium is the Massage. Things being mixed to Earbuds - & generations who have no time & no interest in anything but smoothed out perfections...
I think of it as McDonalds MANUFACTURING every fry exactly the same. Fine - if that's all you have appetite for !!

♥ 6:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The NASA analogy is good - because we went to the Moon w/ huge reel-to-reel antiques that aren't as powerful as your phone...
Pepper was only 4 track analog - but also great microphones & George Martin Arranging &tc. ...

6:38pm random listener abroad:

@Bas NL you’re are so right! Recording to laptop > add multiple tracks of audio noise to scratch it up. It’s strange it’s come to this in a way.

♥ 6:40pm mrdonutsu:

Iggy Pop has mentioned more than once that he has discovered a track - that he is now playing on his radio show - because it was suggested by an algorithm.

♥ 6:40pm Webhamster Henry:

WFMU has lots of data that it never exploits! For instance: all these chat logs.

♥ 6:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

People are actually concerned about AI Composing !...

♥ 6:40pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Binary digital (ones and zeros) doesn't work well for music. We need a tri-ary digital system that allows for flats and sharps.

♥ 6:40pm TDK60:

radio is invisible, it might get /your own/ imagination's images going...

6:40pm geezerette:

I loved record stores, video stores, "vintage" clothing stores, single owner/single location bookstores, human scaled art galleries...places where human interaction was part of the experience.

♥ 6:41pm ultradamno:

..or, if it's the worst thing you've ever heard, turn it up, maaaan (WFMU version of that Freedom Rock commercial from way back when)

♥ 6:42pm Webhamster Henry:

The thing that engages WFMU listeners is the astonishing lack of ads, support announcements, interminable fundraising, and commercialism in general.

6:42pm Dave Miss:

The station has introduced me to some of the most interesting music I’ve ever heard. From DJs Scott Walker, Irwin, Samantha plus of course Dave the spaz, Dwayne train, and Fool’s Paradise.

6:42pm JakeGould:

That Scott Walker is a great DJ.

6:42pm Peter from Dover NJ:

Perhaps this is why I seldom use Spotify or Pandora. Really a fan of real radio.

♥ 6:42pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Tuesdays at 11AM, you get both simultaneously!

♥ 6:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Mark Shields on making an All Analog version of 'Loveless'
covers a lot of ground ! :
www.npr.org...

♥ 6:43pm listener 126464:

Galaxie 500/On Fire is a desert island cassette

6:43pm Andrea in Jersey City:

It’s not imperfection

6:43pm Andrea in Jersey City:

I hate click tracks

6:43pm geezerette:

Webhamster, and the,(to listeners),randomness.

♥ 6:43pm TDK60:

..I was a bassist in bands, often had to try to slow down or rush the drummer.

♥ 6:44pm Bas NL:

Old synthesizer hits are known to be hard to reproduce. The synths easily drifted one, two notes throughout a song.

♥ 6:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Pop Songs getting Shorter...
Switched on Pop is a good cast analyzing Chart Pop :
www.switchedonpop.com

♥ 6:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

So - you can have Human Music - or Machine Music.

6:45pm JakeGould:

How about cashless/cardless MTA access via “OMNY?” I don’t know about that.

6:46pm BigCat:

Question:
Is all this "digital anorexia" (i.e., the problems in today's social media online etc.) symptomatic of a male-dominated Developer population?
(80% last I checked)

6:47pm JakeGould:

The world is make dominated. In tech it’s about toxic dude-bros just as bad as finance-bros and stock-bros. I work in tech but I am alien to that world of riding motorized long boards controlled by Bluetooth and doing all nighters on stimulants.

6:48pm BigCat:

"ease" ---- nothing easy is good

♥ 6:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Does your CGI character have - character? Same thing.

♥ 6:48pm Bas NL:

Who needs artists? It's all algorithms next.

6:48pm geezerette:

The speed and layers of "re-development" involve cannibalization of neighborhoods. It's happening as fast as set changes in Theater. Construction not much better than that.

6:48pm Glen but also Luis:

"Why's everybody look so strange?! "oh, because they're all staring at their phones.

♥ 6:50pm Webhamster Henry:

It's easy to get your music out now - it's hard to get people to realize you exist.

6:50pm BigCat:

Mark/Damon
Question:
Is all this "digital anorexia" (i.e., the problems in today's social media online etc.) symptomatic of a male-dominated Developer population?

(80% male last I checked)

[@jake gould thank you for your opine]

♥ 6:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Right Henry: Distribution / Promotion.

6:52pm JakeGould:

The positive side is most tech dude-bros have the worst taste in art and everything ever.

♥ 6:53pm Fredericks:

Don't forget libraries.

♥ 6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Radiohead had some material hijacked recently. Instead of paying the ransom, they released it on the internet.

♥ 6:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*KEVIN Shields... www.npr.org...

6:53pm Firebottle:

I think the reason social media companies don't want to answer questions is lawsuits.

6:53pm JakeGould:

Some stores do exist, but honestly even in NYC it’s harder and harder to find “on the street” expertise.

♥ 6:55pm Webhamster Henry:

If you have a real name, don't use it online.

6:56pm JakeGould:

Anyone here remember old-school Canal Street? Just don’t go there nowadays if you want to keep those memories pure.

♥ 6:56pm TDK60:

..ahhh, just start the hologram concert and pass me a stimulant pill.

♥ 6:56pm Bas NL:

Resistance is futile. We are Google.

♥ 6:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

GRR. They claim they are just Utilities - & not Responsible for Content
- then they take all the Money as Monopolies - profiting off of distraction & contention & lies - & not Public Utilities @ all...

6:57pm Julio:

There is a book in Spanish from a Mexican writer: Escritos Para Desocupados (Writings For Unemployed)

♥ 6:57pm chresti:

I listen to WFMU online, being in SoCAL

♥ 6:57pm listener 126464:

Thanks Mark, Damon and associates

6:57pm Julio:

http://www.escritosdesocupados.com

6:57pm JakeGould:

If they think they are mass media utilities, they should be regulated as such… If that even works anymore?

♥ 6:58pm garyseven:

this is amazing information, can't wait for the podcast and BOOK! Thanks for being on the air!