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PLAYLIST for Today:*Moments In Love by Art of Noise from And What Have You Done With My Body, God? (2006)*Turbine Wire b...
10/01/2024

PLAYLIST for Today:
*Moments In Love by Art of Noise from And What Have You Done With My Body, God? (2006)
*Turbine Wire by Stu Watts (single 2023)
*Moon Doom by Observers from The Age of the Machine Entities (2024)
*Back In The Day by Jonny Dee (single 2023)
*Atlantis by Charm of Finches (single 2023)
*Calls From A Rusty Cage by John Butcher from Resonant Spaces (2008)
*Keeps Me Warm by Imber (single 2023)
*Depth of my Colour by Broxton (single 2023)
*You Will Be fine by CheekyBoy (single 2023)
*One Summers Day by Joe Hisiashi from Spirited Away O.S.T. (2001)
*Sun Leads Me On by Half Moon Run from Sun Leads Me On (2015)
*The Thing From The Deep by The Chops from Volcanic Cave (2018)
*You Didn’t Try To Call Me by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention from Freak Out (1966)

Happy New Year everyone. The first episode of The Big Note for 2024 looks at the sonic attributes of given spaces, and more specifically resonance/reverberance.
Almost every conceivable space apart from the vacuum of deep space or an anechoic chamber has certain sonic characteristics that will affect how sound behaves within that space. Even solid objects and fluids have sonic characteristics that will change how sound behaves within and through them.
We discuss aspects of this sonic characteristic in todays episode as well as play some great music illustrating the theme, as well as other new and old music from Australian artists and elsewhere.
Further reading/References:

How Music Works
David Byrne - 2013 McSweeney's

Monolithic Undertow
Harry Sword - 2021 White Rabbit

Sonic Wonderland
Professor Trevor Cox - Vintage (Penguin Random House) 2015
http://www.sonicwonders.org/

Image credit: Photograph of the Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni made before 1910 from Wikipedia
Video: Interior of King Solomon's Caves in Tasmania by TBN with a cheeky overdubbed audio snippet of resonant sounds from inside a concrete water tank! Don't take everything you see or hear on the interwebs as gospel boys & girls! 😂😂

23/12/2023

I would like to wish my subscribers a happy and safe holiday season! Thank you for another year of support and love, there will be new music coming 2024!A bi...

Although The Big Note 3MDR 97.1 FM is having a few weeks off from the airwaves, I am still enjoying the ongoing reading ...
23/12/2023

Although The Big Note 3MDR 97.1 FM is having a few weeks off from the airwaves, I am still enjoying the ongoing reading and research I do for future episodes! Making the most of today’s beautiful weather to be outside absorbing the fascinating Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion by Harry Sword

Happy Birthday Frank.May you be joyfully riding the vibrations of the Cosmic Big Note somewhere, somehow...(in actual fa...
21/12/2023

Happy Birthday Frank.
May you be joyfully riding the vibrations of the Cosmic Big Note somewhere, somehow...
(in actual fact, there will be a plethora of waves carrying Frank's music in the electromagnetic spectrum radiating outwards from Earth into the universe, for a long, long time...this knowledge makes me smile)

14/12/2023
Episode 28 is the last Big Note on 3MDR 97.1 FM for 2023, thanks to everyone who has come on the journey so far. As well...
13/12/2023

Episode 28 is the last Big Note on 3MDR 97.1 FM for 2023, thanks to everyone who has come on the journey so far. As well as broadcasting eclectic sonic goodness your way, today we look at the field of Field Recording.
Field Recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It also applies to sound recordings like electromagnetic fields or vibrations using different microphones like a passive magnetic antenna for electromagnetic recordings or contact microphones. For underwater field recordings, a field recordist uses hydrophones to capture the sounds and/or movements of whales, or other aquatic organisms.
The earliest known field recording is of a Shama bird. It was recorded in 1889 by Ludwig Koch using a wax cylinder recording and was the first documented recording of a non-human subject. Some early proponents of this important, yet unknown field consist of examples like Walter Ruttman's
Weekend (which was a radio piece put together from recording of daily life in Berlin), and Ludwig Koch's 'sound-books' (which educated listeners in species identification using gramophone records of birdsong).
These field recordings and many others ended up being stored in vinyl to be sold to enthusiasts, hobbyists,and tourists alike a few decades later in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Since then it has blossomed and field recordings can be found everywhere.
Along with being used in music compositions, Field Recording is an important tool in bioacoustics and biomusicology, most commonly in research on bird song. Animals in the wild can display very different vocalizations from those in captivity. Ambient noise in urban environments have also shown to alter the vocalizations of local bird populations.
In addition to birds, whales have also been frequently observed using field recordings. In recent years, COVID-19 has had largely negative effects on the world as a whole, but through recent field recordings, it has been shown that whales have been less stressed and generally more healthy. This is due to a large decline in international commerce and naval shipping during the pandemic, and by extension much less noise and disturbance in the ocean's soundscape.
Episode Image Credit: German/Canadian field recordist Hildegard Westerkamp from http://tinyurl.com/euc987y9

PLAYLIST:
“Sa” by Parvyn from the album “Sa” (2021)
“Spiders” by Bec Jean from the EP “Quarter Life Crisis” (2021)
“The Wrong Man” by Ellie Gibson (2021) [Single]
“What Makes Them Dance?” By David Rothenberg from “Bug Music” (2013)
“Womb Heal 285hz” by Mayari from the album “Womb” (2023)
“Rainlessness” by Sunwrae from “Live at The Thornbury Theatre’ (2019)
“3 Corners Of The World - Valentine's Whale Remix” by David Rothenberg & Robert Jürjendal from “Whale Music (Remixed)” (2022)
“The Hunt” from Mikey Hart from the LP “Planet Drum” (1991)
“Here Comes The Flood” by Peter Gabriel with Robert Fripp from “Exposure” (1979)
“B Who U Want 2 B” by Xani from “An Inaccurate History of Electronic Dance Music” (2023)
“Caterpillar” by Andrew Langford from “The Didgeridoo Show Outback” (2019)
“You’re In L.A.” by 2 Inch Tape from “America” (2019)
“Litha” by Penstkart from “Instruō Compilation 1” (2023)
“Koyaanisqatsi” by Philip Glass from “ Koyaanisqatsi (Original Motion Picture Score)” (1982)
“I Believe” by Caroline Polachek from “Desire, I Want to Turn Into You” (2023)

07/12/2023
The Big Note Episode 27 (6th December 2023)No clever preview videos of LPs today, just a playlist, mostly NEW Australian...
05/12/2023

The Big Note Episode 27 (6th December 2023)
No clever preview videos of LPs today, just a playlist, mostly NEW Australian music from AMRAP!
Enjoy your morning people! ❤️

PLAYLIST:
*Waking Up - Jerome Blazé (2023) [SINGLE]
*Dancing In The Rain - Tom Fublé (2023) [SINGLE]
*Ngu - エミエミ (emi emi) (2023) [SINGLE]
*I’m Gonna Change - Shannon Smith (2023) [SINGLE]
*“Settle Petal” by The Buoys [SINGLE] (2023)
*“Uh Oh” BY GUTHEALTH [SINGLE] (2023)
*“Shaku Shakti Part 1” - Crystal Slide Shivam from the album Shaku Shakti INZEN (2023)
*“Old Crow” - THELOSTBOY [SINGLE] (2023)
*“We Dont Talk About It” - Thelma Plum [SINGLE] (2023)
*“Firebreather” by Lazer Baby [SINGLE] (2023)
*“Ennui (Live)” by Amy Vee from Live at Lizottes (2023)
*“August 19” by HighSchool [SINGLE] (2023)
*“I'll Figure it Out” by Kelly Walshe [SINGLE] (2023)
*“If You Were Real” Helen Townsend (with Shannon Smith) from Love Lies 'n' Leaving (2021)
*“The Robots” by Kraftwerk from The Man Machine (1979)
*“Spaceship” by Ashley Naylor from “Soundtracks Vol 2” (2023)

The Big Note  #26 - Considering Conceptual Music and Concept Albums on 3MDR 97.1 FMEpisode Image Credit: Seven Sisters S...
29/11/2023

The Big Note #26 - Considering Conceptual Music and Concept Albums on 3MDR 97.1 FM
Episode Image Credit: Seven Sisters Songline by Josephine Mick, Pipalyatjara, 1994

I was struck by the plethora of concepts music can embrace whilst researching songs for last weeks show, where I was exploring the effects drugs had in the world of music. I discovered a musician from Great Britain called The Caretaker. Where I was looking into the way drugs can affect the process of composition, performance and experiencing music, I realised that much of the Caretakers works were not the result of the effects of drugs on the brain but rather a journey to try and interpret musically what happens to the brain when it is undergoing pathological changes such as what happens in dementia. This led me to want to explore further the phenomena of conceptual music and concept albums. Today we talk about song cycles, musical sociological studies and rock operas amongst other things, but I also examine the idea that our first nation people's song lines are some of the very first examples of conceptual music in that they embody the whole spirit of a place (so to speak) and describe the journey through it (along with much more).

PLAYLIST:
*Home by 2 Inch Tape from the album "What I Need" (2023)
*What You Want (single) by Grxce (2023)
*Dance Like A Wolf (single) by Legs Electric (2023)
* Paladesisyon - Angelo Berdos by Nicky Anacin from the album "TUNOGLOKAL QLD Project" (2023)
*Into Each Other's Eyes by The Caretaker from "Everything At The End Of Time (Stage 1)" (2016)
*Dust Bowl Blues by Woodie Guthrie from "Dust Bowl Ballads" (1940)
*Mood Indigo by Frank Sinatra from "In The Wee Small Hours" (1955)
*The Twilight Zone by The Ventures from "The Ventures In Space" (1964)
*Nullabor Dreaming (single) by Dave Norman
*Wichita Lineman Is A Song I Once Heard by The KLF from "Chill Out" (1990)
*I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project from "I Robot" (1977)
*The Tradition by Halsey from "If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power" (2021)
*Go To The Mirror by The Who from "Tommy" (1969)
*Hey You by Pink Floyd from "The Wall" (1979)
*The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis from "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" (1974)
*1984 by David Bowie from "Diamond Dogs" (1974)
*Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa from "Joe's Garage (Act 1)" (1979)

Episode 25 - S*x & Drugs &Rock & Roll. We’re going to skip the S*x part for the moment & turn our ears to the topic of D...
22/11/2023

Episode 25 - S*x & Drugs &Rock & Roll. We’re going to skip the S*x part for the moment & turn our ears to the topic of Drugs & Rock & Roll. *Please note, some of the songs I am playing today relate to the topic but a good many are free from any associations to drug use, as far as I know & are just excellent music I wanted to share with you! We discuss historical aspects of substance intake and music as well as the very relevant observation that drugs are NOT needed to write, perform or enjoy good music.

Playlist:

S*x & Drugs & Rock & Roll by Ian Dury from the album "New Boots & Panties!!" (1977)

Travelled by Imber (single - 2023)

Lydia by 2 Inch Tape from "What I Need" (2023)

The Road (Freezing Trees) by Fennec (single - 2023)

A Night On Bald Mountain composed by Modest Mussorgsky, performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra & Leopold Stokowski from the movie "Fantasia" soundtrack (1940).

Battlefield by Helen Townsend (single - 2023)

Missing You by 8-Ball Aitken from the album "Ice Cream Man 2" (2023)

The Blimp (mousetrapreplica) by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band from the double LP "Trout Mask Replica" (1969)

A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band from the album "Doc At The Radar Station" (1980)

Quarter Life Crisis by Bec Jean from the EP "Quarter Life Crisis" (2021)

Club Meds by Mollixillom from the release "Vaxication" (2022)

One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 by The Flaming Lips from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)

Sister Midnight by Iggy Pop from "The Idiot" (1977)

Co***ne Decisions by Frank Zappa from "The Man From Utopia" (1983)

Red Shoes At The Drug Store by Tom Waits from "Blue Valentine" (1978)

Choose Bad Smack by T.I.S.M. from "Great Trucking Songs Of The Renaissance" (1988)

The Moment by Tame Impala from "Currents" (2015)

Do You Realize?? (1st Chords Wayne) [Demo] by The Flaming Lips from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" 2022

It's Just a Burning Memory by the Caretaker from "Everything At The End Of Time (Stage 1)" (2016)

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21/11/2023

On Air Now!

21/11/2023

Wednesday November 22nd on The Big Note 0900-1100 on 97.1 FM 3MDR.
I will be attempting to play some of the music from these and other artists (including some great new Australian musicians)! .1fm

21/11/2023
On the 24th Big Note we play some wonderful music from Australia and around the world, mostly focusing on percussion & d...
15/11/2023

On the 24th Big Note we play some wonderful music from Australia and around the world, mostly focusing on percussion & drums, a topic that has once again caught my ear, especially after experiencing Stephanie Lake Company's "Manifesto" at the Arts Centre a few weeks ago, a truly stunning, "electrifying performance with nine dancers and nine drummers on nine drum kits set against a towering watermelon-velvet curtain, each drummer and dancer work in unison to create a powerful collision of movement and percussion" (from The Arts Centre's event page)
World and eclectic music is prominent in this episode, but we also examine the phenomenon of "The Amen Break" in modern music, as well as delve into the making of the iconic "Gated Reverb" sound, discovered by Phil Collins & producer Hugh Padgham whilst Phil was in the studio playing drums for Peter Gabriel's track "Intruder" from his self-titled 3rd album.
Episode Image: Trade ad for The Winstons' single "Love of The Common People" from Wikipedia.
PLAYLIST:
1 ‘You’re grounded’ by Allara [single released 2023]
2 ‘Let There Be Drums’ by Sandy Nelson from the album “Let There Be Drums” [1961]
3 ‘Atransient Drums’ - Rhys Channing from “Sandblaster” [2023]
4 ‘Bones’ - Mickey Hart from “Planet Drum” [1991]
5 ‘Listening Wind’ - Anjelique Kudjo from the album “Remain In Light” [2018]
6 ‘Cântico Brasileiro No. 3 (Kamaiurá)’ - Maria Rita from “Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992” [2017]
7 ‘Riddim Bugz’ - David Rothenberg from “Bug Music” [2013]
8 ‘Intruder’ - Peter Gabriel from “Peter Gabriel 3 “(Melt) [1980]
9 ‘My Red Hot Car’ - Squarepusher from “Go Plastic” [2001]
10 ‘Amen Brother’ - The Winstons from the album “Color Him Father” [1969]
11 ‘Little Wonder’ - David Bowie from the LP “Earthling (Expanded Edition)” [1997]
12 ‘Let's Start (feat. Ginger Baker)’ [Live] - Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 from Fela With Ginger Baker Live! [1971]
13 ‘Rally Round the Drum (feat. Paul Kelly)’ - Archie Roach & Paul Kelly from “Tell Me Why” [2019]
14 ‘Crossing’ - Midori Takada from “Through The Looking Glass” [1983]

Good morning everyone. The Big Note is baaaaack! Tune in now on 97.1FM 3MDR or on www.3mdr.com 😁❤️
14/11/2023

Good morning everyone. The Big Note is baaaaack! Tune in now on 97.1FM 3MDR or on www.3mdr.com 😁❤️

14/11/2023

The Big Note
A preview of just some of the music for The Big Note 24 (Wednesday the 15th November) - tune in from 0900 AEDT on .1fm

07/11/2023

Apologies to the dedicated (and amazing) listeners to The Big Note. The program will not be sounding out tomorrow (8th November) but normal transmission will resume next Wednesday!

Episode 23 - of Music and Beasts (Part 1)Description: this one's a bit of a long read, so the TLDR version is: Animals m...
01/11/2023

Episode 23 - of Music and Beasts (Part 1)

Description: this one's a bit of a long read, so the TLDR version is: Animals make music too, ok? 😉

Many scientists believe that species such as whales and birds make their sounds as a courtship display or to show other males they’re strong competitors. But is that really true, or if partly true, the only reason? It seems so reductionist to propose reasons simply in terms of reproduction.
When you get down to it, every species main genetically driven drive is to reproduce, even humans, so anything any species does is underpinned by that. After all let's not forget that the term "Rock ’n Roll" is a euphemism for s*x!
But surely there is much more to all this than just genetic imperative? What about the appreciation of beauty? Even Darwin, the alpha male scientist of “survival of the fittest/strongest/loudest" fame indicated he believed animals could appreciate (& create beauty in songs) for beauties sake.

David Rothenberg, in "Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise" notes that in the vast repertoire of “the wildness of insect music” there are “tunes and tones we cannot quite place, of melodies and harmonies beyond tie scales and chords of human sense. It's not Lydian, it's not Dorian, whatever those ancient Greek modes were really sounding like we really don't know, but any musician who has tried to jam along with insects knows we struggle to place the sounds we like together with this essential but alien noise.
Throughout history, we humans have wanted to embrace these sounds as music, however they differ from our own rules and structures of melody. It is as if we have always intuitively known that the sonic declarations of animals make much more sense to us humans if we consider them to be music rather than language.
Music is immediately meaningful even if we cannot translate it, so once heard as music, the world of animal communication is immediately accessible, emotional, and interesting”
Ethnomusicologists have also recently called for the study of nonhuman animals and call into question the nature/culture binary and music’s position as a mediator across it, encouraging us to understand music- making as existing “within sonic ecosystems and across species-boundaries” Similarly, Marcello Sorce Keller (2012) has called on us to integrate ethnomusicology and zoomusicology because, he argues, we ourselves are animals and because knowledge of nonhuman animal sound behavior can help us better understand human musicality”
We only just scratch the surface of this fascinating topic today, drawing form numerous sources. Farcebook isn't great with links so please just follow the link to the Big Note page for some links to the sources referred to in todays episode. (in the episode description for today 1st November)

Playlist:
1. Gisele, She Walks She Floats by Sooji from “First Loves” (2003)
2. Magpie by Gentleforce from the release “Life Anthems” (2023)
3. Cicada by Big Words (2019)
4. El Grillo (The Cricket) - CPR Classical hosts Cantus (in the CPR Performance Studio on May 4, 2018)
5. The Cricket by Mannheim Steamroller from “Fresh Air III” (1979)
6. The Sky by Mannheim Steamroller from “Fresh Air III” (1979)
7. Be Sharp III by Sunrae from the release “Bee-Sharp Honey Bee” (2023)
8. Spectral Canyon by Robert Rich on the album “Whale Music (Remixed)” (2022)
9. Dolphin by Plastiq (2023)
10. The World's Last Whale - words by Pete Seeger from David Rothenberg’s “Whale Music” (2008)
11. Don’t Kill the Whale by Yes from the album “Tormato” (1978)
12. Beluga No Tears by Gari Saarimaki, David Rothenberg - “Whale Music (Remixed)” (2022)
13. Fly, Sing, Dream by Stephen Nakmanovitch & David Rothenberg - “From This World, Another” (2022)
14. Ballet For a Blue Whale BY ADRIAN BELEW from “Desire Of The Rhino King” (1991)
15. Insect Drummers I: Inside the Mosquito's Brain by David Rothenberg from Bug Music (2013)
16. Another Song for the Whales (for Charlie Haden) - David Rothenberg from Homages (deluxe version) (2020)
https://3mdr.allclassweb.com/the-big-note

The Big Note 22 - The Power of VoiceWhen used by itself in musical expression  the human voice is a powerful instrument,...
25/10/2023

The Big Note 22 - The Power of Voice
When used by itself in musical expression the human voice is a powerful instrument, when combined with other voices it can express and evoke spiritual transcendence beyond our day to day experience. It is no wonder it is found in the sacred music of cultures around the world.� We play tracks featuring and talk about different forms of voice in sacred and traditional music. Examples of Gregorian Chant, Inuit and Tibetan Throat singing and Japanese Shigin style voice are explored. I also indulge in a little of my love of Japanese music old & new towards the end of the episode.

Playlist:
1. The Second Waltz (Shostakovich) by André Rieu
2. Lindsay Waddington & John Williamson - Voice From The Heart
3. Dr J - Synthetic Dreams (Chant Version)
4. Tikkek - The Chanting Song
5. Missa Orbis Factor [Kyrie & Gloria] Schola Gregoriana Mediolanensis, Giovanni Vianini - from the album "Messe in canto gregoriano"
6. 詩吟 -胡隠君を尋ぬ (Shigin - Koinkunwotazunu) - Wagakki Band
7. O M M - Bené Fonteles from "Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978-1992"
8. Tibetan Throat Singing - Gelug Monks
9. Inuit Throat Singing - Avery Keenainak and Christine Tootoo
10. Kajyadhi Fu Bushi (Visible Cloaks Remix) B-side from the single かじゃでぃ風節 Kajyadhi Fu Bushi
11. Aodhan - Daily Meditation
12. sleepthink - Loss Meditation
13. Hotel - The Conversation Pit
14. Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi from the album Kakashi (1982)
15. My Love - This Way North
16. 風鈴の唄うたい (Fuurin no Utautai) - Wagakki Band
17. Kajyadhi Fu Bushi - 新崎純とナイン・シープス Jun Arasaki and Nine Sheep (A-side from the single かじゃでぃ風節 Kajyadhi Fu Bushi)

The Big Note  #21 - The Feels (again/still)I'll admit, I've been a bit flat, like a Tyre that has had an adverse encount...
18/10/2023

The Big Note #21 - The Feels (again/still)
I'll admit, I've been a bit flat, like a Tyre that has had an adverse encounter with one of the local (& or general) potholes around here and maybe has a slow leak, so this week is an attempt to lift my and anyone else's mood with some upbeat, feel-good tunes (as well as some alternative feels, as that is part of life too). We also go over again how music can affect our mood and health as well as unite us and shine a light in dark & troubled times.
The accompanying image for this episode is The Big Note's artist subscriber Bec Jean with a chook, just because it makes me smile, as I hope it does you! ❤️

PLAYLIST:

* Flowers In The Sky - Sunny Luwe
* Out of Mind - Silky Roads
* What Was I Made For? - Billy Eilish from the Barbie O.S.T.
* Dance The Night Away (Do Do Do Do)- Shannon Smith
* Tell Me Why - The Pad Boys from Where Are They Now
* Getting Thru - DanBag
* Silver Moon Mollixillom from the release FreqFemmeFive
* Positive Thinking Taitu'uga
* Overthinking KenteBee
* Light Over Shadow - Mickey Hart from the LP Planet Drum
* My Love - This Way North
* Little Umbrellas - Frank Zappa from the album Hot Rats
* My Old Man - Mac DeMarco from the album This Old Dog
*We Are Still Waiting - Martin Kennedy & Steve Kilby from the album Glow & Fade

12/10/2023

Marc Ribot: "Tom Waits became interested in reviving the legacy of Harry Partch, who in the 30s and 40s had lived a hobo life in America, travelling in box cars, picking up ideas for instruments from junkyard materials, even creating his own form of notation. “I use things we hear around us all the time,” Waits said, “…dragging a chair across the floor, or hitting the side of a locker real hard with a two by four, a brake drum with a real imperfection, a police bullhorn… the problem is that most instruments are square and music is always round.” Keith Richards has recalled how when he arrived in the studio he thought: “Hello! He had a Mellotron… which was loaded entirely with train noises.”

“Tom spent the previous couple of years in New York, researching what a lot of downtown composers and avant-whatever musicians were doing,” Ribot recalls. “I think he was working with a really wide palette – but it wasn’t just to be weird. The key to Tom’s music is that he’s dealing not only with a lot of different music of the past, but with our memory of those musicians. We hear the music of the past on old scratchy records. He had this bass marimba because he was interested in a lot of Caribbean sounds, but specifically the way they sounded on 1920s and 1930s recordings rather than on today’s technology. He was interested in the whole history of folk and blues, but also a wider kind of Americana beyond that.”
by Tim Adams / The Guardian
Photo: Michael O'Brien

Todays Big Note happens in the last week of the 3MDR shockingly good radiothon, so I thought we would explore some Radio...
11/10/2023

Todays Big Note happens in the last week of the 3MDR shockingly good radiothon, so I thought we would explore some Radio Broadcasting history. Here's a snippet!

- On January 13, 1910, the wireless transmission of a live Metropolitan Opera House performance of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci across New York City was the first public radio broadcast. It was an experiment and publicity stunt conducted by inventor Lee de Forest to show that wireless telephony could send sounds not just Morse code. De Forest invented the Audion (pictured), the first effective device for electrical amplification, which became the standard radio tube. It was a triode, incorporating a grid that would modulate the maximum available current between a filament and a plate, amplifying telegraph and radio signals. He was allowed to set up his radio transmitter backstage at the Met and strung his antenna up on a long fishing pole on the roof. Public receivers were set up in several well-advertised locations in New York City, including the De Forest Radio Laboratory, ships in New York Harbor, and hotels in Times Square, that allowed the public to listen in through earphones. Though the quality of the microphones made it hard to clearly hear the performance on stage, it was reported that it was heard 20 km away on a ship at sea, and as far away as Bridgeport, CT approx 77 km away as the crow flies.
..along with some more exploration of Musique Concrète in the last half of the program.

Playlist:

1. Englishman In New York by Sting from ...Nothing like The Sun (1988)
2. Radio Blaster by Tom Lark from Brave Star (2023)
3. Frequency On A Million by Kattimoni (2022)
4. Radio by Charlotte Adelle (2023)
5. Radio Silence by Thomas Dolby from The Golden Age of Wireless (1983)
6. Radio On by Sophisticated Dingo (2023)
7. Midnite Radio by Partimama (2023)
8. Rebel Frequency by Nattali Rize (2017)
9. Playin' On The Radio by CheekyBoy (2023)
10. You Can Walk, I'll Game Boy by Stu Watts (2022)
11. Dr. Who Theme [Original 1963] by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire, Dick Mills and Brian Hodgson)
12. This Is Fred Judd Here & Suspended Motion by F. C. Judd from the LP Electronics Without Tears (2012)
13.Pump Up The Jam by Technotronics from Pump Up The Jam: The Album (1989)
14. Zoot Allures by Frank Zappa from Zoot Allures (1976)
15. Cat People by David Bowie from the Cat People O.S.T. (1982)
16. Searching by Pieter Nooten & Michal Brook from the LP Sleeps With Fishes (1987)

Today The Big Note expanded to two hours of music and me hopefully not sending you to sleep with my ramblings, readings ...
04/10/2023

Today The Big Note expanded to two hours of music and me hopefully not sending you to sleep with my ramblings, readings and thoughts on Music. Now from 0900 to 1100HRS, we explore the world of Music with a bit more time on our hands and what is music but sonically sculpted time?
I recap some previous topics and also read from some of the interesting resources I am lucky to have at my disposal regarding the world of Music (Books, a trusted source of information, at least if researched properly, from before the age of world wide webification) Some great tunes are spun and talk of our current shockingly radiothon is also aired!

Playlist:
1. The Road (Freezing Trees) by Fennec
2. Airwaves by Thomas Dolby from the album The Golden Age of Wireless
3. Radio Free Moscow by Jethro Tull from the album Under Wraps
4. It Must Be A Camel by Frank Zappa from the album Hot Rats
5. Many Chinas by Mark Isham from the album V***r Drawings
6. Dawn Chorus by Thom Yorke from the album Anima
7. 3:14 Every Night by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross from the The Social Network O.S.T.
8. Takin' Me Back by Cheap Trick from the album Heaven Tonight
9. Coma by Max Sharam from the release Coma
10. Speak of the North by Geoff Smith from the album 15 Wild Decembers
11. Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens from the album Teaser & The Firecat
12. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention from the album Freak Out
13. Mary by Tia Tamora from the release: Mary
14. Session 063 by Mat Watson from the Electronic Sound CD - A Plan For Modular Living

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Episode 18 - ListeningToday I talk about listening. I recently discovered this delightful little book by W. A. Mathieu -...
27/09/2023

Episode 18 - Listening

Today I talk about listening. I recently discovered this delightful little book by W. A. Mathieu - a musician, composer, teacher and philosopher called "The Listening Book".
The book is composed of modest chapters/sections about the practice of listening, really listening to the world around us and within us.
Here's an excerpt:

The More You Listen

We can no more hear all the vibrations in a sonata than we can see all the radiation from the stars. There is an effulgence, a surfeit in the world. We will never hear it all, even if we invent a hundred new ways to listen and bring all the dark into the light. There will always be more. Waves make waves and draw our senses in beyond limit.
It was a great day when I discovered that there is more in the air than I had ever heard before, or ever could hear. I remember the amazement in realizing "the more you listen the more you hear," the delight in registering sounds that had always been present but I had never heard, the ecstasy of knowing this is a lifelong experience, infinitely expandable, basically musical. I spoke wildly to my friends. I began inventing exercises and games to trick people into hearing more so I could experience the freshness of their wonder. I never stopped doing it. I'm doing it now.

[p. 25 The Listening Book by W.A. Mathieu - published 2011 by Shambhala Publications Inc]

PLAYLIST:

1. Made For You by G Flip from the 2023 Album "Drummer"

2. No One Receiving by Brian Eno from the 1977 Album "Before and After Science"

3. Listen To The Sky by Laura Misch

4. Listen To The Water by Luke Steele from the 2022 album "Listen To The Water"

5. Listen To Your Mum by Riot Baby

6. All My Friends Are My Friends by Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice
from the 2023 release/mixtape "Bubble"

7. Pyramid On The Moon by Observers from the album "Robot Dawn" (release date to be announced)

8. Listening To Briggs by GD Grom

9. Here We Go Again by Shanleigh Rose

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