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What's The Frequency?
Tuesday December 25th, 2018 with Kevin O'Meara
Harsh Noise / Drone / Christmas Special

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Corale
Luigi & Antonio Russolo - -
Four Violins
Tony Conrad - -
Loop
The Velvet Underground - Split Single
31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Black Album
Korvapoliklinikka Hesperia
The Sperm - Shh!
7:42
Cluster - Cluster '71
Metal Machine Music Part 2
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Nil Vagina Mail Action Part 5
Merzbow - Life Performance
Hole In The Heart
Ramleh - Hole In The Heart
Requiem For Dying Mothers Part 1
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of
In The Fog 1
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 Canadian
Jesus's Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Gavin Bryars - Sinking Of The Titanic
Interactive CKCU
Gee
Thinkin' about Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor. The themes sre in the performance themselves, in the moment. Ayler was especially important in that regard. Playing off of different scales and blending the noise if the saxophone with the harshness of dischordant sound.

10:31 PM, December 25th, 2018
Kevin O'Meara (host)
I really wanted to include Free Jazz in this doc on Harsh Noise, but I knew I didn't have enough time to branch out too much. I highly recommend Paul Hegarty's book Noise/Music for the discussion of artists like Ayler, Coleman, later Coltrane, etc. in relation to what we now know as Noise or Drone

10:34 PM, December 25th, 2018
Gee
I will check it out. You know Free Jazz was making inroads into the pop culture mentality until around 1963 - then The Beatles hit the airwaves... and Ayler was found dead 5 years later. Anyway - thanks for the reference..! Great show!

11:03 PM, December 25th, 2018