June 12th Show

Trolling the stacks of unheard for months or years CDs, I found a couple of neglected albums (the tracks from Ikue Mori and the duo of Andy Moor and Kaffe Matthews) and merged them with some things from our new rack, including a more-indie-than-I-usually-play piece from Final Fantasy. Brood by Boxcutter. Oneiric. Planet Mu. uter […]

 

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June 5th Show

I decided to feature two long tracks tonight: the first a collaboration between Robin Fox and Clayton Thomas, with Robin doing live processing of Clayton’s bass playing; and the second, a realization of John Cage’s Variations III by the Motion Ensemble. I’ve been immersed in Cage’s Variations II for a research project recently, so this […]

 

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May 29th Show

Sigtronica has moved! I’m now on Monday nights from 1900-2000 EDT. Tonight, new music to me from Twisted Village finds over the weekend, with a CDR track from KFW, older music from Ryuichi Sakamoto, and newer work from Robin Fox and Clayton Thomas; along with some great new Finnish free jazz and a recent release […]

 

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May 17th Show

A night of music by Rachel’s, in homage to their upcoming concert at the Museum of Fine Arts on the 24th. Great music that I’ve likely played before, but is well worth airing again. Full on Night (Recension mix) by Rachel’s. Full on Night. Southern Records. Sonic Contours [1952] by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Pioneers of Electronic […]

 

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May 10th Show

A special focus on music from Max Mathews tonight, as he is coming to visit the Media Lab on Thursday and Friday. Some of the pieces below are the earliest known works of computer music; they set the foundation for everything computer-generated since. catch a spear as it flies by Peter Wright. pariahs sing om. […]

 

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May 3rd Show

I first heard tracks of of the new Matmos album earlier this year at a concert they gave at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; excellent and engaging pieces live, it’s interesting now to listen to them sans the visual. I featured their track “Germs Burn for Darby Crash” tonight. As well, I included […]

 

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April 26th Show

(apologies for adding this so late…) A special two-hour edition tonight, as I filled-in at the last minute for Fro-Fro-a-Go-Go. So I started off with a long recording of a live performance from Christian Marclay, Yasunao Tone, and Christian Wolff—great mix of turntabalism and manipulated CDs. The rest of the show explored some older pieces, […]

 

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April 19th Show

Drone, drone, drone…lots of that for this show. Some great new work from Geoff Mullen, off of Keith Fullerton Whitman’s incredible new Entschuldigen label. Four Guitars by Lee Ranaldo, Carlos Giffoni, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline. Four Guitars. Important Records. Turilas ruusussa by Sala-Arhimo. Sala-Arhimo. Last Visible Dog Records. Rainbow Train by Aki Tsuyuko. Kokane. Thrill […]

 

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April 12th Show

Combining some minimal electronics with minimal acoustic and drone tonight, I played some tracks off of a recent compilation celebrating Stockhausen’s “Gesang der Jüngliche”. Also some new pieces by the Charalambides and loscil. Archived version of the show forthcoming… Induction Piece 1 by Ælab. Two Point Two. Line. untitled by jgrzinich. untitled songs—49 years from […]

 

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