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1. Pythagorean Clavinet Phaze - Don Cardoza (1976)



This is a half hour long piece of entrancing music for the clavinet, that appears, at least to the untrained ear to have been influenced by Indian ragas. The clavinet is an electronically amplified clavichord and produces a sound quite similar to an electric guitar, despite it being a keyboard instrument. Don Cardoza has studied piano with Carlo Busotii and Michaiko Kolbiaka, among others, and he studied composition with Wayne Peterson, Fred Fox, and Ton De Leeuw at the Amsterdam Conservatory and then with Terry Riley at Mills College. He has also studied with Pandit Pran Nath from 1974 to 1990, and it may be the influence of the North Indian master vocalist that can be discerned in this delightful work.

2. Duane Pitre's "Feel Free" on Radio Heart


Yesterday on Radio Heart I broadcast a live recording of Duane Pitre’s Feel Free from May 30th at Zebulon in Brooklyn.

3. Selections from SELEKTION OPTIK

I came across these videos awhile ago via no longer forgotten music. These experimental shorts originally appeared on the SELEKTION OPTIK VHS collections on RRR Video. SELEKTION did a lot of really interesting work with xeroxes, and you can see some evidence of that in these clips. You can read more about SELEKTION here and read their full history here.

4. Mi Or and the Pedestals Live at Coco 66

5. Emeralds "Geode" by Raglani/Kannapell

6. Wu Fei on Radio Heart


7. Enumclaw - Opening Of The Dawn


Via Arthur Magazine

8. Conrad Schnitzler Day

Videos by Conrad Schnitzler, from the YouTube page for his official videos.







9. Peruvian Sound Art Special with Maria Chavez & Pauchi Sasaki


Maria Chavez and Pauchi Sasaki at the EVR Storefront Studio

10. Florescent Light Music by Kyle Clyde

A local artist, Kyle Clyde, sent over these videos of her performances in which she uses the feedback from florescent lights to create music. It reminded me a bit of a Michael Vorfeld video I posted to Rhizome on Monday. Both look awesome (and dangerous!).


11. infinite body

I discovered this band today while catching up on Family’s blog.


infinite body – 07 from kyle parker on Vimeo.

12. Glenn Branca, Live in 1978


Via Hanne’s Art and Culture Blog

13. Chris Musgrave - Oscilloclast (2002-2004)

Four videos from Chris Musgrave’s series Oscilloclast.

14. Ed Emshwiller Day

Two films and a short excerpt from Ed Emshwiller.

Sunstone (1979)


Crossings and Meetings (excerpt) (1974)


Thanatopsis (1962)

15. CJ- Single Minded CS

16. New Humans - Disassociate (2006)


17. Toshio Matsumoto


White Hole, 1979 (Still)

18. New Mi Or and the Pedestals CDR

I just released a new Mi Or and the Pedestals CDR. 8 tracks and 36 minutes long. See below for two tracks and pictures of the release.

19. MEDIEVAL WEAPONRY by Always

Always aka Alex Vivian posted a new music video. Alex is amazing! I think this is his first music video to date:

20. Pod Blotz & M.V. Carbon on EVR

Andrew Chee of RxRF (rad experimental/noise radio show which airs after mine) took these shots of Pod Blotz and M.V. Carbon on Radio Heart last Tuesday.

21. Gitchii Manitou (12 Step Retrance Program For Troubled Dream Warriors)


I just picked up this release from Monopoly Child Star Searchers, a solo venture by Skaters member Spencer Clark.

22. Cyrnai

23. Periodikmindtrouble

I am a bit surprised that I only recently discovered Thierry Muller from Ruth’s project Ilitch. Dan Selzer played it a few weeks ago at a French New Wave night we did at Monkeytown, and I immediately decided to hunt it down. I picked up the Ruth reissue Polaroid/Roman/Photo on Fractal a few years ago, its title track also appeared on the So Young So Cold compilation, which came out around the same time: