Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Each episode combines interviews with music, field-recordings, and experimental sound design.
For fans of experimental music, field-recording, drone, electro-acoustic, ambient, modern composition, and other contemporary electronic music genres.
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Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler
Season 11 · Episode 22
Thursday, September 19, 2024 • Duration 58:57
Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
NINA EBA - DOVES (Whaler Remix)
Whaler - Unity
Whaler - Tanok
Whaler - Underwater
Whaler - Викид
Potras23 - Kotuky (feat. Sofia Leshyshak)
Whaler - The Event Horizon
Whaler, Хор "Осоння" - В темную нічку
Група Б - Нічні кімнати
Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)
Season 11 · Episode 17
Thursday, March 21, 2024 • Duration 59:01
Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
Hidden Element x Floex - Yellow Ribbon
DZ'OB Ft. Mattia Prete - Zamovliannia
Pokaz Trio - Song Of Sirens (Live at Bimhuis Amsterdam)
SI Process - Rukh
Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station
Blooms Corda - Пісня про війну
Ihor Tsymbrovsky - Brilliant Small Poetry
Episode 34: OLD & NEW DREAMS - with Kerry O'Brien and Will Robin
Season 4 · Episode 4
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 • Duration 01:00:57
This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as a historical source reader, the book compiles over 100 primary sources retelling the story of minimalist music from the 1950s to the present. Sources include liner notes, interviews, journalism, manifestos, and other material organized chronologically and thematically, with introductory essays from the editors. Not a simple revisionist history seeking to expand the canon, let alone an attempt to dethrone the “Big Four” composers, On Minimalism nonetheless radically reconsiders the scope of minimalist music. In some ways the book is a restorative history, following the offshoots of musical practices that had once been described as “minimalist,” beginning with non-western music and modal jazz in the 1950s up to drone rock and techno of the present. We discuss the influence of Ravi Shankar, why the Coltranes were minimalists, the Julius Eastman revival, and much more.
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—-Sound Propositionsis written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.
Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje
Season 11 · Episode 16
Thursday, February 22, 2024 • Duration 59:47
Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
Wiseword.Nidaros - Лев
Polje - Maliunok
Polje - Pa
Polje - Yasne Mi
Polje - Wall of Sirens
Arthur Mine - Helicopter Theme
Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song
Вічний Ґандж - Комарик
Polje - Janmarko
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Episode 33: DIS/EMBODIED - with Cruel Diagonals
Season 4 · Episode 3
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 • Duration 58:46
Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonalshas continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her production work, alchemically transmuting her voice into a wide range of instruments and textures. In this episode, she discusses the production challenges posed by Fractured Whole, her background in musical theatre, her work with the feminist archive Many Many Women, and much more.
Cruel Diagonals & Jon Carr - “Fall Back Into Earth” (Fall Back Into Earth, 2022)
Asmus Tietchens - “Club of Rome” (, Los Angeles Free Music Society, 1981)
Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024
Season 11 · Episode 15
Saturday, January 20, 2024 • Duration 58:59
Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
tracklist:
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шлях ummsbiaus: Lichylnyk Difference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживання ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачароване ummsbiaus: Hypnagogia
Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023
Season 11 · Episode 14
Saturday, November 18, 2023 • Duration 58:46
Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist:
Andriy Kiritchenko - Eyes of Exiles
Roman Khropko - Kyiv 17.04.22
Roman Khropko - The Moment Of Unity (Sympathetic Mix)
Myroslav Protsan - Ravens On The Cemetery
Myroslav Protsan - Very Old Piano Improvisations
Anthony Junkoid - Drum Vision
Nightcourier - Temnivody
Lena Mirzakh - A Little Interlude
Kadaitcha - Seed
Katarina Gryvul - Zemlya
58918012 - 7e3422
Episode 32: INDISCREET MUSIC - with Patrick Nickleson
Season 4 · Episode 2
Friday, November 10, 2023 • Duration 01:05:00
Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important figures, Nickleson instead underscores a different set of shared traits that he sees in (early) minimalism: the importance of collective authorship, often collaborating in a form of “bandness”; the priority of recording to tape over written scores; and distinguishing between “(early) minimalism” and the later canonization of Minimalism as we know it since the early 1980s. In addition to the book, we discuss searching for obscure records online, our shared love of Constellation Records, and the influence of Tony Conrad.
Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com
TRACKLIST
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Steve Reich”
SP INTRO
John Cale - “Terry’s Cha-Cha”
[Glenn] Branca - “Lesson No. 3 (Tribute To Steve Reich)”
Terry Riley - “[Excerpt]”
Steve Reich - “Pulses (2)”
Philip Glass - “Part 5 (Beginning)”
Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars - “Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Buffalo”
Glenn Branca - “Structure”
Tony Conrad - “Tony Conrad April 1965”
Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad - “Untitled (recorded October 18, 1968 at Tony Conrad's apartment)”
La Monte Young - “Pre-Tortoise Dream Music”
Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin
Season 11 · Episode 13
Friday, October 20, 2023 • Duration 59:47
Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re
Tracklist:
Gamardah Fungus - Vega
Revshark - Restricted Areas
Waveskania - Essential
Difference Machine - Повідь
Natalia Tsupryk - beyond the cemetery wall
YLOI - UAV Hunting
Andrii Kunin - threshold
The Emergency Cassette Vol. 2
Faust - “Why don’t you eat carrots?” (Faust, Polydor, 1971)
Can - “One More Night” (Ege Bamyasi, Liberty, 1972)
Demdike Stare - “Black Sun” (Voices of Dust, Modern Love, 2010)
Andy Stott - “Luxury Problems” (Luxury Problems, Modern Love, 2012)
Tony Conrad - “The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Incineration Of The Pythagorean Elite, Whose Shrill Harmonic Agonies Merge And Shimmer Inside Their Torched Meeting House [excerpt]”
Tony Conrad with Faust - “From The Side Of Machine”
John Coltrane - “Africa”
GENG PTP - “(alice coltrane)”
Dickie Landry - “Kitchen Solos”
Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS (Version 2006, Giuseppe Ielasi)
Morton Feldman - “Page 1, System 1, Measure 1”
John Coltane (McCoy Tyner solo) - “Naima [excerpt]”
Observer All Stars and King Tubby - “Rebel Dance”
Philip Glass - “Two Pages (For Steve Reich)”
Albert Ayler - “For John Coltrane”
Radiohead - “How To Disappear Completely”
Godspeed - “Deathkamp Drone"
Nicholas Papador and the University of Windsor Percussion Ensemble - "Stasis"
The Noiseborder Ensemble - [Improvisation on A-Ha’s "Take on Me"] (Live at Media City, Windsor ON, 2009)
The Dream Syndicate with La Monte Young - “Day Of The Holy Mountain (excerpt 2)”
Jon Gibson - “Cycles” (
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - “Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal)”
Ornette Coleman - “Friends and Neighbors (instrumental) / “Friends and Neighbors (vocal)”
Rhys Chatham - “Two Gongs (1971)”
La Monte Young - “B Flat Dorian Blues 19 X 63 (5th day of the Hammer)”
Terry Riley / Don Cherry “Descending Moonshine Dervishes”
Sonic Youth - “Pendulum Music (Steve Reich, 1968)”
Tony Conrad - “ten years alive on the infinite plain (#1)” [Live at the Kitchen, 1972]
Tony Conrad, “Four Violins (1964)”
Henry Flynt - “You Are My Everlovin”
Catherine Christer Hennix - “The Electric Harpsichord [excerpt]”
Raven Chacon - “Singing Toward The Wind Now / Singing Toward The Sun Now”
Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / John Cale - “Trance #2”
John Cale - “A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building”
Angus MacLise / Jack Smith / Tony Conrad - S.O.S. (Ca. 1968)
Mt. Zion - “side one _ sow some lonesome corner so many flowers bloom”
Angus MacLise - “Tunnel Music #2” [1965]
John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - “Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara”
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