TalkToTheChip – Details, episodes & analysis

Episode 18 of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to famous pioneer of electronic music Luciano Berio, specifically to his otherwordly work Visage (1961) featuring the voice of legendary Cathy Berberian.

Listen to Visage here:

https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ

Useful links: http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1 https://120years.net/milan-electronic-music-studiodirector-luciano-berioitaly1960/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/944606

https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ

https://electrocd.com/en/oeuvre/20304-visage

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news/film-week-berberian-sound-studio

https://electrocd.com/en/album/5236-electronic-music

http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/11/damo-suzuki-cans-free-floating-vocalist-gave-us-some-of-the-1970s-most-exotic-rock-music

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/aphasia/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036618300592

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate Episode 17 of Talk to the Chip to one of the most important works in electronic music history: Poème Électronique (1958) by Edgard Varèse.

Listen to Poème Électronique here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDbBqHCslw

useful links: https://www.routledge.com/Electronic-and-Experimental-Music-Technology-Music-and-Culture/Holmes/p/book/9781138365469 https://monoskop.org/images/c/c1/Varese_Edgard_1966_The_Liberation_of_Sound.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBQsym_G82Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poème_électronique https://www.marseille-tourisme.com/en/discover-marseille/culture-heritage/discover-the-sites-and-monuments-in-marseille/cite-radieuse-of-le-corbusier/ https://www.archdaily.com/902597/on-the-dislocation-of-the-body-in-architecture-le-corbusiers-modulor

In this 8th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss legendary French composer Bernard Parmegiani's De Natura Sonorum (1975)

Listen to De Natura Sonorum here:

https://youtu.be/c_JHjUFfOs8?si=__KcoP_GJnQvSxAA

Useful links: http://www.psychomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bernard_et_Jono.jpg https://sonic-elevation.com/what-is-surface-noise-how-much-is-too-much/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dr-peter-zinovieff-the-original-tectonic-sounds https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3438 https://theproaudiofiles.com/field-recording https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/de-natura-sonorum https://bernard-parmegiani.fr/en/itineraire/biographie/ https://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum https://headphonecommute.com/2013/11/23/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum-recollection-grm/

In this 7th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros's I Of IV (1966).

Listen to I Of IV here:

https://paulineoliveros.bandcamp.com/track/i-of-iv

Useful links: https://paulineoliveros.us/ https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bye-bye-butterfly https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2012/may/07/guide-contemporary-music-pauline-oliveros https://www.frieze.com/article/pauline-oliveros-1932-2016 https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/pauline-oliveros-lecture https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/and-dont-call-them-lady-composers-and-dont-call-them-lady-composers.html https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/Pauline-Oliveros-Frances-Morgan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saenghwang https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2022/02/08/no-input-mixing-hack https://www.jackson-pollock.org

In this 6th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel's Obsolete Systems spanning her works in the 1970s and 1980s. 

Listen to Obsolete Systems here:

https://youtu.be/z_XKPkcM1Vs?si=UGHBhOVgSFTao1wr

Useful links: https://www.discogs.com/release/221802-Laurie-Spiegel-Obsolete-Systems https://muse.jhu.edu/article/7919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Mouse https://thelistenersclub.com/2017/12/29/the-buggles-and-laurie-spiegel-art-meets-technology-circa-1979/ https://youtu.be/eB5I5iU0OoE?t=1344 https://thequietus.com/articles/32770-cannabis-weed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA https://youtu.be/jd6XL_IOS3I https://youtu.be/GPKg2c_bRCs

In this 5th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Compositions Demonstrations (1946-1974) by Hugh Le Caine, Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument maker.

Listen to Compositions Demonstrations (1946-1974) here:

https://youtu.be/S80VssmKb2E

Useful links: https://hughlecaine.com/en/ https://www.discogs.com/release/486307-Hugh-Le-Caine-Compositions-Demonstrations-1946-1974 https://electrocd.com/en/album/2792/hugh-le-caine/compositions-demonstrations-1946-1974 https://www.hughlecaine.com/en/compositions.html https://www.raymondscott.net http://www.psychomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/A_Century_of_the_Theremin.pdf https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/control-voltage-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/ https://www.daphneoram.org https://www.classiccat.net/dictionary/klangfarbenmelodie.php https://120years.net/wordpress/the-electronic-sackbuthugh-le-cainecanada1945/ https://boomkat.com/products/an-empty-bliss-beyond-this-world

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In this 4th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Electronic Works 1958-1995 by Else Marie Pade, pioneering female composer of electronic music from Denmark.

Listen to Electronic Works 1958-1995 here:

https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-works-1958-1995

Useful links:

https://boomkat.com/products/electronic-works-1958-1995-c77bb25b-9e56-4644-8597-661eba78d2e9 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/Faust https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/arts/music/iannis-xenakis-centennial.html

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-compositional-possibilities-are-endless-by-else-marie-pade https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/german-occupation-1940-1945/ http://www.bussigel.com/systemsforplay/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cascone_Aesthetics.pdf

https://elifyalvac.com/ http://www.psychomat.com/

In this episode, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about L'Île re-sonante by pioneering female composer Éliane Radigue. This episode was recorded at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Listen to L'Île re-sonante here:

https://elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/l-le-re-sonante

Useful links: http://www.psychomat.com/ https://elifyalvac.com/

https://monoskop.org/%C3%89liane_Radigue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_music https://sisterswithtransistors.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_Thodol https://www.vintagesynth.com/arp/2500.php https://giacintoscelsi.bandcamp.com/album/scelsi-edition-6-the-orchestral-works-ii-mode176 https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/analogue-warmth

In this second episode, Elif Yalvac and Jono Podmore are sitting at Cafe OTO and discussing Tod Dockstader's Aerial #2.   Listen to Aerial #2 here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5QRUYw87UhRvKFnn2GhaMX   Useful links: https://importantrecords.com/products/copy-of-tod-dockstader-aerial-2-2lp https://elifyalvac.com/ http://www.psychomat.com/ Harmoniser https://www.eventideaudio.com/rackmount/h3000/ Cy Twombly https://gagosian.com/artists/cy-twombly/ Short Wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio UPA https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/IULMIA/exhibits/show/nick-and-stephen-bosustow-film/united-productions-of-america- Radiophonic Workshop https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/april/bbc-radiophonic-workshop Holger https://www.discogs.com/release/355847-Holger-Czukay-Radio-Wave-Surfer Parmegiani https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/bernard-parmegiani_sound-thinking Berio                        http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1

In this first episode, Elif Yalvac and Jono Podmore are sitting at Cafe OTO and discussing Stockhausen's Telemusik.

Listen to Telemusik here

https://youtu.be/N-vb97ukRjY?si=HQbCRZEZq9UdUSba

Useful links:

https://elifyalvac.com/ http://www.psychomat.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(WDR) https://www.dw.com/en/conny-plank-the-visionary-behind-kraftwerk-and-krautrock/a-54068438 https://www.hfmt-koeln.de/ https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/study-with-guildhall/music/principal-study-and-departments/electronic-produced-music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamono http://www.metamono.co.uk https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/