Week 6

This week Worship the Glitch featured a couple artists from the 12k record label. 12k was founded in 1997 by minimal electronic ambiance artist, graphic designer, and photographer Taylor Deupree. Check out the website here for more information and some nice videos. Be sure to tune to the show next week on Monday from 9 PM - 10 PM for a really special giveaway. For more information about Worship the Glitch and KCPR go here.

Week 5

A great series of albums that I believe are often over looked in Sonic Youth's discography are the four SYR releases that came out right around the millennium. These albums, all released in different languages were numbered SYR1 - SYR6 and were highly experimental. SYR4 entitled Goodbye 20th Century was a series of reinterpretations of select 20th century avant-garde composer's pieces including John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Cornelius Cardew. Like Cage, Cornelius Cardew experimented with graphic notation as means of communicating musical ideas. His testament to this study is the 193-page Treatise which was completed in 1967. Treatise marks a great shift in the relationship between the composer and the musician. Rather than reading a series of definite notes, the undefined diagrams and unfamiliar symbols that make up Treatise, the musician responds to the texts rather than reads them. These compositions are made to interpreted into any medium. More importantly Treatise shift the focus from music as an object to music as a process; a shift that is especially relevant with the advent of new technologies such as the computer which let us create, experience, and distribute music in completely new ways.

Week 4

I started this week off playing two tracks from Arve Henriksen and Thomas Stronen, two artists from the excellent Norwegian label Rune Grammofon. Arve Henriksen is a Norwegian Trumpetist and his latest album Strjon is a delicately minimal series of arrangements for trumpet with additional guitar and piano. Thomas Stronen's Pohlitz is filled with highly crafted electronic beats and additional "beatable" instruments. All the songs were done in one take with no overdubs which is pretty amazing considering the how nuanced each sound is and the layering of the arrangements. Check out the Rune Grammofon website for free downloads and their most recent releases.