TalkToTheChip (TalkToTheChip)

Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to Scottish electronic music pioneer Janet Beat. In this 9th episode, they are talking about her work Pioneering Knob Twiddler that was released by Trunk Records when she turned 83, spanning her electronic music works from the 1970s and 1980s.

Listen to Pioneering Knob Twiddler here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3zNaGrh7gOVmtuSwoEBlxs?si=xK0WEsLOT1qqXTgnGozbEQ

Useful links:

https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/pioneering-knob-twiddler/ https://boomkat.com/products/pioneering-knob-twiddler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/how-fm-synthesis-works/ http://www.ampfiddler.com https://www.komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sys100m.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Space_Echo https://www.montana.edu/rmaher/ee417_fl08/Intro%20to%20Musical%20Acoustics%20ee417%20FL08.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50D7T0k66A http://www.metamono.co.uk https://www.getintothis.co.uk/2016/02/brian-eno-david-byrnes-cultural-appropriation-35-years-life-bush-ghosts/

Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to Egyptian-American electronic music pioneer Halim El-Dabh, in particular Crossing into the Electric Magnetic, a collection of his pieces spanning the 1940s and 50s.

Listen to Crossing into the Electric Magnetic here:

https://youtu.be/WR2YprO04zk?si=jl-M8qjMEmARIYMh

Useful links:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1286486-Halim-El-Dabh-Crossing-Into-The-Electric-Magnetic http://www.halimeldabh.com/ https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/halim-el-dabh.1 https://www.bidoun.org/articles/music-pioneer-halim-el-dabh https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/music/halim-el-dabh-dies.html https://scenearabia.com/Noise/halim-el-dabh-egyptian-musician-composer-invented-electronic-music https://thevinylfactory.com/features/electric-futurism-francis-bebey/ https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/anselm-kiefer-finnegans-wake https://www.britannica.com/topic/Finnegans-Wake https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/wire-recording-forgotten-audio-format/

In this very special 20th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore talk about an underecognised gem by the living legend Wendy Carlos: Sonic Seasonings (1972).

Listen to Sonic Seasonings here: https://www.mixcloud.com/frankkoedood/walter-carlos-sonic-seasonings/

Useful links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Seasonings

https://www.wendycarlos.com/+sslms.html

https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-modular-systems

https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=4Iul211T-wYkNHwX

https://kumo.bandcamp.com/album/day-night

https://charlesives.org/ives-man-his-life

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/11/she-made-music-jump-into-3d-wendy-carlos-the-reclusive-synth-genius

https://www.discogs.com/release/18288-Wendy-Carlos-Sonic-Seasonings-

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

Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç dedicate this Episode 16 of Talk to the Chip to Beatriz Ferreyra and talk about her GRM Works spanning 40 years: 1977-2007.

Listen to GRM Works here:

https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works

Useful links:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3681426 https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/long-reads/beatriz-ferreyra/ https://beatrizferreyra.bandcamp.com/album/souvenirs-cach-s https://persistenceofsound.co.uk/huellas-entreveradas https://beatrizferreyra.odexpo.com/default.asp?page=41341&sm=41352&lg= https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/2021/05/beatriz-ferreyra-grm-works.html https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works https://blog.native-instruments.com/audio-filters-guide/ https://youtu.be/4xy6dfUmfOk?si=3rnjpwOUX4YtgqVC https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1689831.Pierre_Schaeffer http://www.metamono.co.uk

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/

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

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

This episode of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to Green (1986) by pioneering ambient music composer Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Listen to Green here:

https://hiroshiyoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/green

Useful links: https://cecm.indiana.edu/361/midi.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/19/lullabies-for-air-conditioners-the-corporate-bliss-of-japanese-ambient https://jisho.org/search/ongaku https://jisho.org/search/kusuri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yoshimura#Legacy https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/terry-riley-interview-every-decade-of-my-life-has-had-a-different-focus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/MIDI-Musical-Instrument-Digital-Interface https://sequential.com/about-dave-smith/ https://www.mixcloud.com/talk_to_the_chip/talk-to-the-chip-episode-3-lîle-re-sonante-éliane-radigue/ https://www.soundonsound.com/people/john-chowning https://blog.native-instruments.com/what-is-fm-synthesis/

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 episode of Talk to the Chip, hosts Elif Yalvac and Jono Podmore talk about two Electronic Music (1960-1973) by Turkish pioneer Bulent Arel, exemplifying some of the earliest techniques invented in Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Listen to Electronic Music (1960-1973) here:

https://youtu.be/Z1EKToGg0YI?si=R9Fvs83OdpFSGEDs

Useful Links: https://hardwax.com/41107/bulent-arel/electronic-music-1960-1973/ https://composers.com/composers/bulent-arel https://tapeop.com/tutorials/11/intro-analog-tape-splicing-and-editing-and-tape-loops/ https://cmc.music.columbia.edu/about https://filizali.blogspot.com/2010/04/bulent-arel-filiz-ali-turkiyenin-ilk.html https://acikradyo.com.tr/arsiv-icerigi/ulkemizin-elektronik-muzige-armagani-bulent-arel https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338367288_The_Ankara_Years_of_Bulent_Arel_1940-1965_Music_Radio_and_Politics/link/5e0f46d692851c8364ae884c/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19 https://acikerisim.msgsu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.14124/3218

Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to the avant-garde pioneer Iannis Xenakis. In this 11th episode, they are talking about his work La Legende d'Eer.

Listen to La Legende d'Eer here

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-l-gende-deer

Useful links:

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-to-titan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Er https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-electric-story-of-the-ems-synthi-100-3030/ https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla%27s_roar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7DjWc6ZVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUEhjuH4 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/iannis-xenakis-la-legende-d%C2%92eer/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cprestia/220a/xenakis.html https://monoskop.org/Iannis_Xenakis https://www.discogs.com/release/197685-Iannis-Xenakis-Persepolis-Remixes-Edition-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanoise

Listen to Seven Waves here:

In episode 21 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss the only electronic piece by celebrated Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina - Vivente-Non vivente (1970) and the ANS synthesiser.

Listen to Vivente-Non vivente here: https://youtu.be/w6Ds1BEb430?si=2QsXglDj01xZY5LW

Useful links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer

https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin

https://www.endpointaudio.com/optical-sound-detail

https://www.facebook.com/nightradio/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005949/

https://youtu.be/WrF1PSoTN3A?si=rwDLet-SBK06uVCT

In this episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about the timeless Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) by female pioneer of electronic music and sound art Maryanne Amacher.

Listen to Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) here:

https://youtu.be/rtmv6LxNJqs?si=m2Ox4l0-Uw8Q8Gjf

Useful links: https://www.discogs.com/release/22796-Maryanne-Amacher-Sound-Characters-Making-The-Third-Ear https://www.nts.live/artists/18440-maryanne-amacher https://monoskop.org/Maryanne_Amacher https://academic.oup.com/book/41561/chapter/353034305 https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/themire/20485/rip-maryanne-amacher https://youtu.be/SZDj78i8UpY?si=dK5hkySFZn7_WQdf https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/talktothechip_21-october-2023_/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission https://mu-tron.com/vintage-musitronics/mu-tron-bi-phase/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/john-zorn-jazz-metal-interview-naked-city-1015329/

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/

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

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate this episode to Toyama Michiko, Japanese female pioneer of electroacoustic music, unearthing her work Waka and Other Compositions.

Listen to Waka and Other Compositions here:

https://michikotoyama.bandcamp.com/album/waka-and-other-compositions-contemporary-music-of-japan

Useful links:

https://events.rochester.edu/event/michiko_toyama_at_the_columbia-princeton_electronic_music_center

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/962E69F2A79E8E57E049FDC73961BAF1/S1478572223000191a.pdf/michiko-toyama-disrupts-the-historiography-of-modernism.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiko_Toyama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(poetry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center

https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

https://japanhouse.illinois.edu/education/insights/shakuhachi

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 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/

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

In this 13th episode of Talk to the Chip, hosts Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç pursue an unusual path and talk about the acid house pioneer Charanjit Singh, with a focus on his work Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (1982)

Listen to Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN8M2irJVJA

Useful links: https://boomkat.com/products/ten-ragas-to-a-disco-beat https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house-ten-ragas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga#Description https://blog.zzounds.com/2016/03/03/roland-tb-303/ https://www.roland.com/us/promos/roland_tr-808/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Jupiter-8 https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/rip-charanjit-singh-the-most-influential-musician-you-may-have_b_7750646 https://youtu.be/igNBeo3QSqc?si=4SYeyiV-XfL56zsO https://youtu.be/49P4GUA4AIY?si=dccQpRm0jiP3Unbv