Dear Listeners of All Genders,

Ah yes, today, March 8, is International Women's Day.  I'm a broad.  I've lived abroad.  I qualify.

Man, do I have a good show for you this morning!

Starting with these amazing voices:  In Mulieribus.  Their name is Latin.  It means "Amongst Women."  What better way to begin this day than with them performing a piece by perhaps one of the earliest female composers the world has known:  the beloved Hildegard von Bingen (12th century).  See the lyrics in Latin (and translated into English) below.  Indeed, Mary, the ultimate woman, proceded from the finger of God...  In Mulieribus is a Portland-based group of seven women who perform beautiful pieces of days of yore--WAY yore--we're talking the 11th through 15th centuries here.  Anna Song is their director.  Isn't her name wonderful?

I have thrown in music from just down the street (Haris Blackwood and Joni Laurence) and from just down the continental plate (an extraordinary female Tuvan throat singer by the name of Sainkho).  Squeezed in some Greek and German and Gregorian Chant into the mix.  If this isn't music to celebrate all that is beautiful, strong, resilient, prayerful, joyful, loving, and caressing, I don't know what is.  There's a set dedicated to motherhood and one dedicated to saying ciao to a ill-fitting man, one that lifts up women of color, one that explores the voices from women around this world.

And, of course, I have to play at least one song of defiance.  And what could be stronger and more assertive than the lyrics telling that gumshoe to take a major hike than Sarah Vaughn's stellar classic, Peter Gunn?  See those lyrics below and rejoice if you're shaking dirt from your sandals...  Sing and shout along!

Oh my.  Would that I could have twenty-four hours of International Women's Day all to myself.  I could fill it with strains, sounds, and voices of the most precious...

Men:  you are not forgotten.

Warmly,

Diane Hunt

Cum processit factura

Cum processit factura digiti Dei,
formata ad imaginem Dei,
in ortu mixti sanguinis
per peregrinationem casus Ade,
elementa susceperunt gaudia in te,
o laudabilis Maria,
Celo rutilante
et in laudibus sonante.

English translation of Cum processit factura:
Proceeding from the finger of God,
made in the image of God,
this creation was held
within a womb of mixed blood
because of Adam's exiled wanderings,
yet the elements responded with joy for you,
O praiseworthy Mary,
as the heavens shimmered
and sounded praise to you.

Lyrics to Peter Gunn :
Every night your line is busy,
All that buzzin' makes me dizzy.
Couldn't count on all my fingers
All the dates you had with swingers.
Bye-bye.
Bye, baby.
I'm gonna kiss you goodbye
And walk right through that doorway.
So long.
I'm leaving.
This is the last time we'll meet
On the street going your way.
Don't look surprised.
You know you've buttered your bread.
So now it's fair
You should stare
At the back of my head.
If you write a letter to me my former friend, don't you end with an R.S.V.P

I'm going bye, bye, I'm moving,

Tomorrow I may be splittin' to Britain or Norway

I'm saying bye, bye, bye baby

Now that I heard all that jazzin' whereas I have had it, I've had it

I'm through now with you now

So baby it's au revoir, adios, ciao-ciao, goodbye.

Dear Listeners,

Happy New Year!  Thanks for allowing me in to wake you from your slumber this morning and ease you into the new day and the new year with some fun (and, in cases, improbable) music.  I had a blast putting this show together and would love to hear that you enjoyed it!

Here are some of the lyrics from the third track I played this morning, Moscow-born Regina Spektor's "On the Radio."  Thoughts to take you into 2010...

"...This is how it works...you're young until you're not...You love until you don't...You try until you can't...You laugh until you cry...You cry until you laugh...And everyone must breathe...Until their dying breath...No this is how it works...You peer inside yourself...You take the things you like...Then try to love the things you took...And then you take that love you made...And stick it into someone else's heart...Pumping someone else's blood...And walking arm in arm...You hope it don't get harmed...But even if it does...You'll just do it all again...And on the radio...You'll hear November Rain...That solo's awful long...But it's a nice refrain...You listen to it twice...'Cause the DJ is asleep..."

Keep your circle of friends close in 2010...keep music spinning on your CD player...keep dancing and singing...keep open to new things in this new year...fall in love!

Warmly,

Diane Hunt

I Found a Sound: A Brief History of Sampling and Appropriation in Music

Dr. Zomb and RefuDJ ManRich present a chronological look at sampling, from it's roots in Musique Concrete and Avant Garde, to the pioneering lp by Brian Eno and David Byrne, and on to culture jamming artists such as Negativland, John Oswald, Evolution Control Committee, as well as Turntablism in Hip Hop and finally, recent Mashup masterpieces. Plunder Radio!!!

Fun show. We helped raise a few bucks for KBOO and presented - in rough chronological order - a somewhat abbreviated overview of sampling and appropriation in music.

It's amazing where the road will lead when you get two DJs in the room with pickings from their respective collections. We ended up continually surprising each other when one record from one of us would dovetail with something in another's crate, with little or no pre-planning.

Dr. Zomb and I would like to thank all the folks who provided or suggested material, among them DJ Broken Window, Rolf Semprebon, Marc De Gierre, Mssr. Chris Merrick and more...

I would also like to dedicate this show to KBOO's Papa Dada, the late, great Richard Francis, who blew my teenage mind by playing historic cut-up and tape art music on his show all those years ago. 

Artist/Track (year)
John Cage(w/Genevieve Blons on shortwave radio) - Credo in US (comp. 1942, rec. 1972)
Moondog  - Tugboat Tocatta (1940's)
Pierre Schaeffer - ???
Pierre Henri - Porte et un Soupir (1963)
John Cage - Williams Mix (1952)
William S. Burroughs - Origins of the Cut-Ups (1958)
William S. Burroughs - Handkerchief  Masks (early 60's)
Buchanan and Goodman - Flying Saucers Pt. 1 (1956)
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain (1965)
The Monkees - Opening to Head (1968)
Richard Trythall - Omaggio Au Jerry Lee Lewis (1976)
David Mahler - King of Angels (1977)
Bob James - Wolfman (60's)
The Blasters - Steering Wheel Stuck (60's)
Doug Kahn - Reagan Speaks for Himself (1980)
Bob Ostertag - Getting Ahead (1980)
Dennis Duck - The Pants Story (1977)
Byrne and Eno - Regiment (1980)
Byrne and Eno - Come With Us (1980)
Milan Knizak - Broken Music (1979)
Graeme Revelle - Nocturne/Insect Musicians (1986)
John Oswald - Mystery Tapes/Kissing Jesus in the Dark (1980)
Negativland - Guns! (New American Radio version - excerpt) (1989)
Steinski - The Motorcade Sped On (1986)
Negativland - Guns! (mixed with Steinski) (1989)
Negativland - A Big 10-8 Place (excerpt) (1983)
Steinski - It's Up To You (1992)
Grand Master Flash - Wheels of Steel 12" (1981)
Age of Chance - We Got Trouble (mid-80's)
Mark Stewart - As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade (1985)
Beastie Boys - Eggman (1989)
John Oswald - Black (1989)
John Oswald - Brown (1989)
John Oswald - Dab (1989)
Cassette Boy - Apple Cak/Dead Horse (2005)
Divide & Kreate - Illiterate City (M. Jackson vs Guns N' Roses) (2007)
Cassette Boy - Fred Horse/Parker Tapes (2002)
Big City Orchestra - Bulldog/Beatlerape (1994)
Cassette Boy - Duck Breath/Dead Horse (2005)
DJ Food - Raiding of the 20th Century (excerpt) (2004)
Public Works - ?
People Like Us - Kitten/Thermos Explorer (1999)
Evolution Control Committee - I Want a Cookie (2003)
Emergency Broadcast Network - Electronic Behavior Control System (1995)
People Like Us W/Negativland - What's Music/Hate People Like Us (1999)
Osymyso - Intro-Spection (excerpt) (2002)
Royskopp/Bastard Pop - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (?)
Boards of Canada - Dandelion (2006)
DJ Pantshead - Phil Mclean vs Eraserhead (2004)
RIAA - Eraserhead Serenade (2008)
Sons of Silence - Golden Age of Men's Music (1996)
Depth Charge - Nine Deadly Venoms (1994)
Fuck Bootleg - Eleanor  (?)
Drew Dobbs - Eleanor Bates (90's)
Wax Audio - Blue Eleanor (2008)
Coma R - Michael Jackson vs Justin Timberlake (2008)
Twink - A Broken Record (2005)
Pierre Henri - Porte et un Soupir (reprise)(1963)

This show was broadcast on October 5th, 2009 at 8pm to Midnight.