Babysitting Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, Austin and William deliver two hours of unplanned or intentional technical and musical problems, with an emphasis on implausible cover songs, featuring an entire hour of a beloved Julie Andrews song being brutally stripped of all innocence, and most of its melody.
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At the end of a lovely Independence Day weekend, Austin and William stand in for Jason Finkelman on Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, bringing you music from the distant fringes of jazz and the flip side of patriotism.
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Austin and William sit in for Jason Finkelman on Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet. William finishes a bottle of chartreuse to numb himself while Austin spins—no, wait, his music is all on the cloud—rains avant-garde jazz and noise and to mix it up a little noise-jazz with Anthony Braxton and Wolf Eyes. With just enough squonk. Right in the middle of the calamity, enjoy the calming sounds of Atmospheres—an homage to Kubrick in anticipation of our soundtrack show the next day, recorded the previous weekend. Download, listen, or just read it.
Subbing for the experimental/ambient show Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, William offers a hypnotic two hours of arythmic, ambient, electronic music all meant to convey a sea of tranquility. Featuring guest appearances by JFK, Mission Control, and Elroy.
You can listen here and lapse gently into lunacy. The playlist is here.
Experiment: This show consists of three twenty-minute excerpts from hour-long pieces of music, each of which is built from a process of allowing a sounds source to naturally decay. Results: An hour of listener-unfriendly radio that sounds like sounds like the station, or possibly music itself, or even civilization, is melting into static. Love it.
Mutatis Mutandis by Herbert Brun.
As a sub for Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, the avant-garde show, I had it in mind to do an entirely a capella show focusing on experimental music for voice. I really wondered what two hours of anticommunicative voices would feel like. People talking to you who did not want anything from you. Halfway through, the usual host, who was supposed to be taking the night off, showed up and hovered nervously. Perhaps to Jason I was playing the wrong avant garde music. But isn’t that the point?
I include the complete playlist below and reconstruct the broadcast as well.
PART ONE
01 Central Park Transverse Vocal 1 0:43 Henry Flynn
Slender Fungus 3:36 Tones On Tail
Breaking Up Immediately Recognizable Units of Significance Is Hard to Do 4:27 William DeFotis
Universal Drainage 1:24 Phil Minton
That’s Halloween 1:47 Duplex Planet
Zweiter Teil 3:13 Kurt Schwitters
Dritter Teil 2:43 Kurt Schwitters
FIDDLE 0:05
My, I’m Large 3:58 The Bobs
Anselm_Berrigan 5:55 Anselm Berrigan
Maledetto 14:33 Kenneth Gaburo
The Flow of (u) 23:01 Kenneth Gaburo
PART TWO
Lifting Leeks 2:44 Phil MintonShadowSong (1979) 5:10 Joan La Barbara
Three Lies 3:01 Phil Minton
Dialogue ”Lonnie Cooks Quail” 0:22 Dialogue with Glen Fitzgerald
Todor Todorka :trad.Bulgarian 3:11 Amasong
Unfortunate 0:14 Exene Cervenka
Erin (1980) 6:56 Joan La Barbara
Circlesong Two 4:14 Bobby McFerrin
Son Of Byford 0:27 Run-D.M.C.
Josquin: Petite Camusette 1:02 The Hillard Ensemble
01 Emergency 3:41 Sweet Honey In The Rock
02 Our Side Won 5:10 Sweet Honey In The Rock
03 Ode to the International Debt 3:16 Sweet Honey In The Rock
04 Are My Hands Clean_ 2:56 Sweet Honey In The Rock
Well 2:08 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Ballad 2:15 Phil Minton
Dough Song 1 0:47 Phil Minton
Dialogue ”Acid Propaganda” 0:59 Dialogue with Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda & Ben Stiller
Gil 1:22 Don Van Vliet
Dough Song 13 0:35 Phil Minton
ENOUGH 0:02
Wafflehead 4:04 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Whole Lotta Love 3:26 The Bobs
Andrew Heathwaite and Paul Kotheimer joined William Gillespie on Jay Eychaner and Jason Finkelman’s experimental music show Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, and they spent an hour explaining, discussing, playing, and performing microtonal music, with an emphasis on just intonation and equal divisions of the octave. Get in the cracks and listen.
