Guy Livingston: The Bug - "music, secrets, and silence"
Guy Livingston "RadioGuyLive"
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- 2020
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About Guy Livingston: The Bug - "music, secrets, and silence"
shows about American music
- Publisher
- Guy Livingston "RadioGuyLive"
- Category
- arts · arts · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Nov 2025
Latest episodes
13 episodes in the feed.
2 Nov 2025
Herbal Radio
This radiowork tells the story of a gathering on a hilltop in the Pyrenees. The year is 1301. Béatrice de Planissoles has called together herbwomen, healers, midwives and shepherds. She needs their collected wisdom to answer a question that has remained unanswered.
25 Sept 2020
Quarantine Episode 5: “endings”
Episode Five wraps up the series (but a bonus soundwalk will follow!) and offers no resolution, but some insight (of course). Enjoy! …and especially note the piano music by Calliope Tsoupaki (performed by Saskia Lankhoorn) and Alanna Battat (performed by the composer), plus the poem by Gerrit Vennema (read by himself).
22 Sept 2020
Quarantine Episode 4: “huidhonger/blissonance”
a new episode, about the need for physical contact, dancing, and movement…
31 Aug 2020
Quarantine Episode 3: “niet normaal”
Totally messed up! That’s what this episode’s title means.
24 Aug 2020
Quarantine Episode 2: “hey, google!”
check it out here: http://guylivingston.com/citysound/podcast-episode-2-hey-google/ (http://guylivingston.com/citysound/podcast-episode-2-hey-google/) ???trouble listening? try this link to download an mp3 (http://trouble listening? try this link to download an mp3)
5 Aug 2020
New Podcast: Under/City/Sound
my new podcast starts Friday, August 7th: (http://guylivingston.com/citysound/)
19 Jun 2020
The Bug S2#12 – Juneteenth
Juneteenth is a celebration of the day on June 19th, 1865, when the last remaining American slaves were proclaimed free. It’s often described as an occasion “to celebrate, to educate, and to agitate” Playlist Jay Watts: “New Rules” Tim Carman: “A little bit” “Rise Up” by the Greenwood Rhythm Coalition these are from the album: Talk minus Action equals Zero: a compilation benefitting Black Lives Matter. Buy it on Bandcamp (https://roughtradepublishing.bandcamp.com/releases) tonight, June 19th, and all your proceeds go to social justice. Like all the music on tonight’s show, it’s published by Rough Trade Publishing and Bank Robber Music. The end of season two of The Bug… This season began during the lockdown, as I was desperate to find some focus, and some way to express my own personal anguish. As the season gatherered momentum, many listeners sent in their own experiences, good and bad, of quarantine. We heard about birds, and pollution, and silence, zoom music, and free online art, and demonstrations, and racism. These issues don’t stop now. I want you to keep listening to new sounds, in the small sense of hearing the birds, but also in the larger sense of hearing the world around us. That’s the natural world and the political world. So I want us all, and that includes me and you, to take action against dangerous politicians and frightening policies. … So make your voice heard! You could post on facebook (which is probably pointless), but more effectively, you can vote, you can help others vote, you can get out in the street and demonstrate if you feel comfortable, you can reach out to people who are not like you, and open dialogue with them (which is definitely uncomfortable), you can buy music and art from creators of color, and you can also give money to causes you support. Buy the CD! Download the music! Black lives matter compilation (https://roughtradepublishing.bandcamp.com/releases) download the album today, and your purchase price goes entirely to BLM charities more The historical legacy of Juneteenth (https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/historical-legacy-juneteenth) PS: if you want more podcasts, join me in mid-July for a new series, called “under/city/sound” – I’ll be talking about the sounds of a city – in this case, The Hague.
12 Jun 2020
The Bug S2E11: Silent Hamlet
For my aunt’s birthday, here’s a ‘silent’ version of Hamlet, consisting solely of Shakespeare’s unspoken text: i.e. his stage directions. Also a shout-out to sound-artist Elise ‘t Hart (https://www.elisethart.com), who has created a 600 euro box of lockdown sounds: (https://www.elisethart.com) This Podcast’s Playlist Paulo Da Firenze: Amor, tu solo’I sai; and Poc’anno di mirar – from Ballate e Madrigali, performed by Elisabeth Seitz. BUT WAIT! WHO’S PAYING FOR ME TO RE-ARRANGE SHAKESPEARE? well – actually – you could be. Please consider donating a dollar or three. In these difficult times, every little bit helps. (https://paypal.me/radioguylive?locale.x=en_US) …and in return, I will make a podcast every week for our quarantine’d time!
5 Jun 2020
The Bug S2E10: Countersounds
Countersounds Playlist Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (1976) op. 36. London Sinfonietta; Dawn Upshaw soprano; David Zinman, conductor. Erased Tapes Track 9: Crash Erased Tapes Track 8: Paused THANKS Many thanks to Alanna, Marcel, Paul, Jill, Dave, Maria, Udo, my mom, and the BBC Monks for tonight’s show. Tune in next week for my last podcast of the season, featuring a 600 euro box of quarantine sounds, and my semi-silent version of Hamlet. LINKS Volkskrant article on pilots and radio silence in the air: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/vliegen-in-virustijd-beangstigende-stilte-op-de-boordradio~b368cd5a/ (https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/vliegen-in-virustijd-beangstigende-stilte-op-de-boordradio~b368cd5a/) Romancing Rush Hour in New York City, courtesy of the New York Public Library: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/01/missing-sounds-of-new-york (https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/01/missing-sounds-of-new-york) More about the project (New York Times): WHO’S PAYING FOR ALL THIS SOUND? well – actually – since you are here, please consider donating a dollar or three. These are difficult times, and every little bit helps. (https://paypal.me/radioguylive?locale.x=en_US) …and in return, I will make a podcast every week for our quarantine’d time!
22 May 2020
The Bug S2E9: Lost friends and old recipes
This week’s show is in memory of Fuad Bahou: cook, poet, and artist. It’s been a strange week for many reasons. Death has been present for many people I know. But music and food help to understand, mourn, and accept. Playlist: Music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Lou Harrison and Ezio Bosso Text on time by: Ludovica Guarneri (https://www.greenoffshores.com) Video of Lou Harrison: Fuad’s Cauliflower with Tahini, as handed down to me by my mother: When I was young in the 1970s, I had an artist-teacher friend from Jerusalem named Fuad Bahou, who started a restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee. His brother Shawqi came to help him, and my husband Philip and I designed it. It was our first restaurant for them, and we went on to design four more. We were also waiters for the first year or two one night a week. My favorite recipe, one I still make fifty years later was fried cauliflower with tahini. It is so good. Cut all the flowerettes from a fresh head of cauliflower leaving a fat stem on each piece. Rinse, then fry in hot oil until the flowerettes brown. Drain well on paper towels. Put in a bowl and pour over them a dressing made of tahini thinned with water with a few tablespoons of added olive oil, mixed until it has a thick, still pourable consistency. Add tablespoon of well-crushed garlic, which would be four generous cloves, and a third of a cup of lemon juice. Add three-quarters of a cup of chopped Italian parsley leaves, salt to taste, plenty of fresh black pepper, and stir. Either serve immediately while the cauliflower is still warm, or later at room temperature, but not chilled. This salad is delicious with flatbread served with other salads like tabouleh and rice-filled grape leaves on the side, which is how Fuad liked to start a meal. Fuad Nakhleh Bahou (https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/knoxville-tn/fuad-bahou-9148174) passed away April 23, 2020 at his home in Knoxville, TN. Born May 14, 1935 to Nakhleh and Mary Bahu (formerly Nassan) in Al Bireh, Palestine, he attended a Quaker school in Ramallah. He was the first of his family to come to the United States after receiving a scholarship to a college in California. He spent most of his student years in Los Angeles, where he attended UCLA and worked at the flagship restaurant of the Carnation Company. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in painting and art history, he joined the faculty of Knoxville College in 1968, establishing and heading the art department until 1975. In later years, he served as an instructor in the University of Tennessee and Georgia State University art departments. WHO’S PAYING FOR ALL THIS CAULIFLOWER? well – actually – since you are here, please consider donating a dollar or three. These are difficult times, and every little bit helps: (https://paypal.me/radioguylive?locale.x=en_US) …and in return, I will make a podcast every week for our quarantine’d time!
15 May 2020
The Bug S2#8: Coping with a new world
Can I cope in the wild? It’s been 8 weeks in quarantine (or is it 9?) and so here’s this week’s podcast, with music from my friends Ben and Stéphane, and a thought-piece/sound-art-performance by Ned McGowan. Plus suggestions and commentary from Phlyssa and Anders – and David Attenborough too. Thanks to you all! DONATIONS By the way, since you are here, and reading this, and hopefully enjoying the podcast, please consider donating a dollar or three. Like many musicians, I’ve lost my income for the foreseeable future, so would appreciate the help: (https://paypal.me/radioguylive?locale.x=en_US) …and in return, I will make a podcast every week for our quarantine’d time!
8 May 2020
The Bug S2#7 A rant
No, I’m not falling apart: this rant is only possible because I finally feel like I have a handle on my personal situation. I’m stabilized. But now that I’m stable, I’m looking around me, and saddened by how much my friends, family, and colleagues are suffering. Here’s my rant! Playlist Soundtrack to Run, Lola, Run vocals: Franke Potente; written by Tykwer/Klimek/Heil (1999) DONATIONS By the way, since you are here, and reading this, and hopefully enjoying the podcast, please consider donating a dollar or three. Like many musicians, I’ve lost my income for the foreseeable future, so would appreciate the help: (https://paypal.me/radioguylive?locale.x=en_US) …and in return, I will make a podcast every week for our quarantine’d time!
1 May 2020
The Bug S2#6: Quarantine is for the birds
Whether it’s schizophrenia at home, or driving down the long highway in a lonesome car… …solitude is for the birds in this quarantine-era podcast. Music of Laurent Coq, Frank Pahl, the band Ida, and Mozart/ShakeUp Music, as sung by the birds. A Bird Opera Bird Song Opera (http://volkerpannes.de/portfolio/bird-song-opera/) Mesi Collective Video [Co-Vid] (https://laurentcoq.com/en/news/collective-video-co-vid/) Ida
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