Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

About Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

Live improvised sound collage experiment, weaving mesmerizing loopy layered found soundscapes, riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. https://lastever.org

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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

Category

music · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Sept 2007

Latest episode

24 Aug 2021

Latest episodes

109 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Aug 2021

   Container Entrainment (intentional possibility understructure) | DownloadMP3 from Aug 23, 2021

   Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Container Entrainment (intentional possibility understructure)" - Show #619, from Oct. 24, 2018 [Augmented live today in 2021 List of source samples follows:] Thomas Park - One Minute Vacations Ambrose Pottie - "Petting Zoo" - One-Minute Vacations Stars of the Lid - "Articulate Silences" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline Aaron Ximm - "Tradewinds in Palm" - One-Minute Vacations Simon Hampson - "Walking near Poh's House" - One-Minute Vacations - "Creek Frogs, Panoche Valley CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "I think you have your headphones on (you're taking slow, deep breaths)" - "Maine Shorebreak" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "You don't do anything anymore (you're not trying, not anymore)" - "Granada Park" - One-Minute Vacations Vlissingen - "Wind Organ" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "This is our last dance. I don't know who you are" - "Canyon Hawks, Santa Monica CA" - One-Minute Vacations Ken - "We don't remember anymore" Stars of the Lid - "Don't Bother They're Here" - And Their Refinement Of The Decline - "Winchcombe Last Post, Cotswolds UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "Perfect Storm, Muir Woods, CA" - One-Minute Vacations - "Whisby Nightingales, Lincoln UK" - One-Minute Vacations - "No one knows but the pebbles" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva 1" - One-Minute Vacations Virgilio Oliveira - "Barcade Alva binaural" - One-Minute Vacations Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "There is a difference between what you dream and what you do" - The Lathe of Heaven Nicky Hopkins / The Rolling Stones - "She's A Rainbow" John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (guitar only)" Nicky Hopkins / John Lennon - "Jealous Guy (piano only)" Suzan Pitt - "Asparagus" [Brief] Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "But not for me! It's the same thing!" - The Lathe of Heaven David Clennon - "We all have fields around us" - thirtySomething Clive Wearing - "Part 2a" - Living Without Memory Peter Oldring - "I'm a radio broadcaster" - This is That Random Rab - "Blast Off" - Release Steven Jesse Bernstein - "The Man Upstairs" Dufus - "Feed the Baby" - Eth The Police - "Every Breath You Take (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but every other beat is missing)" Toto - "Africa (but half of every measure is missing)" Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime (but it's a waltz)" Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper (but every other beat is missing)" Live phone - "Dial tone" - "Field recordings, Stars of the Lid, Random Rab continue" Ken - "Monologue: Engagement containment entrainment" [Containing intention Intending containment for spaces under which possibility unhappens Containment of enstrange combinatorial Creating unintentional entrainment within which possibility space Creating structure for the container, not for the contents Creating understructure around the container One remembers to forget Touching unknowing impossibility Conscious unconsciousness Creating safety for risk-taking Unafraid of endless depths] Clive Wearing - "Living Without Memory (try and be careful not to place demands on his memory, because he then becomes upset)" - Living Without Memory Ken - "Let go of all your memories today. Be awkward, don't know, you don't have to know" Ken - "Identification" Little May - "Boardwalks" [Loops] Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Live phone caller - "Are you letting anything go? (I forgot time, and instead I felt the sun)" [Gravel beneath my feet] Sigur Ros - "Takk" - Takk [Brief] Gavin Bryars - "Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings" Live phone caller - "More than enough (are we allowed to do this?)" Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - "Southern Accents (piano loop)" - Southern Accents [Brief] Ween - "The Mollusk (loop)" - The Mollusk [Brief] Live phone caller - "Anything left to let go of? (I don't know what)" [Live stream echo chamber] The War on Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Live phone caller - "I finally see myself" Live stream feedback echo chamber The War on Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Ken - "You're bigger than you ever were" Live phone caller - "Drowns out our sounds, all I'm left with" The War on Drugs - "In Chains (loops)" - A Deeper Understanding Kid - "Have you ever had a dream you could do anything?" Morgan Freeman - "Forget about the way it used to be" - Lean On Me movie Fairuza Balk (directed by Walter Murch) - "I'll never forget any of you" - Return to Oz - "It's so easy to forget (in the digital age)" Phone caller (Sequoia) - "There's nothing to prove that history is real" Arturo en el Barco Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" [Richmond field recording] Ken - "Someone called in (it's almost over forever) Next time I'll call you" [Testing to see what is sound, finding out by doing, never understanding. Who will find the note?] Orson Welles - "What's wrong with this place is it's another marketplace, always the enemy of the artist" - Interview Paul Spurrier - "The human body has millions of nerve endings" - Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future (pilot movie) [Some particularly slothful subjects simply explode] Anthony Geary - "You know, pal, the constitution wasn't written on an etch a sketch" - My New Car a.k.a. It Takes Two Kid - "I feel, I feel...If you believe in yourself" Richard E. Grant - "Roads represent a fundamental right of man to have access to the good things in life" - How to Get Ahead in Advertising Dennis Hopper - "This used to be a hell of a good country (nature only)" - Easy Rider David Lynch - "The mysteries of darkness and love" - Blue Velvet interview Wallace Shawn - "I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions" - Critical Care Kid - "I feel happy of myself" Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor" Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Ursula K. Le Guin - "George, understand something" - The Lathe of Heaven Live phone caller - "Trying to find a story (slip you a note) A picture of a cow jumping over the moon" [What's the scariest thing you know? (love)] Margarita Levieva - "The genius of a car alarm, you can't talk back to it, it makes you love it, it's safe" - Noise Margarita Levieva - "You love hating the noise, it's your muse" - Noise Ian Brown of Stone Roses - "It takes time to get acquainted, it takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary Diane Baker - "People lie in the light and make love in the dark" - Mirage Royksopp - "Royksopp Forever (loops)" - Junior Kid - "Just keep practicing! You gonna get the hang of it, I know it!" [If you believe in yourself] Ken - "I will get the hang of it, I know it (a little more trust, a little more fear)" Set: 2021 Lullatone - "Wet Grass" - The Sounds of Spring Ken - "Glad for whatever you were today" https://lastever.org/show/210823 (https://lastever.org/show/210823)

2. 

   12 May 2021

   New/live improvised sound collage this week! | Download MP3 from Apr 26, 2021

   Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live sound collage improvised right now" [List of sources sampled follows, not in order:] Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt (instrumental)" Ween - "I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight" - The Mollusk Ween - "The Mollusk loops" - The Mollusk Weezer - "My Name is Jonas loops" Weezer - "Undone (The Sweater Song) live multitrack mixing" Weezer - "Undone (The Sweater Song) loops" Simon & Garfunkel - "Sound of Silence live multitrack mixing" R.E.M. - "Superman live multitrack mixing" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps loops" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps (karaoke) loops" The Beatles, George Martin - "Here Comes the Sun (Kenzo instrumental mix)" The Beatles - "Abbey Road Medley (vocals only)" The Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun (vocals only)" The Beatles - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps live multitrack mixing" Air Supply, Jim Steinman - "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All) piano loops, forward & backward" Barry Manilow, Jim Steinman - "Read 'em And Weep" Bonnie Tyler, Jim Steinman - "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)" Air Supply, Jim Steinman - "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)" Fire Inc, Jim Steinman - "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young loops" Meat Loaf, Marion Raven, Jim Steinman - "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" The Sisters of Mercy, Jim Steinman - "More" Crap From the Past - "Jim Steinman tribute radio show Jan. 15, 1997" [Incl Paradise by the Dashboard Light, others] Shy Hunters (Indigo Street) - "Time Bomb" Def Leppard, Robert John "Mutt" Lange - "Promises (Kenzo loop mix)" Def Leppard, Robert John "Mutt" Lange - "Armageddon It" - Hysteria Def Leppard, Robert John "Mutt" Lange - "Armageddon It (The Nuclear Mix)" - Hysteria (Deluxe Edition) Def Leppard, Robert John "Mutt" Lange - "Hysteria" - Hysteria Def Leppard, Robert John "Mutt" Lange - "Promises" - Euphoria Kelly Clarkson, Dr. Luke - "Since U Been Gone live multitrack mixing" The Grand Seduction - "Irish Song" Nintendo - "Super Mario Bros. loop reversed" Lullatone - "My Second Favorite Song in the World loops" Ken, child - "Live radio mic looping" Beethoven - "Symphony No. 7 In A Major (2nd movement)" https://lastever.org/show/210426 (https://lastever.org/show/210426)

3. 

   5 Apr 2021

   Hang Onto a Dream (America), with bonus 2021 mixing from Jan 18, 2021

   Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469, from Aug. 28, 2013 (1/16/17 edit) Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Unknown IT Corporation - "I Have A Dream" - IT Anthems [of 2 CPU's] Noam Chomsky - "Class War" - Class War Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 2" [Life in America was inconceivable to her] Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 3" [To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation.] Jello Biafra - "The New Soviet Union" - If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve (Disc 1) Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. Madiha R Tahir & NSA - "NSA recruiting session with students questions" - University of Wisconsin recruitment drive, July 2013 [Discussion here] Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan - "You're just as much a prisoner as I am" - The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben) Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 2" [I can't stand the isolation in this country. All you Americans do is watch television and go to the movies.] Shell - "Growing and Winning (We Are the World)" Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 3" [The waste is enormous] Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "One of the great tragedies of civilization is this need to work for a living" - The Cruise Noam Chomsky - "The Undermining of Union" - Class War Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl - "There used to be more time, before I had to work" - Chasing Sleep Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan - "When I have knowledge of computers, I will be the surpreme being" - Time Bandits American Standards - "My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place" - Bathrooms Are Coming!! [I'm free....] Malcolm X - "Stop Singin' And Start Swingin'" Malcolm X - "The Ballot or the Bullet" Michael Nyman - "Drowning By Number 2" - Drowning By Numbers George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" Michael Nyman - "Drowning By Number 2" - Drowning By Numbers George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan - "Both sides are becoming identical" - The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben) Noam Chomsky - "Social Policy-Welfare for the Rich" - Class War Harrison Ford - "It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolesence" - Mosquito Coast Iam Holm, Craig Warnock, David Rappaport - "Evil turned out rather well" - Time Bandits Shell - "Growing and Winning (We Are the World)" David Lynch - "Blue Velvet interview (excerpts)" - Canadian TV interview Irene Trudel - "Today live 2021 on Drummer stream, mixed with now mixed with then" Ken - "The half-way handoff, live in 2021" Ken - "Everything is going as planned" Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Always two steps behind" - Chasing Sleep Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Been running from the cops all my life" - The Cruise Unknown IT Corporation - "I Have A Dream" - IT Anthems Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn - "Full movie" - My Dinner With Andre Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn - "Full movie" - My Dinner With Andre Great Society Band - "March of the Astronauts" Malcolm X - "You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate That Tree" Harrison Ford, River Phoenix - "America is a toilet" - Mosquito Coast [Why do they keep coming?] Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address" Alessio Rastani - "Trader on market crashing, dreams of another recession" - BBC, Dec. 2012 Barack Obama - "If you can't trust us, we're going to have some problems" Malcolm X - "You Got What's Known As White's Disease" John Lennon - "Jann Wenner Interview Part 1" [The dream of this generation is over] Noam Chomsky - "Terrorism & The War On Nicaragua" - The New War On Terrorism Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing at All (reversed)" [Written by Jim Steinman] Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Set: Live 2021 I-miss-you mixing Joe & Eddie - "Sing Halleluiah" - The Best Of Joe & Eddie [with Les Baxter Orchestra] Ween - "She Wanted to Leave (Reprise)" - The Mollusk Henryk Gorecki - "Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile" - Fearless s.t. [With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman] Ken - "I miss you, I've been meaning to visit, I have been thinking about you" Arvo Part - "Fratres (The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)" - Out of the Night [With Taverner Choir; Andrew Parrott] Ken - "I don't think you should be afraid to reach out to the people you're thinking of (you always run out of time)" [Life is about connection] Henryk Gorecki - "Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile" - Fearless s.t. [With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman] Noam Chomsky - "Being subjected to a master is intolerable (Ask Me Anything)" - Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, Dec. 21, 2020 [Working for a master is intolerable, and American workers used to know it] Ken - "I need to you to embrace" https://lastever.org/show/210118 (https://lastever.org/show/210118)

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