The Past - Temporary Blog

It gets interesting at 3:49 if you don’t have the patience...

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:16:00 -0700

It gets interesting at 3:49 if you don’t have the patience to sit through classical music. If you don’t, I recommend this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LCwI5iErE

Photograph from Gordonton, N.C. 1939. I wonder what kind of...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:17 -0800

Photograph from Gordonton, N.C. 1939. I wonder what kind of music they listened to?

Some context provided by reddit users.

http://www.scissorkick.com/2010/02/debruit-heart-beats-4-haiti/

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:37:00 -0800

http://www.scissorkick.com/2010/02/debruit-heart-beats-4-haiti/:

The Haiti earthquake may be old news (and this link too), but this digital album is more than enough of an excuse to donate again and to acquire some fingerlickin’ beats.

Revenge of the Music Geeks - Episode 5, Season 0

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:05:00 -0800

No you are not seeing her boobs, she’s wearing a shirt…perv…yeah I made the same mistake too. I hate myself for it. Flickr source from just.K

As you know, last week (ok at the time of this posting, a damn month ago, give me a break I have labs due…sorry, sorry, that was the redbull talking) the Past was just another music show and I simply played requested songs from a reddit discussion. However I purposely didn’t play music requested by the reddit user cassidoodle. Her requests were plentiful, so I saved it for this show.

Try them out, click read more.

Playlist for 2/14/10

Format: artist - song name - album

Tin Hat Trio - Fire of Ada - Memory is an Elephant
Tin Hat Trio - UC Irvine/UC Davis - Memory is an Elephant
Wakey!Wakey! - War Sweater - War Sweater EP
Cylob - Rewind - Rewind!
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Tropical Hot Dog Night - Shiny Beast
Kim Sun - The man who must leave - Psych Funk 101
Drink Me - Ines - Drink Me
Magma- Horst Fur Dehn Stekhen West - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Hawaii Calls - The Hukilau Song - Greatest Hits
Mister Rogers - J’aime Prende Un Bain - You Are Special
(NEW!) Bright City Magic - Hotel - Uncomfortable Machine requested by Vincent
Can - Halleluhwah - Tago Mago

Your Fresh Serving of Links: The Wonderful World of Flash

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:51:00 -0800

Source: Newgrounds

I posted this as comment on reddit, but I’d thought I’d share it with y’all.

Click read more for the list

This animator is amazing, really enjoy his artsy work: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/457968

Of course, David Firth: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/282136 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/439541 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/471998

My favorite Armenian American animator, well to be honest, he’s the only one I know about: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/524856 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/514097 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/265501

NSFW: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/207608

Oh and anything submitted to this contest is awesome, click showcase: http://www.tgsnt.com/

Viewer Requests

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:26:15 -0800

There are music requests out there that have been waiting for me to honor for a very long time. Flickr Source from the Smithsonian Institute

Not all show’s are gonna be an issue of The Past, but just another music show. I’m a college student, give me a break!

This week’s show was a viewer request show. Most of the requests came from this online discussion I started on reddit. The user cassidoodle was more than helpful, so I’m going to dedicate my entire show next week to her vinyl rips and music suggestions. Also, if you have a song, forgotten to the pages of history that you want to be brought back to the public consciousness (by public I mean the small group of people listening to my show), send me your requests below or email them to me.

After the break: Playlists and Music Tryouts

Playlist for 2/7/10

Format: artist - song name - album ( * signifies that track is new )

Eric Bachmann - Good Morning Sleepyhead - Short Careers
Eric Bachmann - A Diamond is the Devil’s Eye - Short Careers
Buena Vista Social Club - El Cuarto De Tula - Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall (suggested by Shahan)
The Black Keys - 10 A.M. Automatic - Rubber Factory (suggested by Shahan)
Easy Star All-Stars - Let Down - Radiodread (suggested by Shahan)
The Libertines - Boys in the Band - Up the Bracket (suggested by Shahan)
Catherine Wheel - Wish You Were Here - Like Cats and Dogs (suggested by antifolkhero)
Rodriguez - Suger Man - Cold Fact (suggested by shishou)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (suggested by SergeyK)

Quick note: the next two tracks were played in honor of the inopportune rain on the 6th

The Rescues - Can’t Stand the Rain - Let Loose the Horses
Beta Band - Dry the Rain - The 3 E.P.’s
Wesley Willis - Rock n Roll McDonalds - Greatest Hits (suggested by NonExistent)

Background music was from LeRoy Shield’s album Our Relations.

A Quick Overview of 666 - Issue 3, Volume 0

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:05:00 -0800

Aphrodite’s Child, the men responsible for the album 666, an album I couldn’t play in full on air. Source: flickr by dovic

Playlist for 1/31/10 show

Format: artist - song name - album ( * signifies that track is new )

Vangelis - Theme From Cosmos - The Best of Vangelis
Francis Travis - Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra - 2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack
Aphrodite’s Child - It’s Five O’Clock - It’s Five O’Clock
Spokes - Sometimes Words Are Too Slow - People Like People Like You
Aphrodite’s Child - The Four Horsemen - 666
Aphrodite’s Child - Break - 666
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
M83 - Car Chase Terror - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Click read more to try out these songs.

"In C" - Issue 2, Volume 0

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:25:47 -0800

A few of the 53 patterns played for the composition of “In C.” Source: flickr by bpbailey

The KUCI library has an abundant and rich classical-music vinyl collection. While browsing through, I come across the first released recording of Terry Riley’s In C from Colombia Records. I heard about this musical piece from this MetaFilter post, so you can imagine my excitement and surprise to come across such a gem.

Instead of just dryly playing this record on air, I decided to produce a story piece to give you, fellow listeners, some context on this piece.

Click “Read More” for a link to the audio story piece and a transcript of the recording, plus show playlist and a way to try the music.

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The Past - “In C” - Story Piece

Transcript:

The harshest music critic in the world is our parents because they are the only critics in our life that actual control to what you listen to. The stereotypical parent is a classical music lover and to them, rock music is a painful and loud noise. Yes, rock music is an atrocity and classical music is pure. Classical music is sublime. Classical music is the only music in the world, everything else is garbage.

Then you come across minimalist music and both the close minded, classical loving, purist parent and the rebel rousing, disgrace to family, rock loving child will come to the consensus: Change the station!

If minimalist music bothers you, its maybe because you are listening to it passively. Like some classical music, you really have to put your full attention into the music because you aren’t listening to a song, you are listening to an artistic piece.

Take for example what Paul Williams, editor and publisher of crawdaddy magazine, has to say: “The experience of music is not fully in the ears. If it were, we could concern ourselves with sound and its permutations…Since it is not, we must realize that we listen partly with our memories, allowing what we hear to clash and sing with the patterns already established in our minds.”

I read this note off the back of Terry Riley’s original LP of “In C.” What is “In C?” It is regarded as the first minimalist piece and when performed, the resulting music is all based on chance. No two performances are the same.

Performing instructions go like this. First start off with something called The Pulse. Most of the time the piano plays it. It’s the background beat that guides the musicians. Then you have 53 musical patterns, like these: 1, 4, 27, 49, 53. Not necessarily played on a ukulele, but you can, in fact you can play In C on any instrument, but you must have a large group. 35 is desired. More or less is fine.

While the pulse rages on, the performers play the 53 pieces from start to finish. They can repeat each pattern as much as they want and they can come in with the next pattern, anytime they want. Performances are normally 45 to 90 minutes long and the entire thing is an improv of these 53 musical patterns. The result of this jam ranges from madness to pure repetitive genius.

When you listen to In C, your mind will try to pick up and tune in to certain patterns. Yes, sometimes the music will just agitate you. The only advice I can give to you as a fellow listener, is just pay attention to the patterns by themselves and the music as a whole. It’s easy to do this with popular songs, but when it comes to this kind of music or the sound jackhammers, you’ve got really pay attention for patterns. Patterns that are in the key of C.

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Playlist for 1/24/10 show

Format: artist - song name - album ( * signifies that track is new )

Terry Riley - In C - In C
Philip Glass - The Photographer (Act I - III) - The Photographer

Good Mood - Issue 1, Volume 0

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:47:00 -0800

A past expression of the feeling of good mood or the forcing of one (i.e. “Smile for the camera!”). Source: flickr by roberthuffstutter

And so begins the journey. The show that shall be known as The Past has begun its journey on the electromagnetic medium that is radio. Because of this occasion, I’m nervous, yes, but underneath that instinct mood I am in a good mood. Sure, this journey shall be bumpy at the start, but I expect great things! … hopefully

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For this episode I attempted the fine art of interviewing. I was terrible at it, all I got out of the experience were some soundbites. Here are four that I used for my show, they are an interview of my sister Nairi and her partner Chris. ( .m4a files )

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To view this show’s playlist and to try the music, click “read more.”

Playlist for 1/17/10 show

Format: artist - song name - album ( * signifies that track is new )

M83 - In Church (Cyann & Ben Version) - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Stephen Neary - Come Have an Omelette With Me
The Thrills - Big Sur - So Much for the City
Oh, Atoms - Sugar Mouse - Sugar Mouse 7
Pas/Cal - Little Red Radio - Dear Sir
Ennio Morricone - My Name is Nobody - Very Best of Ennio Morricone
Greg Johnson - I Got Opinions - Seven Day Cure
*Clare & the Reasons - All the Wine - Arrow
Passion Pit - Moth’s Wings - Manners
Raffi - Bananaphone - Bananaphone
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoff - I’ve Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People - Under the Covers, Vol. 2 - Shout! Factory
Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House - The Essential Rosemary Clooney
Julia Nunes - Buttercup
Mouse on Mars - Fantastic Analysis - Idiolog
Chairlift - Bruises - Does You Inspire You