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
Episodes
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 Ham...
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 Ham...
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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 Si...
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 Si...
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April 5, 2021 • 109 mins
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 Translatio...
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 Translatio...
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "All over the place" - Show #510, from 9/24/16 [With live 2021 talking]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "New live mix now" - Show #749, from Jan. 4, 2021
Barrington Pheloung - "The Farmhouse (peaceful flock of sheep) a la Spiegel im Spiegel" - Hilary and Jackie [Arvo Part remake]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream from an hour ago"
Ken - "Time fold check"
Barrington Pheloun...
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "New live mix now" - Show #749, from Jan. 4, 2021
Barrington Pheloung - "The Farmhouse (peaceful flock of sheep) a la Spiegel im Spiegel" - Hilary and Jackie [Arvo Part remake]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream from an hour ago"
Ken - "Time fold check"
Barrington Pheloun...
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February 1, 2021
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "New live noise: Classical cut ups, kiddo, TMBG, Portsmouth Sinfonia, How Do You Learn" - Show #748, from Dec. 14, 2020 [Including: Clair de Lune, Mozart's Magic Flute overture, Beethoven's 5th loops, KLERE This Must Be the Beginning, Lullatone, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Random Rab, Scolastic, Strauss's Blue Danube, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, They Might Be Giant's Why Does the Sun Shine and Mrs. ...
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January 11, 2021
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Karen's Dead (give her the goddamned camera!)" - Show #262, from 7/23/03
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8" - Show #263, from 7/30/03
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "A Carousel Ride after Too Much Soup" - Show #336, from Oct. 5, 2004
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Children's Television Voteshop (2007 edit)" - Show #324, from July 27, 2004 [Behavior Modi...
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8" - Show #263, from 7/30/03
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "A Carousel Ride after Too Much Soup" - Show #336, from Oct. 5, 2004
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Children's Television Voteshop (2007 edit)" - Show #324, from July 27, 2004 [Behavior Modi...
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Set: The Decadence of Obsolesence
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Decadence of Obsolesence" - Show #432, from May 11, 2012 [Live in a garage across from a park, summerish afternoon in Charlottesville.
Playlist follows:]
Fleetwood Mac - "Sara" - Tusk [Loop]
Valentino Sound Effects Library - "Air - Air conditioner" - Volume 8
Fridge - "Harmonics" - Happiness
Dufus - "Anouk" - In Monstrous Attitude
La Dusseldorf - "Rhei...
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Decadence of Obsolesence" - Show #432, from May 11, 2012 [Live in a garage across from a park, summerish afternoon in Charlottesville.
Playlist follows:]
Fleetwood Mac - "Sara" - Tusk [Loop]
Valentino Sound Effects Library - "Air - Air conditioner" - Volume 8
Fridge - "Harmonics" - Happiness
Dufus - "Anouk" - In Monstrous Attitude
La Dusseldorf - "Rhei...
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Regenerative Memory Feedback" - Show #727, from July 20, 2020 [(When did you start losing your mind?)]
Set: Samples used, in no particular order, and not quite complete:
Clem Leek & Jannick Schou - "Pimlico" - Pimlico
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "You Can't Separate Them Later, + (As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible.)" - Show #664, from July 31, 2019 [with 12:01 P...
Set: Samples used, in no particular order, and not quite complete:
Clem Leek & Jannick Schou - "Pimlico" - Pimlico
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "You Can't Separate Them Later, + (As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible.)" - Show #664, from July 31, 2019 [with 12:01 P...
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June 26, 2020 • 117 mins
Previous DJ - "Brings up remote feed"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream feedback loop"
Claude Debussy - "Clair De Lune"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream feedback loop"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live radio feedback loop"
Ken - "All the loops need to work"
Keith Holzman - "Small clock ticking"
Daft Punk - "Outlands, part II" - TRON Legacy Soundtrack
Ken - "Warming up loops"
Sound effect ...
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream feedback loop"
Claude Debussy - "Clair De Lune"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live stream feedback loop"
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live radio feedback loop"
Ken - "All the loops need to work"
Keith Holzman - "Small clock ticking"
Daft Punk - "Outlands, part II" - TRON Legacy Soundtrack
Ken - "Warming up loops"
Sound effect ...
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Outside" - Show #387, from Aug. 2, 2008 [Outdoor show, under a large tree, as sun went down. At Hot Mama's in Austin.]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Studio Movements" - Show #499, from Aug. 3, 2014 [Collaboration w/Fire in the Belly's improv dancing. Warming up for Southern Cafe stage show in Charlottesville.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/90829
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Studio Movements" - Show #499, from Aug. 3, 2014 [Collaboration w/Fire in the Belly's improv dancing. Warming up for Southern Cafe stage show in Charlottesville.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/90829
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March 11, 2020 • 118 mins
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Present Toward the Future (marking it in pencil on the wall)" - Show #694, from Jan. 8, 2020
Mogwai - "Kicking a Dead Pig (Surgeon remix)" - Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed + Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes
Harry Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin'"
Mogwai - "Kicking a Dead Pig (Surgeon remix)" - Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed + Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes
The Moody Blues - "The Morning...
Mogwai - "Kicking a Dead Pig (Surgeon remix)" - Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed + Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes
Harry Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin'"
Mogwai - "Kicking a Dead Pig (Surgeon remix)" - Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed + Mogwai Fear Satan Remixes
The Moody Blues - "The Morning...
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March 3, 2020 • 118 mins
Clem Leek - "Mystery Moor"
Ken - "We don't know what will happen"
The Art of Noise - "Metaforce (loops)" - The Seduction Of Claude Debussy
Sam Pottle & Jim Henson - "The Muppet Show Closing Theme (loops)"
Keith Forsey, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez - "The Breakfast Club loops"
The Kinks - "Nothing in this world loops"
Lullatone - "My Second Favorite Song in the World loops" [Brief]
Bob Dylan - "A Series of Dreams loops"
David Wingo...
Ken - "We don't know what will happen"
The Art of Noise - "Metaforce (loops)" - The Seduction Of Claude Debussy
Sam Pottle & Jim Henson - "The Muppet Show Closing Theme (loops)"
Keith Forsey, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez - "The Breakfast Club loops"
The Kinks - "Nothing in this world loops"
Lullatone - "My Second Favorite Song in the World loops" [Brief]
Bob Dylan - "A Series of Dreams loops"
David Wingo...
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Redefining Freedom" - Show #364, from May 10, 2005, live on KOOP Austin ["We are a great society because we are free society; on the other
hand, it is very important for there to be limits." - George W. Bush]
Set:
Aram Khachaturian - "Gayanne Ballet Suite (Adagio)" - 2001: A Space Odyssey s.t. [Armenian composer. Backwards, layered with forwards copy]
Aram Khachaturian - "Gayanne Ballet Sui...
hand, it is very important for there to be limits." - George W. Bush]
Set:
Aram Khachaturian - "Gayanne Ballet Suite (Adagio)" - 2001: A Space Odyssey s.t. [Armenian composer. Backwards, layered with forwards copy]
Aram Khachaturian - "Gayanne Ballet Sui...
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December 4, 2019 • 117 mins
Garth Stevenson - "The Southern Sea" - Flying
Jared Leto - "Did I fall asleep? Sometimes I don't sleep" - Mr. Nobody
Garth Stevenson - "The Southern Sea" - Flying
Mirah - "We don't have that sticker in this book"
Meg Ryan - "It's off in the distance, it came into the room, it's here in the circle" - In the Cut
Cliff Martinez - "Death Shall Have No Dominion" - Solaris
Ken - "It's all so fleeting"
In the Cut - "Street sounds" - In ...
Jared Leto - "Did I fall asleep? Sometimes I don't sleep" - Mr. Nobody
Garth Stevenson - "The Southern Sea" - Flying
Mirah - "We don't have that sticker in this book"
Meg Ryan - "It's off in the distance, it came into the room, it's here in the circle" - In the Cut
Cliff Martinez - "Death Shall Have No Dominion" - Solaris
Ken - "It's all so fleeting"
In the Cut - "Street sounds" - In ...
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September 4, 2019 • 116 mins
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "You Can't Separate Them Later" - Show #609, from Aug. 22, 2018 [(as long as you don't choose, everything remains possible)]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "New Whirled Symphony" - From 1/10/18
The Police - "Every Breath You Take (Kenzo ambient guitar mix)"
Ken - "Intro from "New Whirled Symphony" 1/10/18"
Ken - "Intro "today" talking to intro January"
The Beatles - "Eleanor Rigby (Strin...
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "New Whirled Symphony" - From 1/10/18
The Police - "Every Breath You Take (Kenzo ambient guitar mix)"
Ken - "Intro from "New Whirled Symphony" 1/10/18"
Ken - "Intro "today" talking to intro January"
The Beatles - "Eleanor Rigby (Strin...
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July 24, 2019 • 117 mins
Pythagoron - "Untitled (1)" - Pythagoron
Pythagoron - "Untitled (2)" - Pythagoron
Ken - "So simple today"
Brian Eno - "New Space Music" - Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition)
Ken - "Young lovers monologue" [Everywhere I go, people are talking. They're just talking. I'm not sure if they're talking about anything.
Last night, they talked and talked, up into an almost frenzied anxiety. And suddenly, there wasn't any ...
Pythagoron - "Untitled (2)" - Pythagoron
Ken - "So simple today"
Brian Eno - "New Space Music" - Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV) (Expanded Edition)
Ken - "Young lovers monologue" [Everywhere I go, people are talking. They're just talking. I'm not sure if they're talking about anything.
Last night, they talked and talked, up into an almost frenzied anxiety. And suddenly, there wasn't any ...
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The World Opens Up when you Take Structure Away" - Show #440, from 8/30/2012
Dan Deacon - "Rail" - America
Eduard Artemiev - "Side One" - Solaris OST
Joe Frank - "Bad Karma"
The Evan "Funk" Davies Show - "don't sleep on adventure" - From 8/1/2012
David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum - "We're having synchronization problems" - Into the Night
Trevor Timm, Parker Higgins - "Pwn the Drones: A Survey o...
Dan Deacon - "Rail" - America
Eduard Artemiev - "Side One" - Solaris OST
Joe Frank - "Bad Karma"
The Evan "Funk" Davies Show - "don't sleep on adventure" - From 8/1/2012
David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum - "We're having synchronization problems" - Into the Night
Trevor Timm, Parker Higgins - "Pwn the Drones: A Survey o...
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June 12, 2019 • 117 mins
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Emptying Our Boxes"
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - "Boxes" - Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Ken - "We'll open some of the boxes"
Jon Brion - "Jimmy's Breakdown" - Magnolia
OutKast - "B.O.B. loops"
Jon Brion - "Jimmy's Breakdown" - Magnolia
Ole Jensen and his Music - "Exotica" - Chappell Recorded Music (LPC 1047)
Ole Jensen and his Music - "Bach-Style" - Chappell Recorded Music (LPC 1047) [Thanks to Explo...
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - "Boxes" - Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Ken - "We'll open some of the boxes"
Jon Brion - "Jimmy's Breakdown" - Magnolia
OutKast - "B.O.B. loops"
Jon Brion - "Jimmy's Breakdown" - Magnolia
Ole Jensen and his Music - "Exotica" - Chappell Recorded Music (LPC 1047)
Ole Jensen and his Music - "Bach-Style" - Chappell Recorded Music (LPC 1047) [Thanks to Explo...
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Mommy?" - Show #257, from Feb. 6, 2002, live at Chama, East Village, NYC
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/85627
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Smoking: Isn't it About Dads? (Part 1: The PSA cut-ups)" - Show #163, from Jan. 16, 1998 [From 21 years ago: Public Service Announcement fest, spliced, collaged and reinterpreted in real time. Later participation via telephone nonsense, and ambient noises.]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Smoking: Isn't it About Dads? (Part 2: The live call-ins)" - Show #163, from Jan. 16, 1998 [The fir...
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Smoking: Isn't it About Dads? (Part 2: The live call-ins)" - Show #163, from Jan. 16, 1998 [The fir...
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