Episodes
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In this very special 20th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore talk about an underecognised gem by the living legend Wendy Carlos: Sonic Seasonings (1972).
Listen to Sonic Seasonings here:https://www.mixcloud.com/frankkoedood/walter-carlos-sonic-seasonings/
Useful links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Seasonings
https://www.wendycarlos.com/+sslms.html
https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-modular-systems
https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=4Iul211T-wYkNHwX
https://kumo.bandcamp.com/album/day-night
https://charlesives.org/ives-man-his-life
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/11/she-made-music-jump-into-3d-wendy-carlos-the-reclusive-synth-genius
https://www.discogs.com/release/18288-Wendy-Carlos-Sonic-Seasonings-
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In this episode of Talk to the Chip, right before the electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani brings her magical live performance to the Union Chapel in London, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about her beautiful sounding work Seven Waves (1982), as well as her extensive contributions and inspiring career in electronic music.
Listen to Seven Waves here:
https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/seven-waves Useful Links:https://youtu.be/fZscRHkLMt0?si=9Ty9MmsVVvG5805Vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28i-k3mL3ohttps://www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/long-reads/suzanne-ciani-riding-the-waves/https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/lixiviationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxPoJ4QoSkhttps://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/suzanne-ciani-on-modular-synthesis-the-buchla-200ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0&list=LLhttps://youtu.be/fFrgS70ioa0?feature=sharedhttps://buchla.com/history/ -
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Episode 18 of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to famous pioneer of electronic music Luciano Berio, specifically to his otherwordly work Visage (1961) featuring the voice of legendary Cathy Berberian.
Listen to Visage here:
https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ
Useful links:http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1https://120years.net/milan-electronic-music-studiodirector-luciano-berioitaly1960/https://www.jstor.org/stable/944606
https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ
https://electrocd.com/en/oeuvre/20304-visage
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news/film-week-berberian-sound-studio
https://electrocd.com/en/album/5236-electronic-music
http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/11/damo-suzuki-cans-free-floating-vocalist-gave-us-some-of-the-1970s-most-exotic-rock-music
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/aphasia/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036618300592
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Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate Episode 17 of Talk to the Chip to one of the most important works in electronic music history: Poème Électronique (1958) by Edgard Varèse.
Listen to Poème Électronique here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDbBqHCslw
useful links:https://www.routledge.com/Electronic-and-Experimental-Music-Technology-Music-and-Culture/Holmes/p/book/9781138365469 https://monoskop.org/images/c/c1/Varese_Edgard_1966_The_Liberation_of_Sound.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBQsym_G82Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poème_électronique https://www.marseille-tourisme.com/en/discover-marseille/culture-heritage/discover-the-sites-and-monuments-in-marseille/cite-radieuse-of-le-corbusier/ https://www.archdaily.com/902597/on-the-dislocation-of-the-body-in-architecture-le-corbusiers-modulor
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Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç dedicate this Episode 16 of Talk to the Chip to Beatriz Ferreyra and talk about her GRM Works spanning 40 years: 1977-2007.
Listen to GRM Works here:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works
Useful links:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3681426 https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/long-reads/beatriz-ferreyra/ https://beatrizferreyra.bandcamp.com/album/souvenirs-cach-s https://persistenceofsound.co.uk/huellas-entreveradas https://beatrizferreyra.odexpo.com/default.asp?page=41341&sm=41352&lg= https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/2021/05/beatriz-ferreyra-grm-works.html https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works https://blog.native-instruments.com/audio-filters-guide/ https://youtu.be/4xy6dfUmfOk?si=3rnjpwOUX4YtgqVC https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1689831.Pierre_Schaeffer http://www.metamono.co.uk
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In this episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about the timeless Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) by female pioneer of electronic music and sound art Maryanne Amacher.
Listen to Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) here:
https://youtu.be/rtmv6LxNJqs?si=m2Ox4l0-Uw8Q8Gjf
Useful links: https://www.discogs.com/release/22796-Maryanne-Amacher-Sound-Characters-Making-The-Third-Ear https://www.nts.live/artists/18440-maryanne-amacher https://monoskop.org/Maryanne_Amacher https://academic.oup.com/book/41561/chapter/353034305 https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/themire/20485/rip-maryanne-amacher https://youtu.be/SZDj78i8UpY?si=dK5hkySFZn7_WQdf https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/talktothechip_21-october-2023_/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission https://mu-tron.com/vintage-musitronics/mu-tron-bi-phase/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/john-zorn-jazz-metal-interview-naked-city-1015329/
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In this episode of Talk to the Chip, hosts Elif Yalvac and Jono Podmore talk about two Electronic Music (1960-1973) by Turkish pioneer Bulent Arel, exemplifying some of the earliest techniques invented in Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
Listen to Electronic Music (1960-1973) here:
https://youtu.be/Z1EKToGg0YI?si=R9Fvs83OdpFSGEDs
Useful Links:https://hardwax.com/41107/bulent-arel/electronic-music-1960-1973/ https://composers.com/composers/bulent-arel https://tapeop.com/tutorials/11/intro-analog-tape-splicing-and-editing-and-tape-loops/ https://cmc.music.columbia.edu/about https://filizali.blogspot.com/2010/04/bulent-arel-filiz-ali-turkiyenin-ilk.html https://acikradyo.com.tr/arsiv-icerigi/ulkemizin-elektronik-muzige-armagani-bulent-arel https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338367288_The_Ankara_Years_of_Bulent_Arel_1940-1965_Music_Radio_and_Politics/link/5e0f46d692851c8364ae884c/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19 https://acikerisim.msgsu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.14124/3218
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In this 13th episode of Talk to the Chip, hosts Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç pursue an unusual path and talk about the acid house pioneer Charanjit Singh, with a focus on his work Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (1982)
Listen to Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN8M2irJVJA
Useful links:https://boomkat.com/products/ten-ragas-to-a-disco-beat https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/may/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house-ten-ragas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga#Description https://blog.zzounds.com/2016/03/03/roland-tb-303/ https://www.roland.com/us/promos/roland_tr-808/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Jupiter-8 https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/rip-charanjit-singh-the-most-influential-musician-you-may-have_b_7750646 https://youtu.be/igNBeo3QSqc?si=4SYeyiV-XfL56zsO https://youtu.be/49P4GUA4AIY?si=dccQpRm0jiP3Unbv
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This episode of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to Green (1986) by pioneering ambient music composer Hiroshi Yoshimura.
Listen to Green here:
https://hiroshiyoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/green
Useful links:https://cecm.indiana.edu/361/midi.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/19/lullabies-for-air-conditioners-the-corporate-bliss-of-japanese-ambient https://jisho.org/search/ongaku https://jisho.org/search/kusuri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yoshimura#Legacy https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/terry-riley-interview-every-decade-of-my-life-has-had-a-different-focus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/MIDI-Musical-Instrument-Digital-Interface https://sequential.com/about-dave-smith/ https://www.mixcloud.com/talk_to_the_chip/talk-to-the-chip-episode-3-lîle-re-sonante-éliane-radigue/ https://www.soundonsound.com/people/john-chowning https://blog.native-instruments.com/what-is-fm-synthesis/
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Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to the avant-garde pioneer Iannis Xenakis. In this 11th episode, they are talking about his work La Legende d'Eer.
Listen to La Legende d'Eer here
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-l-gende-deer
Useful links:
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-to-titan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Er https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-electric-story-of-the-ems-synthi-100-3030/ https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla%27s_roar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7DjWc6ZVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUEhjuH4 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/iannis-xenakis-la-legende-d%C2%92eer/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cprestia/220a/xenakis.html https://monoskop.org/Iannis_Xenakis https://www.discogs.com/release/197685-Iannis-Xenakis-Persepolis-Remixes-Edition-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanoise
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Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to Egyptian-American electronic music pioneer Halim El-Dabh, in particular Crossing into the Electric Magnetic, a collection of his pieces spanning the 1940s and 50s.
Listen to Crossing into the Electric Magnetic here:
https://youtu.be/WR2YprO04zk?si=jl-M8qjMEmARIYMh
Useful links:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1286486-Halim-El-Dabh-Crossing-Into-The-Electric-Magnetic http://www.halimeldabh.com/ https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/halim-el-dabh.1 https://www.bidoun.org/articles/music-pioneer-halim-el-dabh https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/music/halim-el-dabh-dies.html https://scenearabia.com/Noise/halim-el-dabh-egyptian-musician-composer-invented-electronic-music https://thevinylfactory.com/features/electric-futurism-francis-bebey/ https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/anselm-kiefer-finnegans-wake https://www.britannica.com/topic/Finnegans-Wake https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/wire-recording-forgotten-audio-format/
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Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to Scottish electronic music pioneer Janet Beat. In this 9th episode, they are talking about her work Pioneering Knob Twiddler that was released by Trunk Records when she turned 83, spanning her electronic music works from the 1970s and 1980s.
Listen to Pioneering Knob Twiddler here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3zNaGrh7gOVmtuSwoEBlxs?si=xK0WEsLOT1qqXTgnGozbEQ
Useful links:
https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/pioneering-knob-twiddler/ https://boomkat.com/products/pioneering-knob-twiddler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/how-fm-synthesis-works/ http://www.ampfiddler.com https://www.komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sys100m.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Space_Echo https://www.montana.edu/rmaher/ee417_fl08/Intro%20to%20Musical%20Acoustics%20ee417%20FL08.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50D7T0k66A http://www.metamono.co.uk https://www.getintothis.co.uk/2016/02/brian-eno-david-byrnes-cultural-appropriation-35-years-life-bush-ghosts/
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In this 8th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss legendary French composer Bernard Parmegiani's De Natura Sonorum (1975)
Listen to De Natura Sonorum here:
https://youtu.be/c_JHjUFfOs8?si=__KcoP_GJnQvSxAA
Useful links:http://www.psychomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bernard_et_Jono.jpg https://sonic-elevation.com/what-is-surface-noise-how-much-is-too-much/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dr-peter-zinovieff-the-original-tectonic-sounds https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3438 https://theproaudiofiles.com/field-recording https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/de-natura-sonorum https://bernard-parmegiani.fr/en/itineraire/biographie/ https://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum https://headphonecommute.com/2013/11/23/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum-recollection-grm/
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In this 7th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros's I Of IV (1966).
Listen to I Of IV here:
https://paulineoliveros.bandcamp.com/track/i-of-iv
Useful links:https://paulineoliveros.us/ https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bye-bye-butterfly https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2012/may/07/guide-contemporary-music-pauline-oliveros https://www.frieze.com/article/pauline-oliveros-1932-2016 https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/pauline-oliveros-lecture https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/and-dont-call-them-lady-composers-and-dont-call-them-lady-composers.html https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/Pauline-Oliveros-Frances-Morgan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saenghwang https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2022/02/08/no-input-mixing-hack https://www.jackson-pollock.org
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In this 6th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel's Obsolete Systems spanning her works in the 1970s and 1980s.
Listen to Obsolete Systems here:
https://youtu.be/z_XKPkcM1Vs?si=UGHBhOVgSFTao1wr
Useful links:https://www.discogs.com/release/221802-Laurie-Spiegel-Obsolete-Systemshttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/7919https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Mousehttps://thelistenersclub.com/2017/12/29/the-buggles-and-laurie-spiegel-art-meets-technology-circa-1979/https://youtu.be/eB5I5iU0OoE?t=1344https://thequietus.com/articles/32770-cannabis-weedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJAhttps://youtu.be/jd6XL_IOS3Ihttps://youtu.be/GPKg2c_bRCs
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In this 5th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Compositions Demonstrations (1946-1974) by Hugh Le Caine, Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument maker.
Listen to Compositions Demonstrations (1946-1974) here:
https://youtu.be/S80VssmKb2E
Useful links:https://hughlecaine.com/en/https://www.discogs.com/release/486307-Hugh-Le-Caine-Compositions-Demonstrations-1946-1974https://electrocd.com/en/album/2792/hugh-le-caine/compositions-demonstrations-1946-1974https://www.hughlecaine.com/en/compositions.htmlhttps://www.raymondscott.nethttp://www.psychomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/A_Century_of_the_Theremin.pdfhttps://www.sweetwater.com/insync/control-voltage-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/https://www.daphneoram.orghttps://www.classiccat.net/dictionary/klangfarbenmelodie.phphttps://120years.net/wordpress/the-electronic-sackbuthugh-le-cainecanada1945/https://boomkat.com/products/an-empty-bliss-beyond-this-world
https://elifyalvac.com/http://www.psychomat.com/
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In this 4th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Electronic Works 1958-1995 by Else Marie Pade, pioneering female composer of electronic music from Denmark.
Listen to Electronic Works 1958-1995 here:
https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-works-1958-1995
Useful links:
https://boomkat.com/products/electronic-works-1958-1995-c77bb25b-9e56-4644-8597-661eba78d2e9https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/Fausthttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/arts/music/iannis-xenakis-centennial.html
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-compositional-possibilities-are-endless-by-else-marie-padehttps://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/german-occupation-1940-1945/http://www.bussigel.com/systemsforplay/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cascone_Aesthetics.pdf
https://elifyalvac.com/http://www.psychomat.com/
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In this episode, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about L'Île re-sonante by pioneering female composer Éliane Radigue. This episode was recorded at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Listen to L'Île re-sonante here:
https://elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/l-le-re-sonante
Useful links:http://www.psychomat.com/https://elifyalvac.com/
https://monoskop.org/%C3%89liane_Radiguehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_musichttps://sisterswithtransistors.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_Thodolhttps://www.vintagesynth.com/arp/2500.phphttps://giacintoscelsi.bandcamp.com/album/scelsi-edition-6-the-orchestral-works-ii-mode176https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/analogue-warmth
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In this second episode, Elif Yalvac and Jono Podmore are sitting at Cafe OTO and discussing Tod Dockstader's Aerial #2. Listen to Aerial #2 here:https://open.spotify.com/album/5QRUYw87UhRvKFnn2GhaMX Useful links:https://importantrecords.com/products/copy-of-tod-dockstader-aerial-2-2lphttps://elifyalvac.com/http://www.psychomat.com/Harmoniserhttps://www.eventideaudio.com/rackmount/h3000/Cy Twomblyhttps://gagosian.com/artists/cy-twombly/Short Wavehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio UPAhttps://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/IULMIA/exhibits/show/nick-and-stephen-bosustow-film/united-productions-of-america-Radiophonic Workshophttps://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/april/bbc-radiophonic-workshopHolgerhttps://www.discogs.com/release/355847-Holger-Czukay-Radio-Wave-SurferParmegianihttps://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/bernard-parmegiani_sound-thinkingBerio http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1
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In this first episode, Elif Yalvac and Jono Podmore are sitting at Cafe OTO and discussing Stockhausen's Telemusik.
Listen to Telemusik here
https://youtu.be/N-vb97ukRjY?si=HQbCRZEZq9UdUSba
Useful links:
https://elifyalvac.com/http://www.psychomat.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(WDR)https://www.dw.com/en/conny-plank-the-visionary-behind-kraftwerk-and-krautrock/a-54068438https://www.hfmt-koeln.de/https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/study-with-guildhall/music/principal-study-and-departments/electronic-produced-musichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamonohttp://www.metamono.co.ukhttps://www.cafeoto.co.uk/
