gak is back for another two hours of radio art, though he had plans for eight hours, so prepare for four separate layers of sonic mayhem, mixing spoken word, field recordings, soothing drone and not-so-soothing noise, highlighting the creative minds that inspire us all. there are eulogies for some brilliant souls who left us in 2022: vangelis, george crumb, mira calix, norm chambers, klaus schulze & ingram marshall. CHANNEL NSZ -- N1/ Klaus Schulze: Melange (OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980, 2000) Ellipsis Arts ** RIP N2/ Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg & Julian Sartorius: Deep Rabbit Hole (Lockdown, 2021) Clean Feed N3/ Vangelis: Part Two (Hypothesis, 1978) Bellaphon/Charly ** RIP N4/ Iannis Xenakis: I-1. Diamorphoses [1959] (Electroacoustic Works 1922-2001, 2022) Karlrecords N5/ Concord Quartet: George Crumb's Black Angels, III. Return (American String Quartets 1950-1970, 1995) VoxBox ** RIP N6/ Norm Chambers: Simulacrum (Graphic Means OST, 2017) self-released ** RIP N7/ Anla Courtis & S Glass: Rabbit Science (Other Secretive Vehicles, 2021) Ikuisuus N8/ Low: There's a Comma After Still (Hey What, 2021) Sub Pop ** RIP N9/ Rusalka: Reflection Underneath Waves (Base Waters, 2019) Absurd Exposition NA/ Ernie Althoff: Hansel and Pestle (Nine Perverse Pairs and Three Veranda Interludes, 2022) self-released NB/ Colette Broeckaert, Sebastian Berweck & Martin Lorenz: Bernard Parmegiani's Stries [1980] for 3 Synthesizers & Tape, III. Stries (Stries, 2021) NC/ Natasha Barrett: Growth (Heterotopia, 2022) Persistence of Sound ND/ Nurse with Wound: Broken America (3 Lesbian Sardines, 2021) United Dairies NE/ Monica Pearce & SHHH!! Ensemble: Leather [w.Zac Pulak & Edana Higham] (Textile Fantasies, 2022) Centrediscs NF/ Sean Luciw: Rabbit Ears [in the Pocket] (Killing Time: 20th Anniversary digital rerelease, 2016) Ulusulu CHANNEL VOX -- V1/ Mira Calix: Gargle [Command V] (Absent Origin, 2021) Warp ** RIP V2/ Toru Takemitsu: Vocalism A-1 (Concert 20-21 Century, Volume 7: Early Japanese Tape Music, 1956) Earlabs V3/ Ingram Marshall: Cortez [1973 w.Snee McCaig] (Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Centre 1961-1973, 1998) New World ** RIP V4/ Lucrecia Dalt: No Era Sólida (No Era Sólida, 2020) Rvng Intl. V5/ Cousin Silas & the Glove of Bones: The Universal Hum 3:30am (New Runes, 2022) Submarine Broadcasting V6/ Efrim Manuel Menuck: Baby It Has to Fall (Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series, 2020) Constellation V7/ Graeme Miller & Steve Shill: Without Impatience (The Carrier Frequency: Original 1984 Stage Production Score, 2020) Finders Keepers V8/ Avey Tare: Tape Player Chants for Winter (New Psycho Actives: Volume 1, 2015) self-released V9/ Ben Johnston & The New Verbal Workshop: Visions and Spels [side 2] (Visions and Spels, 1984) Composers Recordings Inc [CRI] VA/ Aidan Baker: Something Opens in My Head (True Dreaming [to Bend the World], 2021) Dissipatio VB/ Princess Apparently: Disaster Head (Demo/lition, 2018) self-released VC/ Markus Floats: "Karl Marx. Capital Volume 1. Chapter 33 - The Modern Theory of Colonisation [Abridged]” Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series, 2020) Constellation VD/ Cabaret Voltaire: Baader Meinhof (Methodology '74/ '78. Attic Tapes; 2003) Mute/The Grey Area VE/ Reinhold Weber: Missa Fonetica Für Eine Elektronisch Verfremdete Stimme 1973 (Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen, 1974) Corona/Creel Pone CHANNEL ERF -- E1/ R. Murray Schafer, Judy Loman, Theodore Gentry, Wendy Humphreys, Beverley Johnston, Tilly Kooyman & Stuart Laughton: Sun Father, Earth Mother (Patria, 1996) Opening Day E2/ [no artist] Big River (Wilderness River: The Natural Sounds of the Wilderness, 1993) LaserLight Digital E3/ Nathan Shubert: Deutsche Bahn Train to Cologne [50.992°N, 7.01°E] (Field Recordings: Volume 1, 2019) self-released E4/ David Shire: Tiger Tiger (Apocalypse Now: The Unused Score, 2017) La-La Land/American Zoetrope E5/ Aperus: Birdsong as Mantra (Archaic Signal, 2020) Geophonic E6/ Emeka Ogboh: Ojuelegba 2.0 (Alternate African Reality: Electronic, Electroacoustic & Experimental music from Africa and the Diaspora, 2020) Syrphe E7/ ROY 101 & AD: Night (Sounds of Parkdale, 2018) self-released E8/ Stephen Shiell: 51°32'11.1"N 0°01'26.9”W (No More War Pigs, 2022) Industrial Coast E9/ [no artist] Small Rapid (Wilderness River: The Natural Sounds of the Wilderness, 1993) LaserLight Digital EA/ Bill Fontana: Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns [Installation version, 1981] (Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns, 1982) KQED FM EB/ Nathan Shubert: Stream Outside Frankfurt [50.186°N, 8.691°E] (Field Recordings: Volume 1, 2019) self-released CHANNEL DRN -- D1/ Blanck Mass: Noise Destroys Something Wonderful (Ted K OST, 2022) Sacred Bones D2/ Aviva Endean: Moths & Stars (Moths & Stars, 2022) Room40 D3/ Richard Wernick & Penn Contemporary Players: George Crumb's Lux Æterna (Xenakis, Del Tredici, Stockhausen, Cage, Crumb, 2014) Sony Classical ** RIP D4/ Mica Levi: What Y'all Make (Zola OST, 2021) Invada/A24 D5/ Deison: Hidden Light (Magnetic Debris: Volume 1, 2019) Dissipatio D6/ Colin Stetson: Cerberus (Chimæra I, 2022) Room40 D7/ Equal Ways: Gone, The Salt Tears (OEM Compilation I, 2020) Ottawa Experimental Music D8/ Formula Vee: Dispersal (Dispersal, 2020) Mule D9/ Kara-Lis Coverdale: A 478 (A 480, 2014) Constellation Tatsu DA/ Matmos: If All Things Were Turned to Smoke/Gdyby Wszystko Stalo Sie Dymem (Regards/Uklony dla Boguslaw Schaeffer, 2022) Thrill Jockey DB/ Ryoji Ikeda: Code-Verse [2018] (Music for Installations: Volume 2, 2022) Codex Edition DC/ Sarah Davachi: Harmonies in Grey (In Concert & In Residence, 2022) Late Music DD/ Stephen Vitiello, Pauline Oliveros & Joe McPhee: SV+PO+JM 2 (SV+PO+JM, 2001) UbuWeb DE/ Clint Mansell: Mychorrhiza [60-250Hz] (In the Earth OST, 2021) Invada/Lakeshore DF/ Scanner: Vittoria (52 Spaces, 2002) Bette A sane version of this to properly eulogize the appropriate folks can be made upon enough requests. However, this is best recommended to be listened to via double stereo. radiofreegak@gmail.com twitter.com/hundredaire www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies