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Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza and WFMU

A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 28 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment. Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. [On hiatus.]

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New lost episode! "Scary in a Different Way" |...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/07/19

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Scary in a Different Way" - Show #434, from June 7, 2012 ["First in a new bi-weekly series."] [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/105979

"Be Who You Are Today" + "Things Are Looking Up", +...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/07/12

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Be Who You Are Today" - Show #522, from May 4, 2017 [Live on stage at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville VA] [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Things Are Looking Up" - Show #498, from March 21, 2014 [ Live on stage at BON, Charlottesville VA] [0:48:39] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Cat Power live loops" - Show #377, from March 12, 2006 [ Good Woman endlessness, during the home period] [1:42:19] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

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All you need is (letting go) v2017 | Download MP3...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/07/06

Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - All You Need Is (letting go) Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "All you need is (Letting go) v2017" - Show #544, from 9/6/17 (updated from #466 from 8/7/13) Pink Floyd - "Lost For Words" - The Division Bell [Loops] Tony Robbins - "Success from "Failure": 4 All-Time Greats-38" - Personal Power II - 01 - The Key to Personal Power Sigur Rós - "Sæglópur" - We Play Endlessly [Loops] Ken - "I'd like your experience possibilities to remain open" Sigur Rós -

Choosing (to be here today) (Show #642/#769) |...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/06/07

Lemon Jelly - "Page One" - Lemonjelly.ky Negativland - "The World Will Decide" - The World Will Decide Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Choosing (to be here today)" - Show #642, from Apr. 3, 2019 [Live collage of various earlier collages, plus new life reflections. Augmented today in 20210] Steve Fitch - "Where We Were Young and Stupid" - Music for the Movie Ken - "Embracing procrastination as a method" Lots of other things... Ken - "Does it matter whether I'm here? (the Choosing monologue)"

Here comes something! (Show #717/#767) | Download MP3...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/05/24

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Here Comes Something" - Show #717, from June 3, 2020 [Augmented/remixed live now in 2021 Semi-complete listing of source materials follows below:] [0:00:00] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Here Comes Something" Live stream feedback echo chamber - "Give the Drummer Radio live stream" [0:00:05] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8" - Show #263, from 7/30/03 [0:01:00] Ken and apprentice - "This must be the beginning"

4 1/2 lost episodes, debut today, plus new 2021 live...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/04/05

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's a World of Laughter (Germany '09 edit of 2/24/04 show)" - Show #297, from Feb. 24, 2004 [Live at KOOP Austin Contains: Walt Disney (A Spoonful of Sugar at Disneyland), Alan Watts (Listen & Zen Laughing), David Lucas Burge (Relative Pitch Ear Training Super Course), Noam Chomsky (media's complicity in genocide), Manufacturing Consent (East Timor cash crop), Bob Sharples (Stars and Stripes Forever), Walt Disney (A Spoonful of Sugar), Ronald Reagan (Reduce

Laughter Brings You Closer (to the) (Shows #366/368...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/03/29

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Surely Laughter Brings You Closer to the Guy" - Show #366, live May 24th, 2005 in Austin [I think the cat just fell: Should I go (a way)? w/some 2021 updates. Full list of source samples follows:] [0:00:00] My Fun (Justin Hardison) - "Kim's Favorite" - Layered with other My Fun songs at beginning of show [0:00:15] Ken - "2021 confusion introduction" [0:00:40] My Fun (Justin Hardison) - "Marcalay" - Layered with other My Fun songs at beginning of show

There's So Much Left to Do + 2021 live mix at end...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/03/22

Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: There's So Much Left to Do (what's the secret? finding out by doing) Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "There's So Much Left to Do (what's the secret? finding out by doing)" - Show #435, from June 21, 2012 [0:00:00] Graham Chapman - "I'd like to tell you about a minority group of people who have never been deprived" - Monty Python's Flying Circus John Carpenter - "Escape From New York" 3-2-1 Contact - "You do have the tendency to regard the computer as

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Every Path is the Right Path + some Long&Gentle |...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/03/08

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Every Path is the Right Path (give up without giving in)" - Show #515, from 1/14/17 [With some 2021 talk overlaying. Full list of samples follows:] [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Excerpts] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Ramu Misses You (is it just me)" - Show from 7/12/17 [Excerpts] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't Sleep excerpt" - Chasing Sleep movie [Always two steps

Unearthed double feature: "Torture US" & "I...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/03/01

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Torture US" - Show #327, from Aug. 17, 2004 [What has been charged thus far is abuse, which I believe, technically, is different from torture. List of samples follows:] [0:00:00] J.S. Bach - "Sinfonia, BWV 196" - Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196, Bach 2000 - Sacred Cantatas - CD 13 or 14, 1989, Concentus Musicus-Harnoncour [Backwards, layered, varied speed] [0:13:03] Ken - "Identification" [0:13:24] Ken - "Identification" [0:13:29] Elender Wall & Bryant Kong

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Dreams, impossibility, love (Show #533/756) |...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/02/22

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Dreams, impossiblity, love" - Show #533, from July 19, 2017 [Life is impossible, yet it happens. Go forward. Do. Keep going. Augmented live now in 2021. Full list of samples follows:] [0:00:00] Ken - "Countdown" East Forest - "10 Laws" - The Education of the Individual Soul [Loops] Ken - "Everything is impossible, and it's going to happen anyway" East Forest - "10 Laws" - The Education of the Individual Soul [Always rest whenever you can] - "Phone dial

"I Approve This Message" & "Following the...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/02/15

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "I Approve This Message (A Few More of Those Unknown Unknowns)" - Show #323, from July 20, 2004 [How did this tradition get started? I don't know, but it's a tradition. Layered sources listed below:] [0:00:00] George W. Bush - "2004 Campaign commercial excerpt" ["I'm George W. Bush, and I approve this message."] [0:00:00] R.E.M. - "Gardening At Night (different vocal mix)" - In the Attic-Essential Recordings 1985-1989 [4 loops] [0:00:07] John Williams - "Star

My So-Called Mind (going deep, time unfold) (Show...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/02/09

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "My So-Called Mind" - Show #447, Dec. 24, 2012 [Going deep, time unfolds (Entire show played today...unfolded below!)] [0:00:00] Show promo - "Radio Tropicale" - WTJU [0:00:27] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "12/13/12" - Show #446, Dec. 13, 2012 [0:02:10] Ken - "Various overlays now" Vic - "Introduces show some previous week" - WTJU [0:02:25] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Snow plans to help" - Show #445, Nov. 29, 2012 [Do plans tell you what to

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Reinventing the Wheel (Show #542) | Download full MP3...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/02/02

Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" [0:00:00] Ken - "Intro" [0:01:19] Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" [Layers] [0:05:42] Vangelis - "Tears in Rain" - Blade Runner s.t. [0:07:34] Jerry Lewis - "You have to follow your instinct" - Interview by Dick Caviett [0:10:29] Saint-Saens - "The Aquarium" [0:11:35] Stone Roses - "It takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary [0:12:25] Manhattans - "Shining Star" [0:13:25] Taylor Kitsch - "Absolutely everything around

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Hang Onto a Dream (America), with bonus 2021 mixing...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/01/18

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469, from Aug. 28, 2013 (1/16/17 edit) [0:00:00] Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer [0:00:00] Unknown IT Corporation - "I Have A Dream" - IT Anthems [of 2 CPU's] [0:04:21] Noam Chomsky - "Class War" - Class War [0:04:56] Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. [0:06:35] Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t

Terminal Sunshine & Uncertainty is OK (Shows...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2021/01/11

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Terminal Sunshine (Like a Rainbow Canon)" - Show #333, from 9/7/04 [What was it you were thinking about? Contains live looped and layered fragments of: Ordinary People (Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Robert Redford, Judith Guest, Alvin Sargent) - choir, what was it you were thinking about, how was the show, I think we should stick to the plan, have you thought about calling that doctor, the month's up, silence of our souls, contemplate

Whatever Happens Will Happen Again (Show #311/747) |...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2020/12/07

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Whatever Happens Will Happen Again" - Show #311, from May 1, 2004, KOOP Austin [With new 2020 talk layers.] [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/99135

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Great Green Wall (Show #590/745) | Download MP3 from...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2020/11/30

Noel - "Silent Mourning" [Loop] [0:00:00] Ken - "We'll slip away" Noel - "Silent Mourning" [Loop] Walter Murch - "Good example of the power of the sound" Walter Murch - "He doesn't have the film in his head, he loves the process of making" Nada Surf - "Blizzard of 77" [Loop] Jack Kornfield - "Loving kindness Part 12" Eumir Deodato - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" [Layers] Walter Murch - "Li, things unlikely to get except by chance" Dustin O'Halloran - "An Ending, A Beginning" Julianna Barwick -

War Is(n't) Over: Beautiful Terror, Children's...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2020/11/09

Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Beautiful Terror (RNC edit)" - Show #284, from Dec. 22, 2003 [Edited Sept. 2, 2004 for WFMU's RNC remix Full source listing follows:] [0:00:00] Explosions in the Sky - "Your Hand in Mine" - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place [Cut up into pieces and looped in realtime behind speeches, progressing and shifting gradually throughout show to slowly increasing war beat] [0:29:40] George W. Bush, written by Michael Gerson - "Various speeches" [0:29:51] Lyndon Baines

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Suddenly See More (won't back down) v2020 (Show...

Ken"s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU ·

2020/10/27

Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Suddenly See More (won't back down) v2020" - Show #577, from Feb. 28, 2018, augmented live right now Oct. 26, 2020 [Accept your imperfections.] [0:00:00] Metallica - "The Unforgiven" [Loops] [0:00:00] Ken - "Introduction / It's time to change" [0:04:29] Metallica - "The Unforgiven" [Loops] [0:06:52] Mike Post and Pete Carpenter - "The A-Team" [Loops] [0:09:37] Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69" [Vocals only] [0:09:58] Barney [0:10:23] Cranes - "Happy Christmas"

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