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Hello Friend:

Just writing to let you know about two exciting upcoming shows. The first is the latest edition of the Giant Ear))) show which is being webcast this Sunday evening (4/25) from 7-9 pm on http://www.free103point9.org. It features recordings submitted by the students in my “Wireless Music” class at the Center for Worker Education. And, as always, if you can’t listen to the stream in real-time on Sunday eve, not to worry, you can find the show by accessing the free103point9 archive located here and searching for “Giant Ear))) Favorite Sounds.”

The second show that I am REALLY excited about is coming up this Wednesday evening (4/28) — 8pm at Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn. I will be premiering/performing a new video work that I created while participating in the first Diapason-hosted Video Composition Workshop (VCW). I’ve really been pushing pixels over here in my studio! What makes this show even more exciting is the artists involved. Check out this lineup: Jon Giles (aka Naval Cassady), Nisi Jacobs (w/Michael Schumacher), Philip White, Dan Winckler and Adam Kendall. Wow!

A much more detailed description of the VCW is below. And, the performers are also going to briefly talk about their work and a nice program will be available that describes the workshop and a bit about each performer and their process.

Diapason Gallery is located at:

882 THIRD AVENUE, 32/33 STREETS, 10TH FLOOR BROOKLYN NY 11232

Take the R train to 36th Street in Brooklyn and walk west toward the BQE — the building is bewteen 32nd and 33rd streets just west of the BQE.

It’s going to be a great night and I hope to see you there!!!

Sincerely,

Jonny

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The VCW Performance

Wednesday,  April 28
8pm
$7 suggested

The VCW Performance is a show of live video pieces created as part of the Video Composition Workshop.
The Video Composition Workshop is dedicated to writing performative video pieces. It explores how artists approach their compositions and how they notate the scores from which the videoists perform.

This show presents the completed compositions, works-in-progress, and experiments of six videoists and musicians resulting from the first six-week salon. Pieces include video paired with acoustic instruments, analog electronics, and digital audio. The evening will end with the VCW composers discussing their various approaches. (We’re as wary as you are of endless artist discussions. We’ll stay focused and concise.)

Live video has made some great advances in the past years. Technological capabilities and popular awareness are making it more integral to contemporary performances. VCW is happy to present 6 approaches to working with video as a dynamic, performative art.

Compositions by:

Naval Cassidy (aka Jon Giles) (including performers Roland Brown, David Hainsworth and Jonathan Moniaci)

Jonny Farrow

Nisi Jacobs (including performer Michael Schumacher)

Adam Kendall (including performers Christof Knoche and Eileen Mack)

Phillip White

Dan Winckler


http://www.diapasongallery.org Diapason is supported by NYSCA, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Phaedrus Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, MediaThe Foundation, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Kirk Radke, and by generous individuals. Diapason is a 501(c)3 organization.


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Hi All:

Tune in this eve to the latest installment of GIANT EAR))). Follow the free103 link below at the appointed hour, sit back and enjoy.

All the Best,

Jonny
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free103point9 Online Radio Event

GIANT EAR))) HEATER OR WATER HAMMERS

Hosted By Bleakley McDowell
Dec. 27, 2009: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.—Eastern Standard Time (NYC)

Curated/Organized by: New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

Deep winter approaches. Instant, drastic climate change aside, it will be getting colder. In the majority of New York City buildings this means old steam radiators will be sputtering to life. The first half of today’s broadcast is collection of recordings of these radiators from various apartments. Listen for the water hammer…it’s getting hot in here. We follow that with paranoid, beyond-the-grave wax cylinder recordings and a journey to mystical Surakarta, Indonesia. False gong – neither a beginning nor an end, a start nor a finish. With work by Edmund Mooney, Jonny Farrow and Bleakley McDowell.

http://www.nyacousticecology.org/

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What?: The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology Presents another installment of GIANT EAR)))

When?: Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

How?: free103point9 Online Radio — click here to go to their site and launch your media player

Description: This edition of Giant Ear))) is hosted by Hunter Inter-Media Arts/MFA candidate Bleakley McDowell focusing on Hunter graduate student work from NYSAE Co-Chair Jonny Farrow’s Sound Environments class. You will hear a wide range of NYC sounds from the Bronx to the Battery and points east and west. The show will feature works by: DaHye Lee, Elizabeth Knafo, Meredith Goncalves, Melissa Hacker, Samantha Stalling, Satoko Sugiyama, Bob, Kate Kunath, Megan Sperry, Nicole McNeill and Sean Weiner.

Click the link below for more about NYSAE.

http://www.nyacousticecology.org/

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Hey Friends –

Make sure you tune in tonight’s new edition of GIANT EAR))) curated and hosted by NYSAE member Mikhail Ilitaov!

Goto www.free103point9.org to stream the show. 7-9 pm

See Playlist below:

Giant Ear))) Playlist: ‘Cricket Crawl’ by Florence Blanchard, an event that took place in New York on September 12, 2009; A baby woke up in the middle of the night and was fed; A short lesson in how to listen to pre-natal ultrasound; an excerpt from the film ‘Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance’ (Daigoro makes a choice between a toy and his father’s sword); ‘I am the Walrus’ from Lol Coxhill’s album ‘Ear of the Beholder’ on Dandelion records; Place Lane and Play School Opening by acclivity, a member of freesound.org; ‘Die-opening school day’ by Jean Francois Cavro, soundtransit.nl; some thoughts about kids in Marrakech; childern’s song from ‘Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance’; ‘We don’t have no slippers’ by acclivity of freesound.org; Riga Arsenal by Maksim Shentelev a.k.a. MyYu (soundtransit.nl); Children playing in Osaka Hirano Shrine by Jean Francois Cavro (soundtransit.nl); an excerpt from a Russian film ’17 Moments of Spring’; Giggling French Girls by acclivity (freesound.org); WC Fields in The Bank Dick; Classroom Ambiance by dobroide (freesound.org); ‘a bird-like singing child and birds’ by Lasse-Marc Riek (sountransit.nl); WC Fields, from the film ‘Golf Specialist’; ‘hello mammie chocolate’ by Frank Geeraert (soundtransit.nl); Casablanca kids playing police and thiefs; Kids Club 1 and 2 by acclivity (freesound.org); Children’s Playground in Seoul, South Korea by sazman (freesound.org); ‘pigeon and child’ by dobroide (freesound.org); children playing in a swimming pool in Fort Myers by John Hopkins (soundtransit.nl); Extra classroom noise by Andrea Callard (http://www.andreacallard.com/); sounds from El Tajin, Mexico; Yi Er San Si Wu Liu Qi Ba by Matthias Kispert (soundtransit.nl); Brooklyn crickets.

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McDOSBEV is a ridicuouls acronym for this multi-part show: Mexico City Dispatch/Owl Sounds/Bird’s Ear View — The April 2009 installment of GIANT EAR))) features an Andrea Polli report and recording from the most recent World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) held in Mexico City in March. Also, host, Jonny Farrow will be playing owl sounds, real and imitated, some owl recordings from Andrea Callard, as well as an interview and recordings with artist Rob Peterson concerning his collaborative project “Bird’s Ear View.”

You can tune in on Sunday April 26, 7-9pm on www.free103point9.org

For more info on the Bird’s Ear View project visit: http://www.studiowolkowicz.com/
and Rob Peterson:  http://www.danholepond.com

Below is the text of Andrea Polli’s report from the most recent WFAE meeting.
JF

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March 23rd-27th, 2009
Sound Megalopolis hosted by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and Conaculta at the Fonateca Nacional in Mexico City
By Andrea Polli

Sound Megalopolis: Sonidos en peligro de extinción was a four-day conference hosted by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and the the Fonoteca Nacional in Coyacán Mexico City, the former home of the great Mexican poet Octavio Paz (1914-1998). This event marked the beginning of the newest WFAE affiliate organization, Foro Mexicano de Ecologica Acustica.  The Mexican Forum joins a group of 9 affiliate organizations including The ASAE (American Society for Acoustic Ecology, of which NYSAE, the New York Society is a chapter), the AFAE (Australia), JASE (Japan), CASE (Canada), FKL (German-speaking Europe), the UK, Finland and another new affiliate in Greece.

Despite travel warnings due to drug-related violence in the north near Tijuana, I always enjoy an opportunity to visit magical Mexico City: the city of lakes, the city of history unfolding, modern independent Mexico layered over the Spanish empire layered over the buried city of the Aztecs is laid bare in the grand Zocalo, the seat of power of Mexico.  The Ciudad de Mexico currently sustains 8 million in the city limit and 22 million in the combined city and surrounding metropolitan areas.  The trip was made even more special for providing not only an opportunity to re-connect with friends from the WFAE from al over the world, but to see the beginning of what seems to be a Latin American acoustic ecology movement.

I arrived for the opening ceremony Monday morning on the grounds of the Fonoteca.  Fonotecta is a national sound archive for Mexico that already houses an impressive archive. Nigel Frayne, President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and Lidia Camacho, General director of Fonateca and President of Foro Mexicano de Ecologica Acustica welcomed a large mixture of students and practitioners inside a ring of news media. The country of Mexico has responded to the UN’s call for environmental initiatives with an increased interest in soundscape. The Mexican cultural organization Conaculta has embarked upon a large scale project in the preservation of the Mexican soundscape and sonic heritage.  The project will consist of major soundscape recording projects in each of Mexico’s 31 states.  Several states have already been archived at the Fonoteca, and the year 2009 is focusing on the area of Oaxaca.  The sounds of the entire project will be put online and made available to the public as an international resource.

Scheduled to embark immediately after the opening remarks was the most amazing event, acoustic ecology pioneer Hildegard Westerkamp led a one-hour soundwalk through our surrounds in Coyacán.  I have had the opportunity to go on a soundwalk with Westerkamp in the past, most recently in Hirosaki, Japan for the 2007 WFAE conference, but I had never seen her transform such a large and diverse group, nearly 100 international participants, into a collective listening mind. Through the beautiful setting of the Fonateca, across a busy street and through a large park, no one was speaking, just listening to eachother’s footsteps blending with one’s own, hearing the quietest sounds, the sounds of the music on the gardener’s headphones, the dominance of the sounds of airplanes, the transition as birdsongs fade in while the plane and car engines fade off into the distance. Westerkamp asked us not only to listen, but to focus on listening to the listening.  This created in us, having all just come together for the first time less than an hour earlier, a visceral sense of community.  We became a community of listeners.    After the soundwalk, Westerkamp and R. Murray Schaffer led a discussion that ranged from initial reactions to how listening can bring one to political activism, how listening can move one to designing and creating the soundscape, and how educators might design and lead listening exercises with young people.

There was a wide range of presentations, in both Spanish and English with simultaneous translation, from scientific to strangely poetic.    The first day there was a keynote by Derrick de Kerckhove, director of the Culture and Technology MacLuhan Program  called ‘Marshall McLuhan on Sound.’  De Kerckhove talked about silence as a forgotten sound and the use of silence to bring one back to the senses.  In the discussion, R. Murray Schafer described a series of urban initiatives internationally to create quiet spaces, for example in Linz, Austria.

Throughout the conference there were presentations on new methodologies for the scientific study of changing soundscapes, for example Jose Luis Carles of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Andreas Mniestris of the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University in Corfu.  Both of these presentations and others focused on how research can lead to more experimentation, design and even the creation of art projects.

Some projects presented included Luz Maria Sanchez’s soinumapa.net (meaning ‘soundscape’ or ‘soundmap’ in Basque).  This sound map of the Basque region of Spain was sponsored by collaborating organizations arteleku and audiolab nd she presented inspiration from other soundmaps including escoitar.org in Spain, the badiafonia project in Catalonia region of Spain, madridsoundscape.org and of course NYSAE’s NYsoundmap and the soundseeker.org project.

Francisco Rivas of the Fonoteca Nacional presented on the phenomenology of sound, bringing up the difficulties of approaching philosophy in multiple languages when philosophy is based on words.  He spoke about the definition of ecology as describing interaction and the importance of a multiplicity of approaches.  Again and again the process of listening initiated by Westerkamp in the opening soundwalk came up in presentations, in this case Rivas discussed Pierre Schaeffer’s categorization of hearing into 4 parts:  hearing, listening, understanding and deep understanding and Barry Truax’s description of the process of listening.  The observation that hearing is an inner process echoed both Westerkamp and de Kerckhove’s presentations.

In addition to panel presentations during the day, each evening featured presentations of artworks, art installations and electroacoustic works, for example Canadian sound artist Eric Powell presented the interactive sound installation Sound.garden.scape: Gastown, Simon Fraser presented a multimedia surround soundscape work Gwesyn, a performance by Canadian sound artist Andrea Dancer and work by students of keynoter Sabine Breitsameter of the Darmstadt Hochschule.

The only downside was that the program was too packed, it was impossible to see everything.

There also was, of course, the city, not only as a rich soundscape in itself, but as a resource.  The Laboratorio Arte Alameda at the Bellas Artes section of town hosted an interesting sound installation show called INSIDEOUT that featured David Tudor’s Rainforest, a garden of household objects fitted with small speakers creating a soundscape full of surprise.  In the historic Laboratorio Arte building, a former Spanish church, the sounds of Tudor’s work bounced and echoed over the slick gold marble.

I also had the opportunity to make a binaural recording in the Zocalo included with this article. In this recording, you can hear a street musician playing a hurdee gurdee, the massive bells of the Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de María, a large group of protesters mixed in with street vendors throughout the square.

Links:
Slide show from the conference proceedings:
http://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/flashgallery/flashgallery.html

Images of Hildegard Westerkamp’s Mexico City Soundwalk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreapolli/sets/72157616240679674/

Abstracts online
in English
http://ponencias.pizzadeveloper.com/?cat=18
in Spanish
http://ponencias.pizzadeveloper.com/index.php?cat=18

Laboratoria Arte Alameda
http://www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx/

March 2009 Zocalo soundwalk:
Found in the beginning of the McDOSBEV Giant Ear))) show form 26 April 2009

Images of the Zocalo soundwalk:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreapolli/sets/72157616241001798/

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McDOSBEV is a ridicuouls acronym for this multi-part show: Mexico City Dispatch/Owl Sounds/Bird’s Ear View — The April 2009 installment of GIANT EAR))) features an Andrea Polli report and recording from the most recent World Forum for Acoustic Ecology held in Mexico City in March. Also, host, Jonny Farrow will be playing owl sounds, real and imitated, some owl recordings from Andrea Callard, as well as an interview and recordings with artist Rob Peterson concerning his collaborative project “Bird’s Ear View.”

You can tune in on Sunday April 26, 7-9pm on www.free103point9.org

For more info on the Bird’s Ear View project visit: http://www.studiowolkowicz.com/
and Rob Peterson:  http://www.danholepond.com

JF

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Sunday Feb. 22, 2009: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

Curated/Organized by: New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

We will play field recordings and pieces composed and from, San Francisco, with a minimum of talking and other “packaging.” Recordings from Chris Watson, Jim McKee, Andrew Roth, Robert Beahrs, Joseph Lawrence, James Goode, Aaron Ximm, and Jeremiah Moore, among others. A guest program produced by Jeremiah Moore and Aaron Ximm from Bay Area Sound Ecology will be included. Bay Area Sound Ecology (BASE) is an interdisciplinary forum centered around listening and the soundscape. We create projects and events to promote sound-environment awareness, making and encouraging opportunities for ear-opening sonic encounters, such as this radio program and our BASEbot listening salon series. Visit us on the web, and subscribe to our podcast, at http://www.basoundecology.org/

To listen to the show at the appointed time, follow the link below and launch the audio player.

http://www.free103point9.org/

Also, from this page you can goto the archives to hear old Giant Ear))) programs. Top right: Resources/Online Archive: search: Giant Ear)))

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Jan. 25, 2009: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

Curated/Organized by: New York Society for Acoustic Ecology

The monthly show from the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, this month curated and produced by David Watson. This show includes an older piece from Dallas Simpson, “Releasing the Bird of the Soul,” originally intended for the Sacred Spaces show. Also three pieces, with interviews exploring the act of recording and replaying : natural sound recordist Grant Finlay; Live foley performer Sam Hamilton, and sound effects designer Rowan Watson. Intermissions by the Cicada Raiders.

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NYSAE members Andrea Polli and Jonny Farrow interview artist China Blue about her recent CD, Under
Voices
, for which she recorded the seismic vibrations of the Eiffel Tower. With excerpts of the CD and other sonic curiosities.

To hear the show on the 28th go here: www.free103point9.org and launch the player.

For more info about China Blue and her art visit: www.chinablueart.com

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NYSAE‘s weekly, two-hour radio show webcasting recordings of the NYC soundscape, (wo)man-on-the-street public interest interviews, live on-site sound explorations, special guests, and more. New show updated each month.

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Nov. 30, 2008: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

free103point9 Online Radio

“Over the River and Through the Woods…” A reminiscence? An interrogation of the holiday industry? A meditation on rivers and woods? To grandmother’s house we go? Re-making the holidays as you would like them to be as an adult? Perhaps none of these questions will be answered. But is it possible to smell gingerbread cookies while listening to a webcast? Hosted by New York Society for Acoustic Ecology co-chair Jonny Farrow, this show will focus on home recordings, holiday songs, and dusty memories from the shelves of holidays past. So, put on your pj’s, pour yourself a hot apple cider and curl up next to your laptop.

NYSAE’s weekly, two-hour radio show webcasting recordings of the NYC soundscape, (wo)man-on-the-street public interest interviews, live on-site sound explorations, special guests, and more. New show updated each month.

http://www.free103point9.org

GE))) Over the River and Through the Woods Playlist

Time/Track/Artist/Album/Other Info
00:00:00 Intro Frederic March and Nathaniel Shilkret Hark! The (Y)ears – Recorded Voices of Actual Celebrities – Capitol S282
00:00:55 Over the River and Through the Woods/??/Midi file From the internet
00:01:10 Over the River and Through the Woods/??/Midi file From the internet
00:02:05 Your Host Speaks…/ Jonny Farrow/ Jonny Farrow intros the show
00:03:24 Confluence of Patterson Brook and the Hudson River/Annea Lockwood/A Sound Map of the Hudson River
00:07:36 Deep River/Paul Robeson/The Great Paul Robeson
00:08:58 Hudson River at the Mt. Marcy Trail Head/Annea Lockwood/A Sound Map of the Hudson River
00:10:00 Texas Falls, VT/ Jonny Farrow/Mixes in with Annea Lockwood track above
00:12:26 The Negro Speaks of Rivers/Langston Hughes/Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers — Black Poets Read Their Work
00:13:20 Man on the Street/ Jonny Farrow/West Side of Union Square 11/21/08
00:19:12 Walking in Bryce/Jonny Farrow/Field recordings from Bryce Canyon, UT — Spring 2006
00:24:36 Interview with Jonny Farrow’s Mom/Jonny+Mom/Interview about riverhead hunting — recorded 11/22/08
00:30:28 I am a Pilgrim/George Pegram/Bury Me Beneath the Willow — A Treasury of Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads — Washington Records WLP 734
00:33:09 Interview with the host’s Mom — Continued
00:36:16 Halleluja Chorus/GF Handel/Handel’s Messiah; Kurt von Baum/Homburg Symphony
00:38:40 More Man on the Street/Jonny Farrow /West Side of Union Square 11/21/08
00:41:20 Over the River and Through the Woods/??/Midi file From the internet
00:42:32 Young and Fair/I am Growing Old/Jonny’s Grandma/Home tape made by the host’s mom
00:45:52 The Banks of the Ohio/Harry West, Jeanie West/Bury Me Beneath the Willow — A Treasury of Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads — Washington Records WLP 734
00:46:56 Bury Me Beneath the Will/Harry West, Jeanie West/Bury Me Beneath the Willow — A Treasury of Southern Mountain Folksongs and Ballads — Washington Records WLP 734
00:48:58 Summer sounds from “The Woods”/ Jonny Farrow/Field Recording from West Virginia
00:52:55 Roaring Camp and Big Trees, Heisler #2/Steam Engine Recordings/ Journey to Yesterday Vol. 2 — Arkay Enterprises AR1013
Roaring Camp and Big Trees, Shay #1/Steam Engine Recordings/Journey to Yesterday Vol. 2 — Arkay Enterprises AR1013
00:57:16 Chant Down Babylon/Jonny Farrow/Music Created for Nicolas Dumit Estevez’s “Last Supper”
01:03:18 On the Wall/Jonny’s Grandma/Home tape made by the host’s mom
01:05:25 Birches/Robert Frost/The Cademon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading their Own Poetry — Cademon TC 2006
01:08:24 The Tree on the Sky/Loren Chasse/the air in the sand — naturestrip NS3004
01:15:12 American Game Birds/John James Audobon/National Audobon Society — Birds of North America
01:23:16 Baby It’s Cold Outside/Dean Martin/Making Spirits Bright — Capitol72434-95735-2-9
01:25:36 Cowbell/Thomas J Valentino Inc./Major Records Presents Sound Effects Vol 7
01:25:52 I Wonder as I Wander/Barbara Streisand/A Christmas Album
I Wonder as I Wander/Price/Fiedler/Lawrence/Gorme/Christmastime in Carol and Song
01:28:04 Various flushing and water sounds/Thomas J Valentino Inc./Major Records Presents Sound Effects Vol 7
01:29:26 Cocktail Party/Thomas J Valentino Inc./Major Records Presents Sound Effects Vol 7
01:31:09 Warm Fronts, Cold Fronts/Tom Glazer/Weather Songs from ballads of the age of science…
01:34:22 what if a much of a which of a wind/e.e. cummings/The Cademon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading their Own Poetry — Cademon TC 2006
01:36:24 Thanksgiving Theme/Vince Guaraldi/Charlie Brown Holiday Hits
01:38:18 Selection from Cadestral Map/Jill Magi (read by same)
01:39:20 Music From the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Website/Various
01:40:22 Bucolics: Streams/W.H. Auden/W.H. Auden Reading…
01:44:56 Broken Household Appliance National Forest/Grandaddy/The Sophtware Slump
01:46:14 Hyrax, Wildebeest, Hyena, Vervet Monkey, Rhinoceros/Various/Animals of Africa – Sounds of the Jungle
01:49:25 Bucolics: Woods/W.H. Auden/W.H. Auden Reading…
01:52:28 Thanksgiving Show/The Philco Bendyx Sunshine Company/Undergroundhog — cassette
01:53:10 Snowflake, Snowflake/Tom Glazer/Weather Songs from ballads of the age of science…
01:55:02 Cold Turkey/Ferrante and Teicher/Dynamic Twin Pianos
01:57:35 Tales from the Vienna Woods/Jesse Crawford/The Poet of the Organ
01:59:15 Your Host Speaks…/Jonny Farrow closes the show

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