Episodes
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...
Published 08/28/24
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...
Published 08/15/24
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...
Published 08/15/24
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...
Published 08/15/24
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...
Published 08/15/24
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...
Published 08/15/24
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/...
Published 08/15/24
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/...
Published 08/15/24
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
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Published 08/14/24
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...
Published 08/14/24
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...
Published 08/14/24
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
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Published 08/13/24
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
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Published 08/13/24
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
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Published 08/13/24
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
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Published 08/13/24
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-2-2lp
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http://www.psychomat.com/
Harmoniser
https://www.eventideaudio.com/rackmount/h3000/
Cy Twombly
https://gagosian.com/artists/cy-twombly/
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Published 08/13/24
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
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Published 08/12/24