December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 20th
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Alex Ross: 'Tis the season for the Messiah on... →
Follow the link to Alex Ross’s blog, above. Listen to the embedded sound clip (requires Flash, sorry). Laugh uproariously. Go here for the back story.
Dec 20th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Delia Derbyshire (43) John Baker (33) Tristram Cary (28) Simone Dinnerstein (19) Astor Piazzolla (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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One Week One Band—The Whole List
Monday How I discovered radiophonics—an introduction The Tomorrow People Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and excerpt from The Same Trade as Mozart The interior of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop studio Daphne Oram—”Pompie Ballet” Tuesday Delia Derbyshire, “Blue Veils and Golden Sands” Delia describes her method of making music with tape-loops “Science and Health”, the music deemed “too...
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“I submit as a law of editorial physics that the author’s desire to include a...”
– Peter Ginna, “When journalists become authors: a few cautionary tips”. Guilty as charged.
Dec 16th
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One Week One Band—Thursday
Tristram Cary and EMS EMS publicity materials for their synthesizers Doctor Who: The “Delaware” version of the theme VCS3 patch diagram for “Poetry from Prisons” Malcolm Clarke and Desmond Briscoe and the Workshop’s Synthi 100 Doctor Who: Peter Howell’s 1980 arrangement of the theme
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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One Week One Band—Wednesday
The longest tape-loop in London John Baker: Oranges and Lemons John Baker at work How the “Reading Your Letters” theme for Woman’s Hour was made Delia Derbyshire and “Ziwzih Ziwzih oo-oo-oo” Delia Derbyshire, Electrosonic, and “Nightwalker” Unit Delta Plus artifacts White Noise, “Firebird”
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
rocketsandrayguns: hangingfire: Delia Derbyshire (46) David Bowie (33) BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Paddy Kingsland (12) White Noise (8) Peter Howell (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz Ha! *shifty look*
Dec 14th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Delia Derbyshire (46) David Bowie (33) BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Paddy Kingsland (12) White Noise (8) Peter Howell (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 14th
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One Week One Band—Tuesday
Delia Derbyshire, “Blue Veils and Golden Sands” Delia describes her method of making music with tape-loops “Science and Health”, the music deemed “too lascivious” by a BBC producer The 1963 Doctor Who Theme Undated newspaper article about Ron Grainer The opening and closing titles to An Unearthly Child Also, once this week is over, I seriously need...
Dec 13th
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One Week One Band—Monday
How I discovered radiophonics—an introduction The Tomorrow People Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and excerpt from The Same Trade as Mozart The interior of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop studio Daphne Oram—”Pompie Ballet” Welcome to those of you who came here by way of One Week One Band. I assure you the quality of content here at Hangingfire Central is, in general,...
Dec 12th
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One Week // One Band: How I discovered... →
oneweekoneband: Back in the early days of cable TV, Nickelodeon didn’t have much—if anything—in the way of original programming. It was all ganked from the UK or Canada, so there was some small subsection of my Generation X cohort that spent lazy summer days getting dosed up on Bagpuss, Bod, Simon in the Land of… And away we go. No, I’m not going to reblog every one of these, not...
Dec 12th
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Coming up: Delia Derbyshire and the BBC...
oneweekoneband: Thank you, Ian! Now for next week, we’ll cover a topic I’m really looking forward to (and know very little about…) Karin Kross (who blogs at hangingfire.tumblr.com) will talk about English composer and electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and her work (and those of her contemporaries) at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Derbyshire famously arranged the Doctor Who theme, but...
Dec 11th
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The awkward moment when the music in Rick Perry's...
j-ralphios: /rolls up sleeves, puts on classical pedant hat The music in question actually isn’t by Copland, as the New Yorker’s classical critic Alex Ross explains on his blog. It’s trying damn hard to be, though, and the point still stands that right-wing pols have persisted in appropriating Copland’s music and his “all-American” style without...
Dec 11th
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Catching Up To the Future: An Appreciation of... →
My latest contribution to Tor.com.
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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2011 Media Recap
I always swear that I’m going to do a better job of keeping track of this shit, and then I don’t. So have a bunch of random thoughts about music, books, comics, movies, and TV, in no particular order. I started reviewing books for Publisher’s Weekly this year, and I also joined the reviewing/blogging staff at Tor.com. Due in no small part to lack of focus, I haven’t posted...
Dec 7th
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I just laughed out loud at this bit from David Denby’s 2011 Best Films list: “Margin Call”—Or, as Werner Herzog might put it, Der Sheisse fliegen in der Whirligig, i.e., the bottom falls out of the mortgage-backed derivatives market. That’s about right. Although, David, it’s die Scheiße. (Look, five years of German classes paid off!)
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 4th
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Letters of Note—Space: The Final Frontier →
The exchange of memos amongst Bob Justman, John Black, and Gene Roddenberry that created the immortal spoken-word introduction to Star Trek.
Dec 2nd