Radiolab: Stochasticity (a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness), may be at the very foundation of our lives. To understand how big a role it plays, we look at chance and patterns in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body. Along the way, we talk to a woman suddenly consumed by a frenzied gambling addiction, meet two friends whose meeting seems to defy pure chance, and take a close look at some very noisy bacteria. Listen to podcast HERE

ZVO.ČI.TI. so.und.ing Collection is a podcast collection of Slovenian sound artists, composers of electroacoustic, experimental, algorithmic, electronic, improvised and composed works.

The DVD release of the ZVO.ČI.TI so.und.ing Collection represents the final part of the multi-year project devised to be a continuous production of thematic radio and podcast audio programmes about specific authors and works of theirs that were created in the studio or performed live.

The purpose of the project is to connect and highlight Slovenian authors who make contemporary music in the music performance, sound, intermedia, performing, online and other areas and to present them, using existing communication possibilities, into the wider arena of world contemporary sound creativity.

Researchers test a famous ethical dilemma called the “trolley problem” in a very real setting.

Christie Nicholson:

Would you kill one person to save five others?

Philosophers have posed this moral dilemma for decades. Typically they present the situation as a mental exercise. A runaway train is about to strike five people walking along the track. You can reroute the train and save the five people. But you will wind up killing one person walking on the other track.

Recently, researchers tried to make the dilemma feel much more real. They placed 147 subjects in a 3-D virtual environment where they are in front of a railroad switch controlling two tracks. They watch five people hike along a track bordered by a ravine. A single person hikes along the other track. Suddenly a train comes barreling toward the five people. The subject has the option to reroute the train using a joystick.

Ninety percent of the study subjects switched tracks, killing the lone hiker to save five. These findings match past studies that were only abstract thought experiments. The study is in the journal Emotion.

It appears that even in very realistic, action oriented situations, people will go through with a Sophie’s Choice, motivated by accomplishing the apparently greater good.

Via Scientifc American

Gregory Chatonsky
My Hard Drive Is Experiencing Some Strange Noises
33:35

Statement:

My Hard Drive Experiencing Some Strange Noises is the sound of a defective hard drive disk picked up by a contact microphone. The acoustic wave is instantly processed by software that repeats and amplifies the sounds creating a resounding echo.

Bio:

Gregory Chatonsky (b. Paris, living in Montreal and Paris) holds a multimedia advanced degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and a Masters in philosophy from the Sorbonne. Chatonsky’s body of work, including interactive installations, networked and urban devices, photographs and sculptures, speaks to the relationship between technologies and affectivity, flows that define our time to create new forms of fiction. In 1994, Chatonsky founded the net.art collective incident.net.

Via The Radius

Is consequentialism in ethics a form of moral opportunism? Is torture always wrong? What about punishing the innocent? Philip Pettit, who recently gave the 2011 Uehiro Lectures on ‘Robustly Demanding Values’, discusses some common criticisms of consequentialism in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. +++ HERE

In the second of a series of philosophy podcasts, Benjamen Walker and guests consider the impact and legacy of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase.

Fifty years ago this week, on 14 August 1961, the world witnessed the end of the trial of Adolf Otto Eichmann, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. Writing about his subsequent execution in the final chapter of her book Eichmann in Jerusalem (Penguin Classics), the philosopher Hannah Arendt coined a timeless phrase:

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil

When we recently asked you to nominate intellectual cliches to examine in this series, “the banality of evil” came up repeatedly (props to bigOther, Eglantine and janeinalberta).

Listen to Podcast HERE

Playlist / Partial Timeline

00:00:00′ = Tea kettle boiling water with Sobhilai Swagat Cha (NEPAL) from the album Le Chant des Enfants du Monde.
00:06:50′ = Failing Memory or Intelligence / Alberto Aguilar and Madeleine Aguilar
00:25:16′ = Let me call you sweetheart / We don’t remember who…do you?
00:31:18′ = Joaquin and Madeleine Jam along Footsteps In Mud (field recording.)
00:36:33′ = Name of the song….hmmmm…/ Guty Cardenas
00:39:40′ = Flor / Guty Cardenas
00:49:30′ = Background: Washing My Hair / Luna Montgomery
01:23:35′ = Background: Prizewinning (excerpt) / Julianna Barwick
01:34:03′ = Memory stick Internet Song / all of us
01:37:33′ = Background: Wwwdot / Flying Lotus
01:38:47′ = Background: Pea bwé (excerpt) / Jean Zuibona

From left to bottom: Manuel Aguilar, Madeleine Aguilar, Joaquin Aguilar, Alberto Aguilar, Judy Venard, and me.

* All the extra sounds decorating this sonic painting come from personal field recordings, and open source sound effects.

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(Wanderlust does not intend to bring you the latest work out there. Instead, it aims at providing you a select group of pieces produced in different times, locations, and contexts.)

Playlist

Starting Time= Artist / Song

00:00:00′ = Wander Intro
00:02:00′ = Fátima Miranda’s El principio del fin starts with Julianna Barwick’s Cloudbank
00:03:48′ = Alva Noto’s Kristallgitter begins
00:06:10′ = KRS-One’s Uh Oh begins
00:09:35′ = Celer’s Mouthfeels Of Capreae begins
00:10:00′ = John King’s Gliss In Sighs (1985) begins
00:11:01′ = Giuseppe Ielasi’s Untitled begins
00:11:14′ = Giuseppe Ielasi’s Untitled begins again
00:13:08′ = Alva Noto’s 2x = 2x + X (X = 1,6,18,54) begins
00:13:24′ = Steve Reich’s Clapping music begins along Henri Mancini’s Jackie’s Theme
00:15:20′ = Achim Wollscheid’s Flatware 1 begins
00:15:36′ = Fovea Hex’s Don’t These Windows Open? (True Interval Offering) begins
00:16:13′ = Ibuki Yushi’s Rural Landscapes begins
00:16:46′ = Caetano Veloso’s Viola, meu bem (excerpt) begins
00:17:52′ = Caetano Veloso’s De Conversa , Cravo E Canela begins until its middle
00:18:03′ = Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint begins
00:20:48′ = Prasad Bhandarkar’s Dhun-Folk tune on Bansuri (excerpt) begins
00:21:41′ = Alva Noto’s 747 begins
00:21:58′ = Fátima Miranda’s Sobre saltos begins
00:22:08′ = Arrington de Dionyso’s Tundra- moving glacier begins
00:23:40′ = Fátima Miranda’s Percu VOZ begins
00:25:07′ = Flanger’s Music is Our Secret Code begins
00:27:17′ = Caetano Veloso’s Giberto Misterioso
00:29:24′ = Caetano Veloso’s De Conversa , Cravo E Canela continues
00:32:04′ = SND’s 14 begins with Black To Comm’s Laccifer Lacca
00:34:09′ = Julianna Barwick’s Cloak begins
00:34:53′ = Erkki Kurenniemi’s Improvisaatio begins
00:37:52′ = Fe-Mail’s The Horizotal Density Of Humanity (excerpt) begins
00:38:48′ = Hessien’s Impatiens begins
00:40:49′ = Misel Quitno’s Golden Ears For One Trick Pony begins
00:41:17′ = Joe Frawley’s (Rachel Rambach, vocals) Angel Box Two begins
00:41:50′ = Joe Frawley’s (Rachel Rambach, vocals) Angel Box Five begins
00:43:07′ = Hessien’s Impatiens begins again
00:43:26′ = Ulrich Troyer’s Romantic Dinner begins
00:45:27′ = Jimi Tenor’s Vexations – Version 3 begins
00:46:59′ = The Karnataka College Of Percussion’s Ghatam Quartet (Clay Pots) begins
00:48:19′ = Black Dice’s Greenhouse Tune begins
00:50:07′ = The Gasman’s Overtone begins
00:50:42′ = Murcof’s Ulysses (Fax Mix) begins
00:54:07′ = Nikolaienko’s Blue soup №3 begins
00:54:36′ = Comfort Fit’s Something To Do begins
00:58:06′ = United Sacred Harp Convention’s Hallelujah begins
00:59:01′ = Kouhei Matsunaga’s Hand With Possibility begins
00:59:40′ = Celer’s In Characteristic Form begins
01:00:39′ = Steve’s Reich’s New York Counterpoint – 1. Fast begins
01:03:35′ = Celer’s Compositions for Cassette A1 begins
01:05:12′ = Nôze’s Le Spleen Du Lemurien begins
01:05:33′ = ( hidden ♥ message )
01:07:38′ = Library Tapes’ Fragment VIII begins
01:08:49′ = Holger Czukay’s Boat-Woman-Song begins
01:09:25′ = Glen Velez’s Bendir begins
01:13:06′ = Celer’s The Separation Of the Two-Phased Apple Blossoms begins
01:18:07′ = Celer’s The Separation Of the Two-Phased Apple Blossoms begins again
01:20:17′ = Américo Rodrigues’s Voltar begins
01:24:42′ = Oren Ambarchi’s Happy Endings begins
01:26:05′ = Max Eastley’s Two 150 Kilo Blocks Of Melting Ice With Layers Of Stones Embedded Falling Onto A Metal Plate For Climate Change Project Farewell begins
01:31:28′ = Wander extro begins

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Alberto Aguilar and Federico Cattaneo.

When I invited Alberto and Federico, I had in mind doing a show in where they could talk about their visual work in musical ways. One of the most important aspects of this encounter, is the fact that these two artists met for the first time at the radio station. Alberto and I were also hanging out for the first time and got to know each other over the two hours that we spent in a small radio studio (provided by Freeradiosaic.) During our experiment we exchanged mumblings, interjections, songs, sounds, memories, forgetfulness, artwork, chords, discords, accents, mispronunciations, objects, and subjects. For more information about these two artists, you can click on their names to go to their websites.

Playlist / Partial Timeline

00:00:00′ = Wanderlust Intro (musical background: First Job by Henry Mancini)
00:01:25′ = This is the introduction / Alberto Aguilar
00:05:40′ = Little Red Rhumbahood/S.S. Rhythm / Sam The Drummer (played to break the ice)
00:14:00′ = Drawing / Alberto Aguilar
00:14:45′ = First visual work / Federico Cattaneo
00:15:40′ = Olodum / Bahia Black (played to heal the discomfort left by Sam the Drummer)
00:26:04′ = In The Aeroplane Over The Sea / Neutral Milk Hotel (Alberto’s choice)
00:30:28′ = Response to Alberto’s painting (Vision of St. Eustice) / Federico Cattaneo
00:32:52′ = Tapping To Hell / Christof Dienz (song dedicated to Federico)
00:36:15′ = Alberto describes “Vision of St. Eustice” with the Itunes window covering half of it.
00:37:27′ = Uncoordinated jamming over “Viagem” by Guem
00:39:39′ = Federico and Alberto tune in
00:45:27′ = Gravity Jam over Omar Khorshid’s Sabirine
00:52:26′ = Brownie sucks fan / Spirit Elevating Brains
00:59:06′ = Meet at 21 / Alberto Aguilar
01:02:44′ = Federico says nice to meet you
01:04:48′ = The Art of Heart Auscultation / G.W. Manning, M.D., Ph.D. (with our spontaneous interruptions)
01:08:10′ = a new ephemeral guest enters the studio (Clare Torina)
01:12:30′ = Excerpt from Peter Blake 2000 (Super Furry Animals, The Beatles) by Paul McCarney
01:14:43′ = Claire comes up with our title
01:16:59′ = Band on the Run / The Langley Schools Music Project (Alberto’s choice)
01:26:46′ = Family Move / Alberto Aguilar and Family
01:31:38′ = Federico answers a particular question with his guitar
01:33:29′ = Federico uses his actual human voice (covering Pink Floyd)
01:37:47′ = My favorite song (Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict from Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma) is destroyed by our interruptions
01:43:10′ = Goodbye Jam with the “Do what you want to Do (with a little restrain)” song

* All the extra sounds decorating this sonic painting come from personal field recordings, and open source sound effects.

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(Wanderlust does not intend to bring you the latest work out there. Instead, it aims at providing you a select group of pieces produced in different times, locations, and contexts.)

Playlist

Starting Time= Artist / Song / Album

00:00:00′ = Intro Wanderlust ( background music by Mpala Garoo / Open Way Up High / Ou Du Monde)
00:02:21′ = The Spiders / Seishun A Go-Go / GS I Love You : Japanese Garage Bands Of The 60s
00:04:39′ = MOTHS / Slow/Down / “Slow/Down”
00:07:34′ = Plapla Pinky / Analclaire / Sonore
00:11:24′ = Bisk / Nothing But Love Out of Her / Moonstruck Parade
00:15:51′ = Makigami Koichi / Bolor / Tokyo Taiga
00:19:37′ = Oren Marshall / 6 (Edit) / The Wire Tapper 14
00:23:34′ = Callers / Dressed In Blue / Live of Love
00:27:36′ = Jneiro Jarel / Rio De Jneiro (Jarumba) / Fauna
00:30:23′ = Haruomi Hosono / Humming Blues / Tribute to Haruomi Hosono
00:31:47′ = Ketem / #A85400 / Colour
00:32:37′ = Patrick Watson / Brigettes Theme / Just Another Ordinary Day
00:37:04′ = Junip / It’s alright / Fields
00:40:29′ = Al Quetz aka Quetzal / Yassa At the Fifth Floor / Drums Come Africa
00:42:00′ = Rafter / Paper / Animal Feelings
00:45:21′ = Jean Jacques Perrey / Gossipo Perpetuo / Incredibly Strange Music, V. 2
00:47:22′ = Mount Kimbie / Would Know / Crooks & Lovers
00:50:38′ = Flying Lotus / Auntie’s Lock (feat. Laura Darlington) / Los Angeles
00:53:08′ = Patrick Watson / Sleeping Beauty / Close to Paradise
00:58:09′ = Atom™ / Weisses Rauschen (erster Teil) / Liedgut
01:02:36′ = Tenniscoats / Tasmania: For A Bay / tenniscoats.com
01:04:29′ = The Sound of Lucrecia / Shoi / Congost
01:06:24′ = Hiroshi Sunairi & Hideyuki Mari / Piano By The Sea / Music For Plants
01:07:24′ = Pello El Afrokan / Batea / Unknown album
01:09:54′ = Uproot Andy / Daft Cumbia / (Somewhere online…)
01:13:52′ = Gonjasufi / Made / A Sufi And A Killer
01:17:00′ = Delinquent Habits / Good Times / Delinquent Habits
01:20:16′ = Toe / Our Next Movement / For Long Tomorrow
01:24:56′ = Rita Indiana Y Loa Misterios / La Hora de Volve / demos (el amarill0)
01:28:12′ = Jutta Koether, Alan Licht & Tom Verlaine / Plant Jam / Music For Plants
01:33:04′ = Sagor & Swing / Aningar / Melodier och fåglar
01:34:15′ = La Máquina De Hacer Pájaros / El vendedor de las muñecas de plastico / Peliculas
01:38:50′ = Owen Pallett / Oh Heartland, Up Yours / Heartland
01:42:52′ = George Benson / Take Five / Bad Benson
01:49:56′ = Extro Wanderlust begins (Background music by Celer / Compositions For Cassette A1 / Compositions For Cassette and Mpala Garoo / Open Way Up High / Ou Du Monde (played again because I made a mistake until I stopped the track at 01:50:22)
01:51:15′ = “Dude speaking alien” / from YouTube See it HERE

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Talks from the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. The public discussions cover the period 1981–1994.

–Credit the artists…Keep it healthy!–

(Wanderlust does not intend to bring you the latest work out there. Instead, it aims at providing you a select group of pieces produced in different times, locations, and contexts.)

Starting Time= Artist / Song / Album

00:00:00′ = Intro Wanderlust ( background music by Brian Gulland & Richard Harvey / Father Bear / Nursery Rhymes)
00:00:25′ = 1000 Names / Pocket Calculators / Illuminated Man
00:03:50′ = The Books / that right ain’t shit / The Lemon Of Pink
00:06:29′ = Burnt Friedman / I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me / Plays Love Songs
00:09:53′ = Aaron Martin / Karl Rove / Almond
00:11:20′ = Hobart Smith / Railroad Bill / I’ll Meet You On That Other Shore
00:14:01′ = Bob Dylan & George Harrison / Gates of Eden / Yesterday
00:18:09′ = Alan Watts / Onion Chant / This Is It
00:22:28′ = AFTA-1 / Tuesday / H​(​e y e​)​LAND
00:25:39′ = Alemu Aga / Abatatchen Hoy (Pater Noster) / The Very Best of Ethiopiques
00:29:08′ = René Aubry / Pauvre Juliette! / Invitees Sur la Terre
00:30:36′ = Cal Tjader / Los Jibaros / El Sonido Nuevo
00:33:17′ = Brian Gulland & Richard Harvey / Mother Bear / Nursery Rhymes
00:33:48′ = Marcel Duchamp / Some texts from “A l’infinitif” (1912-20) / Audio By Visual Artists, TELLUS 21
00:37:50′ = Belita Palma / Manazinha / Angola 70′s: 1974-1978
00:41:14′ = Cheburazhka (furry beast toy ) / Found in YouTube
00:42:02′ = Mehrpouya / Soul Raga / Pomegranates
00:46:04′ = John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers / Moses, Don’t Get Lost / I’ll Meet You On That Other Shore
00:48:26′ = Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Aka Pygmies / Mai / African Rhythms
00:52:02′ = Andrew Pekler / Wait / The Wire Tapper 12 (Disc 2)
00:55:49′ = The Gasman / Hammer / Powerpoints
00:59:04′ = Karen Dalton / In My Own Dream / In My Own Time
01:03:16′ = Dead Combo / Rodada / Quando a Alma não é Pequena Vol.II
01:05:43′ = Kino (Victor Tsoy) / Prosto hochesh’ ty znat’ / 45
01:09:07′ = Koes Plus / Dheg Dheg Plas (Heartbeat) / Dheg Dheg
01:11:29′ = Les Baxter / Pool Of Love / The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter (Disc 2)
01:12:48′ = Madame Indra Devi / Stretching Exercise / The Best of Yoga
01:14:17′ = Los Orientales de Paramonga / Lobos Al Escape / Cumbia Beat Vol. 1
01:16:48′ = Ken Nordine / Flesh / Colors
01:18:18′ = Luciano Perrone / esquentando os tamborins e cuicas / batucada fantástica
01:20:15′ = Tom Zé / Vai (menina amanhã de manhã) / Estudando o Samba (1975) / Correio da Estação do Brás (1978)
01:22:30′ = Hauschka / Zahnluecke / Room To Expand
01:26:05′ = James Blake / Lindesfarne II / James Blake
01:28:59′ = Jneiro Jarel / Indigo Eden / Fauna
01:33:26′ = Loop Junktion / Japan / Album Unknown
01:37:25′ = Tanya Tagaq / Surge / Sinaa
01:40:45′ = Oren Marshall / Tone / Orenophone
01:44:38′ = Eek A Mouse / Elizabeth / The Peel Sessions
01:48:37′ = Dorothy Ashby / Afro-Harping / Afro-Harping
01:51:34′ = Extro Wanderlust ( background music by Brian Gulland & Richard Harvey / Teddy Bear’s Outing / Nursery Rhymes)

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In order to ground this online resource in a real community, we organize occasional events around this broader project. We launched this project in 2009 with a highly successful conference in Paris that brought speakers from the UK, the US, France and beyond, and featured both academic papers and an exhibition of artworks inspired by Beckett. We hope to hold further events in the future.”

LIMIT{e} BECKETT
…extra:
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, 2010 SEMINAR PODCAST

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(Wanderlust does not intend to bring you the latest work out there. Instead, it aims at providing you a select group of pieces produced in different times, locations, and contexts. Perhaps with the desire to create a unique aural experience.)

Playlist

Starting Time= Artist / Song / Album

00:00:00′ = Intro Wanderlust (background sounds by PYO)
00:01:07′ = Pixel / +43° 35 43.44 -114° 51 11.09 / The Drive
00:05:30′ = Keziah Jones / Garan Garan / Nigerian Wood
00:09:49′ = Kepa Junkera / Novena / Trans-Europe Diatonique
00:13:19′ = Jasper TX / Gone, Away…/ Closet Ghosts
00:15:40′ = Gnawa Diffusion / Algeria / Algeria
00:21:05′ = Sizzla Kalonji / Gyansta Nuh Leff Dem Gun / Judgement Yard Mix Tapes – Vol. 4: Dangerous Dancehall
00:22:11′ = Jacaszek / Orszula / Treny
00:25:03′ = Dälek / A Collection Of Miserable Thoughts Laced With Wit / Gutter Tactics
00:28:23′ = Tico Moon / 砂の記憶 / Raspberry
00:31:08′ = Lineland / alchemy / Logos For Love
00:34:06′ = Rokia Traoré / Koronoko / Tchamantché
00:38:01′ = Tsuki / Toques / I Wish That Mountain Could Have an Eye
00:45:22′ = Trinidad Steel Combo / PANtatonics Forever / Steel Drums From The Caribbean Islands
00:47:43 ‘ = Mafia Trece / Beat Box a Table / Cosa Nostra
00:48:27 ‘ = lamajamal / Plevensko / Gypsy Surf
00:53:40′ = Diana Baroni – Sapukái/ Hanacpachap Cussicuinin / Son de los Diablos – Tonadas afro-hispanas del Perú
00:55:49′ = Violeta Parra / Que he sacado con quererte / Recordando a Chile (Una chilena en París)
01:14:40′ = Various Artists / Ubuhuha / Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles
01:15:48′ = Eddie Palmieri / Chocolate Ice Cream / Super Imposition
01:21:58′ = Electric Company / Cyclic Pee Matron / A Pert Cyclic Omen
01:26:23′ = Messer Chups / Fntomasofobia / Crazy Price
01:29:32′ = Think of One / Maracatu Misterioso / Chuva Em Po
01:33:03′ = 張露 Chang Loo / 給我一個吻 Give Me A Kiss / Shanghai Lounge Divas (Original) Vol. 2
01:35:35′ = RST / Planetfall / Tommorow’s Void
01:36:47′ = Fred Frith / First Light / To Sail, To Sail
01:41:14′ = Valerio Cosi / Lovely Blue Cream / Collected Works
01:44:41′ = The Remote Viewer / Untitled / I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better
01:47:10′ = Bruce Haack / Word Game / Electric Lucifer
01:50:43 ‘ = Los Saicos / Demolicion / Saicos
00:00:00′ = Medeski Martin and Woods / Disrobe / The End of Violence OST
00:00:00′ = Extro Wanderlust

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