TalkToTheChip
Welcome to Talk to the Chip! This is a podcast dedicated to the pioneers of electronic music and their works. Hosts Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore (Kumo) discuss works that stand out as special for them and link them to other ideas and perspectives from across the wider spectrum of music.
Episodes
In episode 26 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore get together for the first time with a guest, Icelandic composer, guitarist and sound artist Rikhardur H. Fridriksson to discuss a work by an Icelandic pioneer of electronic music: "Elektrónísk stúdía (e. Electronic Study"), musique concrète compositions, composed between 1951 – 1962. by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson. Listen to "Elektrónísk stúdía" here: https...
In episode 25 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Music On A Long Thin Wire (1977-1980) by Alvin Lucier: a milestone in Sound Art.
Listen to Music On A Long Thin Wire here:
https://alvinlucierlovely.bandcamp.com/album/music-on-a-long-thin-wiremore info:
http://www.lovely.com/albumnotes/notes1011.html
https://www.britannica.com/art/monochord
Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate a second episode to Oramics, a 44 track collection of works by groundbreaking British composer Daphne Oram
Listen to Oramics here:
https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/album/oramics
Further links:
https://www.fbrt.org.uk/hermes/new-atlantis/
https://www.roland.com/uk/blog/what-is-a-vocoder/
https://www.daphneoram.org/oramicsmachine/ https://www.daphneoram.org/wire330/ https://www.gold.ac....
Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate this episode to Oramics, a 44 track collection of works by groundbreaking British composer Daphne Oram
Listen to Oramics here:
https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/album/oramics
Further links:
https://www.daphneoram.org/oramicsmachine/ https://www.daphneoram.org/wire330/ https://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/ https://ra.co/features/1305 https://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/ https://tapeop.com/...
Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate this episode to Toyama Michiko, Japanese female pioneer of electroacoustic music, unearthing her work Waka and Other Compositions.
Listen to Waka and Other Compositions here:
https://michikotoyama.bandcamp.com/album/waka-and-other-compositions-contemporary-music-of-japan
Useful links:
https://events.rochester.edu/event/michiko_toyama_at_the_columbia-princeton_electronic_music_center
In episode 21 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss the only electronic piece by celebrated Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina - Vivente-Non vivente (1970) and the ANS synthesiser.
Listen to Vivente-Non vivente here: https://youtu.be/w6Ds1BEb430?si=2QsXglDj01xZY5LW
Useful links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer
In this very special 20th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore talk about an underecognised gem by the living legend Wendy Carlos: Sonic Seasonings (1972).
Listen to Sonic Seasonings here: https://www.mixcloud.com/frankkoedood/walter-carlos-sonic-seasonings/
Useful links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Seasonings
Listen to Seven Waves here:
https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/seven-waves Useful ...Episode 18 of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to famous pioneer of electronic music Luciano Berio, specifically to his otherwordly work Visage (1961) featuring the voice of legendary Cathy Berberian.
Listen to Visage here:
https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ
Useful links: http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1 https://120years.net/milan-electronic-music-studiodirector-luciano-berioitaly1960/ https:/...
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/Var...
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 http...
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://...
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://com...
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...
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:...
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...
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-Electr...
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=xK0WEsLOT1qqXTgnGo...
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/T...
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 ht...
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