ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR, PROGRAM 14: 'OTHER WORLDS'

The Rough Windows Radio Hour, Program 14: Other Worlds by Jimcheff on Mixcloud

Check this one out.  It's a nice mix of music, especially if you're a fan of the Buchla.

'PROWLER' -- PYE CORNER AUDIO

'Prowler' - Pye Corner Audio from Cole Graham on Vimeo.

STEPHEN COATES: THE STORY OF X-RAY AUDIO (TED TALK)

Watching this while I wait for my copy of Stephen's book on the subject to arrive by mail.

THE ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR, PROGRAM 13: A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK FEASTER

The Rough Windows Radio Hour, Program 13: A Conversation with Patrick Feaster by Jimcheff on Mixcloud

INTERVIEW WITH SOUND HISTORIAN PATRICK FEASTER, COMING SOON ON 'ROUGH WINDOWS' on 94.5 FM, KOII

I'm putting the finishing touches on my interview with three-time Grammy nominee Patrick Feaster, the author of Pictures of Sound.  Pictures of Sound won the 2013 ARSC Award for Excellence in the Best General Research in Recorded Sound/Best History category and was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.  Patrick spoke to me for nearly an hour about how he located and made audible some of the world's oldest sound recordings.   We'll be listening to tracks from the CD that accompanies Pictures of Sound as well.  It will be a really special edition of The Rough Windows Radio Hour.

WHAT YOU HEARD ON THE ROUGH WINDOWS "STRANGE TERRITORY" PROGRAM on 94.5 KOII, RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF

If you've been listening to Rough Windows this week, you heard these tracks on the "Strange Territory" show:

1.  Générique -- Miles Davis

2.  Bucolica -- The House in the Woods

3.  Ancient Forces 1 -- Bruce Lacey

4.  Tagging Snakes -- Bruce Langhorne

5.  Cycles of the Serpent 1 -- Bruce Lacey

6.  Slow Accident -- Woodbines & Spiders

7.  Hi Scores  - Boards Of Canada

8.  Finale And Credits -- Marc Wilkinson

9.  Hive Culture -- Ian Boddy

10.  Come To Dust -- Boards Of Canada

11.  Secropia --Sybarite

12.  I'm Cold -- Bruce Langhorne

13.  Eight Arms to Fold You -- Sir Richard Bishop

14.  Deep End -- Pye Corner Audio

15.  Seasons -- The Advisory Circle

Some strange and delicious ingredients of the program are pictured above.

PROGRAM ART FOR THE 'HUMAN VOICE' EPISODE OF THE ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR

Playlists for the shows are on the way too, promise!

PROGRAM ART FOR THE 'BIRDS' EPISODE OF THE ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR

Listen for it on Radio Free Flagstaff 94.5 FM, KOII.

RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF 94.5 FM KOII 'COVERS UP' THE CLASH

ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR: 'THE MAN WHO FELL TO FLAGSTAFF' PROGRAM ART

I do a program illustration for each episode of The Rough Windows Radio Hour. This one is for 'The Man Who Fell To Flagstaff.'  Curiously, there's no Bowie in the mix -- but there is a full hour of great science fiction-related music from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pink Floyd, the Epoxies, Jane Weaver, Peter Howell, Kraftwerk and more.  Tune it in at night, around 11 pm, on Radio Free Flagstaff, 94.5 FM, KOII.

COMING UP ON 'THE ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR' ON 94.5 KOII

Thrift store shopping in Ajo, Arizona yielded these two great finds -- which inspired the theme for an upcoming Rough Windows show.  The theme will be "Birds."  I'll be featuring some clips from these records, plus a whole hour of electronic music related to our feathered friends.  Listen for it on Radio Free Flagstaff KOII.

SAVANNAH O. RECORDING ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 'ROUGH WINDOWS' on KOII

CARA ALBOUCQ: "ROAM"

Cara was fantastic at the Neil Young Cover Up last Wednesday.  Have a listen!

THE ROUGH WINDOWS RADIO HOUR: "NUMINA" ... WHAT YOU HEARD ON RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF, 94.5 FM, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11

Ancient Romans used the word "Numina" to describe the divine spirit of a particular place.

This  program was all music intimately connected to a particular place.

The tracks played were:
1. In A Beautiful Place Out In the Country  by Boards of Canada
2. New Light At Thornborough  by the Xenis Emputae Traveling Band
3. Journeys On The Winds Of Time  by Alan Lamb.
4. Children  by Tony Schwartz
5. Vihuela and Wolf Pack #1  by Jim Nollman
6. Warminster 4  by The Mt. Vernon Arts Lab
7. Camp 2 - World Music On The Radio  by Geir Jenssen
8. Earth's Magnetic Field  by Charles Dodge

Some notes on the pieces: the Alan Lamb piece was a recording of the wind vibrating miles of telegraph wires in Western Australia. A very good article on Alan Lamb's work can be found here.

Norweigian Geir Jenssen is better known in the music world by the name Biosphere. In addition to being a composer of ambient electronic music, Jenssen is an accomplished mountain climber. The piece we heard was recorded at the top of one of the highest mountains in the word, Cho Oyu in Tibet. You can learn more about his work here.

It has been said that "Earth's Magnetic Field" by Charles Dodge was actually composed by the planet itself. Dodge created it by mapping data from the Earth's magnetic field data to a four octave span, or 45 notes. The piece was realized using Digital Audio Converters that Bell Laboratories was developing in the late 1950's. You can read more about it here.

RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF - 94.5 FM, KOII -- IS ON THE AIR (AND IN YOUR EAR!)

"Just like the days of old, RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF aims to engage listeners throughout the community with local music, local flavor, and local voices ... We invite you to gather ‘round that ol‘ receiver and hear fresh stuff radiating from those amps ... stuff you’d never ever hear from the commercial airwaves ... stuff that is Arizona-grown and picked from a higher elevation ..."

Check out the web site here.

RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF 94.5 FM: NEIL YOUNG COVER UP AND FORUM AT THE ORPHEUM

Find out more here.

RADIO FREE FLAGSTAFF: SPRINGSTEEN COVER UP AND FORUM

ARIZONA ADVENTURE THEATER presents the GAMBEL OAK READING SERIES: INSTALLATION 01

The Gambel Oak Reading Series got off to an excellent start last night when it presented it's first experiment: curated scenes from The Glass Menagerie and Under A Mantle of Stars, under the direction of Katie King and Jim Dugan.  It took place at the Canyon Vista Trail, here in Flagstaff.

The Arizona Adventure Theater is Flagstaff's community driven site-specific installation theater initiative.  Combining theatrical literature and environmental enthusiast communities together to provide an enriching and rare live performance experience.

HOWLROUND with abandoned playground - 'OH' (from 'XPYLON')

SEDONA CREATIVE LIFE CENTER

We saw a wonderful concert at the Sedona Creative Life Center last night.

Nikola Djurica (Clarinetist), David Ehrlich (Violinist), Theresa Ehrlich (Pianist), Thomas Landschoot (Cellist), Steven Moeckel (Violinist), and Nokuthula Ngwenyama (Violinist, Violist) played "Classical Meets Jazz." The performance was part of the Red Rocks Music Festival.

 An added bonus was the lovely steeple of the Creative Life Center's chapel, seen above.