A Sound Salvation (Retrocast) (#233) (842)
Using some documentaries, music about radio, and a pile of Edison Cylinder recordings, we take you to the beginning of recorded sound, to the early days of Radio Broadcasting, in this two-hour Audio Essay that you will have to hear to believe.
Enjoy!
https://ia601403.us.archive.org/18/items/mutations-233/Mutations233.mp3
Artist
Track
Album
Label
Mini-Mutations
Opening Music
Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes
Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]
The Wire
CBC Radio (2005)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Electricity
Safe As Milk
Buddah Records (1967)
Music behind DJ:
Sonic Youth
Tremens [Excerpt]
SYR 1: Anagrama
SYR (1997)
Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes
Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]
The Wire
CBC Radio (2005)
Nurse With Wound
Two Golden Microphones [Excerpt]
Second Pirate Session
United Diaries (1998)
Bing Crosby & George Stoll Orchestra
The Very Thought Of You
Forever Bing
UCJ Music (2003)
Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes
Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]
The Wire
CBC Radio (2005)
Beethoven (Kathllen Parlow – violin; George Falkensten – piano)
Menuett G flat major & Valse bleat
Menuett G flat major & Valse bleat
Edison Amberol 4M-28026 (1912)
Enrico Caruso
Aria from Massanet’s “Le Cid”: O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere
O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere
Victor Talking Machine Company (1916)
Arthur Sullivan
After Dinner Toast at Little Menlo
ENHS E-2439-7
Edison Records (5 October 1888)
(performers unknown) / composted by Arthur Sulivan
The Lost Chord
ENHS E-2440-3
Edison Records (August 1888)
Music behind DJ:
Heinrich Tellam (composer) and Quinteto Instrumental Jordá-Rocabruna
En sourdine
Edison Gold Moulded Record: 18779.
Edison Records (1905)
Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes
Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]
The Wire
CBC Radio (2005)
Edison Grand Concert Band
Mr. Thomas Cat
EDIS-SRP-0204-09
Edison Records (1900)
Harry Lauder
Stop Yer Tickling Jock
Edison Gold Moulded Records – 19179
Edison Records (1908)
Billy Murray
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
EDIS 36065
Edison Records (1911)
Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes
Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]
The Wire
CBC Radio (2005)
Bing Crosby
Paradise
The Bing Crosby Story Volume I: The Early Jazz Years (1928 – 1932)
Columbia Special Products (1967)
Rudy Vallee
You Outta Be In Pictures
You Outta Be In Pictures
Victor Talking Machine (1934)
Music behind DJ:
Nurse With Wound
Two Golden Microphones [Excerpt]
Second Pirate Session
United Diaries (1998)
Ken Burns
Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]
Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio
PBS (1992)
Jimmy Vigtone
When The Radio’s On
Teen Line No. 5: Powerpop & Pop-Rock 45s V-Z
Hyped To Death Records (2004)
Ken Burns
Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]
Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio
PBS (1992)
CAN
Shikaku Maru Ten (Radio Waves)
Cannibalism 2
Spoon Records (1992)
Ken Burns
Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]
Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio
PBS (1992)
Rush
Spirit Of The Radio
Permanent Waves
Anthem Records (1980)
Ken Burns
Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]
Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio
PBS (1992)
Music behind DJ:
Nurse With Wound
Two Golden Microphones [Excerpt]
Second Pirate Session
United Diaries (1998)
Ben Brooks
[Excerpt]
The First 50 Years of Radio Part One
KDKA Radio (1970)
The Flaming Lips
Turn It On (2009 Austin Rich Edit)
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
Warner Bros. (1993)
Mike Staff
The Mindset of Successful DJs
How To Become A Radio DJ
Self-Released (1998)
Alvin Lucier
Music On A Long Thin Wire (1979)
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Ellipsis Arts (2000)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
Don Woody
Morse Code
MCA Rockabillies
Big Tone Records (1993)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
Music behind DJ:
Alvin Lucier
Music On A Long Thin Wire (1979)
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Ellipsis Arts (2000)
Crime
Hot Wire My Heart
“Hot Wire My Heart” b/w “Baby You’re So Repulsive”
Crime Music (1976)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
Little Harvey Hull / Long “Cleve” Reed
The Down Home Boys / Original Stack O’ Lee Blues
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Yazoo Records (2006)
Ken Burns
Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]
Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio
PBS (1992)
Buddy Rich / Charlie Parker / Curley Russell / Dizzy Gillespie / Thelonious Monk
Relaxing With Lee
Bird: Complete Charlie Parker
Verve Records (1990)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
Ken Burns
Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]
Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio
PBS (1992)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
Music behind DJ:
Vladimir Vussachevsky
Wireless Fantasy (1960) [Excerpt]
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Ellipsis Arts (2000)
X
Blue Spark
Beyond & Back: The X Anthology
Elektra Records (1997)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
Leb Laze
Static Radiates (Underwater Meditation)
Music For Troubled Machinery
Library Catalog Music Series (2011)
Don Joyce
How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)
Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)
KPFA Radio (2006)
The Estranged
The Message
Static Thoughts
Dirtnap Records (2008)
We The People
In The Past
“In The Past” b/w “St. John’s Shop”
Challenge Records (1966)
Music behind DJ:
Vladimir Vussachevsky
Wireless Fantasy (1960) [Excerpt]
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Ellipsis Arts (2000)
Elvis Costello
Radio Radio
This Year’s Model