Vault classics: Redefining Freedom + None of This is What I Intended (Shows #364/365/689) | Download full MP3 from Dec 11, 2019

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Redefining Freedom" - Show #364, from May 10, 2005, live on KOOP Austin ["We are a great society because we are free society; on the other
hand, it is very important for there to be limits." - George W. Bush]
Set:
Aram Khachaturian - "Gayanne Ballet Suite (Adagio)" - 2001: A Space Odyssey s.t. [Armenian composer. Backwards, layered with forwards copy]
Aram Khachaturian - "Gayanne Ballet Suite (Adagio)" - 2001: A Space Odyssey s.t. [Armenian composer. Forwards, layered with backwards copy]
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Gary Dickerson - "Excerpt: "Radio extravaganza"" - On air in this timeslot one week ago 5/3/2005
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Ken, Mendy - "Apartment field recording" - Recorded 12/7/2004 [4 layered copies]
The Dead Texan - "When I See Scissors I Can't Help But Think of You" - The Dead Texan [Two layered copies. Lifted from Farlan Veraitch's New Year's Type mix, January 2005]
Sigur Ros/Kjartan Sveinsson - "Sioasti baerinn" - Sioasti baerinn
Camper Van Beethoven, David Lowery - "All Her Favorite Fruit (Live)" - Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC, 7/18/2002 [Bootleg. Two copies of spoken concert intro repeated, then full song later]
Jill Sharpe, director; CBC, producer; Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, voice - "I've Been Arrested at about a Monthly Rate" - Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture [That's about all my lawyer will allow]
Jill Sharpe, director; CBC, producer; Margaret Kunstler, constitutional lawyer, voice - "If Your Goal is to Get Arrested" - Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture [Which is often a goal - maybe sometimes it's better to have someone stop you for what you're doing, to have people pay attention.]
Tape-Beatles - "Pens, pencils, stationery" - Music with Sound
Jill Sharpe, director; CBC, producer; Margaret Kunstler, constitutional lawyer, voice - "What is the Motivation for the State to Suppress What's Being Done?" - Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture
John Lennon - "Working Class Hero" - Plastic Ono Band [Censored for FCC]
George W. Bush - "Interview January 2005: The government should, not censor, but limit." - Interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-Span, late January 2005 [We are a great society because we are free society; on the other hand, it is very important for there to be limits, limits to what parents have to explain to their children. Protect the capacity of people to speak freely in our society, unless things go too far. The classic definition by the Supreme Court on pornography: You know it when you see it. In this job, there's some simple pleasures of life that really help you cope: One is Barney the dog. This year I'm reading the bible every day.]
The Stone Roses - "Elephant Stone (single)" - Elephant Stone single [Two copies of intro, gradually building, eventually releasing to more of the song]
The Cars - "It's All I Can Do" - Anthology - Just What I Needed [A single loop. Tribute to skipping record from Ken & Joe's Radio Extravaganza, 1994]
Ken - "Happens right now"
The Cars - "It's All I Can Do" - Anthology - Just What I Needed
E-mail - "Ken's email subject title: Magical Asparagus" [Inspired by and created for Joel, 11/30/2004]
The Album Leaf & Sigur Ros - "Streamside" - In a Safe Place
The Cars - "Just What I Needed" - Anthology - Just What I Needed [Four loops]
Jill Sharpe, director; CBC, producer; Margaret Kunstler, constitutional lawyer, voice - "One year you'll be arrested and the next year you won't" - Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture [Because you can do the same thing one year as you did the next year, and one year you'll be arrested and the next year you won't. So, do you not have the same right each year? Your right doesn't change. What changes is the intent and what the society, what the state wants to do, whether the state wants to suppress it or not.
You have any right you assert. You have as much rights as you want to assert, and the only limits to your rights is what the state says, 'no, you don't have that right - we won't let you have it today.']
Wayne Dyer - "What You Want Wants You, CD 4, track 1" - Secrets to Manifesting Your Destiny [...what it is that you do desire...there is something inside you...]
Philip Glass - "Abandoned Factory" - Undertow
The Cars - "You Are the Girl" - Anthology - Just What I Needed [One loop (plus lead-in to loop), used throughout last 17 minutes of show]
Jima - "X-Mas Bush" - Dubya Cut & Paste Project [George W. Bush reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas]
Jill Sharpe, director; CBC, producer; Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping, voice - "NYU Will Charge Me in the Evening" - Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture [and then I have to stay in jail overnight, and then in the morning, there's no charges.]
Ken - "11 years in the making"
Phone caller - "Daily Juice caller" [I would put life in the juice. I would put a telephone in the juice. I'll put the juice in my ear. The juice is in the telephone. Evaporated into thin air. As thin as a bicycle spoke. It was spoken last week. Last week.]
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The Cars - "You Are the Girl" - Anthology - Just What I Needed
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End of set
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "None of This is What I Intended" [Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity.]
Jim Connelley - "Dragonriders of Pern videogame music (SID rip)" - Dragonriders of Pern (1983) for the Commodore 64, published by Epyx [Book by Anne McCaffrey. Software development by The Connelley Group.]
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My Fun (Justin Hardison) - "Portabello Road" - One Minute Vacations [Two copies. Field recording made in Portabello market in London, Feb. 2004. Found here.]
Live phone caller - "You're blowing my mind. It's melting out of my left ear"
Ken - "I've said this before"
Charles Olins - "Vivisection" - 12 Monkeys Soundtrack
Michael Crichton, director & writer; Alan Oppenheimer, others, actors - "Scene: Infectious disease of machinery" - Westworld movie [We aren't dealing with ordinary machines here; these are highly complicated pieces of equipment -- almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they've been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work.]
John Carpenter - "Gold to Wood" - John Carpenter's The Fog Complete Soundtrack [Two copies. Incl. beach sounds]
Jim Rohn - "Filling Your Reservoir of Knowledge" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "Designing the Next Ten Years" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Gyorgy Ligeti - "Jupiter and Beyond: Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra" - 2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack [Performed by Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]
Jim Rohn - "The Art of Setting Goals" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "Developing a Powerful Personal Philosophy" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "The Miracle of Personal Development" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "The Five Abilities for True Success" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "The Principle of Association" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "The Cultivation of Lifestyle" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Jim Rohn - "The Day that Turns Your Life Around" - The Art of Exceptional Living
Live phone caller - "You have to play a role. You have to be something you're not" [11-minute call, interspersed with Jim Rohn, Philip Glass, Ligeti, K.L.E.R.E. Light (Polyphonic Spree), Wayne Dyer. I don't like being subjugated and dominated. There's too much oppression required. There's this feeling like there's this wall between you and the world, and your whole reality is on one side of the wall, and the whole world is on the other. It's an oppressive wall, between everything else. You have to serve someone else. You have to play a role. You can't be all of yourself. There's too much oppression required. Exposure to radiation. Mental strain, abuse from the public, someone controls what I eat. The decay of the world. Doesn't matter how nice you are. Physical strain, obesity. There's not enough relaxing time at work. And then they can just fire you at any time. A waste of my life, sometimes. Sometimes I'm at work, and I realize I've just wasted six hours making money for other people. There's no real communication. Nobody understands where you are.]
Live phone caller - "You have to play a role, part 2" [It's really hard to have true connections when you spend so much time in an environment where you're not supposed to be all of yourself. What about what I want to do? What about my life? Sometimes, out of nowhere, it's like this moment of clarity, and what comes out is undiluted me, unmodified. And I feel lighter, so light, lightweight. So it's clear water, flowing through me, not being repressed, not being restrained. It feels really good when it happens. I want to do something else, I want to be part of a pack, or a pack of wolves, or a tribe. They eat together, find food, and take care of each other. And I want to find that freedom, that clarity, in every moment. Cracks, caves, holes, wide open places.]
Philip Glass - "Target Destruction" - The Fog of War
Philip Glass - "Low Evil" - The Fog of War
Philip Glass - "Blind Moles" - The Fog of War
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Light (a polyphonic spree)" - Show #281, from Dec. 9, 2003 [Two copies]
Wayne Dyer - "Tribe Thinking" - Secrets to Manifesting Your Destiny
Wayne Dyer - "What Obstacles Really Are" - Secrets to Manifesting Your Destiny
Ken - "Directly onto the air"
Live phone caller - "I'm from"
Live phone caller - "The steady diet of pixels and reflections" [Is this the steady diet of pixels and reflections, or is this the wind massage? The butterfly cake sale as the buffalo's...]
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Polyphonic Potato Head (A speech irony plop)" - Show #282, from Dec. 16, 2003 [Original artists being remixed in original show include: The Polyphonic Spree, Ken's New York City field recording, WarGames, The Magnetic Fields, Bill Cosby, The Who, The Breakfast Club movie]
Wayne Dyer - "Disk 2, track 8" - The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
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Live phone caller - "I want to find peace...life isn't a game" [I have my radio on. It's tough to decide what to do sometimes. I don't know. Aww, man. I want to go home, I want to sleep, I want to find peace, I want to find happiness, pleasure, be kind to life, courtious, patient, patience is a virtue, among other things. Life isn't a game. Life is for real, serious business.]
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Live phone caller - "Go to the window"
Live phone caller - "I'm at the window" [and I see the tongs on the flaming coal... I see an 8-year old gesturing, gesticulating wildly for the 18-wheeled truck to sound its horn by dancing it out on the sidewalk at night.]
Ken - "None of this is what I intended" [My intention has 72 faces. I cannot always face my intention. My intention is two-faced.]
Stephen C. Biggs - "Blue Max video game music (SID rip)" - Blue Max (1983) for the Commodore 64, published by Synapse Software [Took an hour to load from Datasette(tm) cassette tape]
Live phone caller - "Video game (pinball?) sound effects"
Randy Glover - "Jumpman video game music (SID rip)" - Jumpman (1983) for the Commodore 64, published by Epyx [Game info]
Jim Connelley - "Dragonriders of Pern video game sound effects (SID rip)" - Dragonriders of Pern (1983) for the Commodore 64, published by Epyx [Book by Anne McCaffrey. Software development by The Connelley Group]
Dennis Caswell - "Impossible Mission video game sound effects (SID rip)" - Impossible Mission (1984) for the Commodore 64, published by Epyx [Incl. Another visitor! Stay a while...stay forever! Destroy him, my robots. Game info]
Live phone caller - "Cautiously caressing it" [I relax the marble, the morph of which is the width of the world, finally touching it with my fingertips, cautiously caressing it, brush stroke technique of bravery tenderness.]
Live phone caller - "Go to the window"
Michael Crichton, director & writer; Alan Oppenheimer, others, actors - "Scene: Leave the resort open - everything's fine!" - Westworld movie [Central mechanism psychosis? I feel we should shut down the resort for a month. Oh, that seems rash. If we can't ensure the safety of the guests, we're going to be in desperate trouble. But we can ensure their safety! Everything's fine!]
Tangerine Dream - "Love on a Real Train" - Risky Business Soundtrack [Played backwards, layered with forwards copy]
Tangerine Dream - "Love on a Real Train" - Risky Business Soundtrack [Layered with backwards copy]
Ken - "For the time being"
End of set
Arturo en el Barco - "Beth Dorris" - Music for Students [Not from the 2005 episode, although made in 2005.] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/90082