TalkToTheChip

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://soundcloud.com/magnusblondaljohannsson/sets/elektronisk-studia   Useful links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_Bl%C3%B6ndal_J%C3%B3hannsson https://monoskop.org/Rikhardur_H._Fridriksson https://smekkleysa.net/shop/smekkleysa_cd/electronic/magnus-blondal-johannsson-elektronisk-studia/ https://nordische-filmtage.de/en/programm/movie/view/2009/1028.html https://www.nts.live/artists/58146-magnus-blondal-johannsszon https://www.islandpaafilm.dk/is/film/surtur-fer-sunnan https://en.sinfonia.is/concerts-tickets/works/magnus-blondal-johannsson-adagio https://www.islandpaafilm.dk/is/film/eldur-i-heimaey https://www.musik.is/BjarkiSve/Phd/Sidur/209-214.html (Icelandic)

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-wire   more info: http://www.lovely.com/albumnotes/notes1011.html https://www.britannica.com/art/monochord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_On_A_Long_Thin_Wire https://www.discogs.com/release/757891-Alvin-Lucier-Music-On-A-Long-Thin-Wire https://archives.nypl.org/mus/23034   https://direct.mit.edu/lmj/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/LMJ_a_00110/63533/Music-on-a-Long-Thin-Wire?redirectedFrom=fulltext   https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/conceptual-art https://rhodridavies.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/09/alvin-lucier-dead-composer-making-music-ai-artificial-intelligence-brain   https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/david-behrman-in-his-own-words/

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.uk/ems/oram/ https://ra.co/features/1305 https://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/ https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada

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/blog/2024/09/01/joe-meek-taboo-telstar/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meekhttps://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/

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 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/962E69F2A79E8E57E049FDC73961BAF1/S1478572223000191a.pdf/michiko-toyama-disrupts-the-historiography-of-modernism.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiko_Toyama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(poetry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs https://japanhouse.illinois.edu/education/insights/shakuhachi  

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 https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin https://www.endpointaudio.com/optical-sound-detail https://www.facebook.com/nightradio/ https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/13211/sofia-gubaidulina-soviet-composer-music-story   https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/contemporary-composer-sofia-gubaidulina   https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/31/sofia-gubaidulina-unchained-melodies   https://brahms.ircam.fr/en/works/work/8940/   https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/track/vivente-non-vivente-alive-and-dead   https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005949/ https://youtu.be/WrF1PSoTN3A?si=rwDLet-SBK06uVCT    

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 https://www.wendycarlos.com/+sslms.html https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-modular-systems https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=4Iul211T-wYkNHwX https://kumo.bandcamp.com/album/day-night https://charlesives.org/ives-man-his-life https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/11/she-made-music-jump-into-3d-wendy-carlos-the-reclusive-synth-genius https://www.discogs.com/release/18288-Wendy-Carlos-Sonic-Seasonings-  

In this episode of Talk to the Chip, right before the electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani brings her magical live performance to the Union Chapel in London, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about her beautiful sounding work Seven Waves (1982), as well as her extensive contributions and inspiring career in electronic music.   Listen to Seven Waves here: https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/seven-waves   Useful Links: https://youtu.be/fZscRHkLMt0?si=9Ty9MmsVVvG5805V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28i-k3mL3o https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/long-reads/suzanne-ciani-riding-the-waves/ https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/lixiviation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxPoJ4QoSk https://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/suzanne-ciani-on-modular-synthesis-the-buchla-200e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0&list=LL https://youtu.be/fFrgS70ioa0?feature=shared https://buchla.com/history/

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://www.jstor.org/stable/944606 https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ https://electrocd.com/en/oeuvre/20304-visage https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news/film-week-berberian-sound-studio https://electrocd.com/en/album/5236-electronic-music http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/11/damo-suzuki-cans-free-floating-vocalist-gave-us-some-of-the-1970s-most-exotic-rock-music https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/aphasia/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036618300592

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/Varese_Edgard_1966_The_Liberation_of_Sound.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBQsym_G82Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poème_électronique https://www.marseille-tourisme.com/en/discover-marseille/culture-heritage/discover-the-sites-and-monuments-in-marseille/cite-radieuse-of-le-corbusier/ https://www.archdaily.com/902597/on-the-dislocation-of-the-body-in-architecture-le-corbusiers-modulor

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 https://persistenceofsound.co.uk/huellas-entreveradas https://beatrizferreyra.odexpo.com/default.asp?page=41341&sm=41352&lg= https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/2021/05/beatriz-ferreyra-grm-works.html https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works https://blog.native-instruments.com/audio-filters-guide/ https://youtu.be/4xy6dfUmfOk?si=3rnjpwOUX4YtgqVC https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1689831.Pierre_Schaeffer http://www.metamono.co.uk

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://www.nts.live/artists/18440-maryanne-amacher https://monoskop.org/Maryanne_Amacher https://academic.oup.com/book/41561/chapter/353034305 https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/themire/20485/rip-maryanne-amacher https://youtu.be/SZDj78i8UpY?si=dK5hkySFZn7_WQdf https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/talktothechip_21-october-2023_/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission https://mu-tron.com/vintage-musitronics/mu-tron-bi-phase/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/john-zorn-jazz-metal-interview-naked-city-1015329/

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://composers.com/composers/bulent-arel https://tapeop.com/tutorials/11/intro-analog-tape-splicing-and-editing-and-tape-loops/ https://cmc.music.columbia.edu/about https://filizali.blogspot.com/2010/04/bulent-arel-filiz-ali-turkiyenin-ilk.html https://acikradyo.com.tr/arsiv-icerigi/ulkemizin-elektronik-muzige-armagani-bulent-arel https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338367288_The_Ankara_Years_of_Bulent_Arel_1940-1965_Music_Radio_and_Politics/link/5e0f46d692851c8364ae884c/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19 https://acikerisim.msgsu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.14124/3218

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/may/10/charanjit-singh-acid-house-ten-ragas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga#Description https://blog.zzounds.com/2016/03/03/roland-tb-303/ https://www.roland.com/us/promos/roland_tr-808/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Jupiter-8 https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/rip-charanjit-singh-the-most-influential-musician-you-may-have_b_7750646 https://youtu.be/igNBeo3QSqc?si=4SYeyiV-XfL56zsO https://youtu.be/49P4GUA4AIY?si=dccQpRm0jiP3Unbv

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yoshimura#Legacy https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/terry-riley-interview-every-decade-of-my-life-has-had-a-different-focus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/MIDI-Musical-Instrument-Digital-Interface https://sequential.com/about-dave-smith/ https://www.mixcloud.com/talk_to_the_chip/talk-to-the-chip-episode-3-lîle-re-sonante-éliane-radigue/ https://www.soundonsound.com/people/john-chowning https://blog.native-instruments.com/what-is-fm-synthesis/    

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-story-of-the-ems-synthi-100-3030/ https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla%27s_roar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7DjWc6ZVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUEhjuH4 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/iannis-xenakis-la-legende-d%C2%92eer/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cprestia/220a/xenakis.html https://monoskop.org/Iannis_Xenakis https://www.discogs.com/release/197685-Iannis-Xenakis-Persepolis-Remixes-Edition-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanoise

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-Electric-Magnetic http://www.halimeldabh.com/ https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/halim-el-dabh.1 https://www.bidoun.org/articles/music-pioneer-halim-el-dabh https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/music/halim-el-dabh-dies.html https://scenearabia.com/Noise/halim-el-dabh-egyptian-musician-composer-invented-electronic-music https://thevinylfactory.com/features/electric-futurism-francis-bebey/ https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/anselm-kiefer-finnegans-wake https://www.britannica.com/topic/Finnegans-Wake https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/wire-recording-forgotten-audio-format/

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=xK0WEsLOT1qqXTgnGozbEQ Useful links: https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/pioneering-knob-twiddler/ https://boomkat.com/products/pioneering-knob-twiddler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/how-fm-synthesis-works/ http://www.ampfiddler.com https://www.komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sys100m.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Space_Echo https://www.montana.edu/rmaher/ee417_fl08/Intro%20to%20Musical%20Acoustics%20ee417%20FL08.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50D7T0k66A http://www.metamono.co.uk https://www.getintothis.co.uk/2016/02/brian-eno-david-byrnes-cultural-appropriation-35-years-life-bush-ghosts/

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/Tabla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dr-peter-zinovieff-the-original-tectonic-sounds https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3438 https://theproaudiofiles.com/field-recording https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/de-natura-sonorum https://bernard-parmegiani.fr/en/itineraire/biographie/ https://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum https://headphonecommute.com/2013/11/23/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum-recollection-grm/

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 https://www.frieze.com/article/pauline-oliveros-1932-2016 https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/pauline-oliveros-lecture https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/and-dont-call-them-lady-composers-and-dont-call-them-lady-composers.html https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/Pauline-Oliveros-Frances-Morgan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saenghwang https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2022/02/08/no-input-mixing-hack https://www.jackson-pollock.org