Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

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Synopsis

Live improvised sound collage experiment, weaving mesmerizing loopy layered found soundscapes, riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. http://lastever.org

Episodes

  • It's Possible (twisted branches) (Show #631) | Download full MP3 from Jan 30, 2019

    13/02/2019 Duration: 116h59min

    W. G. Snuffy Walden - "Angela Smiled" - My So-Called Life Armin van Buuren feat. Aaelyn - "In and out of love" Bart & Baker feat. Lolly Wish - "Downloaded (Rogan remix)" W. G. Snuffy Walden - "My So-Called Life theme" - My So-Called Life [Layers] Olivia Newton-John & ELO - "Xanadu" - Xanadu [Loops] Ken - "Nobody knows, we're all alone" [Recorded on cell phone camera (live during show)] Olivia Newton-John & ELO - "Xanadu" - Xanadu [Loops] W. G. Snuffy Walden - "Angela Smiled" Live phone caller & Ken - "Possibility is possible (It's possible)" W. G. Snuffy Walden - "Angela Smiled" - My So-Called Life Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "You Don't Have Time (this is good news)" - Show #509, from 9/15/2016 [Live on stage at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar] Set: Michael Linnen & David Wingo - "Kissing music" - All the Real Girls Ken - "Collective faith (something good will happen)" Cowboy Junkies - "Ring on the Sill" - Pale Sun Crescent Moon [Loops] Sharon Stone with Garry Shandling - "If you're no

  • These Documents + Now (Rippling Water) + The Coming Storms + Coincident Symphony from Jan 23, 2019

    30/01/2019

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "These Documents" - Show #300, from Mar. 16, 2004 [These documents clearly show. The White House Press Secretary's unrelenting assertions about Bush's military service records, how clear the documents are, and how proud the President was. No looping was necessary! Ably assisted by Vangelis, Alan Watts, and Noam Chomsky. Sources: White House with Press Secretary Scott McClellan 2/10/04 Vangelis: Chariots of Fire main titles (1981), 12 O'Clock, Blade Runner main titles (1994) Alan Watts: Zen laughing Vangelis: Tears in Rain (1994) Noam Chomsky: blood dripping from Americans' hands, from Manufacturing Consent Trembling Blue Stars: Maybe After All ("don't live in the real world...")] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Now (Rippling Water)" - Show #305, from Apr. 13, 2004 [The past flows back from now. Sources: Quiet American: Plumbing and Irrigation of South Asia field recordings (2003) Alan Watts: Purpose (Now) Dire Straits: On Every Street 7% Solution: All A

  • Everything has always been there (Show #628) | Jan 16, 2019

    17/01/2019 Duration: 118h41min

    Acousmatique Recordings - "Breathe in through tightly pursed lips" David Byrne - "What time is it? No time to look back" - True Stories [over Acousmatique Recordings] Acousmatique Recordings - "Breathe in through tightly pursed lips" Bea T'cha - "If you ask nicely" [over Acousmatique Recordings. Includes French monologue] Neil Amsterdam - "Neutral Strings #2" - Magic Kingdom WEDway Peoplemover Music Loop [over Bea T'cha, Acousmatique Recordings] George Bruns - "Monorail Song" - Magic Kingdom WEDway Peoplemover Music Loop [over other Magic Kingdom, Bea T'cha] Bea T'cha - "Evening of Light" [over other Bea T'cha, Neutral Strings #2] George Bruns - "Nation on Wheels" - Magic Kingdom WEDway Peoplemover Music Loop [with Bea T'cha, Acousmatique Recordings, other Magic Kingdom] Neil Amsterdam - "Industry in Motion #1" - Magic Kingdom WEDway Peoplemover Music Loop [with Bea T'cha, Acousmatique Recordings, other Magic Kingdom] Ken - "Intro / let go" [over Bea T'cha if you ask nicely and Nation on Wheels] Bea T'cha - "

  • Thank You For Making Noise & Sheep's Clothing (Shows#306/320) from Jan 9, 2019

    10/01/2019

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Thank You For Making Noise" - Show #306, from 4/17/04 [Emmersively environmental loopy pop, rich, perfectly drifty. Live on KOOP Austin. (Out-of-sequence playlist here.)] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Sheep's Clothing" - Show #320, from 6/29/04 [One of my assistants was eating a great-looking salad, so I asked her to order one for me. Live on KOOP Austin.] The Party Party (rx) - "imagine...walk on the wild side" [George W. Bush + John Lennon + Lou Reed] The Party Party (rx) - "It's the End of the World" [George W. Bush + R.E.M.] Jim of Seattle - "Welcome to Windows" [Microsoft Windows 95 sounds + jazz piano] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/83530

  • I want to step across (Show #470/614) | Download full MP3 from Oct 3, 2018

    06/12/2018 Duration: 115h20min

    Hal Hartley - "End Credits, Simple Men" - True Fiction Pictures [a.k.a. Ned Rifle] Joachim Holbek - "Piano sound (reversed)" - Riget (The Kingdom) [Lars von Trier TV series] Joachim Holbek - "Piano sound" - Riget (The Kingdom) [Lars von Trier TV series] Ken - "There are things that you just cannot see" Hal Hartley - "End Credits, Simple Men" - True Fiction Pictures John Lawrence - "We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness" - John Carpenter's They Live Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "In Koln (Cologne), Germany (with Alan Watts, Ida, Jon Brion, Schizopolis, Wings of Desire, the wind comes a-howling, David Cronenberg...)" - Koln, Germany: 6/29/09, show #397 Kraftwerk - "Radioaktivitat" - Radio-Activity [Layers] Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney - "I don't believe it (The Girl Is Mine)" - Thriller 25th Anniversary [2008 2LP Remaster] Jerry Goldsmith - "Carol Anne's Theme" - Poltergeist s.t. Ken - "I appreciate that you've come along. It can be overwhelming and lonely." Kraftwerk -

  • Decisions, Gratification, Escape (Show #535/613) | Download full MP3 from Sep 19, 2018

    15/11/2018 Duration: 117h59min

    PSA - "Be a teacher" Ken - "The beginning of the show" Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Many loops] Ken - "I think I just made it (just this much time)" Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Many loops] Ken - "I'm preparing (a portal for the present moments)" Random Rab - "Apparently" - Visurreal [Loops] David Weinstein - "Promo Ken's Last Ever last week" - Ridgewood Radio on WFMU's GTDR 7/19/17 Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Dreams, impossiblity, love (with East Forest-10 Laws, Harry Nilsson-Everybody's Talking, Ken on Impossibility of this show, WarGames)" - Shoiw #533, 7/19/17 Ridgewood Radio - "Unknown drone" - Last week's show Stanley Kubrick - "HAL on being constantly occupied" George C. Scott - "We have established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived, and people are sicker than ever (we cure nothing, we heal nothing!)" - The Hospital Matt S - "Discussing Ken's Last Ever (so many different emotions)" Ray Winstone - "Every day we make hundreds of thousands of decisions (you alre

  • Sleep Away: Forgotten episode from the lost 2012 vaults! | Download full MP3 from Sep 12, 2018

    08/11/2018

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Lost collage from 2012" - Show #446, from Dec. 13, 2012 [Unnamed and unknown, never published until now. Includes: Brian Eno, Jonny Greenwood, Kyle, Technology Excess snowmen phone callers, Arturo en el Barco, They Might Be Giants, Leon, Andre Gregory, Donald Sutherland, Fridge, Being There, Ghana Post Office workers, more] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81345

  • Loops in Isolation & Inside of the Ending | Download full MP3 from Sep 5, 2018

    02/11/2018

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Loops in Isolation" - Show #337, from 10/19/04 [Pretty, aimless, self referential] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Inside of the Ending" - Show #360, from 3/29/05 [I won't dream any further than my own backyard. What do we mean when we differentiate work from play? (Full playlist here) Contains bits of: Clint Mansell with Kronos Quartet, Requiem for a Dream, The Who, Tommy, Girl Interrupted, The Wizard of Oz, Barry Lyndon, Return to Oz, David Shire, Amadeus, Chrorus of Whales, Alan Watts, Franz Schubert, Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, George W Bush, Explosions in the Sky, live phone callers, Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Past Lives Meditation, Giovanni Paisiello] Idea Fire Company - "The Island of Taste" [Exit music] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81228

  • Terminal Sunshine & Uncertainty is OK (Shows 333/357) | Download full MP3 from Aug 15, 2018

    17/10/2018

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Terminal Sunshine (Like a Rainbow Canon)" - Show #333, from 9/7/04 [What was it you were thinking about? Contains live looped and layered fragments of: Ordinary People (Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Robert Redford, Judith Guest, Alvin Sargent) - choir, what was it you were thinking about, how was the show, I think we should stick to the plan, have you thought about calling that doctor, the month's up, silence of our souls, contemplate thy peace, free from all the world's desires Jon Brion - theme from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Pachabel - Canon in D Minor Brian Eno - Canon in D Major, Variation from Discreet Music Slip Dip - The Drop Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow Joe Satriani - Rockapella Vanessa Mae Stephen Wolinsky - Waking from the Trance The Spiritual Illusions from A Practical Course on Developing Multidimensional Awareness Phone caller] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Uncertainty is OK (The more you look, the les

  • Everyone is Leaving (I love you, I forgive you, forgive me, thank you, goodbye) (Show #606) | Download full MP3 from Aug 8, 2018

    09/10/2018 Duration: 116h42min

    Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a film) loops" Ken - "You are here" Radiohead - "Exit Music (for a film) layered loops forward and backward" Four Tet - "Hands (layered)" Anna Pacquin - "Hey hey hey hey, c'mon geese!" - Fly Away Home Airhead - "South Congress" The Residents - "The Festival of Death" Negativland / KROB - "Over the Edge 7/20/18 with Star Trek samples" [Spock! Spock....!] Dustin O'Halloran - "An Ending, A Beginning" Constant Smiles - "Sea of Birds" - Lost Shlohmo - "Places" [Very brief] The Beatles - "Flying (Take 8+ overdubs)" Constant Smiles - "Red Crest" - Lost [Brief] Constant Smiles - "Wood Sprites" - Lost [Brief] Letherette - "Gas Stations and Restaurants" [Briefish] The Beatles - "Revolution 1 take 20 (take your knickers off)" Hal Hartley - "Nobody told me, how should I know, it wasn't my fault, you know I would, if I could I would, you know that" - Ambition The Beatles - "Because (vocal only)" The Beatles - "Sexy Sadie RM5" The Beatles - "Across the Universe (take 2)" The Beatles - "All You

  • 3 Spooky sound collages! | Download full MP3 from Aug 1, 2018

    03/10/2018

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "George & Adolf (Someone Who Has a Job to Do / I'm a Loving Guy)" - Show #270, from 9/24/03 [First hour. Full source listing (playlist) here] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "2001: A War Odyssey" - Show #272, from 10/1/03 [First half of second hour. George & Adolf on a space carousel. Tiny playlist here. Contains: Gyorgy Ligeti's Requiem from 2001: A Space odyseey (various copies speedshifted, reversed, layered), Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza "George & Adolf" (pitch shifted on a space carousel of death), and HAL 9000 dialog pitch shifted (Daisy on uppers)] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "What Is It About?" - Show #292, from 2/3/04 [Final half hour. Drifting, into a crowd of phone callers and field recordings. Playlist here. Contains: Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, Quiet American, phone callers, Tangerine Dream, Aimee Mann, John Philip Sousa, George W. Bush, Usagipop, insect sounds, Bach] Llewellyn ap Gruffydd - "The End" https://www.wfmu.org/playlis

  • Karen's Dead and other Austin favs (Shows #262-266/#602) | Download full MP3 from Jul 25, 2018

    19/09/2018

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Karen's Dead (give her the goddamned camera!)" - Show #262, from 7/23/03 [Soundtrack to the beautiful unending experience of Ordinary People. Contains: Ordinary People, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, Scott Doebler, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Numbers 1-4, Aimee Mann, Wise Up, Magnolia, Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D Major, Marvin Hamlisch, Robert Redford, Alvin Sargent, Judith Guest, Brian Eno, Variation #1 on Canon in D Major, Discreet Music, Fridge, Five Four Child Voices, Happiness, Hannah-Barbera, Sproings, Sandra Beckmeier, Lonny Stern, KVRX, Don Billett, Meg Mundy, Richard Whiting, Basil Hoffman, 30/3000] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8" - Show #263, from 7/30/03 [Number 2 of 3. Contains: Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach, Lonny Stern, Randall's, Mendy, Sandra Beckmeier, Yann Tiersen, Amelie, KVRX, Ordinary People, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Robert Redford, Judith Guest, Alvin Sarg

  • Reinventing the Wheel (Show #542/601) | Download full MP3 from Jul 18, 2018

    12/09/2018 Duration: 117h11min

    Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" Ken - "Intro" Tori Amos - "Frog on My Toe" [Layers] Vangelis - "Tears in Rain" - Blade Runner s.t. Jerry Lewis - "You have to follow your instinct" - Interview by Dick Caviett Saint-Saens - "The Aquarium" Stone Roses - "It takes time for people to fall in love with you, but it's inevitable" - Made of Stone documentary Manhattans - "Shining Star" Taylor Kitsch - "Absolutely everything around me was false" - The Grand Seduction [Everybody was telling me lies] Jerry Lewis - "Can't improvise like you used to" - Interview by Dick Caviett [We live in too bright a society, and the economy is such that you can't even wing a show and look to find marvelous things like you used to do, for fear you might impair the show. You're just taking a chance. I love to improvise, but in the context of what I know is solid. I used to jump away from what I had planned and just go totally insane. And two out of maybe four of those would work. But you just can't do that today.] Shane Carruth - "Trade Days

  • Other Shapes are Possible (fish dances, before it's too late) (Show #461/599) | Download 100-minute MP3 from Jun 27, 2018

    05/09/2018 Duration: 101h53min

    Ken - "Identification" Johann Sebastian Bach - "Mir Hat Die Welt Tr Blich Gericht" - Mattus Passion 2 Johann Sebastian Bach - "So Ist Mein Jesus Nun Gefangen" - Mattus Passion 2 George Lucas, Walter Murch - "How shall the new environment be programmed? It all happened so slowly that most men failed to realize that anything had happened at all." - THX-1138 Live stream feedback echo chamber - "Give the Drummer Radio live stream" Ken - "Check" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Ken's East Extra Radioganza Lover" - Show #460, from 6/26/13 [Contains many samples, and shows within shows, not listed here. Try looking here] Linda Draper - "Shine" - Keepsake [Loop] Medicine Calf - "Oof" - Urgrund Broken Little Sister - "A To Fade In (Adorable cover)" - Little Darla Has a Treat for You Vol. 28 (V/A) [Piano loop built from Nazario Scenario on WFMU's GTDR 7/3/13] CocoRosie - "Smokey Taboo" - Grey Oceans James Burke - "If you didn't fit the mold, you were rejected" - Connections: The Day the Universe Changed Ken - "Tes

  • Back In The Light (Show #597) | Download full MP3 from Jun 20, 2018

    22/08/2018 Duration: 118h08min

    Bloc Party - "The Pioneers (M83 Remix)" Ween - "The Mollusk" [Loop] Ken - "We're here now" Live phone caller - "Introducing, from The Bronx" Generationals - "Avery" [Loops] Gary Oldman - "Bring me everyone. Everyone!" - Leon: The Professional movie Anois - "A Noise" War On Drugs - "You Don't Have to Go" [Loops] Beach Fossils - "This Year" [Loops] - "If You Believe in Yourself (I feel happy of myself)" [You will get the hang of it, I know it! (I feel, I feel, I feel...)] Derek Sivers - "Obvious to you, amazing to others" Lara Flynn-Boyle - "It's like I'm having the most beautiful dream, and the most terrible nightmare, all at once" - Twin Peaks Jack Kornfield - "Meditations, part 12" - Your Buddha Nature Dan Seals - "Three Time Loser" [Loops] Orson Welles - "There is no wisdom in compromise" [I cannot compromise. My pictures don't work at all unless they work my way. They simply fall apart unless they're done my way.] Ricky Gervais - "More people hate it than love it. Luckily, you don't need everyone on the pl

  • There's So Much Left to Do (Show #435) | Download full MP3 from Jun 13, 2018

    15/08/2018 Duration: 108h51min

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "There's So Much Left to Do (what's the secret? finding out by doing)" - Show #435, from June 21, 2012 Graham Chapman - "I'd like to tell you about a minority group of people who have never been deprived" - Monty Python's Flying Circus John Carpenter - "Escape From New York" 3-2-1 Contact - "You do have the tendency to regard the computer as your friend. Do you ever throw your coffee cup at your computer?" Ken Dr. Seuss - "Yertle the Turtle" Disney World - "Electric Light Parade" Wendy Carlos - "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3?" J.S. Bach - "Brandenburg Concerto?" Margarita Levieva - "The whole secret of power is to make it unresponsive" - Noise (movie) Alan Oppenheimer - "A disease of machinery" - Westworld (movie) [We don't know exactly how they work] Yann Tiersen - "Amelie music backwards" Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater - "When it comes to relationships, I'm 100%" - True Romance (movie) Melvyn Douglas - "There's so much left to do" - Being There (movie) Hans Zimmer - "Y

  • From the last tour: On Pillows, Mysteries Going On All The Time, In Between Dates (Shows #501,502,505) from Jun 6, 2018

    08/08/2018

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "On Pillows" - Show #501, from Sept. 15, 2014 [Live at Chimney Swift Collective Land Trust, in Ithaca NY] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Mysteries Going On All The Time (keep doing those things)" - Show #502, from Sept. 17, 2014 [Live at The Ninth Ward at Babeville, in Buffalo NY. Playlist/sample listing] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "In Between Dates (choices all around you)" - Show #505, from Oct. 1, 2014 [Live at The Crown, in Baltimore MD] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/79558

  • Lost Episodes from 2004 (Show #338,343) | Download full MP3 from May 23, 2018

    01/08/2018 Duration: 120h01min

    Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Hour 1: Lost episode #1" - Show #338 from Oct. 26, 2004 [Live on KOOP Austin, never heard since] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Hour 2: Lost episode #2" - Show #343, from Nov. 30, 2004 [Live on KOOP Austin, never heard since] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/79251

  • Great Green Wall (Show #590) | Download full MP3 from May 16, 2018

    25/07/2018 Duration: 119h39min

    Noel - "Silent Mourning" [Loop] Ken - "We'll slip away" Noel - "Silent Mourning" [Loop] Walter Murch - "Good example of the power of the sound" Walter Murch - "He doesn't have the film in his head, he loves the process of making" Nada Surf - "Blizzard of 77" [Loop] Jack Kornfield - "Loving kindness Part 12" Eumir Deodato - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" [Layers] Walter Murch - "Li, things unlikely to get except by chance" Dustin O'Halloran - "An Ending, A Beginning" Julianna Barwick - "Forever" [Layers] Lindsay Wagner - "Why do you have to talk about everything?" - The Paper Chase Stevie Wonder - "Misstra Know-it-All" [Loops] Moby - "Grace" Moondog - "What's the Most Exciting Thing?" Tape Beatles - "Positive will" - Music With Sound Vol. 2 Tape Beatles - "Waves of waves" - Music With Sound Vol. 2 Tape Beatles - "I'm waiting" - Music With Sound Vol. 2 Tape Beatles - "The great inspiration" - Music With Sound Vol. 2 Tape Beatles - "Architectural requirements" - Music With Sound Vol. 2 R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe (vo

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