To Know A NO That Is NONE

No.181, aired August 15, 2012, featuring readings from the vast visionary word-horde of Regina poet Robert Betteridge, with particular emphasis on the riff that runs out of the tragic abyss of knowing a NO that is NONE, the ground source out from which all life springs, buttressed by multiple thematically resonant tracks by jazz-punk-poetry trio Nomeansno.

OH AERODYNE GOOSE

SLICING THROUGH WITH SQUAWK

THOSE SLEET BLASTED

WINDS OF SPACE

SO CALMLY

SEARCHING A POLAR STAR

WITHIN THE DARK NIGHT

WHERE THE “NO”

IS KNOWN

AS “NONE”

-Robert Betteridge (n.50/1)

Part 1

1. Octandre II – Edgar Varese / Orchestre National de France -- n.96 – Robert Betteridge

2. 0 + 2 = 1 – Nomeansno

3. Outer Nothingness – Sun Ra -- n.70/1,77,86,87 – Robert Betteridge

4. The Valley Of The Blind – Nomeansno

5. Octandre I – Edgar Varese / Orchestre National de France -- n.89,15a – Robert Betteridge

6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa

7. No Competition – Insaniacs

8. Octandre III – Edgar Varese / Orchestre National de France -- n.98,102 – Robert Betteridge

Part 2

1. Heliocentric – Sun Ra -- n.70/1,77,86,87 – Robert Betteridge

2. The Fall – Nomeansno

3. The Cosmos – Sun Ra -- n.98,102 – Robert Betteridge

4. The Night Nothing Became Everything – Nomeansno

5. When Something Stands For Nothing – Headstones

6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter -- n.115 – Robert Betteridge

7. Hyperprism – Edgar Varese / Orchestre National de France -- n.61/2 – Robert Betteridge