... So Below ... Or, The Wreck Of The Broadcast

No.148, aired December 7, 2011, featuring the second disc of Ascension’s Broadcast, consisting the single 47 minute track “... so below.” The first disc, “as above ...” was played on June 15, no.125, in an earlier instalment of the Cozmo-Orgazmik Ascension series.

Late Monday night I decided that Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Wreck of the Deutschland would be a suitably active text to read with Ascension – only on the bus on the way to the station did I realize that Hopkin’s poem commemorates a shipwreck that happened on December 7 (same date the episode aired), in 1875!!

Part 1

1. Lucid Fairytale – Napalm Death
2. Nehemiah’s Misfortune – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. ... So Below – Ascension

Part 2

1. ... So Below (continued) – Ascension
2. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine
3. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Drums & Spears & Terrors

No.143, aired October 26, 2011. This was the next installment of the Cosmo-Orgazmik Ascension series, featuring this time the first half of Iannis Xenakis's Kraanerg. In honour of Halloween, spoken word was from the Bachanal episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and three tracks by Calgary's scariest band Forbidden Dimension were played.

Part 1

1. Kraanerg - Iannis Xenakis
2. Bloodshack - Forbidden Dimension
3. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
5. Fourteen Faces - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
6. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
7. Creatures Of Habit - Contaminate
8. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
9. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
10. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis

Part 2

1. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
2. My Two Lovin' Hands - Forbidden Dimension
3. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
4. Hell Is Other People - Contaminate
5. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
6. Rolling Home - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
7. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
8. Big Black Hearse - Forbidden Dimension
9. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis

Oh Canaduh

No.127, aired June 29, 2011. An all-Canadian episode, featuring tracks from the Oh Canaduh vol.2 CD, a compilation of Canadian punk rock cover versions, and readings of Canadian poet Earl Birney.

Part 1

1. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Oh Canada (Can’t Help Standing On Guard For You) – uncredited final track on Oh Canaduh CD.
4. Try Not To Stutter – Puritans (originally by Nomeansno)
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard -- Slug In Woods / World Winter / Ulysses – Earle Birney
6. Living On Top – Stand GT (originally by Jerry Jerry & The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra)
7. Slaughterhouse – Little Miss Higgins -- El Greco: Espolio – Earle Birney
8. Shamrock Bang – Titans (originally by U.I.C.)
9. Divertissement: Andante Allegro – Pierre Mercure -- Mapmounde / Bushed – Earle Birney

Part 2

1. Machine Shop – Junior Varsity (orginally by The Spys)
2. Dripsody – Hugh LeCaire -- Can Lit – Earle Birney
3. Barbara – More Fun (originally by The Modernettes)
4. Snowin’ Today: A Lament For Louis Riel – Little Miss Higgins
5. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
6. Carnival Overture – Oskar Morawetz -- Ellesmereland / A Walk In Kyoto – Earle Birney
7. The Grey And The Black – Nomads (originally by the Demics)
8. 1000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT -- Vancouver Lights – Earle Birney
9. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine

Candy-Bright Discs Trundled All Ways Thru Electric Air

No.111, aired February 23, 2011, featuring on air readings of the poetry of Margaret Avison.

Part 1

1. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room – Frank Zappa -- Snow – Margaret Avison
2. Peeler – Red Hot Lovers
3. Camino Real – The Ramblin’ Ambassadors -- Perspective – Margaret Avison
4. Mastermind – Monster Magnet
5. Ass Ass Or Ass – Red Hot Lovers
6. Fratres For Strings And Percussion – Arvo Part -- The Iconclasts / Butterfly Bones / Meeting Together Of Poles And Latitudes (In Prospect) / Thaw – Margaret Avison
7. Broomstick – L7

Part 2

1. Redline – Red Hot Lovers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Wo Xiang Tanbai – Immaculate Machine
4. Black Errors & Errors In Construction – Tim Hodgkinson -- Voluptuaries
And Others / Intra-Political – Margaret Avison
5. 100 Million Miles – Monster Magnet
6. Sunrise Redeemer – Frank Zappa -- Waking Up - Margaret Avison
7. Midnight Show – The Horribles

Weird Incantations

No.108, aired February 2, 2011. Second-last episode to feature Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats
2. In C – Terry Riley
3. Baby Please Don’t Go – Muddy Waters
4. Lunchmeataphobia (‘Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet’) – Funkadelic
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. No Productivity – Subhumans
7. Wherever I Go – Eric Dolphy
8. Macrosolutions To Megaproblems – Voivod

Part 2

1. Firing Squad – Subhumans
2. Love Me – Eric Dolphy
3. Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
4. Deserts, 3rd Interpolation – Edgard Varese
5. P.E. Squad / Doo Doo Chasers – Funkadelic
6. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine
7. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans
8. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Buying In

Episode 27 explored the relation between what it is and what it buys, with help from Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, an audiobook written by Rob Walker and performed by Robert Fass. All music played was purchased by myself at the annual CJTR garage sale. Naval Aviation in Audio strives to create tension & conflict with audio material, not unity & identity. It therefore refuses the marketing drive to create identity through purchase. As Samual Beckett wrote, "The danger is in the neatness of idenfications." Notes towards a manifesto.

The greatest "finds" at the sale were two CDs by Dog Eat Dogma, the earlier of which, Dogmachine, represented with 4 tracks in this episode, was given to me as a casette tape by the band's lead singer after their set opening for DOA in 1998, in gratitude for the energy I exhibited in front of the stage, because they seriously rocked. And by a lovely coincidence this show also aired the night before DOA played the Distrikt in Regina once again - which is why the hour ended with 3 DOA classics.

Aired June 10, 2009.

Part 1
1. Courage of the Morning - Bob Evans
2. Bad Seed - Dog Eat Dogma
3. Madison 22 - C. R. Avery
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
6. Placenta Soup - LungButter
7. Transcendental Medication - Dog Eat Dogma
8. The Loose - Jon Ballantyne

Part 2
1. Wholisticism - Barry Whitmore
2. No Such Thing As the Future - Immaculate Machine
3. Bill Hicks - C. R. Avery
4. Political Prisoner - Dog Eat Dogma
5. East Van Business Plan - C. R. Avery
6. Mon Dieu - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Search - Jon Ballantyne
8. Liar For Hire - DOA
9. America the Beautiful - DOA
10. Waiting For You - DOA