Outside His Circled Limpid World

No.160, aired February 29, 2012 – a double (2-hour episode).

This episode contrasted two texts – a live reading of Sean Bonney’s Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud, and an audiobook of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Wells envisions a class-bassed society polarized to the point of total segregation, as observed from the top down by Wells’ detached, alien narrator. Bonney registers the effects of class society on subjectivity, the tortured imagination of participants in the struggle at street level, in a whirl of sensation – there is no privileged place to look down from.

Part 1

1. The Fifty Minute Hour – Hylozoists
2. Ghosts Of Griffintown – Ripcordz
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Corrupted – Pericardium
5. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis
6. 25th Century Quaker – Captain Beefheart

Part 2

1. Lunchmeatophobia – Funkadelic
2. Tear Ya Down – Motorhead
3. Elementary Particles – Hylozoists
4. Gimme That Harp, Boy – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis

Part 3

1. Everything Pisses Me Off – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Smiley Smiley – Hylozoists
3. The Opportunist – Pericardium
4. Ittidra – Iannis Xenakis
5. Kandy Korn – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
6. No Class – Motorhead

Part 4

1. Lashed Out And Gashed - Pericardium
2. Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
3. Charlie Don’t Surf – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
5. Punk Nation – Ripcordz
6. Strait Is The Gate – Hylozoists
7. Moanin At Midnight – Howlin Wolf

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

No.117, aired April 6, 2011, featuring live readings of Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson.

Part 1

Intro. The Philosophy Of The Parthenon – Ralph Gustafson
1. Heroic Doses – Glueleg
2. Haught – Derek Bailey -- At The Ocean’s Verge – Ralph Gustafson
3. Cough Syrup – Butthole Surfers
4. Nacht (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis -- On This Sea-Floor / “S.S.R., Lost At Sea.” – The Times / Basque Lover: Spain 1937 – Ralph Gustafson
7. Magic Word – Fucked Up

Part 2

1. Polio – Glueleg
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Waiting – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Open Doors – Odyssey: the Band -- Flight Into Darkness / Legend – Ralph Gustafson
5. Days Of Last Light – Fucked Up –- Prolegomenon At Midnight – Ralph Gustafson
6. Wash These Blues Away – Little Miss Higgins
7. Last One - Odyssey: the Band -- Aspects Of Some Forsythia Branches – Ralph Gustafson
8. Midnight Show – The Horribles

China Steps?

No.106, aired January 19, 2011, featuring more from Part III of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. China Steps – Women
2. Chinese Checkers – Booker T. & The MGs
3. Foot Soldiers (Star Spangled Funky) – Funkadelic
4. Steps – Cecil Taylor
5. Baby’s Are Walking On The Water – Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. China Pig – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Part 2

1. Druganaut – Black Mountain
2. Enter Evening [Soft Line Structure] – Cecil Taylor
3. Don’t Run Our Hearts Around – Black Mountain
4. Drag Open – Women
5. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Suffersurge ... or Colloquy In Black Rock

No.104, aired January 5, 2011, featuring an on-air reading from Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s volume of bone-hard, dark-as-hell verse from 1946.

Part 1

1. Energy Surge – Layaway Plan
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. No Guru – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Crazy Boys – Clones
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
6. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats

Part 2

1. Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
2. Open Aspect No.1.1 – Anthony Braxton -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
3. Controlling Me – Suffersurge
4. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
5. Deathsmarch / Sorceress – Cancer Bats

Poems read with Phlegra: The Exile’s Return / The Holy Innocents / Colloquy At Black Rock / Christmas At Black Rock / New Year’s Day / Winter In Dunbarton

Poems read with Open Aspect No.1.1: The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket / Christmas Eve Under Hooker’s Statue / The Drunken Fisherman

Half A Heart

No.86, aired September 1, 2010

This episode was cut short due to a family medical emergency. An interesting episode all the same, featuring segments from Chapter 2 of Heart Of Darkness with Xenakis & Arab-Canadian punks The Sarcastic Mannequins - a morbid serendipity was acheived as the Mannequins were heard yelling "Tandoori!" as Marlowe (the narrator of Heart Of Darkness) contemplated why his shipmates were not eating him.

Music heard between 11:25 and midnight were supplied by Phil, CJTR’s most flexible DJ.

Part 1

1. Rule No.1 – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Things I Lack – Pillar
3. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
4. Teufelskind – Dog Eat Dogma
5. 4 Arabs In A Red Fury - Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Meganegativity - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Magic – Alien Sex Fiend