Canadadaday

July 1, 2009 Canada Day episode, featuring live readings of E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, F.R. Scott's The Canadian Social Register and Scott's brief retort to Pratt, All the Spikes But the Last. Readings were accompanied by orchestral works by various Canadian composers.

Part 1
1. Oh Canaduh - Subhumans
2. Canadian Customs - Frank Zappa
3. Divertissement for String Quartet - Pierre Mercure
4. The Only Junior Fiction - Godfried & Soy
5. Inquisition Day - Subhumans
6. Carnival Overture for Orchestra - Oskar Morawetz
7. Surfin' Canada - Lungbutter
8. Look at the Dawn - Subhumans

Part 2
1. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
2. Ronald McRaygun - Dayglo Abortions
3. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro - Michael Conway Baker
4. Staggering Into the Night - Swelter
5. So Fine - The Real Slow Drag
6. Canadian Mosaic, Suite for Orchestra: The Contented House - Jean Coulthard
7. Elan for Orchestra - Linda Bouchard
8. Proud To Be a Canadian - Dayglo Abortions
9. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine

Summer Solstice 2009

Featured text was the audiobook The Beginner's Guide to Dream Interpretation by Clarissa Pinkola.

Part 1
1. The Slippery Slope - Bob Evans
2. Twin Earth - Monster Magnet
3. The Alter Destiny - Sun Ra
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Starwalker - Buffy Sainte-Marie
6. Cage Around the Sun - Monster Magnet
7. Fred Brophy - Joel Fafard

Part 2
1. A Vaquero's Dream - Freddie Pelletier
2. Dinosaur Vacume - Monster Magnet
3. The Utter Nots - Sun Ra
4. Black Balloon - Monster Magnet
5. Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
6. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Dagger of the Mind

Featured text was the Classic Drama audio production of Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Fiona Shaw. One of the bloodies episodes yet despite the difficulties of balancing the low recording levels of the play with the accompanying music.

Part 1
1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 1) - Miles Davis
3. Black Cat - American Flame Whip
4. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 2) - Miles Davis
5. New Drug Queens - Pink Mountaintops
6. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 3) - Miles Davis
7. Battle Lust - GWAR
8. Pharoah's Dance (excerpt 4) - Miles Davis
9. Fingertight - American Flame Whip

Part 2
1. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
2. Bitches Brew (excerpt 1) - Miles Davis
3. The Wizard - Black Sabbath
4. Bitches Brew (excerpt 2) - Miles Davis
5. Eat Steel - GWAR
6. Bitches Brew (excerpt 3) - Miles Davis
7. Hell For Sale - American Flame Whip
8. Bitches Brew (excerpt 4) - Miles Davis
9. Immortal Corrupter - GWAR

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

Talking to Death

Aired June 3, 2009. Featured text was Edgar Cayce: Channeling Your Higher Self: A Practical Method to Tap into Higher Wisdom and Creativity, an Audio Renaissance production written by Stanley Ralph Ross & read by Mark Thurston

Part 1:
1. Repons (Section 1) - Pierre Boulez / Ensemble InterComporain
2. It's All Over - Headstones
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Death Was Too Kind - Subhumans
5. Oh My God! - Headstones
6. III Meditation - Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyond - Pericardium
8. The Walking Dead - Eugene Chadbourne
9. Losing Control - Headstones

Part 2:
1. Repons (Section 1) - Pierre Boulez / Ensemble InterComporain
2. Cut - Headstones
3. I Talked To Death In Stereo - Eugene Chadbourne
4. Death To The Sickoids - Subhumans
5. Cemetery - Headstones
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage

Fly Without Fear

Episode 25 begins the new day with a statement of purpose - to conquer fear of flight, thru flight! Featured KRS Edstrom's audiobook Fly Without Fear: Guided Meditations for a Relaxing Flight, a spoken-word treatise on fearlessness including easy-listening background music - to which was added the following in the aural foreground -

Part 1:
1. Airports - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
2. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. You're Gonna Crash - Streetheart
5. Master of the Universe - Hawkwind
6. New Drug Queens - Pink Mountaintops
7. Silver Rocket - Sonic Youth

Part 2:
1. You Shouldn't Do That - Hawkwind
2. From the Eastern Gate I - Erica Goodman
3. Go to Hell - Streetheart
4. 'Cross the Breeze - Sonic Youth
5. Blast Off - The (International) Noise Conspiracy

Dark Waters

Episode 24, aired May 13, 2009, completes one full day of programming! Featuring music and words from Frank Zappa's Opera-Pantomime Masterpiece, Civilization Phaze III.

Part1:
1. "This is Phaze III" - Frank Zappa
2. Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
3. Put a Motor in Yourself - Frank Zappa
4. "Oh-Umm" - Frank Zappa
5. Money Matters - SNFU
6. They Made Me Eat It - Frank Zappa
7. Eat My Meat - Lungbutter
8. Reagan at Bitburg - Frank Zappa
9. She's Not on the Menu - SNFU
10. "A Very Nice Body" - Frank Zappa
11. Nanavax - Frank Zappa
12. Boot Raper - Lungbutter

Part 2:
1. "How the Pigs' Music Works" - Frank Zappa
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Bil's Butt - Lungbutter
4. Joyride - SNFU
5. Xmas Values - Frank Zappa
6. "Dark Water!" - Frank Zappa
7. They Call Me Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters
8. "Have You Ever Heard Their Band?" - Frank Zappa
9. Religious Superstition - Frank Zappa
10. "Saliva Can Only Take So Much" - Frank Zappa
11. One Chord Song (Except for the End) - Lungbutter
12. Get Off Your Ass - SNFU
13. Harry's Groove - Muddy Waters
14. Wascana Lake - Lungbutter
15. Let's Make the Water Turn Black - The Mothers of Invention