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By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearnTechnology Music

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January 12, 2018Episode #87 – Pitch, Tuning, and Temperament
What is pitch? How do instruments play in tune with each other? How do instruments tune, and what is temperament? Andy Doe explains all this.
Show notes:
Pitch (Wikipedia)
Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo, Peter Wispelwey
Music tuning (Wikipedia)
Musical temperament (Wikipedia)
Pythagoras (Wikipedia)
Pythagorean tuning (Wikipedia)
Meantone temperament (Wikipedia)
Online recordings with unequal temperaments
Britten: Saint Nicolas, King’s College Choir
1615, Gabrieli in Venice, King’s College Choir
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Ralph Kirkpatrick, clavichord
Doug: David Bowie: Let’s Dance (Demo Single)
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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January 05, 2018Episode #86 – New Year’s Resolutions
As the new year rings in, we take a look at our music listening habits and think about how we may want to change them.
Show notes:
SwinsianRoon
PlexTidalQobuzEssential Bollywood playlistThe A-List: K-PopOur next tracks:
Kirk: Daniel Lanois: For the Beauty of Wynona Doug: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age
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December 29, 2017Episode #85 – How Much Music Is Too Much?
As we amass music in our physical or digital libraries, it can reach a point where it doesn’t make sense to keep adding more music. How much really is too much?
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Show notes:
Play Random Albums AppleScript
Collecting Music in an Analog Age
High Fidelity
The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Volume 1: An In-Depth Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape, 1959-1974
The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Volume 2: An In-Depth Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape, 1975-1985
The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
Yes: Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two
Searching for the Perfect Recording
Discogs
Paul Badura-Skoda: 90th Anniversary Edition
Gramophone
Hyperion Records
Naxos Records
Grateful Dead: Dave’s Picks Volume 24: Berkeley, Ca, 8/25/72
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Bill Nelson: Rosewood Volume 1 and Volume 2
Doug: Pseudo Echo: Live at the Viper Room, Pseudo Echo: Nutbush City Limits (single)
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December 22, 2017Episode #84 – Ask Doug and Kirk: AirPods, Ripping Optical Discs, and Moving iTunes Libraries
We answer a few listener questions about Apple’s AirPods, how to rip optical discs (other than CDs), and moving and merging iTunes libraries.
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Show notes:
Apple AirPods
Sennheiser PX 100-II i headphones
Episode #57 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Optical Discs
iTunes Now Hides CD Action Settings if No Optical Drive Is Detected
Rip audio tracks from your DVDs
How to rip audio from your Blu-ray discs
Audio Hijack
Episode #50 – Streaming Music in Your Home
Audacity
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (Blu-Ray)
Fission
Take Control of Audio Hijack
How To Move Your iTunes Library to an External Hard Drive
How To Combine or Merge Two iTunes Libraries
Dupin
Super Remove Dead Tracks
Track Down Purchases
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Bach: Art of Fugue, by Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantia
Doug: Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at Zardi’s
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December 15, 2017Episode #83 – Daniel Spreadbury on Music Notation Software
We welcome Daniel Spreadbury to discuss the software that composers use to put their notes onto virtual paper.
This week’s guest:
Daniel Spreadbury, Dorico
Dorico
Show notes:
Sibelius
ARM processor
An original score of a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach
A score by William Byrd
German organ tablature
French-style lute tablature
Bach’s unfinished fugue
Real book
Newzik
A shakuhachi score
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Stan Richardson: Shakuhachi Meditation Music
Doug: 10cc: Sheet Music
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Special Guest: Daniel Spreadbury.
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December 08, 2017Episode #82 – Let It Snow
As winter closes in, and the holiday season approaches, we discuss the strange ritual of listening to Christmas music for just one month a year.
There’s got to be a German word for this. It’s that feeling, that first second, when you heard Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.
Show notes:
Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock
Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
Bruce Springsteen: Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Do They Know It’s Christmas
We Are the World
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
Bob Dylan: Must Be Santa (video)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Apple Music Christmas Playlist
Die Hard
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
I Wish it Could Be Christmas (article)
The Kinks: Father Christmas
Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: I Believe in Father Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Roomful of Blues: Roomful of Christmas
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Colin Currie Group: Steve Reich music live in Paris (videos)
Doug: The Rolling Stones: On Air
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December 01, 2017Episode #81 – Ask Andy: Ohms and Decibels
We bring back our regular guest Andy Doe to discuss some of the technical terms we read about with audio equipment: Ω and dB, also known as ohms and decibels.
This week’s guest:
Andy Doe
Proper Discord
Show notes:
Ohm (Wikipedia)
Resistor color code chart
Episode #73 – Kirk Wants to Buy an Amplifier
Decibel (Wikipedia)
Comparative Examples Of Noise Levels
dB SPL
dBFS (Wikipedia)
Episode #35 – Musician and Developer Peter Chilvers on Brian Eno’s Album and App Reflection
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Brian Eno: Another Green World
Doug: Dixie Dregs: What If
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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November 24, 2017Episode #80 – John Cage
We welcome Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust, to discuss the life and legacy of composer John Cage.
“I am most interested in music that doesn’t say anything.” John Cage, 1991
This week’s guest:
Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust
Show notes:
The Selected Letters of John Cage
John Cage Unbound: A Living Archive (New York Public Library)
Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business
Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (1991)
John Cage / Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings I – V
John Cage & Morton Feldman Radio Happenings (book and DVD)
John Cage performing Water Walk on I’ve Got a Secret (1960):

John Cale on I’ve Got a Secret (1963):

Mesostics
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
4’33” (Wikipedia)
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”
The Curious Score for John Cage’s “Silent” Zen Composition 4’33”
4’33” score
Freeman Etudes (Books One & Two), Freeman Etudes (Books Three & Four)
Number Pieces (Wikipedia)
Ryoanji Drawings
Recommended pieces; Apple Music links:
String Quartet in Four Parts, Lasalle Quartet
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (first recording by Maro Ajemian)
74
Third Construction
Cheap Imitation
Ryoanji
Our next tracks:
Kirk: ECM playlist
Doug: Ben Waters: Boogie 4 Stu – A Tribute to Ian Stewart
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Special Guest: Laura Kuhn.
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47 min
November 17, 2017Episode #79 – 1977
Doug and Kirk look at how 1977 was a watershed year for popular music.
Show notes:
ECM Records Now Available on Apple Music
Eagles: Hotel California
Billy Joel: The Stranger
Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
The Clash: The Clash (UK version)
The Clash: Give ’em Enough Rope
The Clash: The Clash (US version)
Four Manchester bands we owe to the Sex Pistols’ Lesser Free Trade Hall gig 40 years ago
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Elvis Costello: Less Than Zero > Radio, Radio on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Fever
Episode #76 – Mirror Balls and Polyester: Looking Back at Disco Music
Grateful Dead Movie
The Hobbit
Abba: The Movie
Episode #59 – 1967 and the Summer of Love
100K+ Descend Upon Central New Jersey For Grateful Dead Show On This Date In 1977
Photos from Englishtown 1977
Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 15, Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ, 9/3/77
Beach Boys Turn Central Park Into California Dreamin’ (New York Times)
Sha Na Na
Aerosmith: Walk This Way
Run-DMC: Walk This Way
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell
40 Years Ago: Bruce Springsteen Settles 10-Month Lawsuit with Manager Mike Appel
Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77
Television: Marquee Moon
Marquee Moon (Wikipedia)
The 1977 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll
Okay, I’m not going to link to every album in the Chritsgau list…
“Heroes” (Wikipedia)
Laserium
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Tangerine Dream: Encore
Doug: Eric Clapton: Slowhand
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November 10, 2017Episode #78 – Alexander Joel on the Role of the Conductor in Classical Music
Conductor Alexander Joel talks about the profession of conductor for operas and orchestras.
This week’s guest:
Alexander Joel
Repertoire
Show notes:
Alexander Joel’s Wagner Ring cycle, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Alexander Joel on Operabase
ARTE TV story about Alexander Joel (in German)
Video of Alexander Joel conducting Verdi’s La Traviata
Conductor killed by conducting staff: The ironic death of Jean-Baptiste Lully
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Tuxedomoon: Desire
Doug: Mountain: Climbing
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Special Guest: Alexander Joel.
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36 min

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Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.