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By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearnTechnology Music

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November 18, 2016♫ Episode #27 – Composing Music for Stage and Screen, with Paul Englishby
Paul Englishby talks about composing music for stage and screen, including the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of The Tempest.
This week’s guest:
Paul Englishby
Paul Englishby on IMDB
Show notes:
The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Clips of Paul Englishby’s music for the RSC’s production of The Tempest
The Tempest: Music and Speeches
Miles Davis improvising the score for Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’echafaud
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Mozart 225
Doug: Mose Allison: Greatest Hits – The Prestige Collection
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Special Guest: Paul Englishby.
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32 min
November 11, 2016♫ Episode #26 – Andy Doe Answers Your Questions about Audio Equipment and Technology
Andy Doe answers listener questions about audio equipment and technology in our first Ask Andy episode.
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This week’s guest:
Andy Doe
Proper Discord
Show notes:
CD Text to CD Info AppleScript
Blu-Spec CD
MQA
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C, d. 956
Doug: The Firesign Theater: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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28 min
November 04, 2016♫ Episode #25 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music, Part 2
The second and final part of our interview with Timo Andres, discussing his compositions, and the business of classical music. Listen to part one.
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This week’s guest:
Timo Andres’s website
Timo Andres on Nonesuch Records
Show notes:
The Blind Banister, on the Pulitzer Prize website
Alex Ross of the New Yorker on Timo Andres and other “student composers” in 2004
Russell Platt of the New Yorker on Timo Andres in 2016
Time Andres and the Britten Sinfonia
Boston Symphony Orchestra: World premiere of Timo Andres’s Everything Happens So Much, November 18, 2016
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Charles Ives: Concord Sonata, by Donna Coleman
Doug: Frank Zappa: Yellow Shark
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Special Guest: Timo Andres.
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34 min
October 28, 2016♫ Episode #24 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music
Doug and Kirk welcome Timo Andres, composer and performer of contemporary classical music. This is the first part of a two-part interview.
One of the ways that […] any type of musician finds their style is by setting out to imitate something and failing.
This week’s guest:
Timo Andres’s website
Timo Andres on Nonesuch Records
Show notes:
Alex Ross of the New Yorker on Timo Andres and other “student composers” in 2004
Russell Platt of the New Yorker on Timo Andres in 2016
Timo Andres: Shy and Mighty
Timo Andres: Home Stretch
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music
Boston Symphony Orchestra: World premiere of Timo Andres’s Everything Happens So Much, November 18, 2016
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Steve Reich: Drumming on CD – Drumming on vinyl
Doug: Brian Eno: Another Green World
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Special Guest: Timo Andres.
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32 min
October 21, 2016♫ Episode #23 – David Browne on the History of the Grateful Dead
Doug and Kirk welcome David Browne, author of So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead to discuss the history of this iconic band.
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This week’s guest:
David Browne’s website
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
Show notes:
Kirk’s review of So Many Roads
The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound
Our next tracks:
Kirk: The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
Doug: The Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station
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Special Guest: David Browne.
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35 min
October 14, 2016♫ Episode #22 – In Praise of the iPod Classic
Doug and Kirk wax nostalgic about the iPod classic, and other one trick pony music players. And Bob Dylan.
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Reader email:
A question about earbuds and low frequencies; see the reply to a question on last week’s episode page.
News:
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in literature! Check out these Dylan albums to appreciate his poetry:
Highway 61 Revisited, particularly Desolation Row.
Blonde on Blonde, for Visions of Johanna.
John Wesley Harding, a great underrated album, for All Along the Watchtower.
And more:
No Direction Home, documentary about Dylan’s early years.
Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings
Show notes:
Elegy for the iPod
Apple Composite AV Cable
Mactracker
iTrip
Our next tracks:
Note that Kirk recorded his next track selection before the news of Dylan winning the Nobel Prize broke.
Kirk: Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
Doug: Ron Wood: I’ve Got My Own Album To Do
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31 min
October 07, 2016♫ Episode #21 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Subwoofers
Doug and Kirk had some questions about subwoofers. So they invited Andy Doe to explain how they work, how to set them up, and why we might want to use them.
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You’re listening to this at home for your own pleasure, it doesn’t actually matter if it’s accurate. What matters is that you like it.
This week’s guest:
Andy Doe, Proper Discord
Show notes:
Polk Audio PSW10 10-Inch Powered Subwoofer
Wharfdale Diamond SW150 Subwoofer
Mackie HR824 Mk 2 Studio Monitor
Pyle Home PCB3BK 3-Inch 100-Watt Mini Cube Bookshelf Speakers
Online Tone Generator
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Johann Sebastian Bach, Suites for Solo Cello, by Anner Bylsma
Doug: Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra: Ray Sings, Basie Swings
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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34 min
September 30, 2016♫ Episode #20 – You Think You Know about the Blues? Eliah Wald on the History of the Blues
We welcome musician, historian, and author Elijah Wald to discuss the history of the blues.
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Show notes:
Elijah Wald’s website
Elijah Wald’s Songobiography
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Mayor of McDougal Street
Inside Dave van Ronk (the album with the cat on the cover)
Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings
Kirk’s review of Dylan Goes Electric
Robert Palmer: Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Howlin’ Wolf on Shindig, May 20, 1965:

Our next tracks:
Kirk: Hot Tuna
Doug: Howlin’ Wolf: The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions
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Special Guest: Elijah Wald.
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31 min
September 23, 2016♫ Episode #19 – Live Recordings and Studio Recordings
Doug and Kirk discuss the pros and cons of live recordings vs. studio recordings. And, are live recordings really live?
“Bravo!”
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Show notes:
Grateful Dead: Dave’s Picks Vol. 19, Honolulu, HI, January 23, 1970
The Who: Live at Leeds, Super Deluxe Edition
Humble Pie: Performance – Rockin’ The Fillmore: The Complete Recordings
ZZ Top: Live – Greatest Hits From Around The World
Hot Tuna: Hot Tuna
Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive!
The Beatles: Live at Shea Stadium 1965
Yes: Yessongs
Chicago: Live at Carnegie Hall
Grateful Dead: Europe 72
Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East
Allman Brothers Band: Eat a Peach
Deep Purple: Live in Japan
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Deluxe Edition)
Bob Dylan: Fallen Angels
Bob Dylan: Shadows in the Night
The Beatles: Please Please Me
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir: Bach, Complete Sacred Cantatas
nugs.net
Live Phish
Dead & Company
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Alfred Brendel: Live and Radio Performances, 1968-2001
Doug: Elton John: 17-11-70
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29 min
September 16, 2016♫ Episode #18 – New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross Discusses Listening to Classical Music
We welcome New Yorker music critic Alex Ross for a long discussion about listening to classical music today. This episode runs a bit longer than usual, but we think you’ll enjoy the whole show.
“I mix the familiar and the obscure.”
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Show notes:
Alex Ross’s website, The Rest is Noise
Alex Ross’s writings on The New Yorker
Alex Ross’s books: The Rest is Noise, Listen to This
The Composers of Quiet: The Wandelweiser collective makes music between sound and silence
Wandelweiser Miscellany
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Dennis Johnson: November – Interview with R. Andrew Lee
Doug: Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band: Bongo Rock
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Special Guest: Alex Ross.
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42 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.