28 February 2015: Experimental Grab Bag

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Austin Rich

28 February 2015: Experimental Grab Bag

Tod Dockstader R.I.P., music from Elliott Sharp, Jonathan Newman and MORE!

Water Music Part 3	Tod Dockstader	Organized Sound
Myst	Tod Dockstader	Aerial #1
Apocolypse Part II	Tod Dockstader	Apocolypse
Soft Aurora	Tod Dockstader	Recorded Music for Film, Radio and Television
Crowds and Power	Elliott Sharp	Amplified: New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986 from the Kitchen Archives No. 3
Swearin’ to the Flag	Suicide	American Supreme
Shopping is a Military Operation	Producers for Bob	Bob’s Media Ecology
Nommos’ Ghosts	Muslimgauze	Muslimgauze Systemwide Sound Secretion – Classics Selection
Spun	ARU	Consumed
If I Sleep the Plane Will Crash	John Lurie	The World According to Crammed
These Inflected Tentacles	Jonathan Newman	Vegetative States

21 February 2015: R.I.P. Mark Trayle

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Austin Rich

21 February 2015: R.I.P. Mark Trayle

What’s This Called? begins this week with a tribute to electronic composer/improvisor Mark Trayle who passed away this week with tracks from both Mark’s extensive solo catalog and from his 1980s computer networking collective The Hub. Noon to 1 PM Pacific Standard Time on Kpsu Portland.

Plastic Beetle	Paul McCartney	Liverpool Sound Collage
Peter Blake 2000	Super Furry Animals	Liverpool Sound Collage
Watermusik	Mark Trayle	Etudes and Bagatelles
Hub Renga	The Hub	Wreckin’ Ball
Small Fractions	Mark Trayle	Etudes and Bagatelles
Ear Meal (excerpt)	Mark Trayle	Webcast
Quartet	Mark Trayle Quartet	Beyond Music at Beyond Baroque
The Erotic	John Cage	Sixteen Dances, for Soloist and Company of 3
Why You Hate Salamanders	Blue Sausage Infant	Flight of the Solstice Queens
Second Rising	Power Circus	Power Circus
Guitar Trio (1977)	Rhys Chatham	From the Kitchen Archives No. 3 Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981-1986
Guitar Trio (1977) (Recorded Live 5/79 NYC)	Rhys Chatham (with Glenn Branca, Nina Canal, Wharton Tiers)	Tellus # 1
Tektonic	Noisettes vs. Mortal Engines	Static Blue

14 February 2015: For Lovers Only

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Austin Rich

14 February 2015: For Lovers Only

It’s Valentine’s Day and LUV is in the AIR.

This recording includes the Pre-Game show featuring the music of Terry Riley: “You’re No Good”, “Happy Ending”, “Ecstacy” and a remix of Terry Riley and John Cale looped as the official intro to the show with Lennon’s ID.

What Love Is	Rocket From the Tombs	Rocket Redux
Swing the Heartache	Bauhaus	The Sky’s Gone Out
Crush	Four Dimensional Nightmare	Icicles
Fetish	Scott Walker & Sunn O)))	Soused
Be My Husband	Nina Simone	Ultimate Nina Simone
I Love Her All of the Time	Sonic Youth	Bad Moon Rising
I Prefer Your Love	st. vincent	St. Vincent
Kangaroo	This Mortal Coil	It’ll End in Tears
Love Comes in Spurts	Richard Hell & the Voidoids	Blank Generation
Love You	Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs
True Love Will Find You In The End	Spectrum

7 February 2015: Big Tom the Lithuanian with the Dead Air Fresheners

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Austin Rich

7 February 2015: Big Tom the Lithuanian with the Dead Air Fresheners

Legendary Olympia WA performer Big Tom the Lithuanian was slated to bring his music to the live broadcast of What’s This Called? on KPSU in Portland. Unfortunately a very real mudslide in Kelso WA held up Tom’s train and he bussed in to the Vancouver WA Amtrak station far too late to make it to KPSU. Your host Ricardo Wang did not admit defeat though, and enlisted the filmmaking genius of Ryan Ray and the musical back up of Dead Air Fresheners to make a very special video podcast of Big Tom the Lithuanian’s Lo-fi Lounge!

17 June 2006 (Retrocast)

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Austin Rich

17 June 2006 (Retrocast)

As a number of factors worked against Big Tom The Lithuanian getting in the KPSU studios, here’s a WTC re-run from 2006 that not only contains one of his songs, but a number of amazing tunes from the recent past. More eclectic fun in the ear drums.

Obekoba	Bill Horist	From the Nerve Wheel
Aquarium	Nurse With Wound	Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven
Show of Hands	Orbit Service	Songs of Eta Carinae
Turquoise Boy	Sonic Youth	Rather Ripped
Wormhole Ringworm	Oliver Squash	O’liver Squash
The Island of Our Dreams	Legendary Pink Dots	Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves
Our New Mausoleum	Big Tom the Lithuanian	single
Valley of the Thrones	Thrones	Day Late, Dollar Short
Heresy (edit)	Lustmord	Sometimes Silence is an Answer
Spider’s Web	Mission Of Burma	The Obliterati
Core Anomoly Mix	Submerged	Eternal Ice Melts: Voice Sphere Remixes

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