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From the WGXC Archives: "Experimental Composers" - Charlemagne Palestine, Holy 1 & Holy 2 (2015)
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This episode of "Experimental Composers" was originally broadcast on WGXC on Nov 19, 2015.
Experimental Composers aired on WGXC from November 2015 to June 2017.
Holy 1 and Holy 2 were both created and recorded by Charlemagne Palestine in NYC in 1967 by building up a texture, oscillator by oscillator, then adding tiny increments of white noise that would "gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker until they were immense sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees." This is the track for the first 35 minutes or so of this program.
"Experimental Composers" is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "Performances from new and established musical innovators. The unfortunate and unintended messages that come attached to a title like Experimental Composers are many. Still it is one of the few labels to come out of the world of music that has not been co-opted by promoters, corporations, journalists, or lawyers. This one just seems to have anti-market goo on it. Hooray. It's also just bad English (as if to imply that these poor souls are themselves, in their flesh and blood, some kind of experiment and, perhaps, even expendable). And then there is the spectre of defying the wisdom of the great Edgar Varèse who said something like, 'I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment."
Tune in for selections from the WGXC archives featuring past broadcasts of programs that consisted of community talk, produced interviews, music, and/or radio art that were broadcast on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM.

