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It's a special WGXC pledge drive episode of Music In Time, as host Evan McCormick illustrates the theme "Ripples Make Waves" by involving listeners in a sonic-geometric sequence. In a geometric sequence, each number is multiplied by the same number (in this case 2), such that 1x2=2, 2x2=4, 4x2=8 and so on. Each of the songs played in this episode features the relevant number in the sequence in its title, building -- with shocking rapidity -- to some wild and massive numbers. And in just that same way, McCormick posits, can WGXC listeners help support the coolest station around -- not just by visiting wavefarm.org/donate to pitch in to the station, but by telling two friends why they love community radio, and having those two friends tell two friends and on and on and on. Be the wave, people! 

Won - The Beta Band 
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Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
x 2 =
Four Sticks - Led Zeppelin
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Henry the VIII, I Am - Herman's Hermits
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Molly (Sixteen Candles) - Sponge
x 2 =
32-20 Blues Robert Johnson
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When I'm 64 - The Beatles
x 2 =
128 - Yage
x 2 =
I Think It's Beautiful That You Are in 256 Colors Too - Black Moth Super Rainbow
x 2 =
512 - Jim Jones Revue
x 2 =
1024^8 - Cullah
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2048 - Michael Cera
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40.96a" - Squarepusher
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=Thanks, Listeners!

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Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Host Evan McCormick uses different formats to play with the idea of music in time—sometimes focusing on a single album and detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release, sometimes putting together playlists that explore a theme or concept in songs through the years. Each broadcast asks: how is music shaped by its own historical moment, and, in turn, how does music shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he uses oral history interviews to understand how people remember and make sense of the past. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.