Air Date: April 26, 2023 on Repeater Radio

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Prior to the prevalence of electronic sound in the mainstream, electronic music-making was primarily a practice of researchers, specialists, and avant-garde composers within state-sponsored facilities like the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne and within private universities in the States like the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. This special episode of Semibegun, a preview of the upcoming tape release "Stockhausen Serves the Worms," presents an hour of remixes, recompositions, and deconstructions of music made in these facilities. Pieces by Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, and György Ligeti reimagined by fantastic contemporary musicians including Bridget Ferrill, Matias Vilaplana, Amber Bouchard, and Onokio.

[including an excerpt of my piece gasses (and goldfish) expand to fill their containers]

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