TalkToTheChip

Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson: Elektrónísk stúdía (1951 - 1962)

In episode 26 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore get together for the first time with a guest, Icelandic composer, guitarist and sound artist Rikhardur H. Fridriksson to discuss a work by an Icelandic pioneer of electronic music: "Elektrónísk stúdía (e. Electronic Study"), musique concrète compositions, composed between 1951 – 1962. by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson. Listen to "Elektrónísk stúdía" here:https://soundcloud.com/magnusblondaljohannsson/sets/elektronisk-studia Useful links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_Bl%C3%B6ndal_J%C3%B3hannssonhttps://monoskop.org/Rikhardur_H._Fridrikssonhttps://smekkleysa.net/shop/smekkleysa_cd/electronic/magnus-blondal-johannsson-elektronisk-studia/https://nordische-filmtage.de/en/programm/movie/view/2009/1028.htmlhttps://www.nts.live/artists/58146-magnus-blondal-johannsszonhttps://www.islandpaafilm.dk/is/film/surtur-fer-sunnanhttps://en.sinfonia.is/concerts-tickets/works/magnus-blondal-johannsson-adagiohttps://www.islandpaafilm.dk/is/film/eldur-i-heimaeyhttps://www.musik.is/BjarkiSve/Phd/Sidur/209-214.html (Icelandic)

Alvin Lucier - Music On A Long Thin Wire

In episode 25 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Music On A Long Thin Wire (1977-1980) by Alvin Lucier: a milestone in Sound Art.
Listen to Music On A Long Thin Wire here:
https://alvinlucierlovely.bandcamp.com/album/music-on-a-long-thin-wire
 
more info:
http://www.lovely.com/albumnotes/notes1011.html
https://www.britannica.com/art/monochord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_On_A_Long_Thin_Wire
https://www.discogs.com/release/757891-Alvin-Lucier-Music-On-A-Long-Thin-Wire
https://archives.nypl.org/mus/23034
 
https://direct.mit.edu/lmj/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/LMJ_a_00110/63533/Music-on-a-Long-Thin-Wire?redirectedFrom=fulltext
 
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/conceptual-art
https://rhodridavies.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/09/alvin-lucier-dead-composer-making-music-ai-artificial-intelligence-brain
 
https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/david-behrman-in-his-own-words/
 
 
 

Daphne Oram - Oramics (Part 2)

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate a second episode to Oramics, a 44 track collection of works by groundbreaking British composer Daphne Oram
Listen to Oramics here:
https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/album/oramics
Further links:
https://www.fbrt.org.uk/hermes/new-atlantis/
https://www.roland.com/uk/blog/what-is-a-vocoder/
https://www.daphneoram.org/oramicsmachine/https://www.daphneoram.org/wire330/https://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/https://ra.co/features/1305https://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/
https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada

Daphne Oram - Oramics (Part 1)

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate this episode to Oramics, a 44 track collection of works by groundbreaking British composer Daphne Oram
Listen to Oramics here:
https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/album/oramics
Further links:
https://www.daphneoram.org/oramicsmachine/https://www.daphneoram.org/wire330/https://www.gold.ac.uk/ems/oram/https://ra.co/features/1305https://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/https://tapeop.com/blog/2024/09/01/joe-meek-taboo-telstar/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meekhttps://www.daphneoram.org/stillpoint/

Toyama Michiko - Waka and Other Compositions

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate this episode to Toyama Michiko, Japanese female pioneer of electroacoustic music, unearthing her work Waka and Other Compositions.
Listen to Waka and Other Compositions here:
https://michikotoyama.bandcamp.com/album/waka-and-other-compositions-contemporary-music-of-japan
Useful links:
https://events.rochester.edu/event/michiko_toyama_at_the_columbia-princeton_electronic_music_center
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/962E69F2A79E8E57E049FDC73961BAF1/S1478572223000191a.pdf/michiko-toyama-disrupts-the-historiography-of-modernism.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiko_Toyama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(poetry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
https://japanhouse.illinois.edu/education/insights/shakuhachi
 

Sofia Gubaidulina - Vivente-Non vivente

In episode 21 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss the only electronic piece by celebrated Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina - Vivente-Non vivente (1970) and the ANS synthesiser.
Listen to Vivente-Non vivente here:https://youtu.be/w6Ds1BEb430?si=2QsXglDj01xZY5LW
Useful links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer
https://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
https://www.endpointaudio.com/optical-sound-detail
https://www.facebook.com/nightradio/
https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/13211/sofia-gubaidulina-soviet-composer-music-story
 
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/contemporary-composer-sofia-gubaidulina
 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/31/sofia-gubaidulina-unchained-melodies
 
https://brahms.ircam.fr/en/works/work/8940/
 
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/track/vivente-non-vivente-alive-and-dead
 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005949/
https://youtu.be/WrF1PSoTN3A?si=rwDLet-SBK06uVCT
 
 

Wendy Carlos - Sonic Seasonings

In this very special 20th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore talk about an underecognised gem by the living legend Wendy Carlos: Sonic Seasonings (1972).
Listen to Sonic Seasonings here:https://www.mixcloud.com/frankkoedood/walter-carlos-sonic-seasonings/
Useful links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Seasonings
https://www.wendycarlos.com/+sslms.html
https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-modular-systems
https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg?si=4Iul211T-wYkNHwX
https://kumo.bandcamp.com/album/day-night
https://charlesives.org/ives-man-his-life
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/11/she-made-music-jump-into-3d-wendy-carlos-the-reclusive-synth-genius
https://www.discogs.com/release/18288-Wendy-Carlos-Sonic-Seasonings-
 

Suzanne Ciani - Seven Waves

In this episode of Talk to the Chip, right before the electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani brings her magical live performance to the Union Chapel in London, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about her beautiful sounding work Seven Waves (1982), as well as her extensive contributions and inspiring career in electronic music.
 
Listen to Seven Waves here:
https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/seven-waves
 
Useful Links:
https://youtu.be/fZscRHkLMt0?si=9Ty9MmsVVvG5805V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28i-k3mL3o
https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/long-reads/suzanne-ciani-riding-the-waves/
https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/lixiviation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxPoJ4QoSkhttps://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/suzanne-ciani-on-modular-synthesis-the-buchla-200ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0&list=LL
https://youtu.be/fFrgS70ioa0?feature=shared
https://buchla.com/history/
 
 

Luciano Berio - Visage

Episode 18 of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to famous pioneer of electronic music Luciano Berio, specifically to his otherwordly work Visage (1961) featuring the voice of legendary Cathy Berberian.
Listen to Visage here:
https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ
Useful links:http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1https://120years.net/milan-electronic-music-studiodirector-luciano-berioitaly1960/https://www.jstor.org/stable/944606
https://youtu.be/JmMJV-NrQrA?si=44cEih3vwYiDPJeJ
https://electrocd.com/en/oeuvre/20304-visage
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news/film-week-berberian-sound-studio
https://electrocd.com/en/album/5236-electronic-music
http://www.lucianoberio.org/visage-authors-note?2019623839=1
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/11/damo-suzuki-cans-free-floating-vocalist-gave-us-some-of-the-1970s-most-exotic-rock-music
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/aphasia/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036618300592

Edgard Varèse - Poème Électronique

Professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore dedicate Episode 17 of Talk to the Chip to one of the most important works in electronic music history: Poème Électronique (1958) by Edgard Varèse.
Listen to Poème Électronique here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDbBqHCslw
useful links:https://www.routledge.com/Electronic-and-Experimental-Music-Technology-Music-and-Culture/Holmes/p/book/9781138365469 https://monoskop.org/images/c/c1/Varese_Edgard_1966_The_Liberation_of_Sound.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBQsym_G82Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poème_électronique https://www.marseille-tourisme.com/en/discover-marseille/culture-heritage/discover-the-sites-and-monuments-in-marseille/cite-radieuse-of-le-corbusier/ https://www.archdaily.com/902597/on-the-dislocation-of-the-body-in-architecture-le-corbusiers-modulor