TalkToTheChip
Welcome to Talk to the Chip! This is a podcast dedicated to the pioneers of electronic music and their works. Hosts Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore (Kumo) discuss works that stand out as special for them and link them to other ideas and perspectives from across the wider spectrum of music.
Episodes

3 days ago
3 days ago
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

Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
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/

Friday Dec 27, 2024
Friday Dec 27, 2024
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

Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
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

Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
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-

Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
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/

Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
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

Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
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

Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç dedicate this Episode 16 of Talk to the Chip to Beatriz Ferreyra and talk about her GRM Works spanning 40 years: 1977-2007.
Listen to GRM Works here:
https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works
Useful links:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3681426 https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/long-reads/beatriz-ferreyra/ https://beatrizferreyra.bandcamp.com/album/souvenirs-cach-s https://persistenceofsound.co.uk/huellas-entreveradas https://beatrizferreyra.odexpo.com/default.asp?page=41341&sm=41352&lg= https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/2021/05/beatriz-ferreyra-grm-works.html https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/grm-works https://blog.native-instruments.com/audio-filters-guide/ https://youtu.be/4xy6dfUmfOk?si=3rnjpwOUX4YtgqVC https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1689831.Pierre_Schaeffer http://www.metamono.co.uk

Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
In this episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about the timeless Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) by female pioneer of electronic music and sound art Maryanne Amacher.
Listen to Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) here:
https://youtu.be/rtmv6LxNJqs?si=m2Ox4l0-Uw8Q8Gjf
Useful links: https://www.discogs.com/release/22796-Maryanne-Amacher-Sound-Characters-Making-The-Third-Ear https://www.nts.live/artists/18440-maryanne-amacher https://monoskop.org/Maryanne_Amacher https://academic.oup.com/book/41561/chapter/353034305 https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/themire/20485/rip-maryanne-amacher https://youtu.be/SZDj78i8UpY?si=dK5hkySFZn7_WQdf https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/talktothechip_21-october-2023_/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission https://mu-tron.com/vintage-musitronics/mu-tron-bi-phase/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/john-zorn-jazz-metal-interview-naked-city-1015329/