TalkToTheChip

In episode 31 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Silver Apples of the Moon by Morton Subotnick, considered to be one of the most important and successful pieces of electronic music.
Links to references in the podcast
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silver-apples-of-the-moon
 
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/SilverApples.pdf
 
https://www.soundohm.com/product/silver-apples-of-the-moon-5
 
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/04/key-tracks-morton-subotnick-on-silver-apples
 
https://www.ascap.com/news-events/articles/2011/04/p-Morton-Subotnick-on-the-Creation-and-Legacy-of-Silver-Apples-of-the-Moon
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cqqqxpdker0o  
 
https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/east-coast-west-coast-synthesis
 
https://modulisme.bandcamp.com/
 
http://www.karlrecords.net/releases/philippe-petit-off-to-titan/
 
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i6mbi-16fa6e3
 
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pppif-16d9f08

In episode 30 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Parete 67 and Plastico by Italian composer and sound engineer Marino Zuccheri.This is the second of two episodes devoted to this unsung hero of electronic music, who worked at the RAI studio in Milan for 28 years helping Berio, Nono, Maderna, Cage, Pousseur among the others, to give birth to some of the great masterpieces of early electronic music.
Links to references in the podcast
https://www.soundohm.com/product/parete-67-lp-1
https://laurazattra.com/category/marino-zuccheri/
https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/columns/school-of-electronic-music/marino-zuccheri/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Vedova

https://fonologia.lim.di.unimi.it/video_ascolto.phpid=4&percorso=video%2F4.mp4&titolo=Video+4
https://fonologia.lim.di.unimi.it/anagrafica_scheda.php?id=166
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTq_rQtxCIo

https://120years.net/milan-electronic-music-studiodirector-luciano-berioitaly1960/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiddiPyDsE

https://youtu.be/Wc-43132R_8?si=uh5ewGxffKCTlW4T
 

In episode 29 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Parete 67 by Italian composer and sound engineer Marino Zuccheri.
This is the first of two episodes devoted to this unsung hero of electronic music, who worked at the RAI studio in Milan for 28 years helping Berio, Nono, Maderna, Cage, Pousseur among the others, to give birth to some of the great masterpieces of early electronica.
Links to references in the podcast
https://www.soundohm.com/product/parete-67-lp-1

https://laurazattra.com/category/marino-zuccheri/

https://www.electronicsound.co.uk/columns/school-of-electronic-music/marino-zuccheri/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Vedova
https://fonologia.lim.di.unimi.it/video_ascolto.php?id=4&percorso=video%2F4.mp4&titolo=Video+4

https://fonologia.lim.di.unimi.it/anagrafica_scheda.php?id=166

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTq_rQtxCIo
https://120years.net/milan-electronic-music-studiodirector-luciano-berioitaly1960/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiddiPyDsE
https://unitedaluminum.com/a-brief-history-of-aluminum/
https://talktothechip.podbean.com/e/luciano-berio-visage/

In episode 28 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss works by female British composer Delia Derbyshire: Blue Veils and Golden Sands and Circle of Light
This is the second of two episodes devoted to this pivotal composer's lesser known works.
Blue Veils and Golden Sandshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh86LtuuY4U
https://wikidelia.net/wiki/Blue_Veils_and_Golden_Sands
Circle of Lighthttps://deliaderbyshire.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-light
https://wikidelia.net/wiki/Circle_of_Light
More info:
https://wikidelia.net/wiki/The_Delian_Mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Stansfield
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/pamela-bone-quietly-radical-photographer
https://wikidelia.net/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Music
https://deepcutswrites.substack.com/p/delia-derbyshire-a-tape-looping-pioneer
RBMA 2010 Delia Derbyshire from 37minhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRt8gTbdRw
 
 

In episode 27 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss a work by female British composer Delia Derbyshire: The Delian Mode
This is the first of two episodes devoted to this pivotal composer's lesser known works.
Listen to The Delian Mode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaBmaFK4kI
Useful links:
https://wikidelia.net/wiki/The_Delian_Mode
https://djmag.com/news/electronic-music-pioneer-delia-derbyshire-honoured-building-coventry-university
1997 Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Fw5aTz_2I
Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnmSgaeGAI
1969 'Sky At Night' special https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fthe-sky-at-night-special--1969-year-of-space%2Fzjw68xs
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/pioneering-women/women-of-the-workshop/delia-derbyshire
Out of This World 
https://www.discogs.com/master/207871-BBC-Radiophonic-Workshop-Out-Of-This-World-Atmospheric-Sounds-And-Effects-From-The-BBC-Radiophonic-W 

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)

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/
 
 
 

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

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/

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