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

Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
This episode of Talk to the Chip is dedicated to Green (1986) by pioneering ambient music composer Hiroshi Yoshimura.
Listen to Green here:
https://hiroshiyoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/green
Useful links:https://cecm.indiana.edu/361/midi.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/19/lullabies-for-air-conditioners-the-corporate-bliss-of-japanese-ambient https://jisho.org/search/ongaku https://jisho.org/search/kusuri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Yoshimura#Legacy https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/terry-riley-interview-every-decade-of-my-life-has-had-a-different-focus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/MIDI-Musical-Instrument-Digital-Interface https://sequential.com/about-dave-smith/ https://www.mixcloud.com/talk_to_the_chip/talk-to-the-chip-episode-3-lîle-re-sonante-éliane-radigue/ https://www.soundonsound.com/people/john-chowning https://blog.native-instruments.com/what-is-fm-synthesis/

Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to the avant-garde pioneer Iannis Xenakis. In this 11th episode, they are talking about his work La Legende d'Eer.
Listen to La Legende d'Eer here
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-l-gende-deer
Useful links:
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/off-to-titan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Er https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-electric-story-of-the-ems-synthi-100-3030/ https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla%27s_roar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj7DjWc6ZVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbfUEhjuH4 https://freq.org.uk/reviews/iannis-xenakis-la-legende-d%C2%92eer/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cprestia/220a/xenakis.html https://monoskop.org/Iannis_Xenakis https://www.discogs.com/release/197685-Iannis-Xenakis-Persepolis-Remixes-Edition-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanoise

Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to Egyptian-American electronic music pioneer Halim El-Dabh, in particular Crossing into the Electric Magnetic, a collection of his pieces spanning the 1940s and 50s.
Listen to Crossing into the Electric Magnetic here:
https://youtu.be/WR2YprO04zk?si=jl-M8qjMEmARIYMh
Useful links:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1286486-Halim-El-Dabh-Crossing-Into-The-Electric-Magnetic http://www.halimeldabh.com/ https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/halim-el-dabh.1 https://www.bidoun.org/articles/music-pioneer-halim-el-dabh https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/music/halim-el-dabh-dies.html https://scenearabia.com/Noise/halim-el-dabh-egyptian-musician-composer-invented-electronic-music https://thevinylfactory.com/features/electric-futurism-francis-bebey/ https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/anselm-kiefer-finnegans-wake https://www.britannica.com/topic/Finnegans-Wake https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/wire-recording-forgotten-audio-format/

Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç are back with an episode dedicated to Scottish electronic music pioneer Janet Beat. In this 9th episode, they are talking about her work Pioneering Knob Twiddler that was released by Trunk Records when she turned 83, spanning her electronic music works from the 1970s and 1980s.
Listen to Pioneering Knob Twiddler here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3zNaGrh7gOVmtuSwoEBlxs?si=xK0WEsLOT1qqXTgnGozbEQ
Useful links:
https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/pioneering-knob-twiddler/ https://boomkat.com/products/pioneering-knob-twiddler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/how-fm-synthesis-works/ http://www.ampfiddler.com https://www.komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sys100m.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Space_Echo https://www.montana.edu/rmaher/ee417_fl08/Intro%20to%20Musical%20Acoustics%20ee417%20FL08.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50D7T0k66A http://www.metamono.co.uk https://www.getintothis.co.uk/2016/02/brian-eno-david-byrnes-cultural-appropriation-35-years-life-bush-ghosts/

Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
In this 8th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss legendary French composer Bernard Parmegiani's De Natura Sonorum (1975)
Listen to De Natura Sonorum here:
https://youtu.be/c_JHjUFfOs8?si=__KcoP_GJnQvSxAA
Useful links:http://www.psychomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bernard_et_Jono.jpg https://sonic-elevation.com/what-is-surface-noise-how-much-is-too-much/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/dr-peter-zinovieff-the-original-tectonic-sounds https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3438 https://theproaudiofiles.com/field-recording https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/album/de-natura-sonorum https://bernard-parmegiani.fr/en/itineraire/biographie/ https://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum https://headphonecommute.com/2013/11/23/bernard-parmegiani-de-natura-sonorum-recollection-grm/

Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
In this 7th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros's I Of IV (1966).
Listen to I Of IV here:
https://paulineoliveros.bandcamp.com/track/i-of-iv
Useful links:https://paulineoliveros.us/ https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bye-bye-butterfly https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2012/may/07/guide-contemporary-music-pauline-oliveros https://www.frieze.com/article/pauline-oliveros-1932-2016 https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/pauline-oliveros-lecture https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/and-dont-call-them-lady-composers-and-dont-call-them-lady-composers.html https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/Pauline-Oliveros-Frances-Morgan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saenghwang https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2022/02/08/no-input-mixing-hack https://www.jackson-pollock.org

Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
In this 6th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel's Obsolete Systems spanning her works in the 1970s and 1980s.
Listen to Obsolete Systems here:
https://youtu.be/z_XKPkcM1Vs?si=UGHBhOVgSFTao1wr
Useful links:https://www.discogs.com/release/221802-Laurie-Spiegel-Obsolete-Systemshttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/7919https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Mousehttps://thelistenersclub.com/2017/12/29/the-buggles-and-laurie-spiegel-art-meets-technology-circa-1979/https://youtu.be/eB5I5iU0OoE?t=1344https://thequietus.com/articles/32770-cannabis-weedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJAhttps://youtu.be/jd6XL_IOS3Ihttps://youtu.be/GPKg2c_bRCs

Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
In this 5th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Compositions Demonstrations (1946-1974) by Hugh Le Caine, Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument maker.
Listen to Compositions Demonstrations (1946-1974) here:
https://youtu.be/S80VssmKb2E
Useful links:https://hughlecaine.com/en/https://www.discogs.com/release/486307-Hugh-Le-Caine-Compositions-Demonstrations-1946-1974https://electrocd.com/en/album/2792/hugh-le-caine/compositions-demonstrations-1946-1974https://www.hughlecaine.com/en/compositions.htmlhttps://www.raymondscott.nethttp://www.psychomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/A_Century_of_the_Theremin.pdfhttps://www.sweetwater.com/insync/control-voltage-what-it-is-and-how-it-works/https://www.daphneoram.orghttps://www.classiccat.net/dictionary/klangfarbenmelodie.phphttps://120years.net/wordpress/the-electronic-sackbuthugh-le-cainecanada1945/https://boomkat.com/products/an-empty-bliss-beyond-this-world
https://elifyalvac.com/http://www.psychomat.com/

Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
In this 4th episode of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Electronic Works 1958-1995 by Else Marie Pade, pioneering female composer of electronic music from Denmark.
Listen to Electronic Works 1958-1995 here:
https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-works-1958-1995
Useful links:
https://boomkat.com/products/electronic-works-1958-1995-c77bb25b-9e56-4644-8597-661eba78d2e9https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/Fausthttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/arts/music/iannis-xenakis-centennial.html
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-compositional-possibilities-are-endless-by-else-marie-padehttps://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/german-occupation-1940-1945/http://www.bussigel.com/systemsforplay/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cascone_Aesthetics.pdf
https://elifyalvac.com/http://www.psychomat.com/

Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
In this episode, professors Jono Podmore and Elif Yalvaç talk about L'Île re-sonante by pioneering female composer Éliane Radigue. This episode was recorded at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Listen to L'Île re-sonante here:
https://elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/l-le-re-sonante
Useful links:http://www.psychomat.com/https://elifyalvac.com/
https://monoskop.org/%C3%89liane_Radiguehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_musichttps://sisterswithtransistors.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_Thodolhttps://www.vintagesynth.com/arp/2500.phphttps://giacintoscelsi.bandcamp.com/album/scelsi-edition-6-the-orchestral-works-ii-mode176https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/analogue-warmth