Posts Tagged: Music
East Coast Music Award winners on Acts of Volition Radio
Posted by on Monday, February 21, 2005 in - 5 comments
As I watched the East Coast Music Awards (ECMA) on CBC Television tonight, it occurred to me that I should put together an ECMA themed session of Acts of Volition Radio. Then it occurred to me that I’ve already played most of the songs that such a session would include. • Gordie Sampson won five …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 18
Posted by on Friday, January 14, 2005 in - 9 comments
The eighteenth session of Acts of Volition Radio is a collection of some old songs, some new songs, and an appeal to help me track down the composer of one of the songs. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session Eighteen (42MB MP3) • A collection of songs old and new. Recorded Thursday, January 13 …
The Sound of Data
Posted by on Thursday, January 13, 2005 in - 51 comments
Spurred on by a recent weekend full of hot-tub induced dehydration, beer, and lack of sleep, some friends of mine discovered an interesting (I think, I at least) capability of the command line computer interface. Prepare to be really geeked-out. • As I wrote briefly about last year, on the Linux …
Acts of Volition Radio Christmas: Session 17
Posted by on Sunday, December 12, 2004 in - 20 comments
While I'm a confessed scrooge about most things Christmas and I do hate most Christmas music, there is some truly great Christmas music. I share some of it in the seventeenth session of Acts of Volition Radio. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session Seventeen (25MB MP3) • Christmas music that …
Wiretap on CBC Radio
Posted by on Saturday, November 6, 2004 in - 15 comments
I’m not exactly sure what the CBC Radio program, Wiretap, is. Comedy, I guess. Regardless, it is fantastic. Jonathan Goldstein has a perfect dry radio voice. Here is a 9.6MB MP3 of Wiretap from Nov 6, 2004. Worth a listen - highly recommended.
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 16
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2004 in - 24 comments
This, the sixteenth session of Acts of Volition Radio is a collection of hidden gems. These are great songs that you have likely never heard before (most of them, at least). This session features a super-duper-quadruple-pack of a band you've almost certainly never heard of before, Chagall Guevera …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 15
Posted by on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 in - 10 comments
I had already accumulated a great list of songs to share, so session 15 of Acts of Volition Radio comes out hot of the heels of theprevious session. No musical theme this time, but all great songs. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session Fifteen (42MB MP3) • More good music. Recorded Wednesday …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 14
Posted by on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 in - 2 comments
The fourteenth session of Acts of Volition Radio searches the barren wasteland of "adult contemporary" radio music and comes back with a few worthwhile songs by artists that deserve a second listen. The speech recording is a little weak on this one, so I boosted the signal between songs - the …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 13
Posted by on Wednesday, September 8, 2004 in - 7 comments
This, the thirtheenth session of Acts of Volition Radio includes several tracks from the Future Soundtrack for America compilation CD I mentioned last week. There are also a couple of other tracks that warmed my heart in recent weeks. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session Thirteen (29MB MP3 …
Reviewing the Future of America
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 in - 1 comment
I've written a review of the McSweeney's book, The Future Dictionary of America, and the accompanying CD, Future Soundtrack for America. • As I state in the review, I’m a bit creeped-out by the politics and slightly-too-hip-ness of it all. That said, this is a good CD. • Here's a sample …