TalkToTheChip

In episode 34 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss Synthesized Voices by Charles Dodge - an album from 1976 contain three collections of works: Speech Songs, In Celebration and The Story of Our Lives

Listen here

https://composersrecordingsinc.bandcamp.com/album/charles-dodge-synthesized-voices 

 

Further links

https://www.andycropper.art/blog/hauntology

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2012.66.1.16

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mark-strand

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49163/in-celebration

https://www.ragnardigital.art/collection/synthesized-voices

https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/musdodge.pdf 

 

https://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/dodge.html

 

https://www.scaruffi.com/avant/dodge.html

In episode 33 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore continue to discuss four pieces on John Chowning's album Stria: Phoné, Turenas, Stria and Sabelithe, in reference to his legacy as the originator of FM synthesis which went on to change the sound of popular music.

Links to references in the podcast

https://www.discogs.com/release/31024141-John-Chowning-Stria

https://murmureintemporel1.bandcamp.com/track/john-chowning-stria-1977

https://murmureintemporel1.bandcamp.com/track/john-chowning-turenas-1972

https://youtu.be/41PBrclKbk8?si=L9NO00mhSNzueWA5

https://youtu.be/53FQCe1ewDs?si=W2-JbXq6KECqJHRr

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/user/jc/notes_imprec_recording.pdf

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/Frequency_Modulation_FM_Synthesis.html

 

Sound on Sound interview — very readable:

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/john-chowning

 

CCRMA official page:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/people/john-chowning

 

McGee analysis PDF — good on the FM/golden ratio relationship:

https://lifeorange.com/writing/ChowningAnalysis_McGee.pdf

 

 

https://peninsulapress.com/2022/06/14/computer-music-in-silicon-valley-owes-large-debt-to-john-chowning/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/09/john-chowning-godfather-of-digital-pop-my-wife-told-me-i-didnt-think-id-have-to-compete-with-a-computer

In episode 32 of Talk to the Chip, professors Elif Yalvaç and Jono Podmore discuss John Chowning's Stria, an early piece pioneering FM synthesis which went on to change the sound of popular music.

Links to references in the podcast

https://murmureintemporel1.bandcamp.com/track/john-chowning-stria-1977

https://thehistoryofelectroacousticmusic.bandcamp.com/album/history-of-electronic-electroacoustic-music-1937-2001-62

https://www.discogs.com/release/31024141-John-Chowning-Stria

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/user/jc/notes_imprec_recording.pdf

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sasp/Frequency_Modulation_FM_Synthesis.html

DX7 presets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rrjQtQe5A

IRCAM analysis of Stria (the definitive one):

http://brahms.ircam.fr/analyses/Stria/

 

Laura Zattra's blog on Stria — fascinating story of the piece's multiple versions:

https://laurazattra.com/2016/09/23/stria-by-john-chowning-the-ultimate-analysis/

 

Sound on Sound interview — very readable:

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/john-chowning

 

CCRMA official page:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/people/john-chowning

 

McGee analysis PDF — good on the FM/golden ratio relationship:

https://lifeorange.com/writing/ChowningAnalysis_McGee.pdf

 

Dexed fm synthesis plugin:

https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/

 

https://peninsulapress.com/2022/06/14/computer-music-in-silicon-valley-owes-large-debt-to-john-chowning/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/09/john-chowning-godfather-of-digital-pop-my-wife-told-me-i-didnt-think-id-have-to-compete-with-a-computer

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