A Plea for Suggestions - Night of the Living Drone

definitely: koner's "permafrost", fsa's "sally free and easy" ep, la monte young...well, whatever you can get your hands on really...i particularly like "the black album," something by phil niblock perhaps...although he really has to be played at volumes which preclude talking, oh! and the self-titled track from john cale's new "sun blindness music."

Alan Licht - Polarity

La Monte Young and the Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Band - The Second Dream of the High-Tension Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China

LMY/TEM - "Early Tuesday Morning Blues"

Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix, Disc 1

Terry Riley - "All Night Flight" from Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band

On the slightly weirder tip, Chris Watson: pretty much anything from _Stepping Into the Dark_ or _Beyond the Circle of Fire_, for a change. And maybe the first piece from Mika Vainio's _Onko_, if you really want to freak people out in a very quiet way.

As for suggestions, I was listening through some stuff last night, and I realized that I want this thing to be pretty much all vocal- less music. I want to try to eliminate obvious signifiers in the presentation of the music, and have it be more of an immersion in and experience of pure sound. (Damn, that sounds pretentious!) Anyway, keep 'em coming; I really appreciate it...

Why are you moving to Richmond? What neighborhood?

Yes, this will be a station-sponsored thing, mostly because Clarke needs me (general manager) to book the room.

We do book concerts and stuff. But this idea is a new one... but I think it's good and we should continue to do stuff like this. Clarke and I are already talking about doing a listening party for the Flaming Lips' "Zaireeka" next semester.

If you care, you can check us out at wcwm.org.

I don't know if you've ever heard the C-Schulz & Hajsch album, but there is some amazing drone music on it. Mellotron mixed w/ field recordings & various industrial sounds. Would sound great loud.

so how did this drone night turn out?

I really enjoyed myself, and I *loved* watching people's reactions. I had several people come up to me afterward -- people I had no idea were even into music that much -- and tell me how awesome they thought it was. It just reinforced my belief that you shouldn't underestimate people's openness to things that are interesting. A lot of what I played was obliquely gorgeous, or immersive, or bracing, and I think that connected with people, even if they were completely unfamiliar with that kind of music.

I wish you could've made it, Mark (you, too, Jess!) -- I fully plan on doing another one in the next few months, hopefully in Richmond this time.

''I had several people come up to me afterward -- people I had no idea were even into music that much -- and tell me how awesome they thought it was. It just reinforced my belief that you shouldn't underestimate people's openness to things that are interesting.''

which kind of ties in with yr classic rock radio thread (this from some of the bits which I've read): that ppl might not want the same things, maybe a little of that 'different' isn't so bad.

some more suggestions for yr next one (if it does happen):

stockhausen- stimmung.
pandit prna nath singing is lovely so try and check it out if you haven't.
maybe some ram narayan (sp?).
charlamaigne palestine too (already been suggested but have been digging his stuff this year).
I am sitting in a room by alvin lucier (maybe)

Forcefield! Densely layered electronic/dub splooge drone.