Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza | WFMU

Nov 26 2022 104 ep. 117 mins 2.1k

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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 28 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment. Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. [On hiatus.]

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(New!) Last scheduled show! | Download MP3 from Nov 21, 2022

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live sound collage right now, for the last scheduled time" - Show #827, from Nov. 21, 2022 [Final show, here today, live. Very incomplete list of samples used is below!] Set: Incomplete list of sources sampled follows below Coldplay - "The Scientist (instrumental)" Coldplay - "The Scientist (instrumental) (backwards)" Girl Talk - "Imagine" - Le

(New!) 2nd-to-last Last Ever | Download MP3 from Nov 7, 2022

Nov 08 2022 114 mins

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "2nd-to-last Last Ever" - Show #826, from Nov. 7, 2022 [Live improvised sound collage experiment, right now. (Somewhat complete list of sources sampled follows, not currently in sequence.)] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "2nd-to-last Last Ever" Alan Silvestri - "End Title (Alternate)" - Back to the Future II (Expanded) Alexander Despl

(New!) The Biweekly Antepenultimate | Download MP3 from Oct 24, 2022

Oct 24 2022 115 mins

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Biweekly Antepenultimate" - Show #825, from Oct. 24, 2022 [New live sound collage today. Samples used listed below (mostly complete)] Set: Today's samples used (mostly complete): Henry Mancini - "Pink Panther Theme" [0:00] Ken - "You can hear it without listening" [0:01] Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks - "Don't kill yourself, take the leap, do what you

Classicalish noise and many endings | Download MP3 from Oct 3, 2022

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Live noise: Classical cut ups, kiddo, TMBG, Portsmouth Sinfonia, How Do You Learn" - Show #748, from Dec. 14, 2020 [Including: Clair de Lune, Mozart's Magic Flute overture, Beethoven's 5th loops, KLERE This Must Be the Beginning, Lullatone, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Random Rab, Scolastic, Strauss's Blue Danube, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, They Migh

It's Too Much+Can I Help Someone?+The Flying Sarabande Machine (Show #260/271/258) | DL MP3 from Sep 26, 2022

Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - It's Too Much Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "It's Too Much (first and last segments)" - Show #260, from July 28, 2002 [Improvised live on WFMU's Rotating Hosts slot. Late at night, with a sleeping DJ behind me. Listing of samples used follows, in real time: ] [0:00:00] Dan Bodah - "Talking" [Introduces my set, while talking over hi

Mommy? (Scary hypnotic weaving, with three-year old niece as glue.) | Download MP3 from Jul 25, 2022

Live stream feedback - "Transition from previous show" [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Mommy?" - Show #257, from Feb. 6, 2002, live at Chama, East Village, NYC [Scary hypnotic weaving, with three-year old niece as glue. From a very different Ken's Last Ever era, the debut of the Electronic Musical Experiment @ Chama, East Village, NYC, in 2002.] [0:00:06] Ken - "I

Back & Forth + Starting Up & Winding Down | Download MP3 from Jul 18, 2022

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Back and Forth" - Show #266, from Sept. 3, 2003 [Source listing] [0:00:00] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Starting up and winding down (100-minute edit)" - Show #493, from Dec. 25, 2013 [ Way detailed source listing] [0:19:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/117810

Conduct the Symphony of Your Life+New 2022 collage at end! | Download MP3 from Jul 11, 2022

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Layered Laughter Brings New Closure to the Guy" - Show #368, from May 31, 2005 [I think the cat just fell.] [0:00:00] Music behind DJ: Ken [0:03:10] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Conduct the Symphony of Your Life" - Show #452 from 3/14/13 [List of samples follows:] [0:03:31] Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Conduct the Symphon

Lush Field Recordings Blend v2022 | Download full MP3 from Jun 27, 2022

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Lush Field Recordings Blend" - Show #560, from Nov. 29, 2017 [As updated for today. Source samples listed below:] Ken - "2021 welcome/intro" Vincent Duseigne - "Amiens station / 80000 Amiens, France" Ken - "We're going places" Vincent Duseigne - "Nearly 100 different recordings, blended live" Apprentice - "The younger apprentice perforrms a ser

Act and Move On & Long and gentle (How many mistakes?) | Download MP3 from Jun 6, 2022

Set: Act & Move On (If you miss the faux pearls, you get the ducks.) Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Act and Move On (If you miss the faux pearls, you get the ducks.)" - Show #436, from July 5, 2012 Working titles: This show is about people, and things and ideas, all coming into contact. | Not going with the flow | Gravity (perhaps it's just another word for fate) |