George Carlin had something to say about the making of war, but here at Mutable Sound we are curious what the men and women of the street have to say about it. Gabe’s Guide to Winning in a Fight is this week, although his only advice is to run. He does have a very well-built younger brother who enjoys lifting him up by his slender frame and rubbing sweat all over him while Gabe punches him in the back as hard as he can. Fighting as children? Malcolm remembers having a baby sitter who used to bully him as a young boy, and what happened? Why is Lunch Mothers not a band name? Is the IRA still around? Is Benny Hill Irish? Is Benny Hill a better enemy than the Taliban? A truly strange episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. Malcolm is waging a psychic war against the postal service. Gabe reads from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon for Book You. If you are a creative person, please feel free to send us your jingle for Book You. Gabe tells compromising stories of his younger brother’s uncontrollable rage as a young tyke. In closure, Gabe talks about his time in the choir school, The Pupil Patrol, his career as a porn-dealer, and his style travesties of the period.
Animal Hospital: Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues
Ron Schepper
Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues, the second full-length album by Boston-based musician and producer Kevin Micka (aka Animal Hospital ), presents a satisfying, forty-three-minute set of guitar-based instrumentals and electro-acoustic explorations. Not having heard his 2004 self-titled release, I can only imagine how it compares to the new material but I’m willing to bet Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues represents a significant advance (something I’m sure we’ll also hear when Micka’s Barge recording, Memory, is released). The range of sounds he coaxes from the guitar shows he’s clearly a resourceful player, and one who, to his credit, eschews histrionics for a subtler approach. He proves equally capable of folding repeating patterns into hypnotic lattice-works (“Good or Plenty”) as he does sculpting meditations both vaporous (“What If They Are Friendly”) and shuddering (“Labor Day”), and he’s also got a nice way of using well-timed stabs to kick the material into a higher gear when necessary; hear, for example, how the otherwise polite funk workout “Barnyard Creeps” springs to life the second Micka’s guitar roar enters. Contrasts abound: a seeming septet of electric guitarists collectively threads melodic patterns into a ruminative whole during “Novel Moments” while steely tones and washes stretch across the background; waves of guitars swarm and cascade throughout “11 18 07” while a plodding rhythm keeps funereal time; and the jubilant and light-footed “March and June” drapes wordless vocals by Katharine Fisk Shields and Micka over a lightly swinging, Afro-tinged rhythm base, with acoustic guitar and a celeste-like melody adding further colour. Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues doesn’t radically advance the guitar-based soundscaping genre but there’s still much to admire about Micka’s execution of his material and his conceptual approach (love the album cover too).
1. We Can
2. Novel Moments
3. March and June
4. 11 18 07
5. What If They Are Friendly
6. Good or Plenty
7. Define
8. Barnyard Creeps
9. Labor Day
Digital album available to stream or download now!
When is fire not fire?
Our surreal lives made more surreal by these crazy economic times. Malcolm’s creative energies are blossoming during this time, much like under the Weimar Republic. I don’t know what to do with my life, says Malcolm, while all Gabe remembers of A Clockwork Orange are the milk-dispensing breasts, which of course causes Malcolm to exclaim that he feels we’re bringing the good times back. Tammy Faye Bakker sings as well as weeps, but not on our show she don’t, but what if we could couple Kate Bush with Scott Walker to create the ultimate singing machine? I am music, says Malcolm. We are up to episode 15 of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies made at the art factory that is Mutable Sound. For Book You, this week Gabe reads from The Four Elements, by Benjamin Peret. Gabe talks of surreal moments, both his own and other people’s, and would love to hear yours. Write to him at mail@mutablesound.com. The podcast ends with Gabe’s Guide to Bringing the Spice Back into your Life.
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S**t Happens When You Party Naked
Dmitry Samarov
Dmitry Samarov is a local cab driver and artist who puts out a semi-regular blog called Hack, stories from his hours spent driving a hackney through the streets of Chicago. His most recent entry is about waiting out late-night revelers with a man who’s been driving a cab since ’73, the man’s scraggly white beard yellowed around the mouth from the nicotine who we learn, through the course of the entry, has been writing science-fiction stories on a manual typewriter for years, the latest involving a human-sized insect who’s also a detective. At the end of the post we learn that the detective has discovered ‘the remains of a person’s arm, chiseled to the sharpest point ever detected on his planet…’
Samarov was born in Moscow in 1970, emigrated to Boston in ’78 with his family, studied art at the Parsons School of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been driving cab for god only knows how long. The story of his first days as a cab driver is some of my favorite stuff, both awkward and lude, the drawings crude and poignant, full of vignettes with hookers and undergrads. Samarov is like a cross between Bukowski and Scorsese as seen through a murky watercolor-drawn world.
In the Mutableye is a segment that sometimes showcases something interesting that is happening somewhere in the world at this moment, and sometimes showcases some fad or person from the past that we here at Mutable acknowledge is still cool s**t.
For our second Is Still Cool S**t, we wanted to showcase an unknown artist & author who has been lurking in the taxi’s of Chicago and all the while recording this seedy world through words and images. Welcome to the universe of Dmitry Samarov!
Who do you love?
Love is in the air. In our hearts we sing of love. Love, love, love. Often mistook for another four-letter word, and speaking of misplaced four letter words, this week for Book You, Gabe reads from Love Letters from a Nobleman to his Sister by Aphra Behn (1640-1689). Writing as she did during the swinging renaissance, a lot like the 1970’s, Behn at one time worked as a spy for Charles II, as well as having a long-time affair with notorious rake, lawyer, and possible bi-sexual, John Hoyle. An interesting woman. Awkward romantic moments? Gabe took a date to mass once, which was awkward. There are so many films you should not take a date to, such as Short Cuts, Naked, and Last Tango in Paris, while in other news, this Valentine’s Day Mutable Sound had a baby, Animal Hospital’s Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues. We think it’s good. You should buy it! In Gabe’s Guide to Accepting Rejection, he recommends our listeners to face the horror. Goodnight.
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Animal Hospital -- Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues
Love and Mathematics
Originally published 02.15.2009
My favorite Brian Eno album always has been and always will be “Another Green World.” Anticipating Eno’s ambient work that soon followed in its use of meditative repetition and quiet electronics, that 1975 lp has always been more interesting to me because of its added complexity: the way, for instance, that guitars, bass, drums, and the occasional vocal allow the music to retain contact with the standard rock format even as the compositions moved far beyond. So you might call “Another Green World” an “ambient” album, but it’s much more than that; and you might call it “experimental rock,” but it’s much more than that, too.
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Where have the days gone?
February is like a miniature dark age every year. Feel free to write to us at mail@mutablesound.com. Gabe has been reading a lot, and listening to Lilith, by George MacDonald, a post of which is up now! Animal Hospital’s new album will be released on the fourteenth of this month. The theme for the week is authenticity, a word which Gabe barely understands.The eighties were certainly far from pure, but there was some purely synthetic music that came out of the eighties. For Book You, Gabe reads from The Green Hills of Elsewhere, by Thomas Frank, editor-in-chief of the Baffler, founded right here in Chicago, though now published out of Washington, D.C. The article in question was published in another periodical, however, the late great Hermenaut, though still existing as a blog aggregator at hermenaut.org. Malcolm always thought the postal service was part of our heritage, but now it’s really sad. Gabe used to get collages in the mail, and now nothing. And what of the switch from candle light to flourescent light? Advertisements are discussed, from ABC to Pepsi. We can change the world, but what will happen in 2012? Malcolm is optimistic, but no, Gabe is talking about the apocalypse. Adam Sandler in an Aztec romantic comedy? The show ends with Gabe’s guide to really sincerely being himself.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
Recorded entirely at Mutable Sound Studios, this weekly adventure into sound will also feature new Mutable Sound acts you have just been dying to hear! As well as the squiggly sounds of yesteryear.
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Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues
in Product
Animal Hospital’s Kevin Micka has played in several bands, most recently The Common Cold, before eventually becoming Animal Hospital. His first CD was self-titled and released through Mister Records in 2004. Besides Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues, Barge records is releasing another album of his entitled Memory in March of this year. He will be touring Europe and Iceland in March and April, as well as going on an American tour with Lineland in May.
Micka also played a supporting role in the mumble-core film, Mutual Appreciation, by Andrew Bujalski, and is a respected producer and sound engineer in his own right. Most noted perhaps for recording and mixing down several albums for the band Neptune, he has also recorded and mixed down Mutable Sound’s own The Textbook Tapes, on which he played. He has been working in this capacity in and around Boston since the late nineties.
Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues was recorded on Osterville Rd., 16th St., Main St., South St., Capp St., and Palmer during 2007 & 2008 by Kevin Micka. Additional vocals by Katharine Fisk Shields.
CDD Pre-Mastering by Scott Craggs
1. We Can
2. Novel Moments
3. March and June
4. 11 18 07
5. What If They Are Friendly
6. Good or Plenty
7. Define
8. Barnyard Creeps
9. Labor Day
Digital album available to stream or download now!
What are Wiccans?
From the AV-aerie in Chicago, come the voices of Malcolm, Geof, and Gabe, as well as the occasional sputter of 45 or mp3. We are feeling the chills, miss the beach, and will talk about favorite witch-hunts this week. Could the political correctness of the 90’s be considered a witch-hunt? Eisenhower smoked corn silk? Gabe always feels there are people with stakes out there waiting to drive them through his chest. Frankenstein is like a disease that kills the pure innocent child and the diseased. In episode twelve of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies we learn a little more about Handyman Jack and his dark past. Just to clarify, Wiccans are in no way related to cannibalism. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is read for Book You.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
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Me Time
Scott S. Greenberger, Globe Staff
A curtain is furled under a pipe that runs just beneath the ceiling, and a spotted cat wanders in. On the makeshift stage there is a ripped couch, a battered metal file cabinet labeled “This Was Your Life,” and a swath of green shag carpet.
Sporting long sideburns and blue Chuck Taylor sneakers, Gabriel Boyer takes the stage and launches into a reading of “Dracula.” The spectators arrayed on the performer’s bed are less than comfortable: The slats beneath his mattress aren’t nailed in, so they tend to shift whenever somebody moves too much.
This is “Bedroom Theater,” freewheeling performances that take place in Boyer’s Jamaica Plain loft every eight days. Boyer, 26, is a frequent actor and the author of some of the plays and skits that have been staged in his bedroom for the past year. He and a friend have even published a guide, “Seven Short Plays for the Bedroom.”
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What fond memories of Brazil?
Geof is a guest dj again for our Brazilian-music-only podcast this week like harpies tearing at Gabe’s flesh, but a beautiful tearing at the flesh. Oyvind Fahlstrom was born in Brazil, although ethnically Swedish, and the author for this week’s segment of Book You. Geof and Malcolm tell of their fond memories from Brazil, as well as the seedy underbelly neither one had anything to do with, but have learned much of through the wonder of such films as City of God, and of course, the next episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. The steam radiator was invented to heat greenhouses, but Malcolm finds the negative association of the term greenhouse gasses unfortunate. Also, Gabe’s Guide to Goiter Removal.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
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The Manifesto of Negativity
Harry Polkinhorn
1. Prescript: I have nothing to say.
2. Nothing counts any more; nothing ever did.
3. Culture is dead. It committed suicide because it had become successful.
4. The liberation of language, a poetics of freedom of the word, the Futurists’ parole in liberta, the jouissance of schizophrenic discourse, the transrational zaum of the Russians, all fit perfectly into their preordained boxes, gagging them forever.
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Is our train indeed coming round the bend?
Who is this new face? Geof is the guest dj for the week. Bed-wetting is discussed, and Gabe describes potential scenario involving crystalized tears. Be glad Gabe never owned a gun, Malcolm has to learn to love the machine, and Gabe admits he would never date anyone who ever knew Frank Sinatra. Are we in the cold part of hell? Geof says it is like riding in a giant marshmallow made out of wicking fabric. There’s murder, and then there’s jail, and there’s love in both of them. This week for Book You, Gabe reads from The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione to ring in the new administration, the inauguration being this week of course, which is very exciting. Obama is a Chicagoan after all. Also, Mutable Sound’s first official product is to be released on February 14th, Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues, by old friend Animal Hospital, and also in the next month, the 965 page book, A Survey of My Failures this Far, by Gabe himself. Gabe’s Guide to Good Vibes is this week, in which he tells you how to have fun without actually having fun, and of course episode ten of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. Listen to Gabe loudly crunching corn chips.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
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Pavol Janik
NEW YORK
In a horizontal mirror
of the straightened bay
the points of an angular city
stabbing directly into the starry sky.
In the glittering sea of lamps
flirtatious flitting boats
tremble marvellously
on your agitated legs
swimming in the lower deck
of a brocade evening dress.
Suddenly we are missing persons
like needles in a labyrinth of tinfoil.
Some things we take personally —
stretch limousines,
moulting squirrels in central Park
and the metal body of dead freedom.
In New York most of all it’s getting dark…
The glittering darkness lights up.
The thousand-armed luster of the mega city
writes Einstein’s message about the speed of light
every evening on the gleaming surface of the water.
And again before the dusk the silver screen
of the New York sky floods
with hectolitres of Hollywood blood.
Where does the empire of glass and marble reach?
Where do the slim rackets of the skyscrapers aim?
God buys a hot dog
at the bottom of a sixty-storey street.
God is a black
and loves the grey color of concrete.
His sun was born from himself
in a paper box
from the newest sort of slave.
(Original Slovak translated by James Sutherland Smith)
Pavol Janik, was born in 1956 in Bratislava, where he also studied film and television dramaturgy and scriptwriting at the Drama Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VSMU). He has worked at the Ministry of Culture (1983-87), in the media and in advertising. President of the Slovak Writers’ Society (2003-07) and the Secretary-General of the SWS (1998-2003, 2007—). He has received a number of awards for his literary and advertising work both in his own country and abroad. The below poem was originally published in the Indian literary review, Kritya.
Pavol Janik
Where is the astral plane?
Where is the astral plane? If you have an answer to that question, please feel free to email us at mail@mutablesound.com. It is not titular. Jason Allen, is once again a guest, and on Book You, this week Gabe reads the introduction to a treatise by Giordano Bruno called Cause, Principle, and Unity. Burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600, Giordano Bruno was very influenced by Hermes Trismesgistus according to Frances Yates, though Hilary Gatti tells a different story, while in another story altogether, i.e. episode nine of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies, a dark cloud has consumed the school, and what has happened to Archibald the Professor of Arcane Knowledge? Jason recommends yelping beavers to be used for sound effects afterwards, while Gabe wants to discuss occult cinema, but no discussion of occult cinema can occur without discussing Jodorowski’s Holy Mountain, which none have seen, so instead they talk of Santa Sangre. This leads to a discussion of gnosticism. This leads to another question. Are there any heavy metal bands called, Pantheon? Gabe talks about zen and anti-zen. Who’s going to join Gabe in falling apart out there in listenerland? And speaking of lands, we forgot to announce, “The Greatest Taste Around,” by Negativland.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
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How do you spell that?
We are all about the sound of the future, here in the first week of 2009, and the last year of the ots. Did anything happen in the ots of the 1900’s? Perhaps something epic will happen in the next decade, like Armageddon as the Mayans predicted. That would be awesome, but focusing on more mundane matters, the question for this week is, How do you spell that? We do got a new president and a new depression, and welcome to Jason Allen once again. Gabe wants to know how Jason feels, and Jason wants to know why he’s being questioned, that he’s a good-feeling person. If only we had some pig in here, Gabe would go cut its throat.
Gabe reads from The Futurist Cookbook, for the weekly segment Book You! Gabe does some impromptu analysis of Jason, suggesting that perhaps Jason’s psyche might perhaps be waxed, and whether perhaps there is something beyond the warm well-waxed fuzziness within, which apparently resembles a five-dimensional hyper-cube. This is a subjective fact according to Jason, while according to Joseph Campbell, people aren’t looking for the meaning of life, they’re looking for the experience of being alive. Gabe tries to get his cohorts to hone their mouth muscles through various tongue-twister exercises. The most idiotic thing yet, says Malcolm. That and also, we forgot to announce song, “Nah mix nah mingle” by Lady Saw.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
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This is Not a Review: of George MacDonald, David Lindsay
Gabriel Boyer
We here at Mutable wanted to commemorate George MacDonald this week, and his esteemed lineage. Though he, along with several of his more interesting intellectual progeny are no longer well-known to the world at large, I would suggest that MacDonald is essential in any “secret history” of the industrial and post-industrial mind, not entirely dissimilar to Greil Marcus’ own secret history of the twentieth century, Lipstick Traces, that when we consider the history of revelation in relation to the culture industry and the prefabricated visions it has produced in the form of lighter allegorical fair such as Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within and The Matrix, what we are seeing is a similar degradation of this unacknowledged literary tradition as filtered through Alan Watts’ watered-down buddhism.
It should be obvious to anyone who has read George MacDonald why he has not retained whatever renown he had in the nineteenth century. As vivid and fabulous as the worlds he created are, the message is unabashedly Christian, and not the sort that can live in a suburban library either—like C. S. Lewis would be—a man who called George MacDonald his master. MacDonald is just a little more restrained than Blake in terms of his sometimes bizarre imagery—note the hawthorne tree as an old man in chapter four of Lilith below—and not surprisingly, because Blake was one of his key influences, as well as Novalis, and Swedenborg.
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 — 18 September 1905) may no longer be well-known in the world of fantasy, but besides being the “master” of C. S. Lewis, he was the mentor of Lewis Carroll, it being both Macdonald’s advice, as well as the hearty reception of his daughters, that convinced Lewis Carroll (the pen-name of Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) to publish his manuscript, Alice in Wonderland. MacDonald was admired by W.H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had “made a difference to my whole existence”. Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, eventually befriended him. (As if genius were solely dependent upon likability.)
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Why now?
A pretty good year for music, not great. Jason Allen guest dj’s on this podcast. Gabe reads from the writings of William Burroughs, from a collection entitled Interzone, in the weekly segment of Book You! Rod Blagojevich is sexy, possibly more than Sarah Palin. Gabe doesn’t have issues with peanut butter, but does have issues with many other things. What happened in 2008? Besides Barack Obama being elected, Gabe went to Alaska, he and Malcolm formed a band, and Jason played a good friend’s wedding, utilizing the theme from Twin Peaks even. Great shows we saw in 2008: High Places (at the AV-aerie), Akron / Family (also at the AV-aerie), Deerhoof (at Metro), The Residents (at Lakeshore Theater), and The Ex (at Millenium Park). Here we are. Why? On the cusp. There’s the past. Why? An allegorical painting? Standing on the threshold, fist raised. Why now? But it is kind of answering itself in a way, because it’s now. But there is always then, which is in my mind, which is not real, but that’s only Jason’s opinion, whereas Gabe believes living in the past is kind of like living in the future.
The Mutable Radioshow is a weekly spot in which Misters Felder and Boyer play their favorite melodies from years gone by, as well as a few new tunes from out the library. Topics are discussed, such as what is there to hate? A new episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies is aired each week.
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SP Weather Station: September
Fake is the new real
Fake is the new real contains the artwork and photographs of Neil Freeman. We just liked it, and thought others should check it out. Please do! Some samples below.
New York City block groups (median income)
Solar Alignment Walk (2011
In the Mutableye is a segment that sometimes showcases something interesting that is happening somewhere in the world at this moment, and sometimes showcases some fad or person from the past that we here at Mutable acknowledge is still cool s**t.
Where are you going?
What is the most unchristmasy place in the whole world? Maybe Darfur. It’s christmas at ground zero, and we are focusing on journeys of the physical and transcendental variety this week. Malcolm Cowley is most famous for discovering William Faulkner, but is also the author of a book entitled Exile’s Return, which Gabriel reads from during a segment fast becoming a tradition, and titled Book You. The question for the week is Where are you going? Any responses to this question (or any question for that matter) can be mailed to us at mail@mutablesound.com. We also sample the music of Animal Hospital, whose album, Good or Plenty, Streets and Avenues, will be out soon. The Scripted Cocktail Party was a complete success, but for the unclean underwear, after which another episode of Twilight at the Lady Jane Grey College for Little Ladies. Gabriel attempts to explain said episode afterwards in a long, rambling, and flustered monologue, Malcolm butchers a few scandinavian names, and Gabriel reports on his journey to Jacks and Jill’s Sunshine Retreat Center to meet with guru Colin Jacks. Gabriel attempted to make a world made entirely of marshmellow because he is shackled by his absurdist sense of humor. More than he has ever stared into the eyes of a woman, Gabriel stared into Colin’s eyes, which was a frightful occurrence, but what did he learn? To create a world within is to create a world without. Next thing you know, we are going to be wearing diapers and making googly sounds. Merry frickin christmas.