Zenglop The Podcast

Returning for a new season.  I am nostalgic for the summer; consider Plato; and play a  mashup Gershwin and Messiaen on the piano.show notes available at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

In which I set up a new synth, and then remember playing Gershwin.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/episode-18.html

Episode 17  Delia Derbyshire (including a new piece "after delia" for taped coffee cup);  and getting more tattoos.show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

A new piece written for Piano and Satellite (sputnik telemetry signal); a complicated weekend listening to a performance of Luciano Berio's "Laborintus"; also - what is the the color of a state of mind?show notes available at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

writing, running and Christopher Hitchens. Show notes available at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

(chanting at the ymca) The effort of writing; field recordings from the frozen food aisle; Yeshe walmo invocation and healing practice (at the gym)show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

Wuthering Heights: a field recording at LaGuardia airport; reading Emily Bronte, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes; listening to Kate Bush; writing some music.Show notes available at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

An Alien at the end of time listens to Dolly Parton; Exegesis on 35 sentences (sentence 1); reads about Daphne Oram and the Radiophonic Workshop.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net

A wide ranging conversation with Andrew and Nick: the genesis of the Dry Trump; reading the Federalist Papers; Heidegger, Brian Eno and Prince. hole drinking pu-erh tea.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net

Sounds from Delaware (leaf blowers and crossing signals); A poem by Emily Dickinson prompts thoughts about meditation practice and mindfulness; Rosalyn Tureck playing Bachfull show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

John Cage, Mesostics and reading Finnegans Wake; also lyrics for some new songs I’m writingfull show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

More details on The Dry Trump; George Michael, W.H. Auden; the Collapsing Vector; and two homegrown versions of Careless Whisper - one a phase shift remix and a second with Andrew playing “Careless Whisper on the Hurdy Gurdy.all show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

A musical variety show for boxing day; I play some hurdy gurdy; listen to some field recordings of melting water; a (seasonal) reading of and music inspired by Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb"; and some plans for next year on the podcast.show notes available at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

Start with an off-menu amuse bouche (the musical drone of a household Fridge).Then an extended reverie on remembered, forgotten and never heard musics. Ending with pictures of the pen I use at work.show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

We listen to the sound of crossing signals in Rotterdam and how sound is not what we expect; a new tattoo prompts discussion of the Bon Buddhist 'Chod' meditation practice; and finally, we consider The Dry Trump.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

I talk about the unintended poetry and psychogeographic presence of water towers in Pittsburgh. I also read out loud for the very first time, a poem I wrote several years ago, Johnny Cash in Peterborough.Show notes and links at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html

In this episode, I record Sferics at the Pittsburgh Point. Sferics are Very Low Frequency electromagnetic signals in the Earth atmosphere. Also in this episode, poetry by A.E. Housman and some cool stuff from the internet.Show notes at http://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/podcast.html