"Where Dead Voices Gather," Resonance Extra show

I was delighted to be invited by artist and scholar Paul Nataraj to contribute to his long-running broadcast project which Paul explains in the following terms as:

• "an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point. Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku. Where the Dead Voices Gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate."

Paul sent me a "prompt script" for the show (derived in a manner reminiscent of spies' cipher-books) and I supplied the "answers" from my own record collection, further explorations and invitations - which I chose to pose to current and former students. You can see those "answers" right at the bottom of this post, with the square brackets indicating the type of source prompted by Paul and artist / title drawn from the letters he gave me. The show was broadcast live on Resonance Extra and then archived on their mixcloud space, you can play this from the widget below.

1. Underground Resistance - “Negative Evolution” (1998) [Personal Collection]
2. Saturo Wono - ”Overture” (2003) [Music Magazine, WireTapper10]
3. G/O Group Ongaku - “Object” (1960) [Ubuweb]
4. I/N Ish Klein - “No Soldier’s Story” (2011) [Penn Sound]
5. U/R Uffie – “Wordy Rappinghood (Evian Mix)” (2011) [Soundcamp]
6. R/Y RKSS remixes DJ Sammy and Yanou “Heaven” (2018) [Student Work]
7. E/D Edmundo Ros - “Deesappointment (sic)” (1969) [Charity Shop]
8. M/E David Michael - “El Yunque” (2012) [Field Recording]
9. M/I Misfits (TV Series) – Fever Ray - “If I Had A Heart” (2009) [OST]
   
10. A/D Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle – “The Devil’s Nine Questions” [Music Box Project, Library of Congress] (2011) [Library Archives]
    
11. R/E Radiodread – “Exit Music (For A Dub)” (2006) [Contributed by Matt Parker]
12. R/I Ana Roxanne – “I’m Every Sparkly Woman” (2019) [Contributed by Jennifer Lucy Allan]
13. E/V Jon Hassell – “Vernal Equinox - Viva Shona” (1977) [Contributed by Rob Mullender]
14. O/T Narumi Drums covers The Beatles – “Old Brown Shoe” (1969) [Beatles original contributed by Magz Hall]
15. E/X Ebomi Delza and Grupo Ofá “Xangô” [Contributed by Cannach MacBride]
    
16. S/A Stereo Nova – Atlas (2011) [Contributed by Maria Papadomanolaki]
17. L/Y Arpeggio with Love (2021) [A Carlyle]