Cosmic Tape Music Club hosted by The Galaxy Electric

Episode 4: Halim El-Dabh

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 4 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Halim El-Dabh. Halim was the true pioneer and Godfather of tape music and musique concrete. He was known for his pioneering experimental composition using magnetic tape and wire recorders when the mediums were still in their infancy, for re-recording a sound and processing it through many generations of degradation and enhancement, playing recordings back at various speeds and re-recording them rendering out of this world textures and much much more!

Chapter Summary:

• Introduction and early life
• The Wire Recorder
• His Philosophies
• Trouble at Kent State
• Closing

Episode 3: Wendy Carlos

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 3 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Wendy Carlos. Wendy is a genius as well as the self proclaimed "Original Synth". She is a platinum selling artist, a Grammy winner, and an Ivy League school grad. We share all sorts of facts including winning a science fair by building a computer from scratch, melding the worlds of classical music and synthesizer, the Moog Modular, scoring for Kubrick, digital audio pioneering and much much more!

Chapter Summary:

• Intro
• Early Beginnings
• College
• SOB
• AES Conference Moog sighting
• Rachel Elkind
• Clockwork
• Gonna let it Shine
• Tron
• Inspiration to Tomita
• Stevie Wonder popped by
• Vocoder your Moroder
• microtuning
• Digital is King
• Sticky Shed
• Astrophotographer
• Outro

Personal Music section:

Robert Saint John's Theme for Space Cat - Moog Minimoog Model D, Sub 37.. https://youtu.be/P6qcnqkqcDc

Scott Ampleford performs Canon in D Major - by Johann Pachelbel https://youtu.be/lAMaFwecL8E

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Source of Uncertainty: A Buchla podcast 4U https://sourceofuncertainty.audio

Join Hosts and Group Members Robert and Kyle as they talk about all things Buchla Electronic Instruments

Episode 2: Sun Ra

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 2 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Sun Ra and his Arkestra band. In short he was a being that claimed he was from the planet Saturn. He was an avid reader and enthusiast of music instrument technology, as well as a virtuosic band leader, composer and pianist/keyboardist. We share all sorts of facts starting with his early life, his alien abduction, the various locations he lived and conducted the band from, his journey through being an early adopter of many different keyboards and synthesizers like the Moog Minimoog and Yamaha DX-7 (to name a few), his mystic ethos, and much much more!

Chapters

• Intro
• Uncertain Origin
• Forbes Piano
• 1st Gear Head
• Organ is the "Tastes Like Chicken" of electronic instruments
• Future Minded
• College
• Alien Abduction
• War Story
• Chicago
• Ghosting
• The band were on call
• Arkestra is Born
• Tape Delay
• A Joyful Noise bit
• Would LCD get an alien high?
• Rolling Stone Cover
• California
• Space is the Place
• One Take
• The Outer Space Visual Communicator
• Cosmic Keys
• Closing Notes

Personal Music section:

Dave Gibson's Mind Evaporator - WF 23 - This Time It's - by Personal Bandana https://personalbandana.bandcamp.com/track/mind-evaporator

Jamal Gray's Shamanism - POLYMATH - by Aquatic Gardener https://aquaticgardens.bandcamp.com/track/shamanism

Episode 1: Peter Zinovieff and EMS

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Welcome to our inaugural episode of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they wax poetic on the topic of Peter Zinovieff: Geologist, Computer and Tape Music Studio Innovator, Electronic Instrument Design Collaborator, Gentleman, and Scholar. We share all sorts of facts starting with his early and family life, buying what he believed to be one of the very first Personal Computers, EMS, the VCS3, Unit Delta Plus, famous folks that rolled through the studio, his obsession with pure randomness, and more.

Timeline:

• Intro 
• Early Life 
• Funding EMS 
• David Cockerell 
• Synchronicity between Synth Designers
• Couldn't be bothered with actually using the Synths
• Is he a tape musician?
• Unit Delta Plus
• Carnival of Lights
• EMS Tech Talk
• EMS's Downfall
• Robin Wood and EMS rebirth
• iVCS3
• Spectron Video Synth
• Randomness
• The Implant
• Pete Kember/Electronic Calendar Album

Personal Music section:

Justin Winn's Audio Emission 02 - The Big Bounce - by TMA-1 Audio Emissions https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ZJLLQBhpiDaJEYBf6

Gene Maruszewski's Gimme a Break - by Tapewarm https://soundcloud.com/tapewarm-1/gimme-a-break