EPISODE 17: We buy a car and swallow the key (aka the non-cynical minimalist episode)

Where this starts, you are going to be so surprised where it ends.

I’m just going to pecker my way into this one:

Cups

Chairs

Flatware

Bucket

Pop-top.

You are over there.

There’s just so many directions you can take from the cups.

So,

Sell everything and just buy three machines

Its just so basic—commit to the bit

You press a button and a sound comes out.

You press the button again and the sound goes out.

On and off.

On and off.

I’d like to sometimes live in this world where just I live in an empty room

With just this bed

With this couch on the floor

And this table with like two machines

And I just like turn on the sound

turn off the sound.

And turn on the sound

turn off the sound.

And I have only three sounds to work with.

There’s this moiré kind of thing happening

There’s a lot of crevices to explore

So this is kind of this idea.

This kind of thing like

“Whoah… how far is this going to go?”

(Please wait for a couple of hours for someone to call you).

We are in a new timeline.

It’s a winning proposal

It’s very attractive

It’s great for when you have people over who don’t like music

That’s the goddam cups again.

We could go for an hour fading in and fading out like that

We listened to:
1. Michael Nyman Band – Nose-List Song
2. Ratgrave – Icarus
3. Robert Hood – Self Powered
4. Limpe Fuchs, Mark Fell – Dessogia II
5. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Kamome No Suiheisen
6. Achim Wollscheid – Cups 1
7. Jane and Barton – You Are Over There (Part One)
8. O'Donel Levy – I Believe In Miracles
9. Alvin Lucier – So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) (excerpt)

Shout outs:

Mark Loeser’s voice

Pied de biche - Medieval Punk https://pied-de-biche.bandcamp.com

Lyric and Robert Hood: https://www.billboard.com/music/features/robert-hood-lyric-hood-floorplan-father-daughter-touring-1235709568/

Black Truffle http://www.blacktrufflerecords.com

The queen is dead. Long live the queen. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/arts/music/eliane-radigue-dead.html