Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "Dancescape" Audio from 9/11/16 (show #508)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza:
Dancescape (9/11/16, show #508)

Dance, swing, connect, differentiate, find and lose ourselves, create and channel, know and forget, cry and laugh and slump and restore, give, take, hold on, let go. A non-experimental, pre-woven musical offering for the C'ville Dance Co-op.

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Source listing (playlist)
Artist	Song title	Album	Year
Comment
Michael Linnen & David Wingo	(Kissing music)	All The Real Girls movie	2003
Room entrance music, looped, before official start time
Unknown	Gymnasium Assembly	35 School Ambiences

Solitudes	Trickling Rain With Distant Thunder	Waterscapes	2000

Zooey Deschanel (voice), Paul Schneider (writer, voice), David Gordon Green (director, writer)	I've got a secret...hello hello hello	All the Real Girls movie	2003
Hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello. Keep going. Hello hello hello hello...
Michael Linnen & David Wingo	(Kissing music)	All The Real Girls movie	2003
Looped
Charlie Kaufman	I wanted to do something that I don't know how to do	BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture Series	2011
...and offer you the experience of watching someone fumble, because I think maybe that's what art should offer: an opportunity to recognize our common humanity and vulnerability. So, rather than being up here pretending I'm an expert in anything, I'm just telling you off the bat that I don't know anything.
Jon Brion	Theme	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind s.t.	2004
Looped
Low	Violence	Long Division	1995

Ulrich Schnauss	...Passing By (Ken edit)	Far Away Trains Passing By	2001
Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Heavy/beat-oriented sections removed
Wayne Dyer	The wake is not what drives the boat	10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace	2002
(Credited to Alan Watts) The wake is just a trail that is left behind, that's all it is. And so is the wake of your life. And the wake doesn't make the boat go, and neither does the wake of your life the reason why your life is going in the direction that it is. The wake is a trail that is left behind, and it's an illusion to believe that it is the cause of your suffering, or your struggles, or your difficulty. Give it up, let it go. Embrace it, let it go, get help doing that if you must, and then move into the now.
Kyle MacLachlan (voice), David Lynch (creator), Mark Frost (writer)	Every day, once a day, give yourself a present	Twin Peaks: Season 1, episode 6	1990
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen.
Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director)	Let it go. I can let it go.	Fearless movie	1993

David Lynch	The human being always wants to go to fields of greater happiness	An Evening with David Lynch (Bryn Mawr Film Institute 9/13/14)	2014

Philip Glass	Collaboration: Part of the inspiration comes from somebody else	Interview during Metamorphosis performance on BBC's The Late Show
One of the nice things about collaboration is that part of the inspiration comes from somebody else. You share everything, but you also share the difficulties. But when you're really by yourself, well, that's it; the focus is on you and you have to do it all yourself.
U2 / Brian Eno	With or Without You	The Joshua Tree	1987
Looped Eno's opening
Erasure	A Little Respect (Ken edit)	The Innocents	1988
Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Extended opening and closing, removed vocals initially, then gradually faded down most instruments and all beats for a while, and restoring beat at end
Wayne Dyer	Making happiness dependent on people being what we think they should be	10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace	2002
What most of us do in our relationships, and why they are not as successful as we would like them to be, is that we become attached, and we tell ourself, that if this person behaves in a way that I find offensive, then I can't be happy. I make my happiness, my fulfillment dependent upon those people that I love being what I think that they should be.
Fridge	FIve Combs (Ken edit)	Happiness	2001
Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Removed all instances of a sharp pulsing electronic sound
George Lucas	Brave enough to take one step beyond	The Making of American Graffiti	1998
A character who is put into a situation where they have to make a decision to leave. They're all about that transitional time in a person's life when you have to make a major change. How you become brave enough to take one step beyond and go into something that you're not really that experienced at.
The Magnetic Fields	The Dreaming Moon	Get Lost	1995

Claire Danes (voice), Winnie Holzman (writer)	You agree to have a certain personality	My So Called Life: Pilot episode	1994
It just seems like you agree to have a certain personality or something, for no reason, just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, how do you know if it's even you?
OCDJ / Lester Morton "Les" Waas	guess what! (Ken edit)	Hooray	2007 / 1960
With Mister Softee ice cream truck jingle "The Whistler and His Dog" from 1960 by Lester Morton "Les" Waas. Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Removed suggestive break to let the dancers just think about ice cream.
ccc / The Police / Ben E. King	Stand By Me	Sweetest Apples (best of)	2006 / 1983 / 1961

French Films	Where We Come From	White Orchid	2013

Avicii	Fade Into Darkness (Instrumental Club Mix)		2011

Martin Donovan (voice), Hal Hartley (writer)	Intimacy list	Surviving Desire movie	1993
Kissing, caressing, holding, slapping, shouting, talking, waiting, sleeping, crying, listening, hoping, encouraging, forgiving, laughing, relenting.
Kate Bush	Aerial (Ken edit)	Aerial 2: A Sky of Honey	2005
Ken's subtle 9/10/16 edit: Reducing volume of beats
Charlie Kaufman	Be dilligent and courageous in your attempts to do your stuff in the world	Why Movies Are Dead (Syneccoche, New York interview)	2008
If you've got a thing that you're exploring, then explore it truthfully. I mean, if you want to do that, if you're interested in doing what you want to do in the world then do it. Explore it truthfully, continue to try to find your voice, which is an ongoing, life-long process. Just be dilligent and somewhat courageous in your attempts to do your stuff in the world.
Silversun Pickups	Lazy Eye	Carnavas	2007

Explosions in the Sky	Your Hand In Mine (Ken edit)	The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place	2003
Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Removed every crashing, explosive, banging crescendo measure, leaving mostly sky; changed ending into endless loop of beginning
Wayne Dyer	The creative source will fulfill your belief in shortages	Power of Intention	2005
The creative source in your life. This source reacts to your belief in shortages with a fulfillment of your belief. If you believe there's shortages out there and you can't attract them into your life...if you come to this creative source with a belief that there are shortages in terms of your life, it will fulfill your belief. If you believe that you can't be healed, if you believe you can't be happy, if you believe that you have to be miserable, if you believe that you can't attract the right person...and you come to this source with a belief in shortages, it will fulfill your belief.
Jonsi and Alex	Happiness (Ken edit)	Riceboy Sleeps	2009
Looped
Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director)	Let it go. I can let it go.	Fearless movie	1993

John Turturro (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director)	We used to live in tribes	Fearless movie	1993
And when a tribe suffered a disaster, an exploding mountain shaking the earth, a great flood, we'd sit around fires and retell the event. Stories of death, destruction, escape and rescue.
Rob the Viking	Go For Mine	Beats to Pillage and Conquer By	2003

Cowboy Junkies	Sweet Jane (Ken edit)	The Trinity Session	1988
Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Ken's favorite loop to open, and replaced ending section with more opening loops
Wallace Shawn, Merwin Mondesir (voices), Steven Schwartz, Richard Dooling (writers)	The living make such meaningless distinctions	Critical Care movie	1997
I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions: How should I cut my hair, what kind of a car should I buy, will interest rates go up? (I don't care about any of that stuff!) Precisely! All those things: The products you consumed, the politics you debated, the people you knew...all your life's moments, big and small - they look very tiny now!
Holcombe Waller	Hardliners (Ken edit)	Into the Dark Unknown	2011
Just looped opening for a while
Ken	Be open about your life		2015
Just be open about your life and who you are and what you like. Don't be ashamed when people ask you what you're working on, just tell them. It doesn't matter what the thing is. You will find the people who respond to what it is that you're doing, and you will let them love you by doing that.
Ida	My Fair, My Dark (Ken edit)	My Fair, My Dark	2006
Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Extended section into favorite loop, to make room for spoken sample
Chris Cooper (voice), Charlie Kaufman (writer)	Neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking	Adaptation movie	2002
What's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid that looks exactly like a certain insect, so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soulmate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, it spots another soulmate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. How could they know that because of their little dance, the world lives. But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live, how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.
Gavin Bryars	Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings	The Sinking Of The Titanic	1990

Andre Gregory (voice), Rupert Walters (writer)	Mysteries going on all the time	Some Girls movie	1988
Right under our noses (with piano looping)
Jacob Augustine	Mountain	Goldhymns	2011
Don't let fear and common sense stop you, and don't let these modern-day fools disconnect you from the truth. Don't speak your love unless you can back it up, and don't dream big dreams and pinch yourself to wake up.
Fen Swale	circles & a starry sky (Ken edit)	I am a bird	2014
Endless loops of piano circles, into vocal closing
Andre Gregory (voice, writer), Wallace Shawn (writer)	I would actually see that thing that is alive in that leaf	My Dinner With Andre	1981
I remember being in the woods, and I would look at a leaf, and I would actually see that thing that is alive in that leaf. And then I remember just running through the woods as fast as I could, with this incredible laugh coming out of me, and really being in that state where laughter and tears seem to merge.
Zooey Deschanel (voice), Paul Schneider (writer, voice), David Gordon Green (director, writer)	I've got a secret...hello hello hello	All the Real Girls movie	2003
Hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello. Keep going. Hello hello hello hello...
Greg Weddig	Alcatraz cormorants	One-Minute Vacations	2005
"This recording was made at a Brant's Cormorant "blind" in the abandoned Model Industry building on the west side of the Alcatraz. I made it the evening San Francisco's KFOG radio station presented their Kaboom fireworks. As the shells started bursting in air, Western Gulls were silhouetted against the sky fleeing from their nesting area on the east side of Alcatraz at the Parade ground. Strangely the many nesting pairs of cormorants just below the mics seemed more upset at the fleeing seagulls than the fireworks themselves. After the final shots rang out the cormorants continued their grunting, gracking, and growling, as if nothing had happened."
Charlie Kaufman	Failure is a badge of honor; it means you risked failure	BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture Series	2011
Let's not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor; it means you risked failure. And if you don't risk failure, you're never going to do anything that's different than what you've already done, or what somebody else has done. And just know that, that that's the choice you're making when you won't put yourself at jeopardy like that.
Solitudes	Trickling Rain With Distant Thunder	Waterscapes	2000

Artist	Song title	Album	Year
Comment
Listen to the entire show

Source listing (playlist)

Michael Linnen & David Wingo

(Kissing music)

All The Real Girls movie

2003

Room entrance music, looped, before official start time

Unknown

Gymnasium Assembly

35 School Ambiences

Solitudes

Trickling Rain With Distant Thunder

Waterscapes

2000

Zooey Deschanel (voice), Paul Schneider (writer, voice), David Gordon Green (director, writer)

I've got a secret...hello hello hello

All the Real Girls movie

2003

Hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello. Keep going. Hello hello hello hello...

Michael Linnen & David Wingo

(Kissing music)

All The Real Girls movie

2003

Looped

Charlie Kaufman

I wanted to do something that I don't know how to do

BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture Series

2011

...and offer you the experience of watching someone fumble, because I think maybe that's what art should offer: an opportunity to recognize our common humanity and vulnerability. So, rather than being up here pretending I'm an expert in anything, I'm just telling you off the bat that I don't know anything.

Jon Brion

Theme

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind s.t.

2004

Looped

Low

Violence

Long Division

1995

Ulrich Schnauss

...Passing By (Ken edit)

Far Away Trains Passing By

2001

Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Heavy/beat-oriented sections removed

Wayne Dyer

The wake is not what drives the boat

10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

2002

(Credited to Alan Watts) The wake is just a trail that is left behind, that's all it is. And so is the wake of your life. And the wake doesn't make the boat go, and neither does the wake of your life the reason why your life is going in the direction that it is. The wake is a trail that is left behind, and it's an illusion to believe that it is the cause of your suffering, or your struggles, or your difficulty. Give it up, let it go. Embrace it, let it go, get help doing that if you must, and then move into the now.

Kyle MacLachlan (voice), David Lynch (creator), Mark Frost (writer)

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present

Twin Peaks: Season 1, episode 6

1990

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen.

Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director)

Let it go. I can let it go.

Fearless movie

1993

David Lynch

The human being always wants to go to fields of greater happiness

An Evening with David Lynch (Bryn Mawr Film Institute 9/13/14)

2014

Philip Glass

Collaboration: Part of the inspiration comes from somebody else

Interview during Metamorphosis performance on BBC's The Late Show

One of the nice things about collaboration is that part of the inspiration comes from somebody else. You share everything, but you also share the difficulties. But when you're really by yourself, well, that's it; the focus is on you and you have to do it all yourself.

U2 / Brian Eno

With or Without You

The Joshua Tree

1987

Looped Eno's opening

Erasure

A Little Respect (Ken edit)

The Innocents

1988

Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Extended opening and closing, removed vocals initially, then gradually faded down most instruments and all beats for a while, and restoring beat at end

Wayne Dyer

Making happiness dependent on people being what we think they should be

10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

2002

What most of us do in our relationships, and why they are not as successful as we would like them to be, is that we become attached, and we tell ourself, that if this person behaves in a way that I find offensive, then I can't be happy. I make my happiness, my fulfillment dependent upon those people that I love being what I think that they should be.

Fridge

FIve Combs (Ken edit)

Happiness

2001

Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Removed all instances of a sharp pulsing electronic sound

George Lucas

Brave enough to take one step beyond

The Making of American Graffiti

1998

A character who is put into a situation where they have to make a decision to leave. They're all about that transitional time in a person's life when you have to make a major change. How you become brave enough to take one step beyond and go into something that you're not really that experienced at.

The Magnetic Fields

The Dreaming Moon

Get Lost

1995

Claire Danes (voice), Winnie Holzman (writer)

You agree to have a certain personality

My So Called Life: Pilot episode

1994

It just seems like you agree to have a certain personality or something, for no reason, just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, how do you know if it's even you?

OCDJ / Lester Morton "Les" Waas

guess what! (Ken edit)

Hooray

2007 / 1960

With Mister Softee ice cream truck jingle "The Whistler and His Dog" from 1960 by Lester Morton "Les" Waas. Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Removed suggestive break to let the dancers just think about ice cream.

ccc / The Police / Ben E. King

Stand By Me

Sweetest Apples (best of)

2006 / 1983 / 1961

French Films

Where We Come From

White Orchid

2013

Avicii

Fade Into Darkness (Instrumental Club Mix)

2011

Martin Donovan (voice), Hal Hartley (writer)

Intimacy list

Surviving Desire movie

1993

Kissing, caressing, holding, slapping, shouting, talking, waiting, sleeping, crying, listening, hoping, encouraging, forgiving, laughing, relenting.

Kate Bush

Aerial (Ken edit)

Aerial 2: A Sky of Honey

2005

Ken's subtle 9/10/16 edit: Reducing volume of beats

Charlie Kaufman

Be dilligent and courageous in your attempts to do your stuff in the world

Why Movies Are Dead (Syneccoche, New York interview)

2008

If you've got a thing that you're exploring, then explore it truthfully. I mean, if you want to do that, if you're interested in doing what you want to do in the world then do it. Explore it truthfully, continue to try to find your voice, which is an ongoing, life-long process. Just be dilligent and somewhat courageous in your attempts to do your stuff in the world.

Silversun Pickups

Lazy Eye

Carnavas

2007

Explosions in the Sky

Your Hand In Mine (Ken edit)

The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

2003

Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Removed every crashing, explosive, banging crescendo measure, leaving mostly sky; changed ending into endless loop of beginning

Wayne Dyer

The creative source will fulfill your belief in shortages

Power of Intention

2005

The creative source in your life. This source reacts to your belief in shortages with a fulfillment of your belief. If you believe there's shortages out there and you can't attract them into your life...if you come to this creative source with a belief that there are shortages in terms of your life, it will fulfill your belief. If you believe that you can't be healed, if you believe you can't be happy, if you believe that you have to be miserable, if you believe that you can't attract the right person...and you come to this source with a belief in shortages, it will fulfill your belief.

Jonsi and Alex

Happiness (Ken edit)

Riceboy Sleeps

2009

Looped

Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director)

Let it go. I can let it go.

Fearless movie

1993

John Turturro (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director)

We used to live in tribes

Fearless movie

1993

And when a tribe suffered a disaster, an exploding mountain shaking the earth, a great flood, we'd sit around fires and retell the event. Stories of death, destruction, escape and rescue.

Rob the Viking

Go For Mine

Beats to Pillage and Conquer By

2003

Cowboy Junkies

Sweet Jane (Ken edit)

The Trinity Session

1988

Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Ken's favorite loop to open, and replaced ending section with more opening loops

Wallace Shawn, Merwin Mondesir (voices), Steven Schwartz, Richard Dooling (writers)

The living make such meaningless distinctions

Critical Care movie

1997

I get to talk to people who at long last know what's important. The living make such meaningless distinctions: How should I cut my hair, what kind of a car should I buy, will interest rates go up? (I don't care about any of that stuff!) Precisely! All those things: The products you consumed, the politics you debated, the people you knew...all your life's moments, big and small - they look very tiny now!

Holcombe Waller

Hardliners (Ken edit)

Into the Dark Unknown

2011

Just looped opening for a while

Ken

Be open about your life

2015

Just be open about your life and who you are and what you like. Don't be ashamed when people ask you what you're working on, just tell them. It doesn't matter what the thing is. You will find the people who respond to what it is that you're doing, and you will let them love you by doing that.

Ida

My Fair, My Dark (Ken edit)

My Fair, My Dark

2006

Ken's 9/10/16 edit: Extended section into favorite loop, to make room for spoken sample

Chris Cooper (voice), Charlie Kaufman (writer)

Neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking

Adaptation movie

2002

What's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid that looks exactly like a certain insect, so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soulmate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, it spots another soulmate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. How could they know that because of their little dance, the world lives. But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live, how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.

Gavin Bryars

Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings

The Sinking Of The Titanic

1990

Andre Gregory (voice), Rupert Walters (writer)

Mysteries going on all the time

Some Girls movie

1988

Right under our noses (with piano looping)

Jacob Augustine

Mountain

Goldhymns

2011

Don't let fear and common sense stop you, and don't let these modern-day fools disconnect you from the truth. Don't speak your love unless you can back it up, and don't dream big dreams and pinch yourself to wake up.

Fen Swale

circles & a starry sky (Ken edit)

I am a bird

2014

Endless loops of piano circles, into vocal closing

Andre Gregory (voice, writer), Wallace Shawn (writer)

I would actually see that thing that is alive in that leaf

My Dinner With Andre

1981

I remember being in the woods, and I would look at a leaf, and I would actually see that thing that is alive in that leaf. And then I remember just running through the woods as fast as I could, with this incredible laugh coming out of me, and really being in that state where laughter and tears seem to merge.

Zooey Deschanel (voice), Paul Schneider (writer, voice), David Gordon Green (director, writer)

I've got a secret...hello hello hello

All the Real Girls movie

2003

Hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello. Keep going. Hello hello hello hello...

Greg Weddig

Alcatraz cormorants

One-Minute Vacations

2005

"This recording was made at a Brant's Cormorant "blind" in the abandoned Model Industry building on the west side of the Alcatraz. I made it the evening San Francisco's KFOG radio station presented their Kaboom fireworks. As the shells started bursting in air, Western Gulls were silhouetted against the sky fleeing from their nesting area on the east side of Alcatraz at the Parade ground. Strangely the many nesting pairs of cormorants just below the mics seemed more upset at the fleeing seagulls than the fireworks themselves. After the final shots rang out the cormorants continued their grunting, gracking, and growling, as if nothing had happened."

Charlie Kaufman

Failure is a badge of honor; it means you risked failure

BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture Series

2011

Let's not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor; it means you risked failure. And if you don't risk failure, you're never going to do anything that's different than what you've already done, or what somebody else has done. And just know that, that that's the choice you're making when you won't put yourself at jeopardy like that.

Solitudes

Trickling Rain With Distant Thunder

Waterscapes

2000

Listen to the entire show

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Dancescape (9/11/16, show #508)

Dance, swing, connect, differentiate, find and lose ourselves, create and channel, know and forget, cry and laugh and slump and restore, give, take, hold on, let go. A non-experimental, pre-woven musical offering for the C'ville Dance Co-op.

Source listing (playlist)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza:
Dancescape (9/11/16, show #508)