Rules, Policies and the ALPB

Turned Out Well

On the race thing I believe we very successfully went from a possible misunderstanding to a BETTER understanding of how un-racial things are with low power radio; to quote DavidC how Universal music is and how International our purpose is here at the ALPB.

I'm thinking it's mostly college and LPFMs that have a category called World Music, which I think is pretty much anything and everything. That can be good sometimes.

This thread makes me SO HAPPY that I have zero interest in music of any kind.   Thus my opinion is, no opinion.

One show I've run for a long time and still occasionally do is Captain Fred's World Cruise, over at Radio 4 All, a world music program featuring new artists. It's been around since the era of cassette distributed shows.

It's good to remember that the idea of 'music radio' didn't really arrive until after the 1950s and the popularity of TV. TV made radio stations have to look for a new audience, and they found it with teens and rock and roll, which stratified into different formats in the 1960s and '70s.

There was a point when FM became Top Dog as a broadcast band, and before other competition was really in play yet. Quality music came out at that time, but competition was fierce and stations had such tight formatting turf, which they'd defend by cutting other formats down with disrespect, and listeners were brought into the fight. That was a part of the game I didn't like, since I enjoyed other kinds of music and crossover songs.

Now, radio broadcasting before the 1950s did have music programs, but also a good bit of news, radio plays and talk shows.

I have a friend who also isn't really into music and DJs, he's a morning show bit maker, and he used to think that music was just a thing to attract people's attention to a station so they'd hear your programming.

What are you thinking about running on your station, Jim Henry?

Boomer

The Very Beginnings of Electronic Music

KDX has a large collection of electronic music that exists as part of our production library, as we view it more as "sound" than music.

In 1952 the Louisville Orchestra commissioned Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky, members of the faculty at Columbia University, to compose "A Poem for Cycles and Bells for Tape Recorder and Orchestra" which was recorded by Composers Recordings, Inc.,CRI-112, with Members of the Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Otto Luening with Technical Supervision by Vladimir Ussachevsky. On the same album is "A Piece for Tape Recorder" by Ussachevsky.

Another pioneer in the field is Edgar Varese with his "Poeme Electronique" created directly on Magnetic Tape for the 1858 Brussels World's Fair, Columbia Record ML 5478.

By my memory the first electronic recordings to become widely popular were produced on the Moog Synthesizer by Walter Carlos in the late 1960s/early 1970s (later changed to Wendy Carlos), especially the "Switched on Bach Series", which received air play on hard rock FM stations of the time.

KDX airs an hour of current electronic music Saturday night on the program "Bamboo Thoughts" with plenty of free material from Archive.org.

While music appears to be the most prevalent broadcast today (followed by talk), I have a particular interest in spoken drama. The golden age shows such as Lux Theater, Lights Out, etc. were particularly effective on radio because 1) they featured talented actors & voices (without the emphasis of appearance) and 2) were well written. Both attributes are missing today in most video productions.

Mister Blare (If that's really your name) is quoted: "Another pioneer in the field is Edgar Varese..."

DHR adds: "The above referenced person was an inspiration to Mister Frank Zappa."