Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on June 20, 2012, 10:22:33 PM
In Finland there is very controlled radio network.
I've heard much the same from folks in Japan. As recently as 1999, hitting hardcore events in Tokyo, chatting with the bands - time and again enduring sake-fueled rants on the supreme crappiness of Japanese radio (and the comorbid wider governing bodies in general). HC heads would on occasion profess a love of the choicest of sounds – as in, the good stuff, THE FILTH, what might inspire rare and Special Interests. But growing up... they had no exposure.
I nod in understanding, but at the same time... 20th century composers like Takemitsu, at least, enjoyed broadcast on NHK radio, albeit infrequently. Hijokaidan may have got limited airplay, but the academics got everywhere. And, again, I wouldn't want to understate their potential for deep impact.
Even Borbetomagus say as much. Here's an excerpt from a relatively recent interview:
QuoteInterviewer:
How did you get in touch with Donald [Miller]?
Don Dietrich:
I'd heard his radio show on [Columbia University's] KCR and I'd never heard any of this stuff he was playing before – where we lived it was hard enough to get a Captain Beefheart record, much less the stuff he was playing which was just extraordinary, it was blowing my mind. I told Jim [Sauter] I said, you gotta check this shit out, this is unbelievable!
...they go on to drop names like Kagel, Xenakis, Stockhausen, Penderecki, Ligeti. I assume this was in the late 70s though no dates are mentioned.
Full text here:
http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/borbetomagus.htmlColumbia U, NYC. Hardly a backwater in the middle of Buttfuck, Nowhere. But I'd wager your average college station could find a devoted audience within a good 100km radius. This was true of Toronto, at least. Taking my turn at a little nostalgia now... going back to the mid 80's, TO had three college stations (CKLN, CIUT, CHRY), any one of which could be counted on to deliver a regular dose of the good stuff – admittedly often late night, and still primarily (good) stuff of the academic persuasion. But it was out there. On the airwaves. In abundance. In between all that deathmetal. William S Burroughs marathons. A weekend with The Residents. Endless pointless radio collage projects. And later, inexplicably, Illusion of Safety. I've got a couple boxes of tapes comprised entirely of Illusion of Safety, as broadcast over the airwaves. Hours of fucking Illusion of Safety. No complaints, is good. The CBC, the national broadcaster, were on it too, and to the best of my knowledge have been reliably irritating taste-deficient Canadians for a few decades at least.
Here's an interview with Mitch Krol, "The Demon" beneath a Toronto radio show called "Beyond The Gates Of Hell". Or as The Demon put it, "Satanic music for Satanic people." Big influence on thirteen-year old Slutbag, as you might imagine! Mr Krol comes on with his deep, pitch-shifted, echoing, demon voice over a background of crying babies. Week after week I'd faithfully stay tuned for the especially weird shit to be heard at 3:33, The Hour Of Satan. The dude should have been doing stand-up. An excerpt from his show comes at about 5:00 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIuiWM35cUI...all and all, it seems appropriate that my first performance for an audience outside my neck of the woods was a phone-in on, indeed, a Columbia U KCR-presented 72-hour noise festival:
http://www.modern-radio.com/board/t.php?id=23639
