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Abumrad’s ‘In C’ one for the Books

RadioLab’s Jad Abumrad was commissioned to remake reconstruct a piece of music. According to the Radiolab page on WNYC’s site, “In C,” a 1964 composition by Terry Riley, “quietly changed the world of classical music (and eventually pop music too).” It’s easy to hear that minimalist influence creeping through from Steve Reich to Sufjan Stevens. [...]

Radio Lab is hiring: Work with Krulwich!

Scott McDowell from WFMU sent us a link to this posting on WNYC’s jobs listings. I am not qualified. I am applying anyway. Even though I lack the 10+ years of full-time experience the job requires, and my degree is in creative writing with a poetry focus (not in music composition like they require), what [...]

Twitter love for Radio Lab

Over on my personal Twitter stream, I’ve set up Twitterfeed to run the RSS feed from my Last.fm profile. It finally started working today, as I was listening to podcasts. From Beckyrother’s reply on up, all these tweets owe their existence to this last episode of “Radio Lab” that came through the feed. There’s a [...]