BROADCAST VIII (WMMT 88.7FM Whitesburg, Kentucky USA) 02.18.16

by The Broadcast Project

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1.	Overland (Gunsmoke) 01:18	buy track
2.	Winds of Change (Winds of Shiloh (J.P. Fraley)) 01:49	buy track
3.	Dwindling Resources (Strip Mining: ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMICS, Frances Morton, Gene DuBey, 1979, The Coal Report, February 10, 2016) 06:27	buy track
4.	Black as Coal (Pretty Polly, Morgan Sexton) 01:50	buy track
5.	One Day (One Day More, Elaine Purkey) 01:50	buy track
6.	No More Mountain (White Oak Mountain, Lily May Ledford) 01:11	buy track
7.	The Wildest Flower (The Wildest Flower, Globsters) 00:40	buy track
8.	Lonely Prayer (Hungry and Faint and Poor, Addie Graham) 02:56	buy track
9.	Trail of Tears (Trail of Tears Song, Walker Calhoun) 01:45	buy track
10.	Have Seen God (Commentary on religious experience, Alice Williams, Alan Lomax, 1937) 02:00	buy track
11.	The Black Mountains are Sinking (I Love the Lord, Macedonia Choir) 06:49	buy track
12.	Too Close to (Our) Home (Blasting Eastern Kentucky, Youtube user One Voice One Victory) 01:45	buy track
13.	Long Lonesome (The Long Lonesome Way, Jean Ritchie) 03:50	buy track

about

Part eight of the BROADCAST series, a collection of site-specific experimental improvisations performed and broadcast on live local/community radio stations across the United States.

Radio Station: WMMT 88.7FM
Location: Whitesburg, Kentucky, USA
Programming: The Whitching Hour
Broadcast Date / Time: 02.18.16, 12:00PM

Samples from various East Kentucky artists, story recordings from the Kentucky archives of Alan Lomax, voice, digital / analogue processing via modular synthesizer and pedal effects.

Artists Sampled / Sources:
Winds of Shiloh (J.P. Fraley)
Strip Mining: ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMICS, Frances Morton, Gene DuBey, 1979
The Coal Report, February 10, 2016
Pretty Polly, Morgan Sexton
One Day More, Elaine Purkey
White Oak Mountain, Lily May Ledford
The Wildest Flower, Globsters
Hungry and Faint and Poor, Addie Graham
Trail of Tears Song, Walker Calhoun
Commentary on religious experience, Alice Williams, Alan Lomax, 1937
I Love the Lord, Macedonia Choir
Blasting Eastern Kentucky, Youtube user One Voice One Victory
The Long Lonesome Way, Jean Ritchie

credits

released February 29, 2016

Many, many thanks to Appalshop (www.appalshop.org), WMMT 88.7FM, June Appal Records, Josh May, Mikie Lee Burke, Kate Fowler, Robert Scott, the Appalachian coal miners and their families, and all my new friends in beloved Whitesburg, Kentucky.

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The Broadcast Project

The Broadcast Project (2015 – ongoing), is a series of site-specific performances broadcast live on local radio stations during a journey across the USA. Each performance is a collage of sampled local music, field recordings, gender-swapped voice modulation, and home-made modular synthesizer. ... more