Something Like #23: The Texture of Change
Sometimes we can feel change coming, fermenting inside of us. 12 November 2020

 

Sometimes we can feel change coming, fermenting inside of us. Sometimes we know the texture, the feel of that change, before we know its shape. This is an episode dedicated to pawing the burlap and stroking the velvet of what is to come. We’ll look at potential, intention, and drudgery in the pursuit of what is nascent and waiting to bubble forth, ready to drink and produce newness. This episode takes its cues from Sally Potter’s 1993 film adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, with a soundtrack by David Motion, Jimmy Sommerville, and Potter herself.

 

  • As always, jingle music is courtesy of Roger 3000
  • The music under my voice this week is from Laurie Spiegel’s “The Expanding Universe”
  • I read passages from Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Talents” and Madeline Miller’s “Circe” that you should definitely seek out from your local bookseller or borrow from a friend.
  • Originally aired on Cashmere Radio and 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio

Tracklist

David Motion, The Maze, Orlando Soundtrack, 1993
Beth Anderson, I Can’t Stand It, Sugar, Alcohol, and Meat (Dial-A-Poet), 1980
TRJJ, Emulation of History (Disguised Drums), TRJJ Music Compilation: 12 Dances, 2019
Gurdjieff/de Hartmann, The Struggle of the Magicians, Part 3, I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990, 2013
Duval Timothy, feat. Lil Silvia and Melanie Faye, Fall Again, Help, 2020
Flesh & Bone, Compassion (The Untangling), Skeleton Woman, 1992
Elodie Lauten, Death As a Woman, The Death of Don Juan, 1985
Adrian Piper, Mythic Being (excerpt), 1973
Du Yun, The Ocean Within, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC, 2012
Massive Attack, Unfinished Sympathy, Blue Lines, 1991
Mikrokosmos (Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks), Another Time, This Time, One Time, 2020
Lyra Pramuk, New Moon, Fountain, 2020
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Carrying Gravity, The Mosaic of Transformation, 2020
The Caretaker, I Still Feel as Though I am Me, Everywhere at the end of Time, 2016
Bedouine, Come Down in Time, Come Down in Time, 2018
Nailah Hunter, White Flower Dark Hill, Spells, 2020
Jimmy Sommerville, Coming, Orlando Soundtrack, 1993
David Bowie, Changes, Hunky Dory, 1971