28 February 2024
- Hörspiel
- Collage
- Poetry
- Radio Play
- Cinematic
- Intense
- Provocative
Artwork by Czarina Mendoza (CJAM 99.1 FM Windsor-Detroit, Soft Reduction.) Grateful acknowledgment is made to stegi.radio | Onassis Stegi where a different version of this radio play first appeared.
Trigger warning for imagery that evokes hangings, hate speech by Charles Manson, and recordings of drunken deportment.
The first three speaking voices are in this order:
American composer and poet, Gil Scott-Heron
Black Panther, Fred Hampton
and New Orleans pianist, James Booker, our main character.
Guide for the listener:
Introductory remarks, collage and a song, “The Maid Freed From The Gallows,” performed by John Jacob Niles, 0:00 – 10:30. Followed by a thirty minute reading of “I am a Human Cogito in a Particular Rhythm of Punishment, the 1980s,” 10:30 – 41:20. The rest of the show is collage, 41:20-1:11:05, ending with Steve Lacy’s “I Feel a Draught.”
Playlist
CHAPTERS:Introductory Remarks, Station IDs 0:00
(0.) Mason Orients the Freezer Section Reader in the Black Radical Tradition 1:31
(1.) John Jacob Niles – “The Maid Freed from the Gallows” 3:02
(2.) This Still, Small Silent Voice 6:18
(3.) "I am a Human Cogito in a Particular Rhythm of Punishment, the 1980s" (by Ben Luton) 10:36
(4.) The Vision Breaks Through the Question 41:20
Station IDs 43:21
(5.) The Question Pursues 43:28
(6A.) featuring Luka Ivanovic (6B.) "Belt" (by Ben Luton) – 44:19
(7A.) On the Sunny Side of the Street (7B.) “In Jefferson Parish” (by Ben Luton) 49:27
(8A.) German New Optimism Wave (8B.) "Orpheus" (by Ben Luton) 54:38
(9.) Piano Voice 57:06
(10.) The Joint of a Happening 58:42
(11.) The Final Transcription 59:22
(12A.) The Breads of Opinion (12B.) God's Feathered Pop Filter 1:02:28
(12C.) Steve Lacy – “I Feel a Draught” 1:04:55
(13.) “To Be Read At the Premiere Of Intolerance On September 5, 1916” (by Ben Luton, feat. Luka Ivanovic) 1:08:51
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