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December 26
 How We Spent Our Holiday Vacation
- Posting shows, that's how! Shows #231 through #240 are finally up -- and that includes interviews with Larry Polansky, Peggy Madden, Masahiro Miwa, Belinda Reynolds, and Peter Garland. Not only that, but we've added interview clips on the pages of Howard Fredrics, Michael Frengel, Sarah Peebles, Matthew Fields, Larry Polansky to complement recent interview highlights with Jon Appleton, Peter Beyls, Rhys Chatham, Christopher Koenigsberg, John Levin, and Benedict Mason. These join Louis Andriessen, taken from his AmsterDramm appearance, David Behrman, James Bohn, Craig Bove, Allison Cameron, Kyle Gann, Elma Miller, Pauline Oliveros, Linda Catlin Smith, Ann Southam (whose complete interview is transcribed as well), and the late Peter Van Riper.
- You can listen to our show in RealAudio from the link above, but we're presently experimenting with Shoutcast as well. If you can connect at high speed, go to WGDR's home page and choose the link to the Shoutcast stream. (Shoutcast is only available for selected shows, including K&D.)
- Speaking of Shoutcast, Kalvos & Damian also has a website on MP3.com -- check out the K&D station of MP3.com for a four-hour hi-fi rotation of pieces by show guests.
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December 18
Your final chance...
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December 17
Read the news! New clips + tunes!
- This week! Larry Polansky is our guest with the first-even broadcast of the complete recording of "Lonesome Road", and 74-minute set of piano variations! Don't miss it! We're also getting ready some other cool special shows -- one on acousmatics prepped by Ian Chuprun, and more than a dozen interviews we'll be taping in New York City in January.
- Our latest K&D Newsletter is done, though we haven't had time to announce it to our mailing list. Read it here first!
- We've got clips! Added this week are interview highlights with Jon Appleton, Peter Beyls, Rhys Chatham, Christopher Koenigsberg, John Levin, and Benedict Mason. These join Louis Andriessen, taken from his AmsterDramm appearance, David Behrman, James Bohn, Craig Bove, Allison Cameron, Kyle Gann, Elma Miller, Pauline Oliveros, Linda Catlin Smith, Ann Southam (whose complete interview is transcribed as well), and the late Peter Van Riper.
- Our last half-dozen shows haven't been readied for posting yet, but if you haven't listened to recent ones, check out the shows on KalvoNet with guests Kyle Gann and James Bohn, as well as the first of a month's worth of shows called Composers' Wisdom, recalling interview highlights for the past five years of K&D. To hear music & interview bits with your favorite composers, check out our playlists for this fall. These new postings complement our recent shows posted with guests David Cleary, Dennis Darrah, Scott L. Miller, Eric Lyon, Phil Kline, Stephen Smith, and Charles Amirkhanian -- along with some great pix of David, Scott, Eric, Phil, and Stephen. Naturally, there are all the new show essays that go with all these postings. Remember our shows are in RealAudio5/mono/ 28.8, so most of you should be able to listen easily.
- You can listen to our show in RealAudio from the link above, but we're presently experimenting with Shoutcast as well. If you can connect at high speed, go to WGDR's home page and choose the link to the Shoutcast stream. (Shoutcast is only available for selected shows, including K&D.)
- And finally, we have extended the date for our K&D T-Shirt Design Contest! to December 31 ... we've been so busy that our newsletter hasn't gone out, and we don't want to cheat anyone out of a chance to win this contest!
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November 28
Read the news! New clips + tunes!
- Next week! Peggy Madden is guest co-host for the first of a pair of shows on alternative listening. But she says "Don't call me the New Age queen!", so we've no idea what she'll bring with her. We're also getting ready some other cool special shows -- one on acousmatics prepped by Ian Chuprun, and more than a dozen interviews we'll be taping in New York City in January.
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November 26
Kalvos & Damian Continuous Radio on Mp3.com
- Many of you know that K&D has begun streaming live in ShoutCast as well as RealAudio (with our archives in RealAudio), but you can now listen to a changing Kalvos and Damian New Music Bazaar selected loop on Mp3.com -- 75 or more compositions! Go to http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/1/kalvos_and_damians_new_mu1.html and listen to the special Bazaar in 28.8 streaming MP3 or in hi-fi streaming MP3 for those of you with fast connections. You can also download individual compositions that you enjoy. We'll be changing the four-hour loop every few weeks, so drop by for a listen!
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November 16
November/December "sweeps" on mp3.com
- Many of the Kalvos & Damian guest composers have pages on mp3.com. MP3 is a very nice hi-fi format for music distribution on the Internet, with playable files for dialup modems, and (as it's called) "near-CD quality" downloads of music, CD compilations, etc. Kalvos and Damian each have pages there with hours of their, um, terrific music. November and December are kind of "sweeps months" on mp3.com, with a special royalty distribution for the number of listens and downloads. If you're a K&D regular, you can imagine that we don't have nearly the play of a pop act ... but the royalties are always welcome (hey, Kalvos's are up to $6.43 so far!). So here's a list of K&D guests with pages on mp3.com so far -- please visit and listen to some of these songs, and help the K&D composers get a little economic recognition:
- Dennis Báthory-Kitsz on mp3.com, also your K&D co-host
- James Bohn on mp3.com, also a K&D guest
- Robert Duckworth on mp3.com, an upcoming K&D guest
- Dan Fioretti on mp3.com, also an upcoming (but elusive) K&D guest
- David Gunn on mp3.com, also your K&D co-host
- Jeff Harrington on mp3 com, also a previous & returning K&D guest
- Erika Jürgens on mp3.com, also part of NN und Ähnliche Elemente, guests, on K&D
- Erik Mälzner and Jürgen Richter on mp3.com, also part of NN und Ähnliche, guests on K&D
- Christopher Milmerstadt on mp3.com, another upcoming K&D guest
- Stephen J. Smith on mp3.com, the crop circle man and K&D guest
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November 14
New clips
- We're catching up on our composer interview clips thanks to Damian's heroic efforts. New this week are clips from Craig Bove and Pauline Oliveros. Listen to them as well as four-minute clips of Henning Berg, Bill Gilliam, Daron Hagen, Tom Hamilton, and John Oswald. These join recently posted interview clips with Gary Barwin, Anita Beckmann, Udo Kasemets, Robert H.P. Platz, and James Tenney.
- We've got our playlists back up to date. If you've missed any of these shows, you'll find they are absolutely terrific -- a month of composer comments, sponsored by a special grant from John Blinn. We'll have those shows posted in the next month so you can catch up. We'll also be catching up on the missing composer pages. With many new guests, we've been swamped with work. (Don't forget to send a contribution to help us finish this work!)
- You can listen to our show in RealAudio from the link above, but we're presently experimenting with Shoutcast as well. If you can connect at high speed, go to WGDR's home page and choose the link to the Shoutcast stream. (Shoutcast is only available for selected shows, including K&D.)
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October 31
Backup server link
- Our main server was down extensively the weekend of October 23. We scrambled to post an alternate site, but most of you come to K&D via the main www.goddard.edu/kalvos entrance & couldn't find us at all! In the future, we'll make sure that a second pretty good copy of K&D is available at kalvos.org. So please click and and bookmark this K&D backup link: http://kalvos.org/ We can't promise this backup site will have everything new -- and it certainly won't have any of the sound files -- but it will give you a peek at playlists, composer pages, resources, etc., if our heavy iron goes awry!
- Our thanks always to Ravi Nielsen at Goddard College, who works above and beyond to keep K&D up and running! We composers may be fanatical about working 24/7, but most sane people don't, so we built our K&D site mirror. Now we can leave him alone on weekends.
- Guest composers: Be sure to keep a copy of the backup link handy. Your composer pages will have the same name as they do on the main server; in other words, yourpage.html will be backed up to http://kalvos.org/yourpage.html
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October 31
New clips
- We're catching up on our composer interview clips thanks to Damian's heroic efforts. Listen to four-minute clips of Henning Berg, Bill Gilliam, Daron Hagen, Tom Hamilton, and John Oswald. These join recently posted interview clips with Gary Barwin, Anita Beckmann, Udo Kasemets, Robert H.P. Platz, and James Tenney.
- We've got our playlists back up to date. If you've missed any of these shows, you'll find they are absolutely terrific -- a month of composer comments, sponsored by a special grant from John Blinn. We'll have those shows posted in the next month so you can catch up. We'll also be catching up on the missing composer pages. With many new guests, we've been swamped with work. (Don't forget to send a contribution to help us finish this work!)
- Upcoming on November 13 will be Masahiro Miwa, coming to K&D from Japan as part of his week-long residency at Dartmouth College. Don't miss this amazing electroacoustic/sampling artist!
- You can listen to our show in RealAudio from the link above, but we're presently experimenting with Shoutcast as well. If you can connect at high speed, go to WGDR's home page and choose the link to the Shoutcast stream. (Shoutcast is only available for selected shows, including K&D.)
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October 25
Ouch -- our server was down 30 hours
- Our main server was down for 30 hours this weekend. We scrambled to post an alternate site, but most of you come to K&D via the main www.goddard.edu/kalvos entrance & couldn't find us at all! In the future, we'll make sure that a second pretty good copy of K&D is available at kalvos.org. So please click and and bookmark this K&D backup link: http://kalvos.org/index2.html We can't promise this backup site will have everything new -- and it certainly won't have any of the sound files -- but it will give you a peek at playlists, composer pages, resources, etc., if our heavy iron goes awry! Remember, the regular kalvos.org link will bring you back here, so bookmark http://kalvos.org/index2.html
- Our thanks always to Ravi Nielsen at Goddard College, who works above and beyond to keep K&D up and running! We composers may be fanatical about working 24/7, but most sane people don't, so we built our K&D site mirror. Now we can leave him alone on weekends.
- Guest composers: Be sure to keep a copy of the backup link handy. Your composer pages will have the same name as they do on the main server; in other words, yourpage.html will be backed up to http://kalvos.org/yourpage.html
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October 25
Goddard server is down
- Our main K&D server at Goddard College is still down this morning. You still can't get past this home page. Our apologies, but it's the weekend.
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October 24
Goddard server is down
- Our main K&D server at Goddard College is down tonight. You can't get past this home page -- we're on it!
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October 24
Playlists ready, guests upcoming!
- We've got our playlists back up to date. If you've missed any of these shows, you'll find they are absolutely terrific -- a month of composer comments, sponsored by a special grant from John Blinn. We'll have those shows posted in the next month so you can catch up. We'll also be catching up on the missing composer pages. With many new guests, we've been swamped with work. (Don't forget to send a contribution to help us finish this work!)
- Upcoming on November 13 will be Masahiro Miwa, coming to K&D from Japan as part of his week-long residency at Dartmouth College. Don't miss this amazing electroacoustic/sampling artist!
- Join us for the broadcasts/cybercast on October 30. We had the unexpected good fortune of taping a round table interview with Belinda Reynolds and Peter Garland, along with the premiere performance of their new works for Essential Music. The interview was joined by composers John Kennedy (also Essential Music's director), Larry Polansky, and Douglas Repetto. This show was produced in cooperation with Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center.
- Interview clips with Gary Barwin, Anita Beckmann, Udo Kasemets, Robert H.P. Platz, and James Tenney have been posted on their pages.
- You can listen to our show in RealAudio from the link above, but we're presently experimenting with Shoutcast as well. If you can connect at high speed, go to WGDR's home page and choose the link to the Shoutcast stream. (Shoutcast is only available for selected shows, including K&D.)
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October 20
Quick notes...
- We're late with playlists and other regular activities this week. Those pages should be updated by Saturday, October 23 ... but we wanted to mention some things:
- Interview clips with Gary Barwin, Anita Beckmann, Udo Kasemets, Robert H.P. Platz, and James Tenney have been posted on their pages.
- Join us for the broadcasts/cybercasts on October 23 and 30. We had the unexpected good fortune of taping a round table interview with Belinda Reynolds and Peter Garland, along with the premiere performance of their new works for Essential Music. The interview was joined by composers John Kennedy (also Essential Music's director), Larry Polansky, and Douglas Repetto. This show was produced in cooperation with Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center.
- You can listen to our show in RealAudio from the link above, but we're presently experimenting with Shoutcast as well. If you can connect at high speed, go to WGDR's home page and choose the link to the Shoutcast stream. (Shoutcast is only available for selected shows, including K&D.)
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October 9
New shows + guests + clips + tunes!
- Recovering again, that's us. New shows have been posted on KalvoNet with guests Kyle Gann and James Bohn, as well as the first of a month's worth of shows called Composers' Wisdom, recalling interview highlights for the past five years of K&D. To hear music & interview bits with your favorite composers, check out our playlists for this fall. These new postings complement our recent shows posted with guests David Cleary, Dennis Darrah, Scott L. Miller, Eric Lyon, Phil Kline, Stephen Smith, and the missing first half of the interview with Charles Amirkhanian -- along with some great pix of David, Scott, Eric, Phil, and Stephen. Naturally, there are all the new show essays that go with all these postings. Remember our shows are in RealAudio5/mono/ 28.8, so most of you should be able to listen easily.
- There are also a multitude of new interview clips and music samples. Previously unclipped composers finally have their say: Louis Andriessen, taken from his AmsterDramm appearance, David Behrman, James Bohn Allison Cameron, Kyle Gann, Elma Miller, Linda Catlin Smith, Ann Southam (whose complete interview is transcribed as well), and the late Peter Van Riper.
- Our latest K&D Newsletter is done, though we haven't had time to announce it to our mailing list. Read it here first!
- We're also getting ready some cool special shows -- one on acousmatics prepped by Ian Chuprun, and a pair of alternative listening show with Peggy Madden.
- A few recent items you may have missed are the special geyser recordings of Steve Gryc and the new links the the mp3.com page of Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. Not enough? Then you can listen to the latest Best of the Bazaar collages from David Gunn or even see how Gwyneth Walker has expanded her list of available recordings.
- And finally, we have extended the date for our K&D T-Shirt Design Contest! to December 31 ... we've been so busy that our newsletter hasn't gone out, and we don't want to cheat anyone out of a chance to win this contest!
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August 19
New shows, new guests, new stuff!
- It's been a wild month! New shows have been posted on KalvoNet with guests David Cleary, Dennis Darrah, Scott L. Miller, Eric Lyon, Phil Kline, Stephen Smith, and the missing first half of the interview with Charles Amirkhanian -- along with some great pix of David, Scott, Eric, Phil, and Stephen. Naturally, there are all the new show essays that go with these postings.
- There are also a multitude of new interview clips and music samples. We just cybercast/broadcast our show with James Bohn, and upcoming on the weekly live cybercast will be Kyle Gann and David W. Solomons (find exact dates in the latest playlist).
- We're also getting ready some cool special shows -- one on acousmatics prepped by Ian Chuprun, and a pair of alternative listening show with Peggy Madden.
- A few recent items you may have missed are the special geyser recordings of Steve Gryc and the new links the the mp3.com page of Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. Not enough? Then you can listen to the latest Best of the Bazaar collages from David Gunn or even see how Gwyneth Walker has expanded her list of available recordings.
- And finally, check out the K&D T-Shirt Design Contest!.
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August 14
We Got Guests!
- We've had a great group of visiting composers recently: Eric Lyon, Scott L. Miller, Phil Kline and Stephen Smith have joined us, and James Bohn is coming on August 21 with his music, including BABYlon. We'll be posting the past two months of shows in the next few weeks ... you won't want to miss these! Whoa!
- We broke 100K! During the first week of August, Kalvos & Damian recorded its 100,000th visitor. Even in these days of that many visitors to CNN in a few hours, it's good to know that the Internet lets us reach out with new music.
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July 17
T-Shirt Design Contest ... and We're the Best New Music Resource!
- It's finally time for the Kalvos & Damian T-Shirt Design Contest! We need your design in the next two months, and we'll give the best design a bucket of CDs and other goodies. Read the official rules and sketch away.
- We were delighted to be called "far and away the Web's best new music resource" by Village Voice senior critic (and an author and a composer himself) Kyle Gann. Read the whole story. We loved it!
- New on our schedule of upcoming guests are Eric Lyon on July 24 and Phil Kline on July 31. Join us live during our Saturday afternoon cybercast!
- We understand that the latest version of WebTV will finally include RealAudio support. It's been a long time in coming. If you're visiting via WebTV and can't get our RealAudio files to work, contact your supplier and get the latest upgrade!
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June 26
New shows, new guests, new stuff!
- We hardly have time to tell you! New shows have been posted on KalvoNet with guests Kui Dong, Margaret Lancaster, Charles Amirkhanian, Huk Don Phun, and Robert D. Polansky, along with some great pix of Kui, Charles, and Robert and Margaret's sulty CD cover shot. Oh yes ... and a couple of snaps of N.N. und Ähnliche Elemente's special recorded editions in handmade boxes. But that's not all! There are a multitude of new interview clips and music samples, and even some new graphics on our underused graffiti page. Upcoming on the weekly live cybercast will be Dennis Darrah, Kyle Gann, Scott L. Miller, Eric Lyon, James Bohn and David W. Solomons (find exact dates in the latest playlist), as well as some cool special shows -- one on acousmatics prepped by Ian Chuprun, and a pair of alternative listening show with Peggy Madden. A few recent items you may have missed are the special geyser recordings of Steve Gryc and the new links the the mp3.com page of Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. Not enough? Then you can listen to the latest Best of the Bazaar collages from David Gunn or even see how Gwyneth Walker has expanded her list of available recordings. And finally, check back next week as we kick off the K&D T-Shirt Design Contest!.
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June 20
What are You Missing?
- The K&D site has grown large. To us, it's intimate, but with over 3,000 documents, you may have missed a few things. Here are some:
- Every five shows, co-host David Gunn produces Best of the Bazaar, a six-minute sound collage that's a wild romp through ten hours of K&D!
- Our upcoming guests are always listed along with the latest playlist.
- The complete list of K&D guests, past and upcoming, with links to their pages on our site, is found on the composer index page.
- 32 remarkable and diverse essays by composers are linked to individual composer pages, and also indexed on the essays page -- where you can also ready all 229 show introductions by David Gunn.
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June 6
Classic Essay by John McGuire Now Available!
- Finally formatted & ready for your reading: An Electronic Music Project: The Composition of Pulse Music III by John McGuire. Learn how John created his groundbreaking piece and the puzzles he solved more than 20 years ago, when technology was, at best, inconvenient. Complete with the original 27 hand-drawn illustrations. K&D is proud to re-publish this essay after two decades.
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June 5
Get ready: T-Shirt Design Contest!
- In just a few weeks we'll be announcing our official Design-the-K&D-T-Shirt Contest! We're looking for the coolest & bizarrest (bazaarest) T-Shirt Design. The rules will be simple (gotta say "Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar" and "Your Red Alert for New Music", but anything else is up to you), and we'll be the final darn judges! Prize will be a basket of new music CDs and other goodies. Look for it!
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May 2
New shows, new guests!
- Yes, working hard! A special treat has arrived for listeners to the K&D live cybercast: Show IDs created by dozens of our guest composers! We have 20 IDs in queue, and some are pretty cool! Hear Eve Beglarian, Richard Tolenaar, James Grant, Gwyneth Walker, N.N. und Ähnliche Elemente, Eric Honour, Eufrasio Prates, Michael Manion, Matthew Fields and others! And yes, we're working overtime! Nine new shows are posted on KalvoNet! There are no inteviews in this batch -- Kui Dong, Charles Amirkhanian, Margaret Lancaster and Scott L. Miller are comin' up, though -- but include topics such as Ears Over Easy, march music, Wimmintune (two shows), Music of War and Stress, and our ever-popular fundraising segments. These join nine other shows recently posted of interview programs with Calliope Tsoupaki, John McGuire, Michael Frengel and K&D's own Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, as well as a show of new releases, a show on art song, and one filled with short compositions. We've also got new interview clips with Mary Jane Leach, Louis Andriessen, and Dietmar Hippler, a few more segments from The Garden of Cyrus by Eve Beglarian, plus the complete String Quartet No. 2 by Richard Tolenaar. Late last year, six new shows became available on KalvoNet! Hear interview programs with N.N. und ähnliche Elemente and K&D's own David Gunn. We also celebrated Electroacoustic Music Week in November, fretted over political music, invented a new award, and last but not least played the marches, fanfares and dances of impeachment! These new shows join recent show postings of interviews with Mary Jane Leach (with new pix on her page), Steve Gryc (new pix on his page) and Michael Sahl (new commentary by Boudewijn Buckinx on his page), as well as our shows on choral music (a followup to Mary Jane's interview), on composer-rather-than-philosopher John Cage (he wrote great stuff!), and some birthday folks. See a new pix of David Stevens and more info.
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April 23
Are We Behind, or What?
- Yes, we're way behind in all our K&D work, from playlists to resources. Energetic indexers and researchers are always welcome to help us update our material! Please contact [email protected]. Please! (Did we say please?)
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February 20:
Nine New Shows Just Posted!
- Yes, we've been working to post nine new shows on KalvoNet! Hear interview programs with Calliope Tsoupaki, John McGuire, Michael Frengel and K&D's own Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, as well as a show of new releases, a show on art song, and one filled with short compositions. We've also got new interview clips with Mary Jane Leach, Louis Andriessen, and Dietmar Hippler, a few more segments from The Garden of Cyrus by Eve Beglarian, plus the complete String Quartet No. 2 by Richard Tolenaar. And a special treat coming soon for listeners to the K&D live cybercast: Show IDs created by dozens of our guest composers!
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February 20:
Nine New Shows Just Posted!
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February 11:
We're way behind again...
- Our apologies for the delay in posting playlists and other goodies. New pages and revisions are up soon. Another half dozen shows will be available on archived audio as well. We had work, flu, and just plain overwhelmification! Note: Students wishing to keep our composer resources and and music resources updated shoudl contact us at [email protected].
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