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"Ideas of Order" on The Dividing Line focuses on complex progressive rock. The show goes back to the early experimental "art rock" of bands like Tangerine Dream, King Crimson and Pink Floyd, explores some of the ambitious, more recent work of groups like The Flower Kings, Thieves' Kitchen, et al., and plunges ahead to current music, some of it too new (or too adventurous) to have much of a public presence (a situation we will endeavor to address). The name for the show comes from a volume of Wallace Stevens poetry. Your host Stochastic (aka, Glenn Cornett), is a biotechnology entrepreneur with a passion for innovation both in science and in the arts (innovations in the former being a source of income and in the latter serving as a remedy for income). A member of the "prog by proxy" sub-generation, he grew up listening to his older brother's music (Emerson, Lake and Palmer, et al.) and still thinks those bands were great. In college, he was one of the few chemistry majors with a key to the electronic music laboratory ("the Synclavier was a bit more interesting than some of my thermodynamics homework", he says). Time at medical school involved further experimentation and band work ("though the last two years pretty much involved being flogged in the clinics", he recalls), and his neuroscience dissertation was on deep brain responses to musical stimuli. Graduate school (as well as some subsequent "real job" activities at McKinsey and elsewhere) involved work in complexity science (where he learned the word "stochastic" and adopted it as a reasonable descriptor of his lifestyle - "No one has contradicted me yet on that one", he claims). Glenn's enjoyment of innovation and complexity (two fundamental characteristics of prog) will drive much of the programming for this show. Stochastic has been an avid Dividing Line listener for a while, and is thrilled with the opportunity to "give something back".
Ideas of Order Episode 002
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22-08-2009 (208.31 MB)
Duration: 182:01 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 160 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
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Song - Group -- Album
Astronomy Domine -- Rene Young (Covering a Pink Floyd Song)-- Recording provided by Rene Young
Pigs On The Wing (Part One) - Pink Floyd-- Animals
Dogs-- Pink Floyd -- Animals
Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Pink Floyd -- Animals
Sheep -- Pink Floyd-- Animals
Pigs On The Wing (Part Two) -- Pink Floyd -- Animals
Experiments In Mass Appeal -- Frost-- Experiments In Mass Appeal
Pocket Sun-- Frost - Experiments In Mass Appeal
Black Light Machine - Frost* - Milliontown
Hyperventilate - Frost* - Milliontown
The Long Fianchetto -- Thieves' Kitchen -- The Water Road
Silenced - RPWL - The RPWL Experience
This Is Not a Prog Song - RPWL -- The RPWL Experience
sweet light crude-- Newspeak - Disc given by composer (David T. Little) 090706
O. J. Bin Laden-- Gutbucket-- [Album title not repeatable on such a family-oriented program]
Dance of the Demented Pigeon -- Gutbucket - [Album title not repeatable on such a family-oriented program]
No -- Caleb Burhans-- Bang on a Can Marathon 2008 Excerpts
Tube -- Jerseyband - Little Bag of Feet for Shoes? -
Robak- Jerseyband - Little Bag of Feet for Shoes?
Agent 22 -- Agent 22 -- Agent 22
Agent 22-- 3:32-- Agent 22
Dissent -- Greg Howard Band-- Lift
Nord-- Greg Howard Band - Lift
Baby's On Fire-- Brian Eno -- Here Come the Warm Jets
Prog or Not?: He Thought of Cars -- Blur - The Great Escape
Ideas of Order Episode 001
Download This Episode Now: 12-07-2009 (206.53 MB)
Duration: 180:28 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 160 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ
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Song-- Group-- Album
Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Stereo)
Interstellar Overdrive-- Pink Floyd-- The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Stereo)
Echoes-- Pink Floyd-- Meddle
Same Mistake Twice-- Ryan Brown-- Switchboard Music Festival Sampler 2009
The Endless Enigma, Part 1-- Emerson, Lake & Palmer-- Trilogy
Fugue-- Emerson, Lake & Palmer-- Trilogy
The Endless Enigma, Part 2-- Emerson, Lake & Palmer-- Trilogy
Galois-- Gordian Knot-- Gordian Knot
Code/Anticode-- Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Shaman's Whisper-- Gordian Knot-- Emergent
Fischer's Gambit-- Gordian Knot-- Emergent
Elephant Talk-- King Crimson - Discipline
Frame By Frame - King Crimson-- Discipline
Segment 1-- Greg Howard-- Water on the Moon
Segment 2-- Greg Howard - Water on the Moon
The First Day-- Greg Howard - Ether Ore