the memory palace

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Episode 179: Keyhole Apr 22, 2021

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Music:

Individuation by Eluvium
Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina
Seeming by Helios
Portrait Gallery by Luke Howard
Disillusionment for the Emotional Type by You’ll Never Get to Heaven
Clouds by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes:

Leviathan: the History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolan was super useful and very readable.
You can find the study on Sperm Whale adaptation in the North Pacific here.

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Episode 178: Crossfade Apr 03, 2021

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Music:

Wiegenfield, S. 198 as played Khatia Buniastihivilli
Van McCoy sings Mr. DJ
Vier Stucke fur Xylophon
Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo
Calvary by Quicksilver Messenger Service
Tizita by Tijist Ejigu
Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick
Two Aquerelles 1. Slow
The Hustle by Van McCoy
Coffee Beans by Moondog
Dogs of Straw from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs
Flowering Jasmine by George Pelecis
Visit Croatia by Alabaster DePlume
Absence by Matti Bye

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Episode 77: Butterflies Mar 20, 2021

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This episode was originally released in 2015. Sometimes you’re working on an episode (and when I say “you’re” I mean, “I’m,”) working on an episode and you realize it’s just all wrong. That there’s a good episode in there but you need to take a few days and go at it again. Because you (and, again, “you”=”I”) think it, and you (this time I mean you, the listener) deserve better. And you put out a re-run. It’s a good one, though.

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Episode 177: A Brief Eulogy for Carla Wallenda Mar 12, 2021

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Music

The Last Days of Summer by Maria Avnos.
Broad Channel (Solo Piano) by Bing & Ruth
Homesickness (v. 1) by the phenomenal Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

Notes

Here she is with Steve Harvey.

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Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land Feb 25, 2021

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Music

Unsayable by Brambles.
Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina
A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies
Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.
Reading a Wave by Arp
April by Kanazu Tomoyuki
Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

Notes

The oral history mentioned in this episode is available through the Smithsonian Instittion’’s archives.

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Episode 175: One Hundred Percent a Diner Feb 11, 2021

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Music

Metaphysical Waltz by Shirley Meyer Blankenship
...morphs into Jock O'Hazeldean by Cynthia Boener
There's Dominique Dumont's La bataille de neige
The Squimp from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
Fruit of Dreams by Les Baxter
Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett

Notes

Best place to go if you want to learn a lot about Todd Storz is The Birth of Top 40 Radio: The Storz' Stations Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s by Richard Fatherly and David MacFarland.
For a loving history of the whole era, you'd probably enjoy Ben Fong Torres' The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio

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Episode 174: The Stone Jan 26, 2021

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Music

Sarah in Bath from Komeda's great score to The Fearless Vampire Killers
David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's great score to Straw Dogs
When It's Time to Go by Buddy Fo and His Group (great name for a backing band, btw)
Completely Gone from Ludwig Gorannson's score to Everything, Everything
Peri Banu vid sjon (Version) by DUNGEN
Debut by Christopher Ferreira

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Episode 105: Amok Jan 11, 2021

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This piece was originally released in February, 2017.

This piece has two selections from Saunder Jurriens and Danny Bensi’s score to Christine, Yes But and Back to Work.

Notes

This very good article in the Museum of Hoaxes gives a nice overview and links out to the original article.
Hampton Sides In the Kingdom of Ice has a nice telling of the story with a lot of background on the editor of the Herald.

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Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Dec 29, 2020

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