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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.
Music
Peri Banu vid Sjon (VERSION) by Dungen
In a Landscape by John Cage
Quartet for Four Percussionists IV: Fast by John Cage
Dream by John Cage
Completely Gone by Ludwig Gorannson
The Introduction and Chi C’e Per Farmi i Rici from The Girl of the Golden West
L’approche Du Nuage by Sylvain Chaveu
Notes
The story of John Cage in the anechoic chamber was first told to me maybe twenty years ago by my friend Dave Panosky one night while walking around Providence. It was precisely the type of story that I wanted to one day make a show to tell. You can find it in a lot of places including in Cage’s own writing.
I first came across the second silent room in Alex Ross’ wonderful, The Rest is Noise.
I also tapped into Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of Girl of the Golden West by Annie Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis.
Episode 216: Awake
Episode 215: An Eighth Wonder
Episode 214: Newsboy
Episode 213: The Light and the Spirits
Episode 212: David Mills
Episode 211: Cutting and Ned
Smoky and Bill, a Holiday Card
Episode 210: Smoky and Bill
Episode 120: The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat
Episode 209: Wake
Episode 208: In the Gallery
Episode 207: The Six Triple Eight
Episode 206: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American
Episode 79: Artist in Landscape
Episode 90: A White Horse
Episode 205: Alice Ramsay
Episode 204: Wolves
episode 76: Mary Walker Would Wear what she Wanted
Episode 67: Every Night Ever
Episode 148: Safe Passage
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