Halloween Mix Reposts

I've gotten several requests for a third No Words Halloween mix this month. Sadly I haven't had the time to make a new one. Please enjoy these mixes from recent years. Click the arrow on the right of the widgets to download the MP3s.

Terse Tales and Uneasy Utterings: A No Words Halloween • 2010


Death Mask: Another No Words Halloween • 2011

Death Mask: Another No Words Halloween

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This has a similar format to last year's Halloween playlist: poetry, sound effects, bizarro classical, vocal exercises, and a folksong for good measure.

00:00: Marita Günther • "Lend Me Your Ears: Phonotation of Words" ~WITH~ David Talcott • "Loop No. 3"
01:13: Heinrich Heine read by Claire Luce • "Why Are All the Roses So Pale?" ~WITH~ University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio • "Summer Idyl"
02:29: Kenneth Patchen • "The Wolf of Winter" ~WITH~ Jim Nollman w/ wolf • "Silent Night"
03:15: Vernon Scannell • "Dead Dog" ~WITH~ Nadi Qamar • "Finger Dance #2"
04:29: Peggy Seeger • "Lammikin" • Child Ballad #93 ~WITH~ sounds issuing from the Oklawaha River east of Orange Spring recorded by Charles M. Bogert
09:00: Norman Rosten • "The Spider" ~WITH~ Tod Dockstader • "Piece #7"
09:51: St. John of the Cross read by Khigh Dhiegh • "Dark Night" ~WITH~ barking treefrog, pine woods treefrog, and cricket frogs recorded by Charles M. Bogert
12:04: Heinrich Heine read by Claire Luce • "Death Brings the End" ~WITH~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky under Alfred Wolfsohn • a theme from "Chanson Trieste" ~WITH~ thunderstorm recorded by Dr. Peter Paul Kellogg
13:24: Frédéric Chopin performed by Clara Rockmore • "Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor"
17:15: an excerpt from "The High Cost of Dying!" from A Double Barrel Blast

Terse Tales and Uneasy Utterings: A No Words Halloween

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Here's something altogether different for Halloween: poetry, prose, and medical essays.



00:00: John Ciardi • "In the Witch-Hunting Season" ~WITH~ Percy Grainger performed by Lydia Kavina • "Free Music, No. 2"
01:32: Edgar Allen Poe read by David Kurlan • excerpt from "The Pit and the Pendulum" ~WITH~ Malcom Goldstein • "Summer"
04:54: Sterling Brown • "Slim in Hell" ~WITH~ snapping shrimp and toadfish sounds, three meters deep
07:58: Bernard Barshay read by Henry Hamilton • "The Case of the Dream Murder" ~WITH~ Malcom
Goldstein • "Spring"
17:05: Rupert Brooke read by Richard Waring • "The Dead: I" ~WITH~ Vaclav Nelhybel • "Cosmic Fright"
18:21: esophageal voice from Speech After the Removal of the Larynx
22:08: Dr. H. E. Ulrich read by George E. Caraker • "Explanation of Various Body Cancer" ~WITH~ snapping shrimp and toadfish sounds, three meters deep
25:24: Robert Francis • "Burial" ~WITH~ Hillel and Aviva • "Twilight"