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Episode 207: The Six Triple Eight
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09/09/23 • 14 min
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- Inception by radio.string.quintet.vienna
- Julie With by Group Listening
- Nice Breeze Isn’t It? by friend of the show, Simon Rackham
- Wet by Taylor Deupree
- Times Like This II by Jean Kopperud and Stephen Gosling
- Broad Channel by Bing and Ruth
- Cradle (with Akira) by ghost and tape
- Lithosphere by Caoimhin O Raghellagh
- and by Caoimhin O Raghelagh and Thomas Bartlett
Notes
- You can find the website I mentioned here; it’s a one-stop shop, really, for information on the 6888t. .
09/09/23 • 14 min



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Episode 79: Artist in Landscape
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07/22/23 • 24 min
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This episode was originally released in November, 2015.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
* They first meet to a piece called Brouillard (version 1) from Georges Delaure’s extraordinary score to Jules et Jim. (A second version comes in later when J.J. Audubon is living the high life in England).
* We also hear Waltz by Mother Falcon.
* I go back to the Marcelo Zarvos/Please Give well when the Scotsman arrives at their store. Note: it’s the go-to soundtrack for “People Arriving at One’s Store With A Life Changing Proposition” here at the Memory Palace. Also: go watch Please Give.
* The little piano piece is from Nathan Johnson’s score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.
* Lucy and John titter like plovers to Andrew Cyrille’s dope, skittering drums on Nuba 1.
* The especially sad bit, right before the end is Dream 3 (in the Midst of my Life), from Max Richter’s giant, From Sleep album.
* A couple times, including the ending, we hear “the Lark Ascending” from Ralph Vaughn Willliams. It is beautiful. You should buy it.
Notes
As per usual, I read a lot about the Audubons and the Bakewells.
I relied most upon the charming and smart, On the Road with John James Audubon by Mary Durant, and Carolyn DeLatte’s lovely, thoughtful book, Lucy Audubon: a Biography.
* Just a quick note: there’s a very enjoyable PBS/American Masters/Nature documentary about Audubon. It’s a fun and informative watch. But, I’ll say, you come out of that thinking that things were fundamentally swell between Lucy and John in a way that I’m not entirely sure is supported by the facts. Or jibes with, you know, human nature.
07/22/23 • 24 min


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Episode 204: Wolves
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04/10/23 • 12 min
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- In My Heaven All Faucets Have Fountains by yes/and
- A snippet of Runaway from Olafur Arnauld’s score to Gimme Shelter
- Spectral Canon from Conlon Nancarrow from James Tenney
- The Hourglass by Ben Crosland .
04/10/23 • 12 min


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Episode 208: In the Gallery
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09/21/23 • 12 min
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Music
- The Theory by Clem Leek
- Hiddensee by Caeys
- The Clock Tower by Hampshire and Foat
Notes
- If you want to know more about Gardner, I’d suggest Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, by Mark Katz.
- On Brady, Matthew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson.
- I’d also suggest reading the New York Times’ review of the exhibit. It’s pretty stunning.
09/21/23 • 12 min


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Episode 120: The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat
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11/17/23 • 18 min
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Music
- We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals:Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.
- We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.
- And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.
- And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.
Notes
- Do yourself a favor and read Frances Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.
- Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.
- And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.
11/17/23 • 18 min


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Episode 90: A White Horse
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06/12/23 • 12 min
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This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.
A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.
Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.
Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw
06/12/23 • 12 min


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Episode 209: Wake
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10/07/23 • 16 min
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Music
- Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man
- Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose
- Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto
- We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West’s score to Band of Robbers
- We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami
- We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee’s lovely score to Maidentrip.
10/07/23 • 16 min


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Nate's episode of the year 2022: In France or in Heaven
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12/26/22 • 22 min
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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.
Music
- Blithe Field does RD 1
- O Venezia, Venuga, Venusia by Nino Rota
- Carthage by Hayden Perdido
- Nice Breeze, Isn’t It? from Simon Rackham
- Mystere by amiina
- Blithe Field also does Racing Backward
- as well as Prelude
12/26/22 • 22 min

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Episode 202: Better Babies
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11/28/22 • 10 min
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- LBS by Duval Timothy
- My Favourites, pt. 2 by Patricia Rossborough
- Sad Seine by Lambert
- Vals Efter Lasse I Lyby by Lofoten Cello Duo
11/28/22 • 10 min

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Episode 94: Numbers (rebroadcast)
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01/17/23 • 12 min
This episode was originally released in August 2016
Note
* Here’s a link to watch an excerpt of the CBS news break.
* One of my favorite things I came across while reading up on the lottery was this site, which includes a remarkable page where folks send in their personal stories of their draft experience.
Music
* Elevator Song by Keaton Henson (feat. Ren Ford)
* Waves by Abby Gundersen
01/17/23 • 12 min

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