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Awake
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music A synth stab from As if it Would Have a Universal and Memorable Ending by Shane Carruth’s score to his film, Upstream Color, ...
An Eighth Wonder
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Newsboy
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The Light and the Spirits
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David Mills
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Cutting and Ned
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Smoky and Bill, a Holiday Card
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Smoky and Bill
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall F...
Wake
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In the Gallery
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 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�...
The Six Triple-Eight
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The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi Intro by Library Tapes The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage Notes I fo...
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Alice Ramsay
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Pollen and Photosynteses by H. Takehashi Ediacaran Moonrise by Barry Walker, Jr. To the Cellar from Krzysztof Komeda’s wonderfu...
Wolves
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music In My Heaven All Faucets Have Fountains by yes/and A snippet of Runaway from Olafur Arnauld’s score to Gimme Shelter Spectral C...
The News from Thar
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Better Babies
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One Fruit
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Strength of a Young Man by Vernon Field Wave I by Elori Saxl Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared’s score to By the Sea Fal...
Ghost Story
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Nee Blinky
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Sunset Village by Group Listening Winter Memory by Dark Dark Dark Pretty in Plums by Shida Shihabi With a little bit of The Crumb...
Weather Conditions above Mount Fuji
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Kiddo
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Arrival by Dominique Dumont Bouquet by Bobby Hutcherson off of his phenomenal album, Happenings. Wrench and Numbers from Jeff Rus...
In France or in Heaven
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A New Bronze Man
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Small Sample
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Classmates (Making Trouble)
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Combinations
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Crash
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Ride
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New England Granite
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Spirits
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The Woods
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Shining
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The Life and Works of a Monumental Figure
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Betty Robinson
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Goblins
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The Surfmen
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The Adventures of Pearl
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Tracks
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Keyhole
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Crossfade
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A Brief Eulogy for Carla Wallenda
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The Air and the Sea and the Land
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One Hundred Percent a Diner
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The Stone
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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The Existential Tourist
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Out to Sea and Back Again
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Reed v.
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“The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe
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From a Parking Lot, a special bonus episode produced for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
This episode of The Memory Palace was commissioned by the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival and the New York State Council of the Arts in 2019. It’s ideally meant to be listened to at the corne...
High Falls, a bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
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Beautician
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The Traveling Stones
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A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team
Music Adrift by Yameneko Lagrimas Negras by Antonio Maria Romeau Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling The Big Ocean by Ben Sollee The post A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team...
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The Silent Room
Music Peri Banu vid Sjon (VERSION) by DungenIn a Landscape by John CageQuartet for Four Percussionists IV: Fast by John CageDream by John CageCompletely Gone by Ludwig GorannsonThe Introduction a...
A Park
Music We hear Armellodie by Chilly Gonzales And All Now Vibe by Tara Jane O’Neil Notes The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson Trouble in Lafayette Square by Gil Klein The post A Park appeare...
Dora Salter
Music Illusion Perdida by Juan Bautista Guido y Su Orquesta Tipico Manny Returns Home and Fingerprints from Bernard Herrmann’s score to The Wrong Man. Niggun for Solo Bassoon Phillipe Hersant R...
Freds
Music We hear a couple from Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee album, Whisky Story Time and Not My Ask. Bibio’s CAPEL BETHANIA. The Sage, by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. The Last Tears of a Decea...
A Strange Land
Music Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score to Tender is the Night Reflector by Bing and Ruth Requiem from Nico Mulhy’...
Stories to Wash Hands By
20 stories, each 20 seconds, to accompany you in the proper washing of hands. Stay safe, be well, wash your hands. The post Stories to Wash Hands By appeared first on the memory palace .
Wong Kim Ark
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The Newest News
Music We hear The Icelandic Society of Phallogy from Rob Simonsen score to The Final Member.And one of my favorite songs, Every Day a Sunrise, A Summer from The Telegraph Melts. Notes I read and ...
Life’s Work
Music Field of Reeds by Leo Svirsky. Stellify by Federico Albanese. Opening by Nathanial Bartlett. Turning 16 by Ben Sollee. Notes I strongly recommend checking out Annelise Orlick’s Common Sen...
The House of Lowe
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That’s How it Goes Whenever it Snows
Music Artifices from Chapelier Fou. A smidge of Equality Under the Law from John Williams score to Lincoln. I Can See Your Tracks (Instrumental) from Laura Veirs. Bone Collector by Julian Lage & ...
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Lost Bulls
This episode was originally produced for an episode of Radiolab from WNYC, released in August of 2019. Music Cul-de-Sac from Krzysztof Komeda’s Knife in the Water. The Mistral Noir by Daniel He...
Dotting I’s
This episode was commissioned by the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts MUSIC Amalgamation Waltz 1839 by Joep Beveng Now by Goldmund Wander...
Dinner at Jefferson’s
Music Waveland by Noam Pikelny. Notes I relied a lot on the extensive articles on the Monticello historic home’s site maintained by the University of Virginia. As well as Dining at Monticello: ...
Let it Snow
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The Story of Maria Barberi
Music Inside River, Pt. 1 by Akira Kosuemura. . Sonata for Solo Cello 1: Dialogo by Ligeti, performed by Miklos Perenyi. All the Land Ablaze by Laura Cannell Frost Trees from Lalo Schiffren’s...
Late One Night
Music We start with 666 from the score to The Omen. Transition to Fremd by Lambert. Go to Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. Hear some of Leonard Berstein’s score to Rebel Without a C...
Dance by the Ocean
Music We start with The Dane by Nihls Frahm. Move in and out of Reading a Wave by Arp Which mixes briefly with Stephen Gosling and Blair Macmillan playing John Adams’ Hallelujah Junction. We ...
Safe Passage
Music We start with the Opening of Craig Armstrong’s score to Far From the Madding Crowd. Glass Houses no. 13 from Ann Southam. Earring from Julia Wolf. Occam II for Violin from Eliane Radigu...
Shipwreck Kelly
Music We hear Vaggvisa by Henrik Lindstrand. Then Kestrel, off the album by the same name from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh. Ljuva mekaniska jag by 1900. A loop from When it’s Time to Go, by Buddy ...
Two Memorials, Last Week of July, 2019
Music Absence by Matti Bye. Notes There are a number of excellent books about Viola Liuzzo. I found Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials by James P. Turner particularly fascinating. The post Tw...
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Stories about the St. Louis
Music On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno. My Mamma Pinned a Rose on Me by Esmerine. Some of Eloy by Deaf Center. Saturday Evening by Tomasz Benarczyk Solitary Living by The Flashbulb A Minor b...
Nature, Naturally
Music Duet for Ghosts by Ed Harcourt tops and tails this one. We here the top of Pomeriggio Zenzero from Paulo Conte. Some of Thankful by Bill Frissell. And Ingo Metzmacher’s 6th Study for Play...
The Only One
Music We hear both Baracolle and Ice World from Saloli’s album, The Deep End. We hear Ensemble Recherche do Morton Feldman’s Something Wild in the City As well as De Wolfe Music do Moonbird. ...
Private Robinson on Pawnee Rock
Music We hear Concierto Para Piano Y Orquesta En Sol Mayor – Adagio Assi as played by Martha Argerich. Notes Jacob S. Robinson’s Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doliphan in 1...
This Story Climbed Mount Washington
Music We start off with a touch of Hills in the Rain, by Simon Rackham. Go to a bit of Narkopop 1 by Gas. Then gaze in wonder to Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise, as performed by the Cinci...
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Jackie Mitchell
Music We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom’s 3 Ghost Rags. Then Krzysztof Komeda’s Ballet Edude II A touch of Ellington playing A ...
1,347 Birds
Music First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties. November by Colleen. Edward Hong’s arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble. T...
Sixty Starlings
Music Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli Reykjanesbaejar’s version of Sigur Ros’ Hoppipolla. Love Token by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Tamara ...
Swans
Music Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda’s score to the Fearless Vampire Killers. Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo. Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John ...
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes
Music Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen Dream House III: After Dust by Mary Ellen Childs and Ethel Cello Gonzalez by Chilly Gonzalez Notes A Brief History of Teratology to the Early 20th Centu...
Revolutions
Music We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track King Kandy. Then an old favorite, Blues to Elvin from the unstoppable, Coltrane Plays the Blues. We m...
The Dress in the Closet
A note: this here is a Halloween episode. They get creepy. Music We hear both Easter and The Attachment by Michael Price. Some of DNA by Akira Kosemura. Piano & Violoncello 1 by Irena and Voltech...
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Music We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips. Hear Nero’s Nocturne from Chilly Gonzales. Some of The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen. Abide with Me...
Ida Lewis
Music We hear Waltz from the score to Angels & Insects. Movements IV and II from David Liptak’s Serenade for Alto Sax and Strings. A bit of Violin Solo no. 1 from Peter Broderick. Some of Zucht...
Lost Locusts
Music The music on this one comes from High Aura’d, a project from my old friend, John Kolodij. The main drone piece is All the Spirits that Dance. The beginning and end were composed specifica...
Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott
Music We start with Penguins from Michael Hurley. Hit Lullaby (the 1st) by the legendary, Lauren Connors, twice. Hear Gentle Threat, from Chilly Gonzalez. Equality Under the Law from John William...
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Uplift
Music The Bundt Diaries from Ludwig Goransson’s score to Everything, Everything. Kola (Lighthouse Version) by Amiina. Snow Canon by Group Listening. The Morning After by the Chico Hamilton Qui...
Patience
Music Drunken Aviator by Ida. Back to Paris by Cyril Morin. Notes There’s a great resource of old ads and articles, including the one referenced in the piece here. The definitive work on this...
No Summer
Music White Light by Chihei Hatekeyama Between the Trees by Akira Kosemura Clockwork Toccatta, Op. 68 from Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. End of Summer Part 3 by Hildur Gudnadottir and Robert ...
The 8th Story
Music We start with Waveland by Norm Pikelny. Then a smidge of N.Y.C. from the original Broadway cast recording of Annie. The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen. Wiese by Roedelius & Arnold Kasar. Th...
Snakes!
Music We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records. Herman’s Malt from Jeff Russo’s score to Fargo Season 2. David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe’s score ...
Junk Room
Music We start off with Theme de Simon from Georges Delerue. Go to Alpine Sketch from Christian Loffler’s Young Alaska. Hear some of Three Dances: II Pavane arranged for the Chromos Tuba Quarte...
Outliers
Music We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei. Notes This idea came to me a long time ago while researching an old episode. I read an extraordinar...
Hercules
Music We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson’s score to The Final Member. Nice Breeze Isn’t It? by Simon Rackham The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans. View from a Balcon...
The Nickel Candy Bar
Music We hit two sections from Bernard Herrmann’s score to Tender is the Night: The Embrace and The Breakdown. A bit of Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa. Labyrinth II by Caitlin Aurelia Smith. Walter Me...
The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat
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 Ju...
John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead
Music Sad Seine by Lambert. Titan’s Island by Ancient Ocean Flowering Jasmine as performed by Georgs Pelicis and Gidon Kremer Malpensa by Julia Kent Notes I first came upon the Calhoun bit whil...
On the Shores of Assawompset
Music Musica Seqenza play Schreza Infida Frederico Durand plas Lluvia de Estrellas The Martin Hayes Quintet plays The Boy in the Gap East Forest by Provenance There’s a bit of Madame Ovary from...
Elizabeth
Music Up Niek Mountain by Peter Broderick El cascabel de plata by Federico Durand We hear just a little bit of imgs/ r by Kara-Lis Coverdale Dissolving Clouds by Biosphere Nebula by Julianna Barw...
Hoover
Music Afkald by Bremer/McCoy Peace by Oliver Coates. Day One Four by F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm Displacement by Rafael Anton Irisarri Notes Some sources for this one were The Glory and the Dream b...
A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station
Music Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula by Hannah Peel Keep by Nils Frahm Horizon Variations by Max Richter She cycles through: Where or When by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, Smarty (You Know it All) ...
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Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn’t Stop
Music Memory as Mist by C. Diab Low Sudden by Daniel Lanois and Rocco DaLuca Beyond Romance by Lubomyr Melnyk Notes By far the most comprehensive resource I found was Florida’s Hurricane Histor...
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Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)
Show Notes Nate DiMeo was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He produced 8 episodes inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the eigth ...
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Orbes Cintilantes – A special summer episode
In lieu of your standard end-of-summer re-run, here is a very special re-run. No! Wait! I mean it. It’s pretty cool. Here’s the thing: Todavia, a new literary publisher in Brazil has just pu...
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A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
Show Notes Nate DiMeo was the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He produced eight pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the seven...
https://thememorypalace.us/a-scavenger-hunt-the-met-residency-episode-7/
Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again
Music We start with Moonlight by Masayoshi Fujita. We hear a couple from Warren Ellis: Piece 3 and Lala’s Theme. We hear Paranoid and Credits 2 from the score to Christine. And Junkman’s Song...
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The Taking of Tom Sawyer’s Island
Music Max Och’s Ain’t Nobody High Raga. Frog’s Eyes by Evan Ziporyn Cooped up at Home with a Fever and a Tape Loop, by Lullatone Medieval Waters, from Carter Burwell’s score to In Bruges....
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Cipher, or Greenhow Girls
Notes The most comprehensive book about Rose has to be Ann Blackman’s Wild Rose: The True Story of a Confederate Spy. I also found an old book, Rebel Rose: Life of Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Co...
If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
Show Notes Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the sixth e...
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Lost Camels
Music We hear a bunch of Ryland, by Julian Lage off his World’s Fair LP. We hear the Flamingos do Where or When. We hear Chilly Gonzalez’ Salon Salloon And finish out on Small Memory by Jon ...
The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs
Music We start out with some of Pound for Pound from The Bad Plus Go to Waltz by Mother Falcon Into the Light by Marisa Anderson With Everything that Breathes by Greg Haines Day One Four by F.S. ...
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Temple (The Met Residency Episode 5)
Show Notes Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the fifth e...
Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds
Music We open with Mary Lattimore’s Jimmy V. I love Mary Lattimore. We hit Hatian guitarist Frantz Casseus’ Lullaby from 1954 a few times. We hear Drifting, by Matthew Robert Cooper. And A Fo...
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A Washington Monument
Music We hear three pieces of Matthew Robert Cooper’s score to Some Days Are Better Than Others: Expectation, Drifting, and Katrina Outtake. Notes If you want the story of the construction of t...
Amok
Music 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 over...
A Portrait (The Met Residency Episode 4)
Show Notes Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the second e...
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The Rose of Long Island
Music We start and end with Daniel Berenboim playing Lizt’s 6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D flat minor. We hit up Yes But, from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriens’ score to Christine. We ret...
The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle
Music We start with (and later return to) And Grace by David Darling. Robert Farnon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Suite II: The Wind which turns into N...
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Promise
Notes I first heard about Hazel Scott while reading Rad American Women from A to Z to my daughter. It’s a wonderful book. You should buy it for any kid in your life. I read a lot about Hazel, b...
Peregrinar
Notes I relied most heavily on The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by Miriam Pawell. Enjoyed Jaques Levy’s oral history, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa I read a lot of the local accounts on N...
Full Circle (The Met Residency Episode 3)
Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the second episode of t...
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Under our Feet
Notes* This episode came by special request from my daughter, who heard about Waterhouse Hawkins in her second grade classroom. She came home and said, “Dad, I think I’ve got a good Memory Pa...
In Line
Notes* There are a gajillion things that you can and should read about this period. I’m almost loathe to tell you where to begin. So: some of the details for this story were found in this remar...
The Met Residency Episode 2: One Bottle, Any Bottle
Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the second episode of t...
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The Met Residency Episode 1: Recent Acquisition
Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the first episode of th...
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Canali
Notes* I’ve read a bunch about the canals over the years, but the most fun I’ve had was going through the New York Times’ archive and just searching for Canals and Mars and reading article ...
Haunting
Notes* Like anyone else, I became fascinated by Washington Phillip’s story through the music. So, go buy the music. Or the music and a book here.* I backed into the research on this one when I ...
Numbers
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 fol...
Local Channels
Notes* Much of what I read about Florence was pulled from old newspaper articles.* The biography in Notable American Women: Volume 5 does a nice, thorough job with Florence story.* I first stumbl...
Oil, Water
Notes*Great stuff in the Cleveland Plain Dealer from waaaaaay back to fire #1, if you want to dive in.* Found Jonathan Joseph Wlasiuk’s dissertation, Refining Nature (etc.) quite helpful in sor...
Natural Habitat
Notes and Reading:* I came to this story the old fashioned way (for me): I saw Su Lin at the Field Museum and needed to know more. That led me inevitably to Vicki Croke’s The Lady and the Panda...
A White Horse
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 ent...
Family Snapshot
Music* First up is The Homeless Wanderer from Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou off of the Emahoy (Piano Solo) album, number 21 in the unimpeachable Ethiopiques series.* Then we get some of To the Right the ...
Open Road
Music * Up top, looped, is the first bit of the great, Foreign Fields, by Kacy Hill.* Then we hear some of Sun Will Set, by Zoe Keating.* The song on the radio is Sonny Thompson’s Long Gone, as...
Victory
Music* We hear Portrait Gallery from Luke Howard.* A smidgen of Julia Kent’s lovely Dorval.* The incomparable Moondog’s Gloving It pops up a couple times (as it tends to do around these parts...
Finishing Hold
A Selected Bibliography* Dr. Sam: An American Tragedy by Jack Harrison Pollack* Summer of Shadows: a Murder a Pennant Race and the Twilight of the Best Location in the Nation, by Jonathan Knight,...
AKA Leo
NotesResearch for this story was largely culled from contemporary newspaper accounts. Check back for a list. Music* We start off (and end) with You by Nils Frahm.* We’ve got Krolock on the Sled...
Homesteading
Notes* I first came the story of Ross, North Dakota, while reading Muslims in America: A Short History, by Edward E. Curtis.* The full WPA interview with Mary Juma (and another member of the Ross...
Overland
NotesNearly all the research for this one comes straight out of the highly-readable,Cap’n George Fred, G.F. Tilton’s 1925 autobiography. I got my copy at a used bookstore for $11. It’s easy...
The Wheel
Music* Julia Rovinsky plays Phillip Glass’ Metamorphosis I, from her album Dusk.* There’s an excerpt from Paul Drescher’s “Casa Vecchia,” from the Mirrors: Other Fire album.* There’s ...
Below, from Above
Music * We start off with Wien, by Labradford.* The guys head out to the work site to Piano 3, from Jon Brion’s score to Synecdoche, New York.* Then we hear a bit of Metamorphosis by Vladamir U...
Gallery 742
A special episode of the Memory Palace commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the opening of Rockefeller-Worsham Dressing Room in Gallery 742 of The American Wing and wit...
Shore Leave
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* First up is one of my very favorite recordings of all time: Andromeda from Chris McGregor’s Brotherh...
Artist in Landscape
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 ...
no. 116,842
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* First bit is called Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears by A Winged Victory for the Sullen from their self-ti...
Butterflies
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* First up is “Adultere bourgeoise,” a piece from Paul Misraki’s score to A Double tour.* Then we�...
Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted
Music*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.*The piece opens with Rainfall, by David Darling and Michael Jones.*Her brief love story is scored by Nat...
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The Ballad of Captain Dwight
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* There’s Branches, by Keith Kenniff* Then The Big Ocean, from Ben Sollee’s score to Maidentrip.* Th...
Craning
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* There’re two pieces from Per Storby Jutbring’s album, Dance of the Diaper Fairy. Snowbound, up top...
Notes on an Imagined Plaque
Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that the Memphis City Counci has Voted to Move it and the Exhumed Remains of General Forrest ...
Run-of-the-River
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* First up (and returning a bit later) is Mr. Reincarnation from Alexander Desplat’s dope-as-hell scor...
Zulu Charlie Romeo
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* First up, A Nice Day from a truly wonderful album, The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet Complete Studio...
Developments in the Design and Manufacture of American Menswear 1840-1860, a Fable
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* The main mountain theme is Mort D’Eurydice, by Pierre Favre as played by the European Chamber Ensemb...
Charlie: God of Rain
Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* Charlie on the ladder is scored with the Prologue to the fantastic score to the film Birth, by Alexan...
White Heat, White Lights
Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own.* The violin ...
Every Night Ever
Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.* Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful...
The Pirate Queen
The music: *Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s great, ridiculous Modesty Blaise score.*The recurring piano theme is Les Marionettes by Zbigniew Preisner from his score...
High Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition
There are two Erik Satie pieces in here: Avant-dernières Pensées 1 & 2. Then you’ve got a little, Rainbow, by Battles. And then at the end, En Gallop, by Joanna Newsom (which I felt lame abou...
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Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot
I got asked some time back to do a pilot for a web-series by Fox. They were looking to do something with their old Movietone Newsreels. I pitched, essentially, the Memory Palace with images culle...
Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition
The first part is the Kronos Quartet rocking Henryk Gorecki’s String Quartet no. 2. Opus 64 “Quasi una Fantasia.” Second song is “Berlin by Overnight” by Max Richter. The post Itty Bi...
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The Brothers Booth: Special Platinum Edition
The first two pieces are two different versions of Aphex Twin’s “Jynwythek Ylow.” The first is by a chamber ensemble called Alarm Will Sound from an album in which they do chamber music ver...
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Two Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems
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The 7th Story
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Other Bodies
The music in this one: “An Ending, A Beginning” by Dustin O’Halloran. “I am Piano” by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the soundtrack to “With a Song in my Heart”: American Medley, a...
We’ve Forgotten James Powell
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The Glowing Orbs
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400,000 Stars
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Harriet Quimby
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Shadowboxing
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I’m Still Alive
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The Rush of the River and the Roar of the Falls
There are two pieces of music in this: one is a tweaked loop from “To Here Knows When” by MBV. The other is “Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Bucla Music Box 100, HP Model 236 Oscillator, ...
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O, How We Danced
First song is a guy named Eric Parkin playing, apparently, a transcription by Billy Mayerl of a tune called “Imaginary Foxtrot.” Next up is actually “We Found Love (In a Hopeless Place),”...
Origin Stories
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Guinea Pigs
I got the music from this one thanks entirely to this post on Boing Boing by David Pescovitz. This is the first episode where the music (horse) led the cart (story). I wanted to write a story tha...
Six Stories
First up is “Bluing” by Miles Davis. Then a piece from Marcelo Zarvos’ score for The Beaver. “Weekends Were Difficult,” from Thomas Newman’s Little Children Soundtrack. A Russel Garci...
Giants in Those Days
Music for this one comes largely from various Marcelo Zarvos. From The Beaver (yes, the one where Mel Gibson is friends with a Beaver puppet), Beastly (yes, the one where Vanessa Hudgins is in lo...
Fifty Words Written After Learning the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to Two Hundred Years
Music* in this one is from River Runs Like Jewels from High Aura’d’s album, Sanguine Futures. The post Fifty Words Written After Learning the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to Two Hundred...
Dreamland
Music in this one is track 6 in Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I then a track called “Ashley” from Yo La Tengo’s soundtrack to Junebug. The post Dreamland appeared first on the memory palace ...
Picture a Box
Music “We Write Threnodies, We Write with Explosions” by Storm and Stress (which is a great, great song). Then a couple of different John Fahey pieces: “Improv in E Minor” and “Unknown ...
The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling
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After Party
Music in this one is: “Happy Land,” off of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ score for The Proposition. (Which is a great western). “Becalmed,” off of Brian Eno’s Another Green World. (Whic...
Heard, Once
Since folks’ve asked, here’s the music used in episode 45, Heard, Once: The song I talk about is “A Girl’s Tool-Box,” by a band called Tattle-Tale. It was Jen Wood (who’s got a bunch ...
Distance
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Far Below Lake Michigan
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What They Saw
This is the third episode in a series of Civil War stories I’m doing every month for Slate.com as part of its Slate Daily Podcast Music: Two pieces here. Both straight out of a favorite summer ...
Mary, Mary, and Mercy
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Crazy Bet
This episode is part of my on-going collaboration with Slate.com. Once a month, for a stretch, I’ll be producing a Civil War-themed podcast as part of the series. The post Crazy Bet appeared...
Road Trip
Notes: This episode appeared originally as part of a series called “Civil War Stories” I’m doing for Slate.com. Starting in August, 2011, these episodes appear monthly as part of Slate’s ...
A Stretch
Music: We’ve got three pieces (Chickens, Swamp, and Squirrels) from Orion Riegel Dommisse’s album, also, delightfully, called chickens. Windy bit is “Africastle” by Battles. Plucky, shuff...
Natural Curiosity
The Music: The “theme,” as it were, that you hear in the beginning and through a fair amount of the piece is from the opening of the score to the movie, Please Give, as is the piece at the en...
six scenes from the life of william james sidis, wonderful boy
The Music: Scene 1: First song is “Brand New Day” by Worm is Green. Then a little bit of Gary Numan doing “Trois Gymnopedies,” then the “Second Gymnopedie” (lost the name of the piani...
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A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product
Start with “the One That You Love” by Air Supply (I mean, finally, right?). Then the beginning of “While You See a Chance” by Steve Winwood. Wrapped up with “On Our Way to Fall” by Yo...
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Soldier Frum
We start off with (and return to later) “Vendevel” by a Canadian band called Braids that I’ve been super into these days. Something from the Synechdoche, NY soundtrack. And “Friends” by...
Lost Lobsters
We hear “Everybody Daylight” by Brightblack Morning Light (a couple of times), “the Pills Won’t Help You Now” by Chemical Brothers, “South American Getaway” from Burt Bacharach’s ...
Gigantic
Start off with “I Want Her Back” from the (soon to be overused by this guy) 500 Days of Summer Score. Followed by “Bees” by Animal Collective. Then on to “IKEA” also on the 500 Days�...