
Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg | WFMU
WFMU
An underground journey through the history of psychedelic rock, modern music, shimmering noise, free jazz, punk, funk, children's records played at the wrong speed, tape cut-up, static, the composition of decomposition, and subversive spoken word.
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Networks:
WFMU
Description:
An underground journey through the history of psychedelic rock, modern music, shimmering noise, free jazz, punk, funk, children's records played at the wrong speed, tape cut-up, static, the composition of decomposition, and subversive spoken word.
Language:
English
Episodes
Emotional, Cognitive, And Behavioral -Painting "Untiled F" by Estaban Vicente from Sep 14, 2025
9/14/2025
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00]
Mark Strand - "Keeping Things Whole" - In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry [0:01:02]
Cecyl Ruehlen - "B" - Sferics [https://cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com/album/sferics] [0:03:02]
Portland Vows - "Little Yellow Box" - The Witches Of Hopwas Woods (circa. 1984) [https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/album/the-witches-of-hopwas-woods-circa-1984
"Inspired by the events of Halloween 1984, when a number of local witches were arrested for dancing naked in Hopwas Woods (Staffordshire), not far from where I grew up. The story, printed in a local newspaper, prompted me and a few friends to visit the woods a couple of days later. There we found remnants of fires and what looked to us like occult symbols fashioned from branches, twigs and grass. We were terrified and thrilled in equal measure."] [0:19:50]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:25:06]
Silence Collapses - "SC.01" - Silence Collapses [https://dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/album/silence-collapse
gert de meester: bass and electronics
jean-jaques duerinckx: saxophone
dirk wachtelaer: drums] [0:31:55]
Albumen - "Paradise Or The Sea" - Albumen [https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/albumen] [0:34:32]
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - "Sankofa" - The Cosmic Tones Research Trio [https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-tones-research-trio] [0:39:41]
S.O.S. (John Surman, Mike Osborne, Alan Skidmore) - "The Mountain Road" - Looking For The Next One [0:44:28]
Abdullah Miniawy - "Poem of the poems قصيدة القصائد" - Peacock dreams أَحْلَامُ الطَّاوُوسِ [https://abdullahminiawy.bandcamp.com/album/peacock-dreams] [0:49:16]
DJ Female Convict Scorpion - "Heather Leigh / Franco Micalizzi" - Clash Ups VI [https://joshpollock.bandcamp.com/album/clash-ups-vi] [0:52:10]
Elsa Hewitt - "Snow White Lily" - Camera From Mars [https://elsahewitt.bandcamp.com/album/cameras-from-mars-4] [0:57:17]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:01:55]
Sebastiano Carghini - "Cheesey Art" - Ramble [https://sebastianocarghini.bandcamp.com/album/ramble] [1:07:34]
- "Tape Loop Mastery" [The dialogue in this clip is taken from the introduction to a pre-Radiophonic Workshop broadcast on the BBC of “Private Dreams and Public Nightmares”] [1:10:20]
Paula Rebellato - "The Second Season" - Tape Loops Vol.1 [Visit https://paularebellato.bandcamp.com] [1:11:03]
William Burroughs - "Drug Hysteria" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZszbqdOq7g] [1:15:58]
Normifacation - "047-NUPG-SR" - Normification [https://normification.bandcamp.com/album/normification-diag071] [1:16:40]
RG - "Simples Amis" - Premier rapport [François Galland: modular synth
Quentin Rollet: alto & sopranino saxophones, Korg Monotron Delay] [1:17:33]
C-Section 8 - "0:00-8:00 = Entry/ hall of dinosaurs/ world of change" - Sonic Accompaniment To The Yale Peabody Museum [https://csection8.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-accompaniment-to-the-yale-peabody-museumThe Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT is a 150+ year old museum of natural history and science that is free and open to the public. This piece of music is intended to guide the visitor through curated sound in their headphones and allow them to further engage with the exhibits by isolating into their aural environment. Take a map on your way in. When traversing between floors I suggest taking the main staircase to the left of the entrance if possible.] [1:24:14]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und [1:32:17]
Steve Pepe - "Arabia per Delfina" - Arabia per Delfina [https://randomnumbers.bandcamp.com/album/arabia-per-delfina] [1:37:18]
Coni - "Bleaching Colors" - Bleaching Colors [https://firecampmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bleaching-colors] [1:42:18]
Valentino Mora - "III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII" - Biotope [https://valentinomora.bandcamp.com/album/biotope] [1:48:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156114
Duration:02:08:47
The Love You Didn't Learn-Pianting by Reijer Stolk from Sep 7, 2025
9/7/2025
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00]
Simone Weil - "Excerpt from "Attention and Pure Silence"" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyf-TdJ9gk] [0:00:47]
American Cream Band - "Désir d'Etat" - Embrace You Millions [https://realamericancream.bandcamp.com/album/embrace-you-millions] [0:00:48]
Mads Emil Nielsen + Chromacolor - "Heartbeats" - Heartbeats [https://madsemilnielsenchromacolor.bandcamp.com/album/heartbeats] [0:03:47]
Simone Weil - "The Stars Enter Into One Song" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyf-TdJ9gk] [0:11:39]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Jack Parsons Blues" - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark [https://gweniferraymond.bandcamp.com] [0:12:04]
Anastasia Coope - "Mattered And Sworn" - Seemeely [0:15:45]
Helena Espvall/Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Marjorie Sturm - "there is Appearance, from which they ramify" - a shadowed fulguration [https://paxrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-shadowed-fulguration] [0:17:48]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:26:40]
La Chooma - "Praise" - Local Spirits [https://lachooma.bandcamp.com/album/local-spirits] [0:35:41]
Earth Sounds Now - "lll" - Convergence [https://otherpeople.bandcamp.com/album/convergence] [0:38:27]
Piotr Kurek - "Try To Be True" - Songs and Bodies [https://piotrkurek.bandcamp.com] [0:43:43]
Larum - "Treatise 3 (Live at Public Records)" - Treatise by Cornelius Cardew [https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/treatise-by-cornelius-cardew
Micah Frank: Modular Synthesizer
Chet Doxas: Woodwinds and Foley
Taylor Deupree: Looping and Processing] [0:47:35]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:58:44]
Elvis Costello - "Weird Nightmare [Album Version]" - Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus [1:03:25]
Hainbach & Simon Spiess - "Inside the String" - We Collide, We Shatter, We Grow [https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/we-collide-we-shatter-we-grow] [1:06:30]
Mountain Movers - "Sun Is Coming Up" - Song Above The Land: A Compilation For Palestine [https://halfamillion.bandcamp.com/album/song-above-the-land-a-compilation-for-palestine] [1:08:39]
Dale Cornish - "Bring Out Your Dead" - Altruism [1:13:17]
Anthony Aguilar and Josephine Guilbeau - "Complicit n Genocide!" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Wb7DgzWk] [1:14:11]
Mondo Lava - "Vulva Dei" - Utereo Dei [https://mondolava.bandcamp.com/album/utero-dei] [1:16:15]
Simone Weil - "Attention Is The Purest Form Of Generosity" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyf-TdJ9gk] [1:20:46]
Gerauschhersteller - "Transmission 2B" - Transmissions [https://gerauschhersteller.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions
This is a collection of live improvised electronic music. Last winter, we were rehearsing and exploring Stockhausen’s indeterminate scores – particularly those using short wave radio as source material. We had also been studying the legacy of Hugh Davies. Following our usual methodology, this was a purposeful and recursive meander, involving research, discussion, experiment and rehearsal.] [1:21:45]
- "The Hideous Truth" [1:24:59]
Ivan the Tolerable - "Twelfth Night" - House of the Hidden Light [https://ivanthetolerable.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-the-hidden-light-2lp-dl-stolen-body-records-2025] [1:25:32]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [1:32:05]
Raphael Rogiński - "Spirituals" - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes [Bonus Track
https://raphaelroginski.bandcamp.com/album/plays-john-coltrane-and-langston-hughes] [1:37:57]
Lea Bertucci - "Sister of Sleep" - The Oracle [https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle] [1:44:31]
Okyung Lee - "Let's Walk Down To Thw Swamp Together" - just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities [1:55:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155833
Duration:02:08:36
What Was Real And What Was Imagined-Photo By Frank Andree from Aug 31, 2025
9/1/2025
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00]
- "Existence Unveils Itself" [Excerpt from an episode of Hazel Barnes "Self Encounter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkY384-q_k] [0:01:24]
Bourbonese Qualk - "Knock" - My Government Is My Soul [https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-155-bourbonese-qualk-my-government-is-my-soul-lp] [0:01:44]
Universal Cell Unlock - "No Se" - Fugitive Numbers [https://psychicsounds.bandcamp.com/album/fugitive-numbers] [0:03:58]
Felsmann + Tiley - "Gabriel" - Protomensch [https://felsmanntiley.bandcamp.com/album/protomensch] [0:06:35]
- "To Amaze And Horrify Ourselves" [Excerpt From Hazel Barnes "Self Encounter"] [0:10:13]
Hekura - "Bytheriver" - Two Lonely Space Pilots [https://hegoadiskak.bandcamp.com/album/two-lonely-space-pilots] [0:10:29]
Jef Mertens & Dirk Wachtelaer - "Without Intro" - Wonderful Brutalism [0:12:55]
Caterina Barbieri - "Walter Zanetti - Fantas for Electric Guitar" - Fantas Variations [https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/fantas-variations] [0:20:43]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:28:13]
jah Wobble - "Jah Wobble" - Dub Volume One [https://wardle.bandcamp.com/album/dub-volume-one] [0:36:49]
Al Karpenter - "Stop The Genocide!" - Greatest Heads [https://hegoadiskak.bandcamp.com/album/greatest-heads] [0:42:02]
Coil - "Sex With Sun Ra (Part Two - Sigillaricia)" - Black Antlers [https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/black-antlers] [0:42:58]
ION - "Musing The Orchard" - Blurred Words 2025 [‘ION recites a Latin passage originally written by Virgil. The account admires the healthful privileges and sincere virtues of a farmer’s life. Layered with some of IONs ambient improv on his Terra synth & field recording of birdsong, he renders a scene of one musing this simplified way of being from the sanctuary of an orchard.’] [0:48:13]
Gastón Höppeler - "Desorden y universo" - Todo siempre constante vol. 2 [https://freneticmagicsounds.bandcamp.com/album/todo-siempre-constante-vol-2] [0:50:47]
Absolute Body Control - "Baby's On Fire" - Untitled (1981) [0:56:18]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:59:42]
Jeff Tobias - "Gimme Coherence" - One Hundredfold Now In This Age [https://jefftobias.bandcamp.com/album/one-hundredfold-now-in-this-age] [1:04:50]
NU NO - "Animáquina" - RÁDIO AFÓNICA [https://fullbodymassagerecords1.bandcamp.com/album/r-dio-af-nica] [1:09:26]
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - "Panj" - Ghosted III [https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted-iii] [1:11:14]
Orcutt Shelley Miller - "An L.A. Funeral" - Orcutt Shelley Miller [Recorded Live @ Zebulon 2024
https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt-shelley-miller] [1:20:14]
Khôra - "Ripga" - Gestures of Perception [https://khora.bandcamp.com/album/gestures-of-perception-3] [1:28:38]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:33:26]
e.e. cummings - "That Melancholy" - V/A Luna Park 0,10 [https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-luna-park-010] [1:39:06]
Matt Choboter - "The Dreamer Remains" - Postcards of Nostalgia [https://mattchoboter.bandcamp.com/album/postcards-of-nostalgia] [1:40:59]
Primitive Motion - "My Obsidian" - Lost Frequencies [https://primitivemotion.bandcamp.com/album/lost-frequencies] [1:45:40]
- "Can Man Live On Justice Alone?" [Excerpt From Hazel Barnes "Self Encounter" ..] [1:49:51]
Aki Onda - "Tiger Balm" - In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern [https://akionda.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-depth-of-illusion-a-soundtrack-for-nervous-magic-lantern] [1:50:10]
Ivan the Tolerable & Hawksmoor - "Intercoception" - Atoms in the Void [https://libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-in-the-void] [1:52:20]
Jack Sheen - "Sub Eight" - Sub [https://jacksheen.bandcamp.com/album/sub] [1:59:19] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155641
Duration:02:09:26
Devolving In The Failing Attention Economy-Painting by Helen Frankenthaler from Aug 24, 2025
8/24/2025
- "Absolutley Real/Adult Entertainment/TransmissionBegins" [0:00:00]
Paul Pèrrim - "Non-Existent Wheel" [Submission to the "Blurred Words" Project.] [0:00:50]
Oliv Oliv - "Resonant Echoes" - Tehran Mountains [https://olivoliv.bandcamp.com/album/tehran-mountains] [0:01:55]
Chicago Underground Duo - "Hyperglyph" - Hyperglyph [https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hyperglyph] [0:06:36]
Thom Holmes/Wener Herzog - "Read!" [https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgVS5OR211/] [0:11:29]
Organ Of Corti - "Error" - Insania [https://philatelie.bandcamp.com/album/insania] [0:13:11]
Zoh Ambra - "Ma" - Sun [https://zohamba.bandcamp.com/album/sun] [0:19:32]
TAKAAT - "(Untitled1)" - Is Noise, Vol. 2 [https://purplishrecords.bandcamp.com/album/takaat-is-noise-vol-2] [0:21:17]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:32:11]
RWD - "Ex Nihilo" - Vol.1 [https://reiddunn.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1
NIAGRA FALLS] [0:33:14]
Devo - "De-Evolutionary Times" [Excerpt From Devo's New Youtube Channel
We Are Not Men!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzkOsADr74] [0:35:11]
Devo - "Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)" - Dev-O Live [0:35:46]
Devo - "Shrivel Up" - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! [0:40:18]
Devo - "Man Is Not Progressing" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzkOsADr74] [0:43:22]
Devo - "Fountain Of Filth" - Hardcore Devo Vol. 2 (1974 – 1977) [0:45:02]
Devo - "Space Girl Blues (early version)" - Art Devo 1973-1977 [0:48:31]
Devo - "Space Junk" - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! [0:51:55]
Thom Holmes - "Sonic Assesemtns" - Phonographic Education [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqLLBKux3s
https://www.youtube.com/@thomasbholmes] [0:54:10]
DEK - "Father" - 1981-87 Vol.! [https://jelodanti-records.bandcamp.com/album/1981-87-vol-1] [0:55:38]
Yuji Takahashi, Mamoru Fujieda 高橋悠治、藤枝守 - "Morning" - Music for "Cyber Café" [2025 Edition] [https://emrecords.bandcamp.com] [0:56:32]
Music behind DJ:
Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:01:21]
Primitive Motion - "My Obsidian" - Lost Frequencies [https://primitivemotion.bandcamp.com/album/lost-frequencies] [1:08:01]
Current 93 - "Side 1" - The Light You Left Behind [https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-left-you-quite] [1:16:46]
The Starless Oracle - "Emerald Blush" - The Archaeology of Air [A Jeweled Garden Subscriber Exclusive.] [1:39:15]
Evan Shornstein & Booker Stardrum - "Rafting" - Rafting / Tall Grass [https://extravagantfrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/rafting-tall-grass-2] [1:42:34]
ZĀM - "Endless Knots" - Nemesis [1:47:08]
ESCAPE-ISM - "If You Feel Like Rockin'" - Charge of the Love Brigade [1:51:03]
Chicago Underground Duo - "Hemiunu" - Hyperglyph [https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com] [1:53:25] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155261
Duration:02:08:32