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Uncountable Measures

Feb 3, 2026 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With DJ Jagannath

Polyrhythmic Ponderings

How to kéep—is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, láce, latch or catch or key to keep
Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, … from vanishing away?

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo - Gerard Manley Hopkins

On polyrhythmic music (interpreted not very strictly).

Uncountable Measures
8:00 PM
Horse Lords - Zero Degree Machine
Horse Lords Zero Degree Machine
Comradely Objects RVNG Intl. 2022
8:07 PM
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8:09 PM
King Crimson - Discipline
King Crimson Discipline
Discipline (Expanded Edition) Discipline Global Mobile 1981
8:14 PM
Dawn of Midi - Sinope
Dawn of Midi Sinope
Dysnomia Erased Tapes 2015
8:21 PM
black midi - Near DT, MI
black midi Near DT, MI
Schlagenheim Rough Trade 2019
8:23 PM
Their Dogs Were Astronauts - Contortionist
Their Dogs Were Astronauts Contortionist
Neon Theatre DAN Sounds 2017
8:29 PM
Zu - Axion
Zu Axion
Carboniferous Ipecac Recordings 2009
8:35 PM
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8:38 PM
Tigran Hamasyan - Entertain Me
Tigran Hamasyan Entertain Me
Mockroot Nonesuch 2015
8:41 PM
Phronesis - Rabat
Phronesis Rabat
Parallax Edition Records 2016
8:49 PM
Joshua Redman - East of the Sun (And West of the Sun)
Joshua Redman East of the Sun (And West of the Sun)
Les incontournables du jazz: Joshua Redman Warner (France) 2007
8:54 PM
John Zorn - Veve
John Zorn Veve
In a Convex Mirror Tzadik 2018
9:15 PM
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9:18 PM
Ali Farka Touré - Ai Du (with Ry Cooder) [with Ry Cooder]
Ali Farka Touré Ai Du (with Ry Cooder) [with Ry Cooder]
Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder) World Circuit 1994
9:24 PM
Francis Bebey - Sanza Tristesse
Francis Bebey Sanza Tristesse
L'amour Malade Petit - Francais Ozileka 1982
9:28 PM
Gabor Szabo - Galatea's Guitar
Gabor Szabo Galatea's Guitar
Dreams Skye 1969
9:34 PM
Estas Tonne - The Song of the Golden Dragon
Estas Tonne The Song of the Golden Dragon
Strings and Stories of a Troubadour (Live in Odeon, Vienna 2011) Estas Tonne 2012
9:44 PM
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9:46 PM
Dimitar Ivanov - The Broken Balkan Polyrhythmic Etude
Dimitar Ivanov The Broken Balkan Polyrhythmic Etude
The Broken Balkan Polyrhythmic Etude - Single Dimitar Ivanov 2022
9:50 PM
Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: III. Adagio
Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: III. Adagio Béla Bartók
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta - Hindemith: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" Warner Classics 1961
9:57 PM
Marc-André Hamelin - Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39: III. Primavera. Vivace
Marc-André Hamelin Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39: III. Primavera. Vivace
Medtner: Forgotten Melodies; Skazki, Op. 8 Hyperion 2006
10:00 PM
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 - "Sonata Fantasy": I. Andante
Vladimir Ashkenazy Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 - "Sonata Fantasy": I. Andante
Scriabin: The Piano Sonatas Decca Music Group Ltd. 1997
10:09 PM
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 - "Sonata Fantasy": II. Presto
Vladimir Ashkenazy Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 - "Sonata Fantasy": II. Presto
Scriabin: The Piano Sonatas Decca Music Group Ltd. 1997
10:13 PM
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10:19 PM
Peter Hill - Quatre études de rythme: No. 3, Neumes rythmiques
Peter Hill Quatre études de rythme: No. 3, Neumes rythmiques
The Piano Music of Olivier Messiaen: Préludes, Quatre études de rythme, Canteyodjaya Treasure Island 2015
10:24 PM
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins - La Terre Est Un Homme
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins La Terre Est Un Homme Brian Ferneyhough
Ferneyhough: La Terre Est Un Homme NMC Recordings 2018
10:37 PM
Blut aus Nord - Epitome XV
Blut aus Nord Epitome XV
777 - Cosmosophy Debemur Morti Productions 2012
10:43 PM
Deathspell Omega - A Chore for the Lost
Deathspell Omega A Chore for the Lost
Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum NoEvDiA 2007
10:52 PM
Gojira - Flying Whales
Gojira Flying Whales
From Mars to Sirius Listenable records 2005
10:58 PM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:00 PM
clipping. - Story 2
clipping. Story 2
CLPPNG Sub Pop Records 2014
Chat is archived.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:00:54 PM
Hey everyone! Welcome back to Uncountable Measures, today's measures will be particularly uncountable
Mats Sabbath 8:02:16 PM
Become ungovernable and uncountable
michael gudgeon 8:02:43 PM
discovered this band/song from wprb its lit!
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:03:10 PM
Indeed Matt! I also discovered this band recently michael it's super cool
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀 8:05:03 PM
Hello DJ Jagannath. I'm glad the machine is 0 degrees and not the temperature
Mats Sabbath 8:05:27 PM
RVNG is a good label, lotsa smart interesting stuff.
the other andrew 8:05:50 PM
hey there!
Mats Sabbath 8:06:09 PM
DJ J, I listened to an RVNG early comp while driving thru the beautiful state of S Carolina once. Perfect soundtrack.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:06:33 PM
Hey Rob and Andrew!
Mats Sabbath 8:06:58 PM
spanish moss hanging down, old plantations, backroads, and RVNG on da cd spinning machine in the car
Mats Sabbath 8:07:35 PM
DJ Turshu greetings as well
Mats Sabbath 8:08:25 PM
Rob, Spring has sprung. Warm out there! 32 degrees. Like a summa day.
michael gudgeon 8:08:56 PM
w/u jag and turshu!
the other andrew 8:09:03 PM
balmy af
TAndy 8:09:28 PM
What up my DJs
Mats Sabbath 8:09:30 PM
the other andrew LOLOL
Mats Sabbath 8:10:05 PM
I'm crackin up at all the rodent tunnels in NJ on the roads and everywhere, and how we zoom thru them in the frosted wasteland
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:10:07 PM
What's up TAndy! hope you guys enjoy today's lineup
Mike Tropiano 8:10:36 PM
That last song 's last half sounded like Discipline.
Mats Sabbath 8:11:01 PM
We are, in this icelocked world, like Godflesh said: like rats.
DJ Esque 8:11:18 PM
what uppp everybidy
DJ Esque 8:11:29 PM
nice to see you all
Mike Tropiano 8:11:31 PM
I always try to tap my feet...but eventually give up.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:11:40 PM
I do think feet is easier than hands
Mats Sabbath 8:11:56 PM
Mike T on the goddamn ball! Dayum.
DJ Esque 8:12:01 PM
impossible with some of these pieces
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:12:34 PM
But I know the struggle I've been playing a Scriabin piece on piano and the polyrhythms can really trip you up
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:12:52 PM
Discipline indeed Mike good catch
Mats Sabbath 8:12:55 PM
sometimes I watch MANDY just for the masterful opening with King Crimson music. The name of the movie is not given until the third act of the movie.
Mike Tropiano 8:13:08 PM
Fripp does this thing in interviews sometimes, tapping one hand in 5 beats per measure and the other in 4
Mats Sabbath 8:13:42 PM
huwhat!!
Mike Tropiano 8:13:50 PM
I'll have to check that movie out
Mats Sabbath 8:14:16 PM
Frippertronics. Mike T Mandy is a gem. The KC music sets the music perfectly for its cosmic horror story.
Mats Sabbath 8:15:19 PM
*tone, I mean
Mike Tropiano 8:17:13 PM
I can't remember if it's Exposure or Let the Power Fall...I was playing it at my grandfather's ( i didn't have a record player but I saw it at the record shop and had to have it). He said it sounded like someone dying.
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀 8:23:45 PM
@Mats, the temperature here went above freezing today. Summer is here!! It's June-uwary!!! At least for a day
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀 8:24:10 PM
And hello turshu
TAndy 8:28:49 PM
Oh this is CRAZY good
DJ Esque 8:30:16 PM
rob that's beautiful to hear I hope juneuwary keeps going
DJ Esque 8:30:21 PM
Tandy yessss
Mats Sabbath 8:32:36 PM
Ipecac!
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:33:02 PM
great label yeah
Mats Sabbath 8:36:35 PM
Sinope was in ancient Greece. Where Diogenes is from.
Mats Sabbath 8:37:37 PM
first earth creature in space was a russian street dog!
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:38:38 PM
These guys did not own Laika lemme tell ya
DJ Esque 8:38:41 PM
right! it is the same as the now turkey Sinop we were talking abt
DJ Esque 8:38:49 PM
matt good good catch
DJ Esque 8:39:02 PM
we stand by dogs was astronauts
Mats Sabbath 8:40:58 PM
I agree the band name is a bit insistent upon itself. Laika! Awwwwww.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:41:16 PM
How do you like the godfather
Mats Sabbath 8:41:44 PM
Diogenes did not give Sinope a good name with his behavior in Athens LOL.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:42:12 PM
Not a fan of barrels?
Mats Sabbath 8:42:45 PM
Haaaaaa! I love the Diogenes. One of my faves.
Mats Sabbath 8:46:50 PM
Phronesis! Nice
DJ Esque 8:47:21 PM
many greek references today
Mats Sabbath 8:53:56 PM
we get pharmacy from da greek pharmakon
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:54:11 PM
Say have you ever listened to Pharmakon
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:54:22 PM
great band
TAndy 8:54:48 PM
I'm just laying here vibing to the music, not much to say but I'm totally appreciating the selections from u two
Mats Sabbath 8:54:56 PM
on it!
Mats Sabbath 8:55:43 PM
thought we were gonna get Rush's YYZ with that rhythmic bangin!
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:56:13 PM
Can't say I'm familiar sadly
Mats Sabbath 8:57:35 PM
Lovin the jazz
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:02:10 PM
This one's all me, i'm the free jazz head here
Mats Sabbath 9:02:48 PM
we skronkin in da icy shell
Thomas Verrill 9:04:53 PM
loving the show!!!!!
DJ Esque 9:05:45 PM
omg hi Thomas!!
Thomas Verrill 9:06:19 PM
hello hello
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:06:25 PM
how's it going
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:06:38 PM
qubits work alright?
DJ Esque 9:06:55 PM
entangled
Thomas Verrill 9:07:03 PM
oh its great
Mats Sabbath 9:07:16 PM
spooky action from a distance
Thomas Verrill 9:07:18 PM
yeahhh qubits are alright trying to get T2s
Thomas Verrill 9:07:59 PM
keep up these sounds on the station 🔥
Mats Sabbath 9:08:06 PM
better T2 than T3, T2 the superior Terminator movie
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:08:15 PM
Amen Matt
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:08:36 PM
if John Zorn has zero plays on WPRB then I am dead
DJ Esque 9:08:55 PM
🙏🙏🙏
Mats Sabbath 9:09:55 PM
ha, I was just thinkin about Naked City recently and watershed moments like some of those under-20 second long masterpieces
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀 9:10:06 PM
This John Zorn piece is amAZing
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:11:51 PM
Painkiller is my favorite Zorn project
Lester Wiggs 9:13:07 PM
Hi everyone Sorry I'm late.
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:18:21 PM
Hey Lester how's it going
DJ Esque 9:18:36 PM
hi lester
Lester Wiggs 9:20:27 PM
Nice groove here. I have to be careful. My downstairs neighbor doesn't like a lot of hullabaloo. And I get that. Sometimes i do get carried away with that big knob on the amp. And I am always sorry later... but for now.. TURN IT UP!
Lester Wiggs 9:23:27 PM
I did have the Zorn record 'The Big Gundown' It was one of my favorites for many years.
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:24:13 PM
Big Gundown is super cool. I played Morricone's score for Battle of Algiers followed by Zorn's reinterpretation of it early last season
Lester Wiggs 9:28:56 PM
I don't know that one. But I had found an interesting historical note relating to Algeria. JFK welcomed a diplomatic entourage on the White House Lawn. From Algeria after their independence from France. The Algerian National Anthem was played, iirc.
Lester Wiggs 9:31:13 PM
uh oh.. she knocking on the ceiling lol.
Roffle 0x7EA 9:36:04 PM
Fucking excellent! I knew I could count on you!
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:39:49 PM
Too bad for her Lester
Lester Wiggs 9:40:35 PM
Always be polite. And if politeness doesn't work, just be direct. And if directness don't work, play your bagpipes.
Lester Wiggs 9:44:08 PM
We were like two snails inhabiting the same shell for at least two slime trails. What happened to our love?
Lester Wiggs 9:44:46 PM
Tony and Dawn. Knock three Times on the Ceiling.
Mats Sabbath 9:45:08 PM
open challenge to any DJ to play Dopesmoker in entirety for Lester's downstairs neighbor
Lester Wiggs 9:46:45 PM
Mats, Solomon already banned me. Don't get to uppity here.
Roffle 0x7EA 9:46:48 PM
Contrapuntal bass side certainly.
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:47:21 PM
Its not against the rules
Mats Sabbath 9:47:44 PM
Haaaaaa! Solomon!
Mats Sabbath 9:49:43 PM
Lester ye can always turn it into a positive and get a Black Flag barred for life tattoo (I have one from numerous bannings and banishments)
Lester Wiggs 9:50:15 PM
I will have to look that up mats. Last year a house painter friend of mine was out doing his thing, smoking, drinking, ended up in a ditch passed out in the cold. sorry for even bringing that up. Glen. OK he was on a collision course with that denoument for years.
Mats Sabbath 9:51:05 PM
Glen! He is not from Lodi NJ right
Roffle 0x7EA 9:51:26 PM
His use of open strings in E tuning was masterful. Not simply to drone, but arpeggiatic with the chords he chose. I loved it.
Mats Sabbath 9:51:31 PM
denoument! excellent word
Lester Wiggs 9:52:36 PM
phoenixville. our days are numbered like the hairs on our head. But I am hirsute. so does nasal hair count?
Lester Wiggs 9:53:03 PM
Stuck in Lodi again.
Mats Sabbath 9:53:27 PM
Go check out the Snowcat, Wendy.
DJ Esque 9:53:33 PM
roffle agreed 100% glad you like esters tonne I would also recommend listening to song of the golden dragon on YouTube, the version he plays on the street I think in Switzerland?
Mats Sabbath 9:53:42 PM
SHiNiNG music rules
Lester Wiggs 9:56:08 PM
is this bernard hermann?
Roffle 0x7EA 9:56:10 PM
Thank you Esque! I am already rappelling down that rabbit hole and dog earring it for later. :)
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:56:26 PM
Bela Bartok! Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Mov III
Lester Wiggs 9:56:36 PM
sorry, playlist is not updating. I lay odd its is.
Lester Wiggs 9:56:47 PM
ok close enough.
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:56:55 PM
In some sense
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:57:05 PM
Hermann is cool as well though. I like his Moby Dick
Mats Sabbath 9:57:14 PM
The Shining music is so underrated..Melvins covered Deus Irae LOLOL
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:57:25 PM
Played on my show as well (shameless plug)
Lester Wiggs 9:58:28 PM
I love all these major chords.
Mats Sabbath 9:58:36 PM
that piece of unnerving classical music holds up detached from the movie... well played, good choice
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:59:30 PM
Bartok is really cool. I like his Hungarian Sketche
Lester Wiggs 9:59:36 PM
I guess we hear the puppet show from sound of music soon/ Austria , Vienna.
Lester Wiggs 10:01:25 PM
well go ahead and play the second movement from Bartok's symphony for orchestra/
Lester Wiggs 10:07:04 PM
Don't mean to be snarky or cross. I do love being introduced to music I have not heard before. This piece is very soothing.
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:08:10 PM
Lol no snark or cross taken. I love Scriabin
Lester Wiggs 10:11:45 PM
she poking the ceiling again. jfc. I will put on my headphones. She does pay the rent on the 1st.
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀 10:22:42 PM
We've enjoyed your show tonight, Jagannath and turshu, ty. Until the next time, and good night everybody!
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:25:02 PM
Thanks for listening Rob and see you next week!
TAndy 10:33:12 PM
Happy 10:33 haha
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:33:24 PM
Its a great time
DJ Esque 10:33:33 PM
a beautidul time
Lester Wiggs 10:33:45 PM
Trying to the the 'AI' to write new lyrics for 'Brand New Pair of Roller Skates'
Lester Wiggs 10:37:08 PM
Weird. Now your playing Charles Mingus?
Lester Wiggs 10:38:50 PM
you're srrry
Roffle 0x7EA 10:39:25 PM
Damn good time! One of my favorites.
Lester Wiggs 10:49:05 PM
I got a brand new pair of roller skates you got a brand new key. I think we could get together, etc.
Lester Wiggs 10:50:31 PM
Haha, alright poet laureate—your bars just escalated from bicycle loops to straight-up demolition derby. I see you flexing that raw, typo-fueled fire:
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:51:18 PM
the typos are not me
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:51:27 PM
the poems and the metal is
Lester Wiggs 10:51:31 PM
def NOT Mingus.
Lester Wiggs 10:51:59 PM
Good thing b/c he would throw an ashtray at you. lulz
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:52:05 PM
my typos fuel creativity blibplbop
DJ Jagannath (host) 10:52:11 PM
-turshu
michael gudgeon 10:53:48 PM
dope set gang!
Lester Wiggs 10:55:52 PM
I did not realize we were listening to the 'Lord of the Universe" But I should have.
TAndy 10:55:57 PM
Thanks so much for the show y'all! Can't wait for next week already
Lester Wiggs 10:57:37 PM
The deity has deep spiritual significance, symbolizing universal love, equality, compassion, and accessibility pretty cool. Down with that.
Roffle 0x7EA 10:58:14 PM
That was an excellent show by any yardstick. Thank you guys for sharing a bunch of wonderful stuff. Have a great night.
Lester Wiggs 10:58:17 PM
No mention of Maximum Rock And Roll?
Lester Wiggs 10:59:13 PM
God night Roffle. /
Roffle 0x7EA 10:59:59 PM
I'm not going anywhere. :)
Lester Wiggs 11:01:14 PM
finally my hip hops
DJ Jagannath (host) 11:02:46 PM
Thank yall for being here! Hope to see you next week
Lester Wiggs 11:03:45 PM
Inshallah (إن شاء الله)