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I began doing Public/Community/College radio at KUGS FM in Bellingham, WA in 1985 and was there until 1987. I spent 10 years at KAOS FM in Olympia, WA from 1993-2003 including a one year stint as Music Director. During that entire time, I did the What's This Called? program, at times for as long as 6 hours in a single night! I've been doing the show at KPSU since 2005 and they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands to get me to stop.
I started the Olympia Experimental Music Festival in 1995 and have been playing music off and on in the Dead Air Fresheners since 1997.
I'm thrilled to be on the air and the internet at KPSU and part of such an exciting community of creative folks.
- New Comment

Saturday, March 16th from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time, join Ricardo Wang at the mic and Austin Rich at the sound board as they host Portland's own post-rock improvisational provocateurs Tres Gone. Mixing studied sound traditions from both East and West with a healthy dose of what-in-the-hell, Tres Gone promise to amuse and amaze simultaneously. Wake up early, so that you may fully prepare yourself!
Ear and soul cleaning samples here: https://soundcloud.com/tresgone
Streaming Live: http://kpsu.org/listen
A man is sitting in a room surrounded by little machines. His shirt is untucked and his tie is rumpled. His breath is visible as the room is freezing. He has just gotten off work at the night shift and he can hear birds chittering in dawn sounds through the paper thin walls. He can just barely hear the chittering of the birds over the sputtering of the machines, and he is convinced that the birds and the machines share secrets that he is not let in on. The machines have eaten up his life and he now works two jobs just to keep an ever increasing supply of them and to keep them well fed. He used to sing to them, but now his breath is all frozen mist and they can read his voice from his frost bitten fingertips. He remembers vaguely his name was “Tom” once, but now he is more or less than that. He is a man sitting in a room surrounded by little machines that have a purpose for him. He is driven to put pieces of that purpose in envelopes and mail it to other people, but when he tries to lick the envelopes his tongue freezes against the sealant glue. The birds are getting louder as the sun is coming up, but they cannot begin to drown out the sputtering little machines. The sunlight will not warm his room. He will have to get up and go to work soon. He wants to use the machines to tell other people something, but he knows that the machines are really using him. He doesn’t mind because he is happy to have a purpose, or at least willing to, if not really happy about it. He is accepting because he is willing. He is willing to let the machines use him even though there are tiny icicles on his blazer sleeves. He is driven without even having to leave the room, except to go to work to make something to feed to the machines. He tried to reset them once. That was when it all began.
(Ricardo Wang explains the music of Four Dimensional Nightmare 8/28/2012).
| TRACK TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM |
|---|---|---|
| El Asesino Del Sol (Versión I) | Un Festin Sagital | Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum |
| Looping '72 | Edward Ka-Spel` | One Last Pose Before The Ruin |
| The Minotaur | The Red Masque | Mythalogue |
| TRACK TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM |
|---|---|---|
| You're Out of the Computer | Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend | Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2 |
| no escape | Cabaret Voltaire | mix-up |
| Mailman | Legendary Pink Dots | Plutonium Blonde |
| The Black Regent | Add N to X | On the Wires of Our Nerves |
| hamburger lady | Throbbing Gristle | d.o.a : the third and final report of throbbing gristle |
| Spontaneous Simplicity | Sun Ra | Live in Paris at the Gibus |
| Baby Won't You Weird Me Out | Melvins Lite | Freak Puke |
| Foil | Autechre | Amber |
| Combat | Freddie Hubbard | Sing Me a Song of Songmy |
| Priorities | Steve Fisk | 448 Deathless Days |
| White River Junction | The Orb | Orbvs Terrarvm |
| TRACK TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM |
|---|---|---|
| Close 2 U | Daniel Enoch Tobin | MP3 |
| Shadow of a Doubt | Sonic Youth | EVOL |
| Empires of Time | Chelsea Light Moving | Chelsea Light Moving |
| Eight Inch Nun | Rollerball | Real Hair |
| This Is Combat I Know | Freddie Hubbard | Psychedelic Jazz and Soul from the Atlantic and Warner Vaults |
| Looking Glass | Eric Hausmann | Invisible Films |
| Between Eternities | Sand Snowman | Nostalgia Ever After |
| Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages | Aritomo | Fearful Sunshine Filtering Through Foliages |
| Heat | David Bowie | The Next Day |
| Track 4 | daniel menche | Eye on the Steel |
| ako | Fela Kuti | the '69 los angeles sessions |
| TRACK TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM |
|---|---|---|
| LIVE | Death Pact Jazz Ensemble | on What's This Called? |
| Attack On Love | Yo La Tengo | Electr-O-Purra |
| demolished | Unwound | The Future of What |
| Urban Wolves Are Watching | Select Sex | Demo |
| LIVE | Overdose the Katatonic | on What's This Called? |
| Heart of the Heartland | Mark Kennis | Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2 |
| LIVE | Holy Filament | On What's This Called? |
| You're Out of the Computer | Bingo Gazingo & My Robot Friend | Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2 |
| II Porno Star | Shellac | At Action Park |
| Welcome to the New Killer Bees | Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live | I Am That Great And Fiery Force |
| Track 3 | daniel menche | Flaming Tongues |
| Cold Dust | Cabbage Patch Kill Dolls | CDR |