Five Part Dissonance (Remix)

Five Part Dissonance[1]

Series
Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
1996
Cast
Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies, Joe Frank
Format
54 minutes
Preceded by:	The Loved One (Remix)
Followed by:	Iceland (Part 2) (Remix)

Let me begin by asking you a question.

Five Part Dissonance (Remix) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Somewhere Out There. It was originally broadcast in 1996.

Synopsis

• A panel discussion about esp: learning esp, picking up on thoughts, an esp demonstration, psycho-dynamic juggling.
• Communication throughout history, smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes.
• Paul Mantell is traveling in search of death in the abstract, Eric Sears has concerns about shaving.
• Drum solo.
• Panicked man begs "don't make me do it" accompanied by a bizarre moaning soundtrack.
• Panel discussion: falling asleep while falling asleep.
• A man moans and strains while a woman giggles.
• Being buried alive.
• A woman moans.
• Joe talks about seeing a beautiful woman in an elevator.
• Paul Mantell ponders life as here and there and this and that, trying to get there, freedom and slavery, looking in the mirror and shaving.
• Joe describes his favorite TV detective program against a live percussive background before an audience: seeing the actor on a talk show, neighbors are baffled by a nice guy who shoots strangers from his window, Joe is a nice guy except when driving, he seeks out the film star in order to attack him, befriends him, and becomes trapped in a television program
• Nihilism, immortality in the past, discordant stuff.
• Eric Sears shoelaces are tied together and he's abducted by aliens from a planet that plays mahjong and feed him opium.
• The talking drum.
• Looking for a hotel where one had been as a child.
• Gravely distorted voice of an elevator operator.

Music

• Unknown chamber music
• "Ravinia / Vancouver" - Jon Hassell (from The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound, 1987) | YouTube [15:00]

• "Skin Deep" - Duke Ellington (from Ellington Uptown, 1951) | YouTube [17:10]
• "Hard Work" - John Handy (from Hard Work, 1976) | YouTube [23:15]

Shared material

• Great Lives
• Five Part Dissonance
• Joe Frank In Concert
• Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio

Commentary

I think this is identical, at least in words, to Five Part Dissonance. I've inspected transcripts of both.Arthur Peabody (talk) 13:33, 28 August 2023 (PDT)