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Mike Skinner with David Last and Charles Cohen - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 30, 2006 A program of sound works by composer and sound artist Mike Skinner and a duo by composer/performers David Last and Charles Cohen. All three have impressive documentation on their Web sites, worth the three clicks. (26.5 minutes) Playlist 01 Independence Day - Mike Skinner (6 mins) 02 Office - Mike Skinner (6 mins) 03 David Last and Charles Cohen: Live in Philadelphia (excerpt) (13 mins)See Mike Skinner perform 8-Track Attack live at Roulette, New York, on November 19, 2006, at 8:30 PM. Mike Skinner will be performing of 8-Track Attack by using multiple sound sources, including portable 8 track players from the 60s and 70s (for which he records custom cassettes as well as using found tapes), quadrophonic 8 track systems, tape loops, short wave radio, bowed percussion, space echo, electric and effected cello and effected vocal loops to create dense landscapes of sound. You could preview 8-Track Attack by visiting our Venice Biennale 2005 archive. |
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Sky Gallery Live from DUMBO: New Instruments and Installations - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 31, 2005 On a rooftop along the edge of the East River the Brooklyn-based design and technology consultation studio Glide sponsored its first Sky Gallery performance and installation party, Oct. 15, 2005. WPS1's David Weinstein and Lucy Simanjuntak spoke with the artists, the sponsors and recorded the sounds. (30 minutes) Here are some details: Jeff Feddersen and Tetsu Kondo - The duo performed in three different configurations: 1) Fedderson's Tapeworm instrument with Kondo's graphics/sound software Dendraw 1.2. The Tapeworm uses prerecorded magnetic tape hand-manipulated using Walkman guts. The Dendraw software features a graphical five string instrument in a 360 degree fretted array. 2) The Silverfish is Fedderson's large, amplified percussion instrument related to the kalimba and the Fender Rhodes. Its long metal rods can be plucked, struck or bowed to elicit the sounds of an infrasonic gamelan orchestra. 3) The Double Harmonics Guitar, also built by Feddersen at Glide, is a three-meter long, two-player stringed instrument. Its operating principle is related to the behind-the-bridge guitars of Glenn Branca and Hans Reichel, extended to two performers: the actions of the players on the two outer sections of the instrument transfer to and mix in the inner amplified section. Jeff Feddersen works with the technology development group of Honeybee Robotics and teaches physical computing, sustainable energy, and interactive digital audio at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He occasionally plays trombone, glockenspiel and banjo with the Brooklyn-based band T. Griffin Coraline. Tetsu Kondo is an artist, musician, and reseacher from Toyokawa-City, Aichi, Japan. His art works cover drawing, installation to musical instrument design. He was a resident researcher at New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program. He also taught at Tokyo Zokei University. He is currently living in New York as the artist fellow of Pola Art Foundation Tokyo. Jason Van Anden - Farklempt! challenges its players to manage their emotional-health through the skillful manipulation of feelings against other players attempting to do the same. Equal parts addictive videogame and compelling visual art, Farklempt! continues artist Jason Van Anden's aesthetic investigation of how our emotional states impact the world around us. Jason Van Anden's cybernetic artworks have evolved through a mix of passionate art making and compulsive inventing. In 1996, he began creating software-based systems that simulated human interaction and this has evolved into "The Smile Project", an installation of robotic sculptures that play out these systems in real time and space. Van Anden (BFA, Syracuse University and Skowhegan) also runs Quadrant 2, Inc., a technology company. |
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Gulf Coast Music Special - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 12, 2005 David Weinstein and guest Tim Spelios spin a survey of Gulf Coast music in the week following Hurricane Katrina. There is a compelling and very readable history of the music available at a myriad of sites online. Read about the Mardi Gras Mambo, James Carter and the prisoners, and the tragedy of Amédé Ardoin which is remembered in disputed versions. Playlist 01 Napolian Strickland - Granny Will Your Dog Bite 02 Amédé Ardoin - Two Step 03 Napolian Strickland - The Saints Go Marching In 04 Dixie Cups - Iko Iko 05 Dennis McGee - Madam Young 06 Allen Toussaint - Nowhere to Go 07 Breaux Frères - Tiger Rag Blues 08 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya 09 Professor Longhair - Tipitina 10 Louis Armstrong Hot Five - Struttin' With Some BBQ 11 Allen Toussaint - Whirlaway 12 Shirley & Lee - Feel So Good 13 The Hawketts - Mardi Gras Mambo 14 Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves on the Water 15 Dennis McGee - Mon Chère Bébé Créole 16 James Carter & Prisoners of Mississippi State Penitentiary - Po Lazarus 17 Amédé Ardoin - Valse A Alice Poulard 18 Professor Longhair - Hey Now Baby 19 Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy 20 Allen Toussaint - Southern NightsFor more New Orleans music, visit Nathan Salsburg's special edition on WPS1 for his show, Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone. And if you have not yet, give some money to the American Red Cross. |
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Robert Moog Memorial Hour - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 5, 2005 A program of music to honor the memory of Robert Moog (May 23, 1934-Aug. 21, 2005) and his most influential electronic instrument the Moog Synthesizer. Playlist 01 Wendy Carlos - Clockwork Orange Title (Soundtrack) 02 Dick Hyman - Kolumbo (The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman) 03 Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (The Mix) 04 Perrey & Kingsley - Spooks in Space (The Essential Perrey & Kingsley) 05 Sun Ra - The Wind Speaks (My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2) 06 Wendy Carlos - Bach Cantata #208 (Switched-On Bach II) 07 Perrey & Kingsley - The Unidentified Flying Object 08 Dick Hyman - Total Bells and Tony 09 Wendy Carlos - Timesteps (Clockwork Orange Soundtrack) 10 Sun Ra - The Design/Cosmos II 11 Perrey & Kingsley - Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Michel Le Grand 12 Wendy Carlos - Bach 2-Part Invention in A Major 13 Dick Hyman - Time Is Tight, Booker T 14 Kraftwerk - Abzug/Metal on Metal 15 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man 16 Wendy Carlos - March from Clockwork Orange (Beethoven Ninth Symphony, Fourth Mov't) |
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Sonic Youth, Goodbye 20th Century - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 27, 2005 Selections from the self-published double CD (SYR4, Musical Perspectives) featuring the band playing some of the more challenging scores of late 20th century composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Pauline Oliveros. Playlist
01 Pauline Oliveros - Six for New Time (1999, written for the band)
02 Takehisa Kosugi - +- (1987)
03 Yoko Ono - Voice Piece for Soprano (1961, and only 12 seconds long)
04 Steve Reich - Pendulum Music (1968)
05 John Cage - Six (1991)
06 Christian Wolff - Burdocks (1971)
07 George Maciunas - Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece) (1962)
08 Nicolas Slonimsky - Piece Enfantine (1951)
09 Cornelius Cardew - Treatise (1967)
10 James Tenney - Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1971)
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Shelley Hirsch - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 27, 2005 Vocal acrobat, improviser, raconteur, chanteuse and so much more, Brooklyn born Shelley Hirsch has been a central figure in New York's downtown music scene since the mid 1970s. This program is assembled from a selection of remastered cuts from her CD, The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch, on Tzadik, overseen by John Zorn. Playlist
01 War of Dreams with text by Angela Carter, co-composed with David Weinstein
02 The Vidzer Family (a suite in 4 parts: Aida, Bessie, Phillip, Jacob),
03 also with Weinstein
04 Sitting In A Room
05 Club Enchantment
06 So Tender!
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