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WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, featuring an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings and a free on-demand archive of over 1200 programs.
Elliott Sharp presents a world of sound including contemporary and archival composed and improvised musics, conceptual experiments, rare classics, and non-Western musics as well as salient interviews and discussions.
Os Mutantes is the eclectic Brazilian
rock band that typified (together with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil) the
global futurism of the Tropicalista movement of Brazil in the late '60s. (36
minutes)
Playlist
01 Panis Et Circensis 3:37
02 A Minha Menina 4:41
03 O Religio 3:29
04 Adeus Maria Fulo 3:04
05 Baby 3:00
06 Senhor F 2:33
07 Bat Macumba 3:09
08 Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour 3:35
09 Trem Fantasma 3:15
10 Tempo No Tempo 1:47
11 Ave Genghis Khan 3:46
Albuquerque-based composer Steve Peters draws from both the experimental tradition and a wide range of world folk music to create music and sound works for dance, theater, radio and public spaces as well as concert settings. To make "In Memory of the Four Winds" he blends harnesses the sound of insects, violins, the wind through Ponderosa pines, Siberian elms and the parabolic transducer stream to create a unique experience of a place through sound - the very place you're in.
Steve Peters' other releases include the pulsating, electro-acoustic cd, "Emanations" and "Delicate Abrasions" a 12-channel sound installation. Since 1989, he has been director of Nonsequitur, a nonprofit producing organization in the southwest.
The duo hosting New York's popular Thursday night "Phonomena" subTonic lounge parties at Tonic, put together this electronic sound collage blurring the borders between music and life.
"The interesting thing about environmental sound works is that although the procedure is often very similar (and hasn't really changed since the days of Ruttmann, Henry, Schaeffer et al) the results nearly always contain something very personal, idiosyncratic, even geo-specific or local."-Felice Villa, Suoni in liberte.
This program by Milan-based artists and musicians Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato includes a soundtrack made for the video Big Dirty Love by A Constructed World (from Melbourne) plus soundwalks and audio collages making use of extensive editing and supplementary sounds. Recorded and produced by the duo.
A slightly surreal and definitely seductive sound and music collage by the Milan-based duo Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato. Piccolo was a founding member of the Lounge Lizards, and Sato is both an intrepid electronic experimenter and a world-class DJ.
A mid-century modernist track from the dawn of pure electronic music precedes each track of rothkamm's supermodernist album FB01.
Playlist
01 Paul Gredinger - Formanten II (Cologne, 1954)
02 rothkamm - Incident Outside Mesquite (Hollywood, 2003)
03 Franco Evangelisti - Incontri di fasce sonore (Cologne, 1957)
04 rothkamm - Message from Space Mountain (Hollywood, 2002)
05 Carlos & Bebe Barron - Love at the Swimming Hole (New York, 1956)
06 rothkamm - Independent Bernoulli Trials (Hollywood, 2003)
07 Vladimir Ussachevsky - Metamorphosis (New York, 1957)
08 rothkamm - Earth Frequency Oscillator Hollywood, 2002)
09 Raymond Scott - Clavivox (New York, 1958)
10 rothkamm - Binary Rhythms of the Lizard People (Hollywood, 2003)
11 Herbert Eimert - Glockenspiel (Cologne, 1953)
12 rothkamm - Atmospheric Composition (Hollywood, 2002)
Compositions for computer but including acoustic and biological sources, by WPS1's own Elliott Sharp. Includes music for "Suspension," a video installation by Janene Higgins, as well as the very intriguing "Insect Gamelan," excerpted from the soundtrack to "Lo Que Sono Sebastien," a film by Rodrigo Rey-Rosa.
Elliott Sharp's work for concert and film, including tracks for Lo Que Sono Sebastian, Commune (John Berman's new documentary about the 1960s-era Black Bear Commune in northern California) and Dael Orlandersmith's acclaimed play, Yellowman
Underpinning all of the words are music tracks on this wild show produced by WPS1 music coordinator Elliott Sharp
range from the brutal electro beats of Tracie Morris' "Got It? Get It!" to the grinding funk of Eric Bogosian's "No Crime" to the stark soundscape of Steve Buscemi's "In The Film." Incredibly, there is more! The rootsy steel guitar-driven rock of Lisa Lowell's "In The Country," and the Hungarian Delta blues of Eszter Balint's "Estimated Time Of Wait," for example. Instrumental highlights include the psychedelic surf number, "Escalation" and the Miles-ian "Ask Me." The music is completely crafted by composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp and performed by him on instruments ranging from guitars, basses, saxophones, zither and banjo to computer processers, analog synthesizers, drum machines, and hacked speak-n-spell's. Guests on selected tracks include DJ Gak Sato and drummer Sim Cain.
Radio Hyper Yahoo:
01 I'm A Sleeper (Instr.)
02 Got It? Get It? (vox: Tracie Morris)
03 No Crime (vox: Eric Bogosian)
04 Happy (vox: Maggie Estep)
05 In The Film (vox: Steve Buscemi)
06 Escalation (instr)
07 In The Country (vox: Lisa Lowell)
08 Heathern (vox: Jack Womack)
09 Estimated Time Of Wait (vox: Eszter Balint)
10 King Rat (vox: Edwin Torres)
11 Raise The Hammer (vox: Eric Mingus)
12 Hellavision (vox: Steve Piccolo)
13 The Passion Of Crust (Instr.)
14 Ask Me (vox: E#)
Elliott Sharp presents Howard Shore's music for David Cronenberg's "Existenz". A dark, lush and brilliant orchestral score by a longtime Cronenberg collaborator for the smartest virtual reality film made to date!
Mostly improvised music meant to accompany the dance of a usually-female
shaman (mudang). Performed by an ensemble including Park Jong Sul-Changgo, Park Jung Sun-Ajaeng, Kim Bang Hyun-Taegum, Kim Chan Sub-Haegum, Han Se Hyon-Piri, Jung Jung Min-Ching, Hong Ok Mi-Haegum. (59 minutes)
Playlist
01 Sinawi
02 Haegum Sanjo
03 Ajaeng Sanjo
Deep Singh and Robert Thomas: Ish, Indian Classical Music listen |
listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005
This New York-based duo plays a fresh and exciting interpretation of Hindustani classical music with Thomas on guitar (an instrument not normally associated with this music) and Singh on tablas and harmonium.
Deep Singh, percussionist and composer, was born in London, and currently lives in New York. Singh began playing the tabla at the age of three and at age seven became the youngest disciple of Ustad Allah Rakha. Singh was recently an onstage percussionist in the Broadway production of Bombay Dreams, the Andrew Lloyd Webber/AR Rahman musical. Singh is currently completing a project with Devo which is scheduled to be released late summer 2005. (45 minutes)
A series of monthly alpha-wave mixes created by William Basinski for WPS1 -- and anyone interested in leaving the space-time continuum for just a little while.
This seamless and sublime stream of contemporary/ambient/minimalist/microsound pieces has been compiled by Basinski's guest composer and sometime collaborator, the very fine Richard Chartier, a star on the microtonal sound art circuit who also deejays experimental music in Washington, DC, where he lives. Embraceable listening.
Richard Chartier's sound art has been exhibited around the world at such venues as ICC in Tokyo, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He travels widely as a performer and regularly appears as a DJ in the Blueroom at MIES in Washington, DC, where he lives. He has produced recordings for 121/k LINE (USA), "William Basinski + Richard Chartier," Spekk (Japan), Mutek_Rec (Canada) and Trente Oiseaux (Germany) and collaborated with other composers including William Basinski, Taylor Deupree, COH and *0. He is an Aries.
Playlist
01 87 CENTRAL - night
02 COH - ...and shuttled across the sky
03 LAURIE ANDERSON - walking and falling
04 CHRIS CARTER - resonance
05 NURSE WITH WOUND - soliloquy for Lilith (1)
06 RICHARD CHARTIER - retrieval 1
07 ASMUS TIETCHENS - rasch
08 O - Ilta
09 MIKA VANIO - Se On Olemassa (It Is Existing)
10 FRANK BRETSCHNIEDER - night broadcast
11 NATHAN MCNINCH -artic waltz
12 FOURCOLOR - empty sky
13 FENNESZ - circassian
14 MOTION - moog edit
15 ZOVIET FRANCE - in my secrecy i was real
16 WILLIAM BASINSKI - saddest melody
17 TAYLOR DEUPREE + KEN KIRSCHNER - post-piano 10
18 WILLIAM BASINSKI - worry
19 SOGAR - aito-mathausen
20 MOTION - tones of white
21 RICHARD CHARTIER - archival 1992
22 TORU TAKEMITSU - kwaidan
23 EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - ocean und brandung
A series of monthly alpha-wave mixes created by William Basinski for WPS1 -- and anyone interested in leaving the space-time continuum for just a little while.
Composer William Basinski
continues this sound project for WPS1 with the heavenly Disintegration Loop 1.1, from a larger work featured in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," an exhibition of new sound artworks opening July 29 at the Project gallery in New York.
A series of monthly alpha-wave mixes created by William Basinski for WPS1 -- and anyone interested in leaving the space-time continuum for just a little while.
Disintegration Loops II is the second disc in a series of four by William Basinski. His film collaborations with artist James Elaine is currently part of the experimental music series, "Visual Music: SEE HEAR NOW!" co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater, RedCat, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Visual Music", February 13 through May 23, 2005.
A series of monthly alpha-wave mixes created by William Basinski for WPS1 -- and anyone interested in leaving the space-time continuum for just a little while.
The elegiac soundtrack to a film installation that debuted at Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2000. Fountain was produced by Basinski in collaboration with filmmaker James Elaine and writer/artist, Roger Justice.
A series of monthly alpha-wave mixes created by William Basinski for WPS1 -- and anyone interested in leaving the space-time continuum for just a little while.
This segment of "The Slipstream" features a blend of Basinski's 1998 Noton release, "Shortwavemusic," with unreleased recent tracks from the German artist and composer Carsten Nicolai, aka "Noto."
The legendary show recorded in New York at Town Hall, 1973.
Playlist
01 Intro
02 Astro Black
03 Variation Of Kohoutek Theme
04 Journey Through Outer Space
05 Enlightenment
06 Unknown Kohoutek
07 Discipline
08 Outer Space EM
09 Space Is The Place
James Tenney is a visionary and influential North American composer whose work during the 1950's and 60's with computers, algorithmic composition, improvisation, and theory set the stage for much of the rest of the 20th century's sonic experimentation.
Playlist
01 Harmonium 5 for String Trio
02 Ergodos II (for John Cage)
03 Water on the Mountain
04 Fire In Heaven
05 Collage #1 Blue Suede
06 Koan for String Quartet
For a performance at the Museum of Modern Art, Stan Brakhage's first film Interim(1952) was screened with a score by his one-time roommate and visionary composer James Tenney. This was Tenney's first composition and it is heard performed live by the virtuoso pianist, Jenny Lin. Completing this historic performance was a screening of Brakhage's early film In Between (1955), with John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano performed by Tenney. Finally, WPS1 Sonorama host Elliott Sharp interviews Tenney about Brakhage, the relationship between composing and performance, personal expression, and computers in music. Recorded by WPS1 during MOMA's Premieres Series, Monday, January 10, 2005.
Afro-American fife & drum bands, recorded 1942-1970, by artists who include Othar Turner, Napoleon Strickland and Sid Hemphill. The roots of this music go back to the bedrock of North American folk, combining British and early-American melodic and marching traditions with African percussion and syncopation.
A musical journey visiting a wide range of modern music, from a personality better known to some in the New York electronic music scene as quiet personal electronics.
Playlist
01 Pere Ubu - Non Alignment Pact
02 The Fall - I am Damo Suzuki
03 Can - Moonshake
04 ESG - UFO
05 Solex - Cayenne
06 A Tribe Called Quest - Peace Prosperity and Paper
07 Jaylib - Dubz
08 Untitled - qpe
09 Curd Duca - Gogo
10 Stereolab - Pack Yr Romantic Mind
11 My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power
12 Les Calamities - Malhabile
13 Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
14 Flying Lizards - Her Story
15 TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
16 Tall Dwarfs - Turning Brown and Torn in Two
17 Untitled - qpe
WPS1's Elliott Sharp describes Robert Pete Williams' music as "dark, hallucinatory, impassioned, angular, and searching with an ancient modal quality, both African and American."
According to Blues Online, Williams was born to sharecroppers in Zachary, Louisiana on March 14, 1914. He was unschooled and worked as a farm hand. His first instrument was a homemade cigar box guitar that he obtained in 1934, and worked frequently at local dances, country suppers, parties, and fish fries.Williams served time for murder at Angola State Prison farm in Angola, Louisiana from 1956 to 1959. While in prison he recorded for the Louisiana Folklore Society and Folk-Lyric/Arhoolie labels. His subsequent career included tours of clubs, universities, and festivals in both the U.S. and Europe. He died in Rosedale, Louisiana in 1980, at the age of 66.
Playlist
01 Free Again
02 Almost Dead Blues
03 Rolling Stone
04 Two Wings
05 A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
06 Thumbing A Ride
07 I've Grown So Ugly
08 Death Blues
09 Hobo Worried Blues
10 Hay Cutting Song
Arguably one of the 20th century's greatest composers and theoreticians, Iannis Xenakis was a pioneer in electroacoustics, computer music, strategic thinking, game pieces and algorithmic composition. For all this intellectual weight, his music was always visceral and passionate. These pieces, from a collection available through the Electronic Music Foundation, include "Bohor," "Concret PH," and "Diamorphoses."
Xenakis (1922-2001), who used mathematical models for his compositions, created this 8-channel tape piece for the 1971 Festival of the Arts in Persepolis/Shiraz, Iran.
Michiyo Yagi is a young koto virtuoso with a unique approach to the instrument, as at home in the avant-garde as she is in traditional Japanese music, "girl pop," or noise. In addition to her solo work, she also plays with Kokoo a Tokyo-based trio that plays nontraditional music with traditional Japanese instruments.
