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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.
A program of contemporary works featuring traditional Indonesian instruments, kecapi (plucked zither) and suling (bamboo flute). This music comes from the Sundanese people, an ethnic Indonesian group from the western part of Java, and incorporates cultural elements from both the western and central parts of Java. In these selections, the Indonesian artist Endang Sukandar is heard in selections from his album Kecapi Suling: Bangbara. WPS1 would like to dedicate this program to the thousands of Indonesians who died, and to those who have lost everything during the earthquake disaster in May 2006. (30 minutes)
Music rescued by artist Michael Fabian from old vinyl recordings, probably from the 1940s and 1950s. A soora (or sura) is any of the 114 chapters or sections of the Koran (Quran). In researching this music we ran across these astonishing mystic graphic images generated by indexing verses and sections of the Koran. (29 minutes)
Playlist
01 Del Beykna
02 Shahar Sookoot
03 Hashim Hargis
04 Azadah
05 Hayada
