Shelley Hirsch
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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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Sonic Youth, Goodbye 20th Century
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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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Robert Moog Memorial Hour
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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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Gulf Coast Music Special
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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 Nights
For 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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Sky Gallery Live from DUMBO: New Instruments and Installations
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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:
Christian Science Minotaur - Nat Hawks and Leo Goldsmith initially just wanted to make a weird guitar band, but now other things are in their hands, like old synthesizers and children's toys. Nat runs a Brooklyn-based record label called Little Fury Things to release his own and his musical mate's music. Old XSM music is available there. Leo also plays bass for indie janglers The Pathways.
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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Mike Skinner with David Last and Charles Cohen
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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)
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