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Born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, the rebellious
Larry Rivers (1923-2002) was a jazz saxophonist until he encountered Georges Braque's use of musical symbolism in a painting and decided to make a career change. John Gruen once described River's paintings as "semi-abstract, semi-realistic, pop-artish, post-romantic, or neo-classic."
Compilation of music Paul Bowles composed or recorded live in Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s, with thoroughly absorbing 1990 readings of short stories that include "The Successor" and "An Inopportune Visit," as well as poems such as "Here I Am." Produced by Randall Barnwell.
Music and sound produced by the artist Matthew Brannon known for his mock horror movie posters (the movies don't exist) and tapestries (for movie backgrounds). This segment includes music by Autonervous (Jesse Eva and Billy from San Francisco's The Vanishing) plus David Griffen and Noah Sheldon's music for The Unending Horrible (2004) Brannon's film about film credits. (30 minutes)
Eclectic and unclassifiable mix of music new and old, from here and there, from Moon dog to Derek Bailey to John and Yoko. Mark Dagley is a painter and musician and producer with projects including legendary Boston punk-band The Girls, The Hi-Sheriffs of Blue, and Marianne Nowottny.
Playlist
Isa Genzken - "Tri-Star" Dusseltoo Records 7" 1979
Rudolph Gray & Rashid Ali - "Implosion 73" New Alliance 7" 1991
MoonDog - "Utsu" Mars Records 7" 1960's
Robert Petway - "Catfish Blues" RCA -Victor 7" 1965
Alastair Galbraith - Rivulets/Wheeler" Camera Obscura Records 7" 1997
Derek Bailey & Ben Watson - "No title" Rectangle 7" 1999
Conlon Nancarrow - "Study #5" Arch Records LP
U. Srinivas - "Marugelara" Oriental Records 1986
2 Foot Flame - "Peacock Coal" WFMU Records 1998
The Okmoniks - "Sorority Club Song" In-Fi Records 7" 2003
The Public Servants - "A Mistake" Edible Records 7" 1981
Third Border - "Jugband Blues" Living Records CD-R 2004
Florence Foster Jenkins - "Like a Bird" BMG CD 1992
Florence Foster Jenkins - "Bell Song" BMG CD 1992
David Garland - "Seem the Same" (Secular Prayer #5) Review Records 2004
Yoko Ono/ John Lennon - "Excerpt from Two Virgins" Apple Records 1968
On Valentine's Day, treat your heartbreak to this compilation of aching country-western tunes from Doc Beyond, the deejay persona of James Elaine (produced by WPS1's William Basinski). Elaine, curator of Hammer Projects at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, is a prolific record collector who has created such classic country-music compilations as, "Excuse Me, I Think I've Got a Heartache." "Pretty World, Weeping Willow," and our special favorite, "Halo in HI-Fi." Elaine isn't above lounge muzak either. "Stardust in Electro-Lux", "LinoleumHeights," and "Moon-Glo on Hamilton Beach" are a few of these titles available by special order. With co-curators Christopher Miles and Aimee Chang, Elaine recently organized "Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles" -- quite possibly the hottest art show in the country at this moment -- for the Hammer Museum, where it remains on view through June 5, 2005. On February 26,2005 "The Films of James Elaine & William Basinski" will be screened at the Red Cat Theater in the Disney Concert Hall. Visual Music: SEE HEAR NOW!
Playlist
01 I Just Destroyed the World, Conway Twitty
02 Weary Blues from Waitin', Wanda Jackson
03 The Grand Tour, George Jones
04 I've Learned, tammy Wynette
05 Touch My Heart, Ray Price
06 Just Out of Reach, Sammi Smith
07 I almost Forgot Her Today, Carl Smith
08 A tear Dropped By, Jean Shepard
09 The Mood I'm In, Melba Montgomery
10 Unfaithful Arms, Wynn Stewart
11 Crazy Arms, Dottie West
12 If Crying Would Make You Care, Webb Pierce
13 If Lonliness Can Kill Me, Loretta Lynn
14 A Picture of Me (Without You), George Jones
15 Lonely Street, Tammy Wynette
16 Empty Hours, Carl Smith
17 Here's to Forever, Sammi Smith
18 There Stands the Glass, Wanda Jackson
19 Just Call Me Lonesome, Ray Price
20 Constantly, Melba Montgomery
21 Crazy Out of My Mind, Loretta Lynn
22 Someone I Used to Know, Tammy Wynette & George Jones
Having performed with numerous musicians from a distinguished roster, Jimmy Garrison (March 3, 1933 – April 7, 1976) remains best known for being a member of the seminal John Coltrane Quartet from 1962 - 1966.
WPS1's George Taylor presents three recordings from 1965 spotlighting Garrison's bass playing.
Playlist:
"Ascent" from Sun Ship
"Dusk-Dawn" from Living Space
"Love" from Meditations
Personnel on all tracks: John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner; with the addition of Rashied Ali on "Love"
Subititled Some Works with Sound Waves, Some Works with Light Waves and Some Other Experimental Works, artist Rodney Graham created these tracks for the the sex scene in the film Zabriskie Point (1970) about which he writes: (the film) intended to deconstruct the American consumer society and the student movement, was, by all accounts, the bomb that almost sunk Michelangelo Antonioni's film career, but the pop music soundtrack became famous and the film contained, in the climactic scene with the exploding desert house, the blueprint for subsequent MTV-style music videos - which may or may not be a good thing.
Rodney Graham was born in Matsqui, British Columbia, in 1949. He studied art history and his art has been included in numerous important international exhibitions. His piece Vexation Island represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1997. (22 minutes)
Rodney Graham's Rock is Hard. Preview the conceptual superstar's new CD, courtesy the artist
and 303 Gallery, where Graham's new film installation, "Rheinmetall/Victoria 8," is on view through June 19. (The title refers to a German-made typewriter from the 1930s, which the artist found in a Canadian junk shop and transformed with a gentle snow of white powder. Hmm?.) Graham has also made several CDs. Stay tuned for the rare and classic The Bed-Bug, Love Buzz and Other Short Songs in the Popular Idiom. He does the art. He writes the music. He plays the music. As he sings, "First you hear the foghorn moan/next you hit the rocks/what can you say when bad things happen?"
This music is kind of cross between Badalamenti and Bjork... Simon Ho (aka Hostettler), the internationally renowned Swiss composer and pianist, has forged a reputation for his "song-and band-projects," collaborative efforts that bring together artists from across multiple fields. Projects like "Another Commission" where poems by Meret Oppenheim are set to big band music (musicians include Corin Curschellas, Co Streiff, Hans Koch, Andi Hug), are typical for Ho. He is featured in the 2005 Crossing Border interdisciplinary literature, music, film and the visual arts festival at The Hague.
"Not a band but an idea," Marclay says of this compilation of live performances by the best avant-deejays - around: Toshio, Olive, Marina Rosenfeld and Erik M., as well as Marclay himself.
Artist and musician Christian Marclay founded this rotating trio in 1996 to promote the notion of the deejay as an ensemble player rather than a soloist. "I believe a good deejay should be able to play music with others, like any legitimate musician.," he has said. This recording documents several Marclay improvisations with four of the best experimental turntablists of the last decade: Toshio Kajiwara, dj Olive, Marina Rosenfeld and Erik M. Tracks were recorded live in Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, Washington DC, Paris, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, NY.
What do artists hear when they're alone? Filmmaker McBride ("The Big Easy," "Great Balls of Fire," "David Holzman's Diary") answers with this unusual mix of music, which he has named, "Jesus and Tequila."
Jim McBride wrote and directed the seminal independent "verite" film, "David Holtzman's Diary" in 1967 and later added such films as "Breathless," with Richard Gere, The Big Easy with Dennis Quaid, the music biographies "Great Ball of Fire" (on Jerry Lee Lewis) and "Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back" to his resume, as well as a number of TV shows and films including HBO's "Six Feet Under."
JESUS AND TEQUILA
01 Toots & The Maytals + Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving To Me
02 Gotan Project: Chunga's Revenge
03 Bebo Valdez & Dieguito "El Cigala": La Bien Paga (Well-Paid)
04 Boozoo Chavis: Johnny Billy Goat
05 The Iguanas: The Liquor Dance
06 The Gourds: Jesus and Tequila
07 Kings of Leon: Red Morning Light
08 Juan Bautista y Los Melodicos: Pegao de Que?
09 Henry Kaiser: Autumn Waltz
10 The Black Keys: The Breaks
11 Maria Alice: d'Zemcontre
12 Los Lobos: Rita
13 Souad Massi: Bladi
14 Last Roundup: Mama's Last Stand
15 David Byrne: Un Di Felice, Eterea
16 Ron Sexsmith: Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me
17 Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer: Redemption Song
This compilation of Roy Lichtenstein's favorite music tracks was made for a 2003 exhibition at the Kunstforum Vienna, on view from December 11, 2003 - March 7, 2004. Cassandra Lozano of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation aided Hayes Greenfield, the artist's saxophone teacher, in collecting the sources. Greenfield selected the versions his student liked best. On the last three tracks, the artist himself is playing and singing, live, at the Internet Cafe in New York.
Playlist
01 Homage to Pharoah-Hayes Greenfield 7:47
02 Body & Soul - Coleman Hawkins 3:29
03 Cannonball - Cannonball Adderley 4:20
04 Bloomdido - Charlie Parker 3:29
05 That Old Black Magic - Johnny Hartman 3:26
06 Chez le Photograph du Motel - Miles Davis 3:56
07 Back Beat - Johnny Hodges 7:30
08 God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday 4:02
09 It Don't Mean A Thing - Stan Getz 6:40
10 Every Time We Say Goodbye - John Coltrane 5:45 Lichtenstein
11 Oh Lady Be Good - Lester Young 3:37
12 Live At The Internet Cafe - Roy Lichtenstein 3:49
13 Roy Singing The Blues - Live - Roy Lichtenstein 1:30
14 Dots & Lines - Roy Lichtenstein/Hayes Greenfield 1:56
A studio recording of The Patsys - a musical group featuring the artists Jon Kessler and Robert Longo and the actress Barbara Sukowa. Kessler's site-specific installation, The Palace at 4 a.m., will be on view at P.S.1 from Oct. 30, 2005 through Feb 6 2006. (17 minutes)
The Larry Rivers Memorial Hour: Presenting the music of cartoonist
R Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders! Bluegrass for smart people, from
Singing in the Bathtub and Chasin'Rainbows courtesy the Paul Morris Gallery. Musical personnel includes: Robert Armstrong, Bob Brozman, Allan Dodge, Tom Marion and Terry Zwigoff.
Mason Williams emerged in the late 1960's in both television and music circles. He is most widely known as composer and recording artist of the hit song Classical Gas, which won three Grammy Awards. During his years in the Navy and in college he wrote a series of poems he called Them Poems. As he entered the folk music scene in the early 60's he wound up rooming with Ed Ruscha in Los Angeles who was a long time friend. Some of the language from Them Poems is a consequence of creative word play that Ed and Paul Ruscha riffed on with Williams over the years. Ed Ruscha provided WPS1 with this recording from 1964.
And for a generational shock, Ruscha also sent us a bonus track called Atom Smasher Dub from Future Pigeon which is his son Eddie Ruscha and Jason Mason.
An exhibit of the Ruscha paintings shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale entitled Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha is on view at the Whitney Museum in New York from Nov. 17, 2005-Jan. 29, 2006. (30 minutes)
From Mike Skinner's notes: Many of the tones in the pieces originate from analog synths, radio static, and various buzzing, humming or bubbling sources. I am recording directly to 8 track cassettes that I am scavenging from sources all over the country (especially through ebay and estate sales). My interest in using 8 tracks began as I was thinking about a way to play multiple soundscapes simultaneously. The experiments started by using laptops and multiple cd players all playing the same tracks at the same time and gradually falling out of synch. The pieces became more interesting to me as time passed, or as I was able to relax further into the sounds to really begin to experience time passing. I then moved to creating multiple CDs which would also play simultaneously again opening up a sort of entropy which would slowly "evolve". I imagine these multi-track soundscapes as pushing off a note in a bottle in space. They will continue on that path until something interrupts it's path. I start the process and from there it is out of my hands (my 8 track performance pieces, however, involve direct manipulation of multiple tapes and transmitters routed through effects). The beauty of portable 8 tracks is that they continue to play indefinitely (or, if I choose, as long as the batteries last).
Mike Skinner began his NYC music career drumming/recording/touring for a wide array of artists, including Kevin Devine, The Lily's, Miracle of 86 and, of course, Black Moustache. Several years ago Skinner began branching out into soundtracks (Final Fantasy), composing scores for German choreographer Isabel Gotzkowski and most recently, sound projects for artists James Drake, Danny Hobart and Ugo Rondinone, as well as his own fine art sound projects. Skinner has composed or compiled original runway scores for Yoko Devereaux, H Fredriksson and Jasmin Shokrian, written songs for Amanda LePore and produced Libertine's 2004 show.
An exclusive preview of Sonic Youth's best-ever CD,
Sonic Nurse. (By permission of the artists.) After 23 years together, this band is just plain fabulous. With cover art by Richard Prince.
This edition we pay tribute to Portland noise/drone /ambient duo Yellow Swans. Yellow Swans recently announced they are breaking up as group in June 2008. The group formed in 2001 and have released numerous albums while continually touring in the states and internationally......We will miss their massive, massive sound.
Playlist
Artist / Song / Album
#3 / Global Clone / PACrec
#5 / Global Clone / PACrec
Mass Mirage / At All Ends / Load Records
A playlist compiled by Elliot Stapleton which features a group contemporary musicians offering some static-soaked melodies and mutant folk...just in time for the summer.
Playlist
Artist / Song / Album
Volcano the Bear/ The Colour of My Find / Classic Erasmus Fusion
Grouper / Imposter in the Sky / Wide
Oren Ambarchi / Girl with the Sky / Grapes from the Estate
Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto / Kokoro/Cendre
Harfe is an artwork in the form of a wooden canoe that has been
transformed into a string instrument by
Kirsten Pieroth. Josef Suchy
improvised on that instrument during several days of recording in winter 2001. These recordings were transformed and rebuild by Joseph at his studio. Cologne-based experimental guitarist Suchy also works with experimental electronic artists such as Ekkehard Ehlers, F.X. Randomiz, Hrvatski, and Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players. Selections from the release on the Whatness label.
Surface Tension is a published anthology compiled by Ken Ehrlich, Brandon LaBelle, and Stephen Vitiello that explores the use of space in art and audio including what the editors call "site-specific practice and its legacy" through critical and creative essays by leading theorists, architects, and artists. The book also contains a CD compiled by Vitiello. The contents of the CD were broadcast in selected Paris subway stations during the 2005 Rencontres Internationales, a festival of experimental cinema and contemporary audio-visual art. WPS1 wishes to thank the festival for providing us with this material.
Playlist
01 Cough Piece (1961/1963), Yoko Ono
02 Concurrence of Electrical Transformers in Several Locations (2001), Erik Nauman
03 Lunar Rambles (1976), Terry Fox
04 Prom?th?e Num?rique/Frankenstein's Netz: Excerpt Phase II: Awakending (2002), Atau Tanaka
05 Conch Calling (1995), Stuart Dempster
06 Silk Thread Song (1971/2001), Alison Knowles
07 Dagmar's Room (1971), Anthony Moore
08 Shifting (2001), Frances Marie-Uitti
09 Disclosure (2001/2002), Undo (Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge)
10 Rhythmic Stamping/Four Rhythms in Preparation for Video Tape Problems (1969), Bruce Nauman
11 Gates of Pythagoras (2002), Paul Panhuysen
12 The Hidden Autonomy of Water (2002), Seth Cluett
A mix by artist Fred Tomaselli known for paintings that incorporate acrylic, photo-collage, pills, hallucinogenic plants and medicinal herbs in abstract compositions or fictive landscapes.
Psychedelic drugs are one means of encountering the shocking Otherness that lurks within the interior of the earth and the self, and Tomaselli acknowledges their influence on his work. They are, as writer Ralph Metzner put it, "Gnostic catalysts." What follows the personal apocalypse of the psychedelic trip is the necessary restructuring of the Ego and, possibly, the uneasy awareness that the world is woven together by invisible forces and supersensible beings with different agendas from our own. No longer dismissible as superstitious residue, myth reveals itself as living reality. --from Dan Cameron's essay on Tomaselli
Playlist
01 Divine Rectors Call (edit) / Elizabeth Claire Prophet
02 Woman Made the Devil / Bongos Ikwue
03 The Minotaurs Song / Incredible String Band
04 Space Girl / Shirley Collins
05 The ArizonaYodeler / The DeZurik Sisters
06 The 'Pon a Hill / Tyrannosaurus Rex
07 Love with Women / George W. Bush
08 Bigger Ocean / Wingdale Community Singers
09 Deathknell / Josephine Foster & The Supposed
10 Grandpa / American Family Association
11 Ray of Gob / Go Home Productions
12 LSD (edit) / Goldie Looking Chain
13 Ezhupaalam Kadamnu / S. Janaki & Brahmanandan
14 Alien in Out a Space / Lee 'Scratch' Perry
15 Big Eyed Beans from Venus / Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
16 Sovereignty of Tribal Nations / George W. Bush
17 Flintstones / Black Lodge Sisters
18 I'll Never Say Never to Always / Manson Family
19 Straight Out of Compton / Nina Gordon
20 02_Fuck_Tha_Police_EDIT / Unknown (NWA)
21 rebelwithoutabanjo / DonAmotKofC
22 99 Cops / Brian Dewan
23 Janet Reno / Anquette
24 Track 7 / Funk Neurotico
25 Herter's Crow Calling Record / Part Two / Herter!
26 The Kid with the Replaceable Head / Richard Hell and TheVoidoids
27 Rock and Roll Evacuation / Electric Six
28 Barry / Barry White
29 John Wayne Gac Jr. / Sufjan Stevens
30 Death is Only a Dream / Ralph Stanley (w/ Ricky Skaggs)
Workshop: Es liebt Dich und Deine Korperlichkeit ein Ausgeflippter listen |
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First broadcast August 22, 2005
Workshop is Kai Althoff and Stephan Abry, a German duo with an eclectic output centered in groove based kraut rock explorations and pop songs. This hour features selections from their fifth album, released in 2002 on Blue Chopsticks.
As it stands, even though many claim the band's earlier debts to bands like
Can and Faust, this newer incarnation owes as much to classic pop songs as it
does to their fellow countrymen, albeit songs obviously filtered through those
Krautrock sensibilities. Imagine, if you will, a Belle & Sebastian or an
Elephant Sixer indebted more so to Kraftwerkian motorik rhythms than to Brian
Wilson style harmonies and you just might have it. Any way you choose to look
at it, Workshop is a strange and intriguing listen that is definitely worth
checking out. - from Michael Crumsho at dustedmagazine.com.
Between 1979 and 1981, Y Pants, a band of three New York artists, Barbara Ess, Virginia Piersol and Gail Vachon, performed in art spaces and clubs in the U.S., Canada and Europe, and also released two records. The instrumentation was amplified toy piano and ukelele played through distortion devices, and a pared-down drum set. Later an electronic keyboard and an electric bass were also used. Their entire oeuvre was compiled and re-released on CD by Chris Freeman's Periodic Document label distributed by Fusetron.
