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Sound and Vision hopes that the blindness of radio and the muteness of artworks can be productively joined when artists play the music they care about. Host artist/writer and occasional musician
David Humphrey
will invite different artist guests to select material for each show with the faith that their playlists will reflect the vitality of their practice.
It's easy to imagine a playlist by Dana Shutz as a soundtrack to her paintings. Stories and imagined possibilities are articulated with great quantities of oddness and voice.
Playlist
01 Surfer Girl, David Thomas and Two Pale Boys
02 Try, Delta 5
03 Fancy, Bobby Gentry
04 Ecstasy to Frenzy, Rodd Keith
05 50 ft. Queenie, PJ Harvey
06 Rising, Illuminations
James Siena's paintings squeeze an unexpected amount of information into tight spaces. The Basque, Catalan and Castilian songs on his playlist compress a startling range of sentiments from the Iberian peninsula into a short half hour.
Playlist
01 Raimon, Qui Pregunta Ja Respon (Lliurament del Cant)
02 Furnish Time, Fex. Caduc. (Furnishtime)
03 Veneno, Los Delinquentes (Veneno)
04 Mikel Laboa, Haika, Mutil (Bat-Hiru)
05 Negu Gorriak, Oliver Iparra (Oliver North) (Idea Zabaldu)
Marc Handelman's playlist (like his paintings) is infused with a subtle spectrum of negative radiance. But don't be surprised if the dark turns out to be light (or visa versa).
Playlist
01 Public Enemy, Brothers Gonna Work It Out
02 M.I.A., Paper Planes
03 Stars of the Lid, The Evil That Never Arrived
04 Chopin, Mazurka in A Minor (Vladimir Horowitz)
05 Richard Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: (The Flying Dutchman) Overture
06 Gennadi Rezhdestvensky, Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio)
07 Zachary Cale, from "Strays"
08 Francis Gumm, I Hate Normal People
It turns out that the positive utopian spirit of Oliver Herring's new socially engaged practice is accompanied by an appetite for heartrending songs of wounded love and disappointment.
Playlist
01 Nick Cave, My Beautiful World
02 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Ballad on the Question Of What Keeps Mankind Alive from Three Penny Opera
03 Devendra Banhart, Untitled
04 Joan Osborne, Saint Theresa
05 Mozart, Queen of the Night's Aria from The Magic Flute
06 Feist, Honey Honey
07 Puccini, Tosca (Excerpts)
Alexis Rockman's eclectic playlist finds musical equivalents to his special-effects paintings of eco-catastrophe, biological mayhem and political alarm.
Playlist
01 Vangelis, Blade Runner-Main Title
02 Max Steiner, King Kong --The Forgotten Island
03 Jerry Goldsmith, Planet of the Apes-The Hunt
04 Traffic, Shanghai Noodle Factory
05 Prince, La,La,La,He, He, Hee
06 George Harrison, Bangla Desh
07 Marvin Gaye, Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
08 Geto Boys, Fuck A War
09 Johnny Cash, 25 Minutes to Go
The paintings of Adam Hurwitz probe the relationship between pornography and surgery while his DJ skills find connections between unexpected musical tracks.
Playlist
01 Tea Leaf Dancers, Flying Lotus
02 I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, Here Today, Caroline, No, Bullion
03 Lesson #2, Dekker (Adam Hurwitz)
04 Swet, Luke Vibert
05 Love the World (Majik Johnson remix), Karoshi Bros.
06 Time to Get Away (Gucci Soundsystem remix), LCD Soundsystem
Alexi Worth compresses sound into vision with the help of some twentieth century poets reading their own work.
Playlist
01 William Carlos Williams, “The Visit”
02 Robert Lowell, “Ford Madox Ford”
03 James Dickey, “Falling”
04 John Berryman, “Dream Song 4 (Filling Her Compact and Delicious Body)”
05 Richard Wilbur, “Hamlen Brook”
06 John Conlee, “Old School”
A variety of historic circumstance collides with profound musicianship in Stephen Ellis' playlist to produce works of time-bending beauty.
Playlist
01 Robert Johnson, Preaching Blues
02 Blind Willie Johnson, Dark was the Night
03 Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in C major for strings and harpsicord
04 Marin Marais, from Suite d'un Gout Etranger
Writing songs has become an intrinsic part of Rachel Mason's art practice as well a way of being in the world. Her work establishes links between her and powerful others in ways that are both both hilarious and touching.
Playlist
01 The Candidate
02 The Everglades
03 Oven Sky
04 Se Infecto Mi Canal (Live at the Slipper Room)
05 Vesuvius
Jon Kessler tells a coming of age story in music. From a smoky basement in Yonkers to Lagos, Paris and New York, his art interests continuously braided into his musical enthusiasms.
Playlist
01 The Eleven - The Grateful Dead
02 Water No Get Enemy - Fela Anikulapo Kuti
03 Timeless Dub - Linton Kwezi Johnson
04 Quartz - Brian Eno
05 Help Me Somebody - David Byrne and Brian Eno
06 Crazy - Patsy Cline
Sound and Vision makes an addition to Raphael Rubinstein's show of bands that include artists by revisiting the 80's East Village band Details at Eleven. Lin Culbertson, Ken Heer, Katie O'Looney, and David Humphrey found their place in the turbulent downtown scene somewhere between Three Teens Kill Four and Elliott Sharp.
Playlist
01 Row Song
02 Attention
03 Edgar
04 Blood Vessel
05 Marketplace
06 In Your Teeth
Poet and art critic Raphael Rubinstein picks some highlights from the deep history of artists who have also made music, including a band that includes Rubinstein himself. (30 minutes)
Playlist
01 Let Me Take Your Foto (1979) - Speedies
02 Past Tense (1980) - Student Teachers
03 (It Was So) Funny (That Song That They Heard) (1978) - The Erasers
04 Rock and Roll is Here to Die (2003) - Van Oehlen
05 Bang Bang (1987) - Martin Kippenberger
06 She's from Beverly Hills (2003) - Llyn Foulkes
07 Manifestation of Your Sickness (1979) - The Tenant
New York painter Julia Jaquette is an insatiable collector of images and recorded music. This selection tells one of countless possible stories derived from her collection. (31 minutes)
Playlist
01 Monday - Jon Brion
02 'T Stil In Amsterdam - Ramses Shaffy
03 Nao Vem Que Nao Tem - Wilson Simonal (Carlos Imperial)
04 Is That What Everybody Wants - Cliff Martinez
05 Lie Dream of a Casino Soul - The Fall
06 What He Gonna Say? - Cliff Martinez
07 Good News for the Pus Pickers - Danielson Famile
08 Pure Imagination - Gene Wilder (Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley)
Laurie Simmons wrote the lyrics for these songs by Michael Rohatyn for her film The Music of Regret. They go from sad to sadder but beam with a radiant tenderness.
Playlist
01 Excellent Moon (Meryl Streep and Adam Guettel)
02 Café Song (Meryl Streep and Adam Guettel)
03 It's Cold Out Here (Meryl Streep and Adam Guettel)
04 Rain Song (Meryl Streep and Adam Guettel)
05 Basements (Michael Rohatyn and Anthony Inneo)
06 It's Cold Out Here (Adam Guettel)
Artist and White Columns director Matthew Higgs exercises his well-developed curatorial muscles with an unexpected dance-friendly selection of vinyl from the seventies and early eighties. (40 minutes)
Playlist
01 Eminence Front - The Who
02 Prisencolinensinainaincivsol - Adriano Celentano
03 Sunday Jam - Can
04 I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You - Alan Parsons
05 Use Your Imagination - Kokomo
06 Art for Art's Sake - 10cc
07 On the Beach - Chris
"Music to Paint By!" doubles as a soundtrack for the skewed narratives
within Alison Elizabeth Taylor's pictures and for the arduous craft-labors that go into making them.
Playlist
01 They Took a Vote and Said No - Sunset Rubdown
02 Chinese Girl - Georgeanne Deen and Gorgonie
03 Dead Funny - Archie Bronson
04 Just a Thought - Gnarles Barkley
05 Uniform - The Essex Green
06 The Bleeder - Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band
07 Creation Lake - The Movies
Deborah Kass gathers a sisterhood of big-hearted singers to lament the decline of political optimism. Guy instrumentalists wrap-up the set to second the emotion. View Kass's work here.
Playlist
01 Broadway Baby Elaine Stritch from Follies (Live, Concert Performance, 1985)
02 Save the Country Laura Nyro at the Filmore East (Live, 1971)
03 Get Happy/Happy Days duet Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand from The Judy Garland Show (TV, 1961 or 1962)
04 Good Morning Hearthache Billie Holiday from Lady Sings the Blues (Verve, 1956)
05 A House is Not a Home Dionne Warwick Greatest Hits
06 Nutty Thelonius Monk Quartet With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Live, 1957)
Guy Richards Smit tells a story about his love for stories. Weather plays an important role in this mix of his own Maxi Geil! and Playcolt material with treasures from the archive.
Playlist
01 Makin' Love in the Sunshine - Maxi Geil! and Playcolt
02 Friday Night, Saturday Morning - The Specials
03 It's Cold Outside - Ella Fitzgerald
04 Summer Wine - Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra
05 It's Raining Today - Scott Walker
06 You Can't Kill Us Man (We're Already Dead) - Maxi Geil! and Playcolt
Found-audio archivist and multi-media artist Brian Belott shares his enthusiasm for flawed beauty and voices of the now-dead with his sub-guest Peter Pezzimenti.
Playlist
01 Drifting and Dreaming - Zeb and I 5/2/43 - Colorado collection
02 I Double Dare You - late40's - Missouri collection
03 I Need You - Nancy Potts
04 Bing Crosby Impressions - Missouri collection
05 Aloha Oe (Faster) W+B+Maude - September 1947 - Colorado collection
06 Hide Inside a Letter - Missouri collection
07 Maybe - Missouri collection
08 Heaven is Nearer - Clara + Van + Helen March 2 1941
09 Downtime at Strutters Ball - Missouri collection
10 El Rancho Grande Milo Songer - 5/17/46 - Colorado collection
11 Bing (complaints to pianist) - Rowdy Florida Bunch
12 Sleepytime Gal - Connie - Nan + I 2/15/44 - Colorado collection
13 Ocarina Zeb - late 40s - Colorado collection
14 Miss Your Apple Pie - late 40s - Colorado collection
15 Nightime in Nevada - Zeb and I 5/2/43 - Colorado collection
Listen carefully to the lyrics of these songs selected by
Gregory Amenoff but don't forget to have a box of Kleenex nearby.
Playlist
01 Three Hundred Pounds of Heavenly Joy - Howlin Wolf
02 There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce
03 You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
04 You Belong to - Bob Dylan
05 Forever Young - The Pretenders
06 Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle
07 Miss the Mississippi and You - Merle Haggard
Katherine Bernhardt shows how love and anger make good studio mates. Her setlist, like her paintings, harmonizes the raw and the fabulous. (27 minutes)
Playlist
01 I Love New York - Madonna
02 Do You Believe in Love at First Sight? - Madonna
03 Give It Up to Me - Sean Paul
04 I Want You - Paris Hilton
05 Confessions - Usher
06 Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle featuring Spragga Benz
07 Lifted - John Legend
Benjamin Butler's selections tell the wounded secret of his radiant and ostensibly smiley-faced paintings.
Playlist
01 Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
02 Philosophy of the World - The Shaggs
03 The Seasons (Summer) - John Cage
04 Metropolitan - Studio Cat (Benjamin Butler and Anne Eastman)
05 Tumbleweed - Studio Cat
06 Little Willow - Paul McCartney
07 Christmastime in the Mountains - Will Oldham
08 Alway on My Mind - Willie Nelson
Shinique Smith plays songs of melancholy or joyous self-assertion, from which she sometimes takes lyric fragments for her work.
Playlist
01 Angel - Jimi Hendrix
02 Ocean Within - KRS One/Saul
03 Nobody's Fool - Avril Lavigne
04 Runnin- Thru My Mind - Beastie Boys
05 I'm A King - P$C Feat. T.I. & Lil' Scrappy
06 Baby I'm A Star - Prince
07 Together Again - Janet Jackson
Lisa Sanditz uses a concept of place to link her playlist to her paintings of American liminal spaces. Her solo show, Flyover, appears October 6-January 7, 2007 at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, MO.
Playlist
01 The American Landscape - Gloria Deluxe
02 Warrior In Woolworths - X-Ray Spex
03 At the Sav-A-Penny Super Store - Les Paul & Mary Ford
04 Terminal City - Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
05 Florida - Vic Chesnutt
06 The Monk At The Disco - Bobby Bare Jr.
07 Rock Bottom, Pop. 1 - Robbie Fulks
08 (Nothing But) Flowers - David Byrne
Artist James Hyde titles his playlist Lost in Music to link a wide range of songs that reflect on music making itself and also the reflexive character of his studio practice.
Playlist
01 Rimshot - Erykah Badu
02 One Mic - NaS
03 I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe
04 Cretin Hop - The Ramones
05 Jeffrey Lewis - Chelsea Hotel
06 The Big Royalty Check - Van Morrison
07 Lost in Music - The Fall
Painter Thomas Nozkowski proposes a lively analogy between his work and classic sixties soul idioms. His selection of female vocalists testifies to a love for big feelings squeezed into familiar pop-musical structures.
Playlist
01 See What Condition My Condition Was In - Betty Lavette
02 Leave Me Alone - Baby Washington
03 All In My Mind - Maxine Brown
04 Any Guy - Cissy Houston
05 Shell of a Woman - Doris Allen
06 Ruler of My Heart - Irma Thomas
07 Fairy Tale - Pointer Sisters
Dike Blair, whose art celebrates momentary conditions of light and the skewed formalism of retail display, plays music that treats misery with suave humor.
Playlist
01 Shine - The Psychedelic Furs
02 Sidewalks of Chicago - Merle Haggard
03 The King is Gone (So Are You) - George Jones
04 The Fairest of the Seasons - Nico
05 Spiritual - Tom Verlaine
06 If You Know Time - Robyn Hitchcock
New York painter Ellen Altfest lights the darker side of country and the joy of yodeling. Two versions of Poor Ellen frame her set.
Playlist
01 Poor Ellen Smith - Kossoy Sisters
02 Drunk Friend - Freakwater
03 The Christian Life - The Byrds
04 Fist City - Loretta Lynn
05 Where Did You Get That Hat? - Edith Perrin
06 When I'd Yoo-Hoo In The Valley - Kenny Roberts
07 This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie and The Weavers
08 Poor Ellen Smith - Homer Cornett
