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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.
For the third consecutive year, WPS1 was the official art radio station of Art Basel Miami Beach
The Art Radio activities and broadcasts in Miami for 2006 were co-sponsored by our program partners School of Visual Arts, Arts Council Manhattan, and WVUM-FM Coral Gables.
Curated and compiled specially for Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 by David Weinstein, Director of Public Programs, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and Managing Director, Art Radio WPS1.org. For five days in December 2006, visitors to the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens were offered a pair of wireless headphones and allowed to roam freely through the flora and fauna to the accompanying soundtrack.
Playlist
01 Screaming Piha 00:41 - Recorded in Amazonas, Brazil by Douglas Quin.
02 Birds (2003) 00:54 - Performed and produced by Anthony Gonzalez for M83 on the CD, Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts (Mute Records).
03 Tse Tse Fly (1956) 2:43 - Composed by Martin Denny, the father of Exotica, and performed by his combo (Rhino CD).
04 Music for Plants (2005) 2:45 - Christian Marclay, from the compilation CD produced by Peter Coffin (Perfection CD).
05 Crickets (2006) 2:08 - Assembled by Impossible Music especially for Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 (unreleased).
06 Music for Plants (2005) 2:15 - Arto Lindsay, from the compilation CD produced by Peter Coffin (Perfection CD).
07 S.709 (1992) 7:03 - Composed and constructed by Iannis Xenakis, admired for his mastery of micro-events that evoke insect swarming and hive culture.
08 Orchids in the Moonlight (1933) 5:00 - With Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond, music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu. From the soundtrack to Flying Down to Rio (RKO).
09 Plusieurs Oiseaux des arbres de Vie (1985) 2:44 - Composed by Olivier Messiaen as the ninth movement of his last great work, Illuminations of the Beyond.
10 Birds (1990) 7:12 - Composed by Paul Panhuysen for his KanaryGrandBand and his Galvanos electronic configuration (Table of the Elements CD).
11 Aracuã-do-Pantanal 00:55 - Recorded in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil by Douglas Quin.
12 Cantus Arcticus (1972) 3:53 - Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara as the second movement (Melancholy) of his concerto for birds and orchestra (Ondine CD).
13 Little Wing (1967) 2:28 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience from Axis: Bold as Love.
14 Sonic Seasonings (1972) (excerpt from Summer) 5:00 - Composed by Wendy Carlos,a landmark accomplishment in the ambient music movement (East Side Digital CD).
15 Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) 4:00 - Extracted from the film soundtrack; electronic sound by Remi Gassmann and Oskar Sala with sound consultant Bernard Herrmann.
16 White-backed Vultures 1:03 - Recorded in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya by Douglas Quin.
17 Bird of Paradise (1965) 3:44 - Composed by Terry Riley using tape manipulation and assemblage. Part Five of a 5-part work (Organ of Corti CD).
18 Music for Plants (2005) 5:15 - Jutta Koether, Alan Licht, and Tom Verlaine, from the compilation CD produced by Peter Coffin (Perfection CD).
19 The Insects Will Get You (1988) 3:18 - The Kids of Widney High, a special education school group in Los Angeles, recorded this and a variety of equally creative and inspiring tunes and continue going strong at kidsofwhidneyhigh.com.
20 The Thieving Magpie (1817) 5:5 - The overture by Gioacchino Rossini to his opera of the same name.
21 Great Blue Turacao 00:26 - Recorded in Kakamega Forest, Kenya by Douglas Quin.
22 A Flower (1950) 2:45 - Composed by John Cage and performed by Jay Clayton, voice and Donald Knaack, closed piano keyboard lid. From the CD, Three Constructions (Tomato Records).
23 Kingdoms and Phyla: Part 5 (1994) 7:57 - Composed by Douglas Quin for sampled and processed sounds of African, Malagasy, and Latin American birds, amphibians, and mammals. From his CD, Oropendola (Apollo).
24 Music for Plants (2005) 3:09 - DJ Olive, from the compilation CD produced by Peter Coffin (Perfection CD).
25 Sitting in a Room (2002) 6:00 - Composed by Shelley Hirsch and Simon Hostettler from Hirsch's CD, The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch (Tzadik).
Interventionist, conceptualist, videographer, DJ, and artist Yoshua Okon lives and works in Mexico City and LA. He sits down during Miami Basel with David Weinstein and Jeannie Hopper to discuss his work (dancing with cops, fighting with strangers) and offer some startling and entertaining observations about contemporary life in Mexico City. (34 minutes)
Artist and designer Arne Quinze of Belgium, his New York studio director Antoine Debouverie, P.S.1's Zorana Djakovic, and WPS1's David Weinstein discuss the projects and career of this emerging master. (12 minutes)
Find out what it takes to be entrusted with with ideas and art from Tom Eccles the newly appointed executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard. Host Althea Viafora Kress goes behind the scenes.
Tom Eccles was the director and curator of The Public Art Fund from 1997-2005 now he has curated the Hessel Museum of Art inaugural exhibition: Wrestle with Trevor Smith.
How does Tom move from a living museum to a universal museum? How does he bring these two ideas together and break open the container? What are the curatorial goals around a private collection? If collecting is self-representation how does he curate a collector's choices for the public? As a result of private philanthropy how do you curate for a larger audience? Find out from this dynamic interview about the art of our time in the public domain. (16 minutes)
P.S.1's Tony Guerrero sits down in Miami with the French-born conceptual/investigative artist resident of Denmark Thierry Geoffroy-Colonel who has a dynamic, ever-evolving exhibition, Emergency Room, scheduled for February 8 - March 19, 2007 at P.S.1. (12 minutes)
Recorded live at the Art Positions satellite gallery site, café, open air cinema, and remote home of the Art Radio broadcast booth: Miami's own DJ Le Spam of the Spam Allstars spun for the opening night party at Art Basel 2006. (30 minutes)
Recorded live at the Art Positions satellite gallery site, Miami's own DJ Le Spam of the Spam Allstars spun for his second set at the opening night party at Art Basel 2006. (1 hour)
An artist from the Free Frisbee alternative fair (they distributed free artists prints and posters across Miami) takes over our booth to sing a song. (6 minutes)
P.S.1 Deputy Director Brett Littman hosts a group discussion during the Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 Art Radio broadcasts with guests Bill Powers (former editor in chief Black Book), Cecilia Dean (editor of Visionaire), Judd Tulley (Art & Auction contributing editor), and Lindsay Pollock (correspondent for Bloomberg News). (26 minutes)
WPS1's Andrea Heiss interviews Peter Boswell, Miami Art Museum Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator. From February 11 - May 7, 2007, P.S.1 will present a survey of photographic works by Vik Muniz selected from a larger exhibition organized by Boswell. (18 minutes)
Open Season Havana is set of "baseball" trading cards conceptualized by
Miami-based artist Julie Lara Kahn
in collaboration with Miami -based curator Susan Caraballo, Havana-based curators Angela Hechavarra and Aylet Ojeda Jequn and 88 "players" in the Havana art community including: artists, collectors, curators, critics, and museum directors.
