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Hosted by Nickodemus
Originally aired Monday, May 7th, 2012

As much as everyday is record store day for many, here's a bunch of new tunes picked out of the record bins in NYC as well as promos from record labels. Featuring the sounds of Mamani Keita, Refugee Allstars, At Jazz, The Spy from Cairo, and others.


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Hosted by Béco Dranoff
Originally aired Monday, May 7th, 2012

Ranging from the ultra-modern to the ultra-classic, this celebration of 2 years of Sonoridade features 2 hours of songs from each of the previous 23 shows to paint a broad panorama of contemporary Brazilian music hand-picked by producer Béco Dranoff.


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Hosted by Joe Ahearn , Ginny Benson
Originally aired Monday, April 30th, 2012

According to legend, one of the biggest obstacles in Todd P's first foray in Monterrey's music scene (a festival called MtyMx) was bands' moms who, citing regional drug lord violence, convinced some headliners to cancel. Stories, live sets, and more.


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Originally aired Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

this program documents the live mix broadcast by the artist during the 2012 May Day demonstrations in New York City. It was created from recordings, collaborations and contributions from workers who responded aurally to the idea of May Day.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, April 30th, 2012

Will Corwin sits down with artist Liam Gillick to discuss a recipe for creating public art that is neither grandiose, kitschy, nor dismissive of the public; the responsibilities of contemporary curators; and the joys of lying face down on the floor.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, December 26th, 2011

In this two-part interview director Gaby Dellal and actor Lynn Collins consider the challenge of Angels Crest, an ensemble drama that illuminates how the tragedy of a child’s accidental death reverberates in a tiny Western community in the Rockies.


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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Friday, June 4th, 2010
Computer viruses as a creative strategy? Pioneering digital artist Joseph Nechvatal believes they are. The Paris- and New York-based artist Nechvatal speaks with host Michael Rush about his decades-long experiments with...
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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, May 7th, 2012

Critics Robert Kushner and Dominique Nahas join Michael Rush in discussing Amy Goldin's contributions to post-war art criticism. The insightful critic's essays, taken from the pages of Artnews and other prestigious publications, are also discussed.


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Hosted by Alanna Heiss , Eve Essex
Originally aired Friday, May 11th, 2012

Artist Eve Essex and Clocktower Director Alanna Heiss gathered a group of music enthusiasts from different backgrounds and experiences together for casual but topical discussion on the evolving art of instrument building and its impact on music.


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Originally aired Friday, May 4th, 2012

The Model 266 radio series features interviews with pioneering and contemporary musicians working with legendary Buchla synthesizers. This segment features composer Morton Subotnick. A Harvestworks partnership, the series if hosted by Alexis Bhagat.


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Hosted by Ted Gordon
Originally aired Monday, May 14th, 2012

New York is a noisy place. This episode is focuses on noisy music that reflects a that world: a kind of one-to-one exchange, with a focus on the universe of musicians surrounding John Zorn, including Zorn himself, and numerous collaborators.


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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2011

Grayson Cox, emerging from Columbia's MFA program just a year ago, takes on NY with a fully formed exhibition at Chelsea's Gasser & Grunnert Gallery, through 23 April , 2011. Refreshingly sane and realistic.


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Originally aired Saturday, July 17th, 2004

On July 17, 2004 DJ Spinna performed at MoMA PS1's Warm Up series, sharing a versatile mix of rare grooves, modern classic vibes and multi-dimensional sound that have made him one of the most respected and in-demand DJ/producers in the music world.


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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired Monday, March 12th, 2012

Kick yourself into high gear with the latest Jeannie Hopper dance set! With Allessandro Diga, Santi Touch, Mink, LoMi, Kaskade Room for Happiness, Julius Papp, Lisa Shaw/Miracle, Crazibiza, Tommy Bones, Dazzle Drums, LeoTone, Chuck Love, Dave Shaw...


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Hosted by Alanna Heiss
Originally aired Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

On the occasion of their visit to New York to open their London Pictures exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery and Sonnabend (26 April – 23 June 2012) Gilbert & George sat down at the Clocktower Gallery with Alanna Heiss and Jessica Craig-Martin.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, February 13th, 2012

Director Agnieszka Holland discusses the difficulties of filming, casting and editing her latest, fact-based drama In Darkness which recounts a Polish thief’s transformation when he hides a group of Jews in the sewers to protect them from Nazis.


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Hosted by Joe Ahearn
Originally aired Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Mixing pop, soul, and gospel in equal parts, Ava Luna is a favorite in the Brooklyn DIY scene at the height of summer 2011. All seven of them gathered here at the Clocktower Gallery to perform as part of our performance series curated by Joe Ahearn.


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Hosted by Eve Essex
Originally aired Monday, April 30th, 2012

Artist and producer Eve Essex speaks with composer Matt Marble about his recent projects which draw freely from popular and traditional musics, and on extra-musical perspectives (biology, crystallography, anthropology, dreams).


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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired Monday, October 31st, 2011

Filmmaker Eve Sussman (Rape of the Sabine Women, 89 Seconds at Alcazar) and actor Jeff Wood discuss there new film, White on White: Algorithmic Noir, a computer assisted, abstract experience about an everyman in a post-apocalyptic no-man's land.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, May 14th, 2012

Dope Sagittarius is an electro, hip hop, punk rock extravaganza created by MC Whistler, front man for the band Funkface, using live instruments and superhero-like narrative to create grim, dub step, drum & bass, breakbeats, and techno soul.


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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired Monday, May 7th, 2012

Occupy This Album: a compilation of music by, for and inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99% to be released May 15, 1012. With tracks by Ani DiFranco, UNKLE, David Amram, Joan Baez, Tom Chapin, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo...


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, October 31st, 2011

Spain’s Elena Anaya’s stand-out role as the captive Vera, the subject of mad skin tissue experiments by Antonio Banderas’ plastic surgeon in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, easily rates as her most memorable role. She talks about it and them.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
In an action-packed interview, host Will Corwin joins artist David Hockney in rolling around the English painter laureate's gargantuan studio in matching wheelchairs (for convenience sake, not necessity). Sir David...
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Originally aired Friday, May 11th, 2012

Five activist artist/producer/educators--Jan Cohen-Cruz, Randy Martin, Morgan Jenness , Rachel Chavkin and Amy Whitaker--discuss the complicated and often fraught relationship between art, money and politics, the semiotics of dissent, and more.


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Originally aired Monday, May 14th, 2012

A night of music and new poetry at the Bowery Poetry Club on topics ranging from sexism to a lysergic acid experience. The honorary epigraph of the night comes from Bob Holman's wise words: "I'm a writer, I can do no wrong."


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, December 19th, 2011

Director Farhadi’s film follows two couples, one middle class and contemplating divorce, the other poor and religious, in contemporary Iran through a legal systemthat--Roshomon-like--evokes questions of morality, honesty, truth and justice.


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Hosted by Will Corwin
Originally aired Monday, May 9th, 2011

Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing discusses her 2011 New York show, People (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 5 May-24 June). It's a catch-all title that is probably the only way to discuss the photos that feature her disguised as her "spiritual" mentors.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, April 9th, 2012

Friendly Knowledge aka Aaron Hochman is a New Jersey producer who disassembles numerous soul and funk tunes, speeds them up and melds them with simple, fast footwork beats for manic, upbeat results.


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