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RADIO // Emerging Underground Turner Williams Jr. Hosted by Joe Ahearn Radio show Artist and musician Turner Williams Jr. performs and talks with Joe Ahearn at the Clocktower about his amazing "shahai baajas" (a zither/drone/typewriter hybrid instrument) and his bands Ramble Tamble and Guardian Alien. Artist and musician Turner Williams Jr. of Ramble Tamble and Guardian Alien, and master of the amazing "shahai baaja," an electrified zither which has been modified with typewriter keys that de-tune several strings, plus 12 additional unfretted... Originally aired 3/18/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Laetitia Morais, Missing for 10 Years Radio show Laetitia Morais's performance Missing for 10 Years, described by the artist as an articulation of "the anxiety caused by the lack of bonds when crossing an ocean, with 10 years of absence defined by law to the term of a life existence." A December 2011 performance articulating concepts described enigmatically by the artist as:: the anxiety caused by the lack of bonds when crossing an ocean, with 10 years of absence defined by law to the term of a life existence; sea salt is the... Originally aired 3/18/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Channel 192 Conjunctions 59, Colloquy Radio show Live recordings from Bard College's literary journal Conjunctions: 59, Colloquy's launch event in January 2013. Readings by Jedediah Berry (The Manual of Dectection), Charles Bernstein (All the Whiskey in Heaven), and Valerie Martin (Property). Recorded at a January 2013 launch event for the latest edition of Conjunctions, the widely regarded biannual literary journal published by Bard College. Hosted by Conjunctions founding editor Bradford Morrow, the evevning featured readings by:... Originally aired 3/18/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Close Listening Stanley Cavell Conversation Hosted by Charles Bernstein Radio show Stanley Cavell recorded at his home in 2012 in Brookline, Mass. The great American philosopher reads from the opening passages of "The Claim of Reason", his essay on King Lear, "The Avoidance of Love" and his new autobiography "Little Did I Know." Stanley Cavell in conversation with Charles Bernstein, recorded at Cavellí's home in Brookline, Mass. In this one-hour show, Cavell reads from the opening passages of The Claim of Reason, his essay on King Lear, The Avoidance of Love... Originally aired 3/18/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Matteo Garrone, Reality Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Matteo Garone, who scored internationally with his eye-opening docu-style probe of Naples' Mafiosi in 2008's Gomorrah, changes pace with his reality TV satire, the aptly named Reality. Both films won him the best director Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. Host Stephen Schaefer speaks with Italy's Matteo Garone, who scored internationally with his eye-opening docu-style probe of Naples' Mafiosi in 2008's Gomorrah, about his reality TV satire, the aptly named Reality. Both films won him... Originally aired 3/18/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sonoridade Non-Stop to Tokyo Hosted by Béco Dranoff Radio show A show dedicated to Japanese artists/producers who have delved into the Bossa and Samba waters to bring us their personal perspectives on these magical sounds and grooves. The show features music by Towa Tei, Pizzicato 5, Fantastic Plastic Machine... There is an old and profound cultural link between Brazil and Japan. Sao Paulo is said to be the biggest Japanese city outside of Japan and Japanese people are completely mad about Brazilian music. In Tokyo, one can find a much bigger selection of... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // BLURRINGradio DB34: Highs & Lows (with added DNB) Hosted by DB Radio show A show from DB that feels a little more jagged than most, as there are a few peaks and dark valleys. +90% is brand new with just a couple of classics thrown in for fun. Solid Gold. With tracks by The Clash, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Psychic Ills, Pond... A show from DB that feels a little more jagged than most, as there are a few peaks and dark valleys. +90% is brand new with just a couple of classics thrown in for fun. Solid Gold. DB welcomes comments or requests at INFO@DJDB.com. Featuring tracks... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Creative Time Liam Gillick, Creative Disruption Hosted by Nato Thompson Radio show Liam Gillick on the critical conversations that frame contemporary art, and our limited understanding of the present moment. Gillick has been tapped by Columbia U for a 2013 lecture series entitled Creative Disruption in the Age of Soft Revolution. Curator Nato Thompson speaks with artist Liam Gillick about the critical conversations that frame contemporary art, and our limited understanding of the present moment. Their discussion identifies a series of cultural impasses: an obsession with the... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas Nova Convention: William S. Burroughs Hosted by Charles Ruas Radio show the wildly unpredictable Burroughs' contribution to the 1978 affair that honored his work and revolved around the concept, co-conceived with Brion Gysin, of The Third Mind. Remarkable, marginal, hysterical, reflective, provocative Burroughs on fire. This segment compiles Burroughs' contribution to the affair that honored his work and revolved around the concept, co-conceived with Brion Gysin, of The Third Mind. Remarkable, marginal, hysterical, reflective, provocative Burroughs on fire. With... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // ARTonAIR Interviews Christiane Paul, The Public Private Hosted by Jeannie Hopper Radio show Jeannie Hopper with curator Christiane Paul on the occasion of her exhibition that explores the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm. At Parsons The New School through 17 April 2013. Jeannie Hopper in conversation with Christiane Paul, associate professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School and the adjunct curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the occasion of her exhibition, The Public... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Alan Courtis Interview Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show A talk with Alan Courtis, Argentina's most prolific noise maker, covering his many musical activities, his recording workshops, and about a recording he made where one of the instruments played was the grave of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges. Alan Courtis is Argentina's most prolific noise maker, with over a hundred recordings and counting. The group he co-founded, Reynols, has produced some of the most wildly experimental and nearly unclassifiable records around. While his principal... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Jim Sturgess, Upside Down Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show The tall handsome Brit who first scored in Julie Taymor’s 2007 Beatles reverie, Across the Universe, has become a go-to guy for young romantics of various hues, including Upside Down where he pursues Kirsten Dunst in a futuristic – or is it? – world. The tall handsome Brit who first scored in Julie Taymor’s 2007 Beatles reverie, Across the Universe, has become a go-to guy for young romantics of various hues, including Upside Down where he pursues Kirsten Dunst in a futuristic – or... Originally aired 3/11/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Independent Curators International (ICI) Kari Conte and Florence Ostende Radio show Curators Kari Conte and Florence Ostende on their documentation of the longest “exhibition in progress,” do it, which started in 1993 and is the starting point for a discussion on exhibition histories and the rise of self-reflexive exhibitions. A talk with curators Kari Conte and Florence Ostende on their documentation of the longest “exhibition in progress,” do it, the starting point for a discussion on exhibition histories and the rise of self-reflexive exhibitions. Started in 1993, do... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Royal Flush New(wave) Hosted by Stuart Matthewman Radio show Host/producer Stuart Matthewman takes us on a musical tour of Europe's most exciting city during one of it's most exciting times, late 70s/early 80s London: punk, rock, new wave, and others including: X Ray Spex, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie & the Banshees... In this session of Royal Flush, host/producer Stuart Matthewman takes us on a musical tour of Europe's most exciting city during one of it's most exciting times. Great London punk, rock, new wave, and others including: X Ray Spex, Iggy Pop,... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Joe & Ginny's Jam Sandwich Christopher Garrett's SHOWPAPER Hosted by Joe Ahearn, Ginny Benson Radio show Joe and Ginny run through the two weeks covered by SHOWPAPER's 150th issue, talking about events featuring and playing music by Kitty Pryde, Grasshopper, Sunset Guns, Slonk Donkerson, The Beets, Little Women, Psychic Blood, Dope Body, and more. Joe and Ginny run through the two weeks covered by SHOWPAPER's 150th issue, the first in a series curated by Chris Johanson. They talk about the gallery Holopaw just opened with Kelie Bowman, some projections by Jane Dickson featured at a recent... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // ISSUE Project Room Liturgy Hosted by Eve Essex Radio show Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and Bernhard Gann perform live at ISSUE at Liturgy. Eruptions of distorted guitar and industrial-like discharges of noise that accelerate, decelerate and explode in and out of sync with the back beat. Apocalyptic and ethereal. On Saturday, April 14 2012, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix kicked off his Residency at ISSUE Project Room with this duet with fellow band member and guitarist Bernhard Gann, The set features eruptions of distorted guitar and what Hunt-Hendrix calls a “burst... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Soundwalk Collective Death Must Die Radio show A sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. Here, on the river’s edges, the wrath and the grace of Shiva are expressed. The Soundwalk Collective's Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. It is here that Hindus... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Channel 192 Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station Radio show Lorin Stein (Paris Review) talks with novelist and poet Ben Lerner who reads from Leaving the Atocha Station at 192 Books in New York. Lerner’s work often uses scientific structures to explore the relationship between language, form, and movement. Editor and critic Lorin Stein of the Paris Review in conversation with poet turned novelist Ben Lerner who also reads from his book Leaving the Atocha Station at 192 Books in New York on November 27, 2012. Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas,... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // ARTonAIR Interviews David France, How to Survive a Plague Hosted by Jeannie Hopper Radio show Jeannie Hopper hosts writer and editor (Newsweek, New York Magazine) David France, the director and producer of "How to Survive a Plague", a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of ACT UP and TAG. Jeannie Hopper hosts David France, director and producer of the Academy Award nominated How to Survive a Plague, a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of ACT UP and TAG. In addition to... Originally aired 3/4/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Teenage Kicks Conrad Doucette, Unbroken Chain Hosted by Alec Hanley Bemis Radio show Brooklyn-based musician Conrad Doucette, drummer for Takka Takka and the related project Gabriel and the Hounds, iluminates the dark heart of the 1980s (and 70s) and theorize that those sounds may soon overpower today's overpowering 90s nostalgia. Producer/host Bemis is joined by Brooklyn-based musician Conrad Doucette, drummer for Takka Takka and the related side project Gabriel and the Hounds, as well as proud owner of the early adopter Twitter handle @conrad. He will take this show into... Originally aired 2/25/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Channel 192 Karen Russell & Jennifer Vanderbes, Betrayal Radio show Authors Karen Russell (Swamplandia!)and Jennifer Vanderbes (Strangers at the Feast) read from the Spring 2013 quarterly writing magazine Granta 122: Betrayal. The editor of the magazine, John Freeman introduces the authors. A reading on the occasion of the publication of Granta 122: Betrayal, from the quarterly magazine of writing, featuring Karen Russell and Jennifer Vanderbes whose work appears in the spring 2013 issue. John Freeman, editor of Granta, introduces the... Originally aired 2/25/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Living History Bookforum: Strange Bedfellows Radio show An eclectic book reading organized by Bookforum, the literature-focused project of Artforum, at the New Museum featuring writers Thomas Frank, Rachel Kushner, Rhonda Lieberman, George Saunders, and Choire Sicha. Recorded Feb. 2013. A reading event produced by Bookforum, the online literature-focused project of Artforum, held at the New Museum in New York in February 2013 and featuring Thomas Frank, Rachel Kushner, Rhonda Lieberman, George Saunders, and Choire Sicha. Thomas... Originally aired 2/25/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // In the Hopper Sultry Swooning Session Hosted by Jeannie Hopper Radio show Lush and lovely vocals in a hypnotic heady set for a mental escape guaranteed to warm you like a tropical breeze. Latest from Submotion Orchestra, Una, José James, Maya Azucena, David Starfire, Bonobo, Empresarios, DJ Sun +more. Lush and lovely vocals in a hypnotic heady winter set in this latest edition of In the Hopper. UK's Submotion Orchestra are a new favorite group to fire up the set on into DJ Sun's "Heart Seed" from his first full length album "One Hundred". A new... Originally aired 2/25/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Clocktower Exhibits & Events Phone Tag, Live Hosted by Joe Ahearn Radio show Synth-pop studio project, Phone Tag, recorded live in the Clocktower studios. Joe Ahearn interviews it's four members; frontman Gryphon Graham, Noah Hanlon on drums, Bodhi Landa on bass, and Eliza Walton on synth. The band is based out of Brooklyn. A February 2013 performance recorded live in our studios for radio, along with an interview hosted by Joe Ahearn. Phone Tag is a synth-pop studio project of Brooklyn-based producer and bandleader Gryphon Graham, whose live band includes Noah Hanlon... Originally aired 2/25/13 Listen Read More »