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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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Originally aired Monday, May 14th, 2012

The San Francisco-based composer is interested in the transformations and slippages that occur when a large number of similar sounds are presented together, in dense layers; 1,000 different 60Hz hums; 10,000 different distant airplanes droning, etc.


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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 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 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 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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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 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 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 Charles Ruas
Originally aired Monday, May 7th, 2012

The author speaks to Charles Ruas about his family memoir, Immortal Bird, an elegiac portrayal of love focused on a son born with a congenital heart defect that required surgery as a baby. A moving and unforgettable evocation of familial love.


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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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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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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 Alec Hanley Bemis
Originally aired Monday, April 30th, 2012

From the second coming of Christ to the dawn of "End Times," there have been many speculations as to how and when the world will end, but so far so good. Alec Bemis has created the perfect mixture to prepare you for what may be the end of the world.


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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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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 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 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, April 23rd, 2012

Oscar nominated for his acclaimed French Canadian tearjerker Monsieur Lazhar as one of five best foreign language films of 2011, writer-director Philippe Falardeau discusses how he expanded a one-man stage work and found his protagonists.


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Hosted by DB
Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

The 26th edition Blurring Radio is a 90 minute mixtape featuring tracks from the very recent past, with a couple of classics thrown in just for good measure. While no theme was intended, "processed beats" jumped out to DB while playing back this mix.


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Hosted by David Weinstein
Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

In advance of their May 4-5, 2012 run at Roulette, the writer/filmmaker and her software designer collaborator R. Luke DuBois discuss their live-mix cinema film-noir sci-fi time travel telepathic interactive video mashup with music by Elliott Sharp.


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Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

For Spring 2012, the season of rebirth and renewal, the BRC Radio crew assembled this show of new sounds, new wonders, new possibilities. With tracks by Van Hunt, Gordon Voidwell, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kenna, others.


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Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

A discussion on the history, proposals and progress of developing a 2 mile stretch of waterfront on the lower east side of Manhattan, in an affordable housing area, with plants and grass, pavilions, music, food, recreation and more. It's complicated.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Jessica Phillips, Raúl Esparza's leading lady in the new Alan Menken musical Leap of Faith, explains how to get to Broadway by way of Nashville and Boston and what it's like to have a monologue written one afternoon and played the same night.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

Stephen Schaefer is joined by Kevin Kline, German shepherd-collie mix Kasey and his trainer Sarah Cole of Lawrence Kasdan's sweet natured comedy Darling Companion to discuss the film's production, Kline's history and Kasey's claim to fame.


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Hosted by Elliot Stapleton
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

In this episode silence, quietness and drone will reign supreme. We'll be reminded just how nice it is to lose track of time as we listen to a musicians, such as Richard Skelton, Michael Chapman. and more, who have mastered the art of timelessness.


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Hosted by DJ Shakey
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

Listen to a set by electronic musician Maxx Klaxon performed live at DJ Shakey's Warper Party event at the Clocktower Gallery on Jan. 12, 2012. Born Max Clarke, this musician brought hyperactive 1980s Miami-inspired electro-pop to downtown Manhattan.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

Austrian TV director Julian Polsler makes his feature film debut with an adaptation of international bestseller, "The Wall," which tells of a woman's physical and spiritual journey while mysteriously isolated on a picturesque Austrian mountaintop.


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