News & New Shows 6 - 13 February 2012

Javelin's Canyon Candy Now on View (Tues.-Fri., noon- 5pm) The Clocktower Gallery's current exhibition features a large screen viewing theater for the 16-minute film by Mike Anderson and Javelin alongside a winding walk through a maze of life size dioramas including a wind-washed cabin, termite hills and cactus fields with glimpses of coyotes, campsites, and lawless hijinx. Javelin has created a multi-channel surround-sound environment embedded in Anderson’s set with sounds of crickets, howling winds, mysterious voices, and drifting melodies. See photos from the exhibit's opening here.

Programs For The Week

Sonoridade

Música Moderna #6

Hosted by Béco Dranoff

Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

Béco Dranoff has returned from six weeks in Brazil with a precious cargo of CDs released in 2011 - an amazing year for the modern Brazilian MPB scene. Here he selects some favorite tracks focusing on a progressive vibe, and celebrating Carnaval.

New York Public Library

Lyle Ashton Harris and Chuck Close, Excessive Exposure

Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

Recorded by the New York Public Library, two photographer/artists discuss their mutual experiences, technique and format, celebrities (and how to photograph them), face blindness, Lana Turner, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, the Dalai Lama, and much more.

Joe & Ginny's Jam Sandwich

Bacon, Egg & Cheese

Hosted by Joe Ahearn , Ginny Benson

Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

A basic breakfast breakdown of Joe & Ginny's favorite layers of musical junk food: mix tape staples like Dan Deacon, Best Friends Forever, and Future Islands that have been cultured and aged in the cheese caves for months, but there's also sweets...

Clocktower Exhibits & Events

Elliott Sharp, Beneath the Valley of Gwangi

Hosted by Alanna Heiss

Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

Guitarist/composer Elliott Sharp in a solo for guitars and electronics at the Clocktower Gallery on Jan. 24, 2012 as part of the Canyon Candy exhibition performance series. Sharp created a new soundtrack for a classic sci-fi flick by Ray Harryhausen.

PERFORMA

Mike Kelley, Destroy All Monsters

Originally aired Friday, January 1st, 2010

A founder of seminal "anti-rock" band Destroy All Monsters, Mike Kelley discusses considerations of noise music as well as the Kelley-curated festival, A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality in 2009, plus an excerpt from the band's reunion show.

Clocktower Exhibits & Events

Warper Party: DJ ATOM Set

Hosted by DJ Shakey

Originally aired Monday, February 6th, 2012

Matt Inconiglios aka DJ ATOM was one of 24 artists who performed at the Clocktower Gallery as part of DJ Shakey's Warper Party project and marathon performance on Jan. 12, 2012. Hear his mixes of music, sounds and dialogue, steeped in dance beat.

Sound and Vision

Angela Dufresne

Hosted by David Humphrey

Originally aired Monday, September 8th, 2008

Angela Dufresne dives into music the same way she dives into painting, without inhibitions, preconceptions or patience for anything that restricts the free exercise of vitality. With tracks by Dog Faced Hermans, Sonny Sharrock, Transmission, others.

PERFORMA

PERFORMA 2009: Mike Kelley, Day Is Done

Originally aired Friday, December 11th, 2009

For PERFORMA 09, artist Mike Kelley presented 3 dance/performance pieces with a circus like cast in the Judson Memorial Church, inspired by the darkly funny vignettes of his 2005 film installation Day Is Done. The music is by Kelley and Scott Benzel.

Sound the Alarm

Guitars, Guitars, Guitars

Hosted by Elliot Stapleton

Originally aired Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The guitar, the git-box, the Axe! Host Elliot Stapleton tips his hat to all the six-stringed samurais out there who continually reinvent this amazing instrument with tracks by Bill Orcutt, Derek Bailey, Loren Conners, David Grubbs, and more.

The Island

Menasa Studio Dispatches, Part 1

Hosted by Andrew Bonacina , Victoria Brooks

Originally aired Monday, March 14th, 2011

Short audio works by artists working across the North Africa, Middle East and South Asia regions: Leena Ahmed & Ian Fletcher, Marwa Arsanios, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Camille Zakhari, and Can Altay.