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Radio, Exhibits, & Events 10 - 17 September 2012

Ashcan Orchestra SOLD OUT! in Apollo's Accidental Answer, a one act opera based on the myth of Cassandra. Performances are September 12, 13, 14 AND ALL SEATS ARE NOW FILLED. Doors open 6 p.m. No admittance after 7 p.m. Bring a photo ID. 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor. Seating extremely limited. Confirmed RSVP required.

Gamelatron Opening Reception Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 6pm. The Gamelatron Jalan Jiwo is a robotic network of bells, chimes & gongs that envelops visitors in meditative tones and story-like polyphonies created by sound artist and engineer A Taylor Kuffner specially installed for our main gallery. All galleries and project rooms also on view. Free and open to the public. RSVP to events@artonair.org. No admittance after 7pm.

Programs For The Week
Radio Show
Radio Show
Hosted by Stuart Matthewman
Originally aired 9/10/12
Hosted by Stuart Matthewman
Originally aired 9/10/12

Stuart Matthewman pulls back the curtain on his legendary vinyl collection with this survey (with some twists) on Swing featuring Art Blakey, Oliver Nelson, Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderly, Frank Sinatra, Gene Vincent, John Barry and many more.


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Hosted by Charles Ruas
Originally aired 9/10/12

From the 1976 series, Marian Seldes reads Chapter 2 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, the Joycean, near hallucinogenic epic by Marguerite Young. Seldes is a celebrated stage, film, radio and television actress whose career spanned over six decades.


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Radio Show
Radio Show
Hosted by Alec Hanley Bemis
Originally aired 9/10/12
Hosted by Alec Hanley Bemis
Originally aired 9/10/12

This playlist focusing on the music of New Orleans is in observation of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (and now Isaac in 2012!). It speaks to the fact that the music of that city is as much about booty bass as it is about big brass.


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Radio Show
Radio Show
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired 9/10/12
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired 9/10/12

Yankelevich talks with Charles Bernstein about "Some Words for Dr. Vogt," his grandmother Yelenna Bonner and growing up in an American center of Soviet dissidence, samll press politics, design, modern era Russian poetry, translation, and much more.


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Originally aired 9/10/12

Two collaborating composer/performers and friends in a work designed to challenge the sound-making capacity of acoustic and electronic instruments in the context of a collective effort and open structure. Recorded live in New York in 2011.


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Radio Show
Radio Show
Originally aired 9/10/12
Originally aired 9/10/12

Joshua Cohen with four visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant. Four New Messages showcases the emotional intensity and verbal dexterity that have established him as brilliant/


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired 9/10/12

When she adopted her own Chinese baby girl Linda Goldstein Knowlton found the subject of her next documentary: What happens to the 80,000 Chinese adoptees in all 50 States as they hit adolescence and wonder about who they are?


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Radio Show
Originally aired 2/27/12

A live set by the Brazlilian chorinho band, Regional de NY recorded during the Clocktower Gallery's Samba na Casa do Gato celebration for Valentine's Day 2012, an evening of food, music and love hosted by journalist/organizer Thiago Carrapatoso.


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Radio Show
Radio Show
Originally aired 6/25/12
Originally aired 6/25/12

The artist known as Shoplifter and composer/performer Kría Brekkan sit in the Clocktower upper gallery where their collaborative work, Nervescape, is on view for the summer of 2012. Monsters and hair, performance and technology.


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Radio Show
Radio Show
Hosted by Banginclude , DJ Shakey
Originally aired 5/9/11
Hosted by Banginclude , DJ Shakey
Originally aired 5/9/11

A legend in his own time: obsessed record collector, DJ, advertising copywriter, promoter, creative consultant, and producer. With Double Dee he produced some of the most influential tracks in the history of hip-hop and dance music (Lessons 1, 2, 3).


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Radio Show
Radio Show
Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired 9/26/11
Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired 9/26/11

Cookin' Gumbo is Captain Planet's first full length album and is a 2011 release on DJ DRM's Brooklyn-based label Bastard Jazz. The two sit down with Jeannie Hopper to talk and play tracks celebrating their joy of fusion and embrace of global styles.


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