AIR host Edwin Torres.
AIR host Edwin Torres.
Edwin Torres

Edwin Torres is author of "The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker" (Roof Books), "Fractured Humorous" (Subpress), "Please" (Faux Press) and "Onomalingua" (Rattapallax Press). He has collaborated frequently with a wide range of artists including musician Sean G. Meehan, sculptor Nancy Cohen, composer Akemi Naito and The Nurse Kaya String Quartet. He has appeared in many journals and anthologies including, Role Call (Third World Press), Heights Of The Marvelous (St. Martins Press) and Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café (HenryHolt). He is also included in The Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner) , and is co-editor of the poetry journal Rattapallax. His current CD, NOVO, is available through oozebap.org.

Shows and Series by Edwin Torres
Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Host Edwin Torres explores the liminal dark with Shelley Hirsch vocalizing into spiral architecture by way of Lydia Lunch as Thad Rutkowski's machine-like hump-a-doos rock into Mochipet's bionics while Bloody Valentine drones guitar love.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Third in a series of live-in-studio mixes by performance poet Edwin Torres with poet-guests Emily XYZ & Sharon Mesmer. Here, frank language, cool music, sweetness and rage all combine in a dazzling mix of contemporary spoken-word art and music.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Frank language, cool music, sweetness and rage all combine in Torres' mix, flaunting rock rhythms with rap, mixing Beatles White Album with Jay Z's Black to get the Danger Mouse Grey. This is a show to send public radio into paroxysms of envy.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, June 20th, 2005

Your nude host Edwin Torres will jump through hoops for your love, from what is pretty to what is paradise... lather up as he stumbles through Arthur Russell, Shelley Hirsch, Jeni Olin, Ray Baretto, and many others.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

On this show, we welcome Bruce Andrews to the studio. Andrews is a professor of political science at Fordham University and has published about forty books of poetry, performance, essays and a wide range of other collaborations since the late 1960s.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, May 16th, 2005

Edwin takes a brief journey from the Amazon to Andalusia, looking for duende in all the wrong places. What he discovers is a short radio play with Sharon Mesmer called Bullriding With Cream In Your Sack, not quite the desired epiphany.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Edwin Torres reaches into the belly of the sun and with one hand pulls out a collage of gas, muses, blips, and noise - and with the other he discovers the band Microskier and then adds tracks from Leonard Cohen to Genesis P-Orridge.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2005

The enigmatic, minimalist duo Microskier appears in-studio for a performance of two-minute gems, back to back! Microskier is Fred Stesney on digital technology and Skot Yobbagy on vocals and analog effects


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, April 4th, 2005

Your speechless host Edwin Torres provides another mix and dances in the studio while playing tunes from Christian Marclay & Elliott Sharp, Syd Barret/Opel, Missy Elliott, and more. Followed by intellectually charged banter with Sharon Mesmer.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, March 21st, 2005

Edwin reacquaints himself with the amazing, multi-talented David Cale, whom he first met at Dixon Place many years ago. David sings, performs a monologue or two and ventures into some theater/performance talk.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, February 28th, 2005

Listen to a non-stop mix of music geared for the eclectic soul, followed by the first of a special two-part rant with Sharon Mesmer, which showcases just how far Edwin and Sharon have matured.


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