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Sound the Alarm. Photo by Leo Reynolds.

Sound the Alarm. Photo by Leo Reynolds.

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Sound the Alarm

Hosted by Elliot Stapleton

Elliot Stapleton lives deep in the dirty trenches of sound, occasionally emerging to talk about it.

RADIO // Sound the Alarm Gary Young, Music From the Film Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Gary Young, of the group Music from the Film, shares with host Elliot Stapleton how his latest 7" can, and should, be played in a variety of ways: 45 rpm or 33 rpm, forwards or backwards, and he even goes so far as to create a unique adapter for the... Originally aired 5/14/10 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm John Wiese Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Before the noise group Sissy Spacek stopped to perform at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn during their spring 2010 tour, John Wiese was kind enough to speak with host Elliot Stapleton about his musical travels. Wiese, a long-standing figure on the... Originally aired 3/26/10 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Gage Averill, Alan Lomax in Haiti Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show This past year saw the release of the incredible 10-CD box set Alan Lomax in Haiti. The original recordings, made by Alan Lomax between 1936 and 1937, were first deemed unlistenable by Lomax due to bad sound quality. However, because of... Originally aired 3/12/10 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Sound the Alarm Gage Averill, Alan Lomax in Haiti Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show 2010 saw the release of an incredible 10-CD box set, Alan Lomax in Haiti. Elliot Stapleton speaks with ethnomusicologist, Gage Averil about Lomax, Haitian music, saving recordings from the 1930s, and his involvement with relief efforts in Haiti. 2010 saw the release of an incredible 10-CD box set Alan Lomax in Haiti. The original recordings, made by Alan Lomax between 1936 and 1937, were first deemed unlistenable by Lomax due to bad sound quality. However, because of recent audio... Originally aired 3/12/10 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Brian Shimkovitz, Awesome Tapes From Africa Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Brian Shimkovitz speaks with Elliot Stapleton about his blog Awesome Tapes from Africa, where Brian answers the age old question, "What should I do with all my tapes from Africa?" Answer: post them online for all to hear. Brian tells us of how he... Originally aired 2/26/10 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Architect Talks: Avi Oster Radio show Architect Avi Oster led a discussion in the Architect Talks lecture series' Focus on 13th Street series, hosted by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons. Architect Avi Oster led a discussion in the Architect Talks lecture series' Focus on 13th Street series, hosted by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons. Oster... Originally aired 2/5/10 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Sound the Alarm Seth Kim-Cohen Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Artist, writer and Director of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts Seth Kim-Cohen speaks with Elliot Stapleton about his ever-evolving artistic practice as well as his recent book, In the Blink of an Ear Artist, writer and Director of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts Seth Kim-Cohen speaks with Elliot Stapleton about his ever-evolving artistic practice as well as his recent book, In the Blink of an Ear: Towards a Non-Cochlear... Originally aired 2/5/10 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff Radio show Elliot Stapleton speaks with musicians Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff of electronic doom metal band Nadja. Elliot Stapleton speaks with musicians Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff of electronic doom metal band Nadja (23 minutes). Originally aired 11/1/09 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, Nadja Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Elliot Stapleton speaks with musicians Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff of Nadja, which has been variously described as everything from drone to shoegazer-metal. They discuss how the economics of the independent music scene in which they operate... Originally aired 11/1/09 Listen Read More »
RADIO // ARTonAIR Interviews Carlos Giffoni: No Fun Fest Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show AIR's humblest seeker after truth Elliot Stapleton speaks with musician and label owner Carlos Giffoni. Giffoni runs No Fun Fest, an annual noise music festival that features some of the premier bands of the genre. After six years of holding the... Originally aired 10/16/09 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Vision Festival XII Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show In this edition of Sound the Alarm we will hear live excerpts from 2007 Vision Festival XII including Bill Dixon's 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur and William Parker's Double Sunrise Over Neptune: Morning Mantra. In this edition of Sound the Alarm we will hear live excerpts from Vision Festival XII including Bill Dixon's 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur and William Parker's Double Sunrise Over Neptune: Morning Mantra. This 2007 series took place at... Originally aired 10/13/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Daniel Kötter and Maria Chavez Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Elliot Stapleton sits down with video artist Daniel Kötter and avant-turntablist Maria Chavez to discuss their 2008 collaborative performance in Brooklyn centered around Kötter's video piece Ein Kinderspiel, an excerpt of which is available... Originally aired 9/29/08 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Sound the Alarm Philip Jeck Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show The music of Canadian artist Philip Jeck featuring his solo albums "Surf" and "Sand" released on Touch Records. Originally aired 7/7/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Yellow Swans Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show A tribute to Portland noise/drone/ambient duo Yellow Swans. Yellow Swans announced that they were breaking up as group in June 2008. We miss their massive, massive sound! Produced and hosted by Elliot Stapleton. This edition pays tribute to Portland noise/drone/ambient duo Yellow Swans. Yellow Swans announced that they were breaking up as group in June 2008. The group formed in 2001 and released numerous albums while continually touring in the states and... Originally aired 5/26/08 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Sound the Alarm Static-Soaked Melodies and Mutant Folk Hosted by Elliot Stapleton Radio show Elliot Stapleton features a group of contemporary musicians including Volcano the Bear, Grouper, Oren Ambarchi and Christian Fennesz with Ryuichi Sakamoto, offering some static-soaked melodies and mutant folk. Originally aired 5/5/08 Listen Read More »