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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired on 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 the sound of music. Stun-things dropped, bass-lines, poetics, rare recordings, some fuzzy blame-theater all live all nude!
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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 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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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, February 14th, 2005

Before he and his collaborator Sharon Mesmer give civility a swift kick with their short play, The Swiftness of Swiftidity, our amazing sound poet Edwin Torres speaks with Rodrigo Toscano, who performs two radio plays.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, January 3rd, 2005

Poet host Edwin Torres produced this New Year show in 2005 using both feet, beginning with MMMZZZ, from an Oozebap compilation, and adding tracks from aural explorers Stephen Vitiello, Nick Cave, Bjork's keyboardist and more.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, November 29th, 2004

Your gold-tiara wearing host Edwin Torres celebrates drama in music with The Who's Rael 2; Os Mutantes's Dom Quixote; Brian Wilson's Vege-Tables; Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody; Indian Soundscapes; Bjork's Selmasongs/Cvalda and more!


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, November 8th, 2004

Edwin Torres hosts a short tribute to verbal and rhythmic fireworks with Eric Dolphy's Improvisations And Tukras from his classic album Other Aspects; The Spirit, Kamau Daa'ood's incendiary performance with Billy Higgins on drums, and more.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Thursday, October 14th, 2004

Our mindful host, Edwin Torres, makes up for cutting his and Sharon Mesmer's What Is This Shit? (where Sharon Mesmer and Edwin regularly travel the gab fantastic) from his last few shows—and we know you've missed them!


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, October 11th, 2004

Edwin Torres strolls through the naked city with his compadre-in-ears, poet Paul Skiff, visiting the studio with his new CD, Total Juju. Paul has been writing poetry since 1980, traveling within the subcurrent of spoken word and Loisaida.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, September 13th, 2004

Fresh from a mud bath, your naked host Edwin Torres welcomes his equally naked guest Mike Tyler, the man who helped rebirth Spoken Word from its slumber in the early 90s with the traveling Nuyorican Poets Café Live.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Nude MC Edwin Torres layers acres of transparent love over an aural palimpsest starting with Syd Straw and Mark Ribot's State of the Union joining hands with Marvin Gaye's unblemished plea to want you, and only you.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Nude MC Edwin Torres loses control of what control there is to have.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Host Edwin Torres relaxes with a yin-yang sandwich as Paul Opperman becomes guest DJ once again, sharing his tangential kinesthesis.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, July 19th, 2004

Edwin Torres welcomes special guest deejay Paul Opperman, who shares his sonic tangents as the Watts Prophets listen to Allen Watts heating up summer haikus in the 50s while his many friends bring assorted madness to Evangelist Sheila.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, June 28th, 2004

The voice of Edwin Torres marries itself as Eliza Galaher, Diane Spodarek and Xavier Cavazos gather around the love tree to watch the wedding mashup of Public Enemy and Al Hirt by The Evolution Control Committee as the bride walks down the sound.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres
Originally aired Monday, May 10th, 2004

Edwin Torres, poet and performer, premiers Live Nude Radio Theatre with an eclectic—perhaps even counter-intuitive—mix of baldface poetry and badass beats. Then Edwin and Sharon Mesmer release their first installment of What Is This Shit?


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Hosted by Edwin Torres

In this show, sound poet Edwin Torres discovers poet Steven Jesse Bernstein asking for more Noise Please, Jean-Pierre Bobillot&Jean-Louis Houchard mixing it up with Victor Nubla and poet Todd Colby's Hippie Shit next to Deconstructing Beck.


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Hosted by Edwin Torres

Your mess-ocratic host, Edwin Torres, gets continually involved in the editing of reality with a prince and some presidents and then waves his colors by inviting savvy-mixed-tape-raconteur Mike Bade to spin the spines of the musical electorate.


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