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Originally aired 4/22/13

What can an artist do with a plastic bag, fan, television set, three chairs, and speakers? Dutch performance and installation artist, Dani Ploeger uses just these things for his "Body Surveillance #1" performance on December 19, 2011.

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Laetitia Morais, Missing for 10 Years

Originally aired 3/18/13

Laetitia Morais's performance Missing for 10 Years, described by the artist as an articulation of "the anxiety caused by the lack of bonds when crossing an ocean, with 10 years of absence defined by law to the term of a life existence."

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Stefano Pilia, Solo

Originally aired 2/18/13

The Italian composer/musician Stefano Pilia in a live concert recorded December 2011 featuring an electric guitar solo set described as "textural melodies and sound relations with space, memory and time suspension."

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Dumas, Liberovskaya, Hirsch

Originally aired 1/28/13

Video artist Katherine Liberovskaya enlisted vocalist Shelley Hirsch and sound artist Chantal Dumas to join together and share stories, compositions, sounds, and video pieces. This intermedial performance has been minutely summarized as "9-9-18".

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein & Tom Hamilton

Originally aired 12/24/12

Operating under the name Composers Inside Electronics, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein and Tom Hamilton become the group known for pioneering home-built electronics and early "Circuit Bending." This concert includes a 1968 work by David Tudor.

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Hans Tammen & 3rd Eye Orchestra, Cladogram

Originally aired 12/3/12

Tammen uses Earle Brown's open form composition idea to launch a large multi-movement piece for a 15-piece ensemble. The music is inspired by West African roots of Jazz, Miles Davis, Steve Coleman and more. Recorded December 2011.

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Nikolaus Gerszewski and Gustavo Aguilar, Sonic Update

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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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Rafael Toral, Space Studies

Originally aired 8/20/12

Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free. The Lisbon-based composer/performer plays his Space Studies, exercises in "post-free jazz electronic music." Recorded live in concert March 2011.

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Andrea Belfi & Attila Faravelli, Tumble

Originally aired 7/30/12

From Milan, organic sound mass both delicate and wild, digital pulses diffused through a pile of modified woofers, sound cycles which create oneiric landscapes, primitive polyrhythms, feedbacks, pure sine waves, and tangled up patterns.

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Experimental Intermedia Concerts

Kevin Norton & Morgan O'Hara

Originally aired 6/25/12

Composer Kevin Norton on vibraphone and percussion performs while multimedia artist Morgan O'Hara creates drawings in mutual sync. Vibraphone polished and shining... pencils sharpened to razor points... a dynamic duel with art, balance, and chaos.

RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Dani Ploeger, Body Surveillance #1 Radio show What can an artist do with a plastic bag, fan, television set, three chairs, and speakers? Dutch performance and installation artist, Dani Ploeger uses just these things for his "Body Surveillance #1" performance on December 19, 2011. A performance of "Body Surveillance #1" by Dutch performance and installation artist Dani Ploeger on December 19, 2011. He describes the project as:: a performance installation with three chairs (I sit on one of them) a television (I watch it),... Originally aired 4/22/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Laetitia Morais, Missing for 10 Years Radio show Laetitia Morais's performance Missing for 10 Years, described by the artist as an articulation of "the anxiety caused by the lack of bonds when crossing an ocean, with 10 years of absence defined by law to the term of a life existence." A December 2011 performance articulating concepts described enigmatically by the artist as:: the anxiety caused by the lack of bonds when crossing an ocean, with 10 years of absence defined by law to the term of a life existence; sea salt is the... Originally aired 3/18/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Stefano Pilia, Solo Radio show The Italian composer/musician Stefano Pilia in a live concert recorded December 2011 featuring an electric guitar solo set described as "textural melodies and sound relations with space, memory and time suspension." The Italian composer/musician Stefano Pilia in a live concert recorded December 2011 featuring an electric guitar solo set described as "textural melodies and sound relations with space, memory and time suspension." Pilia is one of the founding... Originally aired 2/18/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Dumas, Liberovskaya, Hirsch Radio show Video artist Katherine Liberovskaya enlisted vocalist Shelley Hirsch and sound artist Chantal Dumas to join together and share stories, compositions, sounds, and video pieces. This intermedial performance has been minutely summarized as "9-9-18". A recording session shared between New York City based Shelley Hirsch and Canadian artists Katherine Liberovskaya and Chantal Dumas. Entitled, "9-9-18", Liberovskaya (live video), Dumas (field recordings, laptop), and Hirsch (voice, words) bring... Originally aired 1/28/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein & Tom Hamilton Radio show Operating under the name Composers Inside Electronics, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein and Tom Hamilton become the group known for pioneering home-built electronics and early "Circuit Bending." This concert includes a 1968 work by David Tudor. Operating under the name Composers Inside Electronics, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein and Tom Hamilton become the group known for pioneering home-built electronics and early "Circuit Bending." In this concert, they present new and classic electronic... Originally aired 12/24/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Hans Tammen & 3rd Eye Orchestra, Cladogram Radio show Tammen uses Earle Brown's open form composition idea to launch a large multi-movement piece for a 15-piece ensemble. The music is inspired by West African roots of Jazz, Miles Davis, Steve Coleman and more. Recorded December 2011. In his composistion Cladogram heard here, Hans Tammen uses Earle Brown's open form composition idea to launch a large multi-movement piece for a 15-piece ensemble with live sound processing. The music is inspired by West African roots of Jazz, Miles... Originally aired 12/3/12 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Nikolaus Gerszewski and Gustavo Aguilar, Sonic Update Radio show 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. A March, 2011 project recording initiated by the composer/performers Nikolaus Gerszewski and Gustavo Aguilar in which the utilization of an instrument's full sound-producing capacity mimics and informs the duo's interest in the joy and inspiration... Originally aired 9/10/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Rafael Toral, Space Studies Radio show Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free. The Lisbon-based composer/performer plays his Space Studies, exercises in "post-free jazz electronic music." Recorded live in concert March 2011. Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free. From a March 2011 performance at Experimental Internedia Foundation, the Lisbon-based composer/performer Rafael Toral plays his Space Studies... Originally aired 8/20/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Intermedia Concerts Andrea Belfi & Attila Faravelli, Tumble Radio show From Milan, organic sound mass both delicate and wild, digital pulses diffused through a pile of modified woofers, sound cycles which create oneiric landscapes, primitive polyrhythms, feedbacks, pure sine waves, and tangled up patterns. Tumble (the name for the union of Italian composers Andrea Belfi and Attila Faravelli) creates a sound world through what they call "instant composition/improvisation." The result of this process is a chaotic as well as rational music where rhythms... Originally aired 7/30/12 Listen Read More »