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MORAL KOMBAT: Hosted by our new Performance Curator Joe Ahearn, on Tuesday, January 18 at 6pm, composers G Lucas Crane and Darren Driphouse Ho face-off in the first of a series of performances that asks: Who Is the Morally Superior Composer? This event is free and open to the public at the Clocktower Gallery, located at 108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor in Manhattan. Call 212-233-1096 for info or assistance.
VOLUNTEER AT AIR: AIR, Art International Radio is now accepting applications for Fall/Winter 2010 internships. We're looking for all manner of volunteers--snappy writers, clever designers, radio heads, audio geeks, Web freaks--as we move into another season. We're particularly keen on anyone with a headful of PHP. Read more
ENCORE SHOWS IN THIS WEEK'S STREAM
In The Hopper: Hooked on Sonics
In this Jeannie Hopper mix, submit yourself to a collection of sonic adventures featuring Pharoah Sanders' ethereal chants, Jimmy Smith's electrified whirls of the Leslie Organ, and DJ Logic's reimagining of Nina Simone's Obeah Woman. Then we take a sonic shift into the worlds of contemporary composers.
Off the Rail: Leonard Lopate
Host of a widely followed talk show on WNYC radio in New York--and a master of the form--Lopate discusses his early work training as a painter, studying with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, years in advertising, and falling into an opportunity to host a radio show. Phong Bui hosts.
Kalup Linzy Variety Show: DJ Rupture
DJ Rupture joins Kalup in the studio to discuss music and to reveal their new collaboration. Meanwhile, Labisha makes an appearance and, as always, takes no prisoners.
Experimental Composers: G Lucas Crane, Four Tapes from the Active Apocalypse, Part 3: Generator Mons
Regarding the meaning of this musical montage, Lucas wrote, "...each track was compiled from spherical open field microphones on a timer trip circuit... lost, retrieved, and pieced together, they give an average sonic portrait of human movement during the several end-time cataclysms..."
Radio Theatre and Spoken Word: ADVENTURE: Showdown at the Pig Palace
The second in a trilogy of works written and produced by Mark and Stephen Beasley. A fictional dialogue develops between two teenagers whose DNA seems to have sprung from the loins of a shopping mall. With music by Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death, Scorn).
The Clocktower Oral History Project: Ellen Phelan
The artist offers a glimpse of her life as a young painter in New York, painting in a studio at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, meeting Jennifer Bartlett, Joel Shapiro, John Baldessari, Edward Albee and Alanna Heiss.
