Pearson Shuffle 1 | Clocktower Gallery & Radio

Radio Show

Hosted by Eve Essex

Originally aired 4/30/12

Artist and producer Eve Essex speaks with composer Matt Marble about his recent projects which draw freely from popular and traditional musics, and on extra-musical perspectives (biology, crystallography, anthropology, dreams).

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Experimental Composers

Michael Kowalski, The Rise and Fall of the First World

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired 4/9/12

Composer Michael Kowalski, and his co-librettist Helena Soares Hungria by phone from São Paulo, discuss the creation of their bi-lingual opera and show how to samba with a soprano with post-industrial flair. Lots of music, stories, wisdoms, history.

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Experimental Composers

Kato Hideki, Bayt

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired 3/28/12

Bayt (the Arabic and Hebrew word for house) is performed by Hideki's trio Green Zone with the composer on electric bass, baritone guitar, violin, viola, analog synth and water, Otomo Yoshihide on electric guitar, and Uemura Masahiro on drums.

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Experimental Composers

David Linton, Bicameral Research Cortical Degausser

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired 3/5/12

An audio mix produced by artist David Linton from the soundtrack to his 2011 installation. The intense sensory experience of the audio and video driven installation was triggered by shifting, pulsating, synchronous sound and colored light. Trippy.

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Experimental Composers

Charlie Morrow TOOT!

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired 1/2/12

Composer/producer/shaman Charlie Morrow is equal parts Fluxus, Occupy Lincoln Center, Lakota mystic, and tech wizard. A 2011 release entitled TOOT! (XI) contains audio examples from nearly three decades of private experiments and public spectacles.

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Experimental Composers

Vidas Perfectas: Ned Sublette & Elio Villafranca

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired 11/28/11

During rehearsals for the upcoming Spanish language version of Robert Ashley's groundbreaking "television opera" Perfect Lives (now Vidas Perfectas, Dec. 15-17, 2011 at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn), musicians Sublette and Villafranca spoke about

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Sonorama

Anthony Braxton, 19 [Solo] Compositions (1989)

Hosted by Elliott Sharp

Originally aired 10/10/11

Live concert recordings featuring avant-garde composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton playing 16 of his works and three jazz classics. Each piece explores structural, tonal, or textural ideas, moods, or content.

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Experimental Composers

Kai Althoff, Workshop (1990)

Originally aired 10/3/11

Kai Althoff is a Cologne, Germany-based artist who makes installations, videos and drawings often involving invented stories and has a long-running musical project with Stephan Abry and other occasional collaborators called Workshop. Neo-Krautrock.

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Experimental Composers

Andrew Lamb, New Orleans Suite

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired 8/22/11

Andrew Lamb, a jazz saxophonist and flautist who heavily influenced New York City's avant-garde community in the 70s, sits down with producer Glenn Leslie to discuss his beginnings in music and where his talent has taken him.

Radio Show

Experimental Composers

Boris D. Hegenbart Matsui & Volker Straebel

Originally aired 8/15/11

A double bill of electronic music from Berlin: Hegenbart presents his "musicforclouds", a live performance utylizing synthetic sound of meteorological beauty and Straebel premiers two of his "sound observations." Recorded December 2010 in New York.

RADIO // Experimental Composers John Cage & Lejaren Hiller, HPSCHD Hosted by David Weinstein Radio show For the restaging of one of the largest, loudest intermedia pieces of the 20th Century at Eyebeam on May 3-4, 2013, four artist producers discuss how to handle the hundreds of channels of audio, thousands of images, dozens of films, and harpsichords. HPSCHD, John Cage and Lejaren HIller’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century. In this conversation, David Weinstein hosts three... Originally aired 4/25/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Composers Elliott Sharp, Foliage Hosted by David Weinstein Radio show Elliott Sharp discusses his 2012 musical work realized through the tradition of the "graphic score" and plays examples of its realization in sound. He and host David Weinstein also trace the history of the technique as both innovation and experiment. Composer Elliott Sharp joins David Weinstein in the studio to discuss the release of Foliage, a musical work realized through the tradition of the "graphic score." The two discuss process and listen to examples of Foliage being performed. They also... Originally aired 10/15/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Composers Beyond Cage: Petr Kotik, Ursula Oppens & Christian Wolff Hosted by David Weinstein Radio show Christian Wolff discusses Cage and his own new work for orchestraon the eve of the Beyond Cage festival, presented by the S.E.M. Ensemble in New York City froom Oct. 22–Nov. 7, 2012. Now playing: an excerpt from the full interview in which Christian Worlff describes his relationship with Cage and dhis new work for orchestra. The full interview coming soon... John Cage would be 100 this year and many events have been held to... Originally aired 10/15/12 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Experimental Composers Peter Edwards: Casperelectronics Hosted by Joe Ahearn Radio show Last Days! Artist/inventor/designer Peter Edwards discusses his Casperelectronics creative technology venture and his DroneScape installation at the Clocktower with curator Joe Ahearn. The exhibition closes September 28, 2012. Artist/inventor/designer Peter Edwards discusses his Casperelectronics venture and his 2012 DroneScape installation at the Clocktower with Curator of installation and Performance Joe Ahearn. The installation consists of ten inter-connected "... Originally aired 9/17/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Composers Matthew Ostrowski, Sounds & Systems Hosted by David Weinstein Radio show The composer plays recordings of his sound work and talks about his Clocktower installation, improvising with electronics (MAX/MSP), the hand glove he uses as a controller, systems and phenomena useful in composition, the magical, and the practical. During his summer residency at The Clocktower, artist and composer Matthew Ostrowski created a new composition for computer-controlled rotary telephones. Developing robotic control over the bells, he created an environment based on swarm... Originally aired 8/27/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Soundwalk Collective Ayahuasqueros Radio show Soundwalk Collective documents the ancient chanting rituals of the Ayahuasquero in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon where these shamans' "icaros" communicate with the spirits inhabiting the jungle and become a visceral, haunting listening experience. Ayahuasqueros is a radio essay by Jeremy Narby made from recordings from the Amazon, Peru in 2012, in collaboration with Francisco Lopez, featuring Victor Nieto and Ushamano Walter Martinez, and mixed by Dug Winningham. In May of 2012, Soundwalk... Originally aired 8/22/12 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Experimental Composers Bern Nix, Guitarist Radio show Jazz guitarist Bern Nix joins impresario Glenn Leslie for a wide-ranging discussion that sheds light on the great musician's view of the music world, the history of the jazz guitar, creativity, gigging & money, and his time with Ornette Coleman. Downtown music impressario Glenn Leslie sits down with legendary jazz guitarist Bern Nix to discuss issues small and large in the world of jazz. Nix is humble and wise, does not suffer fools (specially in the music business), has the amusingly... Originally aired 8/20/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Composers The Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland Hosted by David Weinstein Radio show A conversation and listening session with two Swedish artists, Leif Elggren and C.M. von Hausswolff, who created the geo-political conceptual work known as The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, specialize in collaborations with the dead, and more... A 2012 conversation and listening session with the two Swedish artists, Leif Elggren and C.M. von Hausswolff who created the enduring geo-political conceptual work known as The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland whose territories consist of all trans-... Originally aired 7/23/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Experimental Composers Max Neuhaus, Fontana Mix - Feed Hosted by Elliott Sharp Radio show Through amplification and spatial awareness, Max Neuhaus constructed Fontana Mix - Feed, a classic John Cage interpretation in which ambient drone and noise feed off the sonic patterns of surrounding space to create a cataclysmic collision of sound. The legendary Max Neuhaus channels John Cage with his multiple realizations of Fontana Mix. Through amplification, experimentation and spatial awareness, Neuhaus constructs a nearly uncontrollable piece in which ambient drone and harsh noise... Originally aired 6/11/12 Listen Read More »