WFMT asked Latin American composer, Elbio Barilari to create a special work for radio broadcast to observe this day of peace and remembrance. I was invited to perform in Elbio’s group assembled for this project, recorded Wednesday, August 24 in the WFMT sound studio.
The broadcast includes text by Spanish novelist and journalist, Antonio Munoz Molina, read by WFMT’s Peter Whorf, and excerpts from Dirge For Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman, sang in English by Amy Conn and spoken by Elbio Barilari, in Spanish. Post-production and mix, Joshua Savageau, Cydne Gillard, Elbio Barilari at WFMT 98.7 studios.
If you missed the broadcast, you can listen to “Flags From Ashes” here:
ESS posted my performance with Anna Friz for the opening of Respire at Audible on its SoundCloud profile. What you hear, amongst a roomful of radios receiving the sounds of breathing and other bodily exclamations typically absent from regular radio programming, is Anna playing amplified sruti, mbira, and electronics. I performed on the Springboard and Korg MS-20. We performed on Friday July 16, 2011. Listen here:
9–10 a.m. (PST) Wednesday, August 10, 2011 the Seattle Phonographers Union (Steve Peters, Dale Lloyd, Perri Lynch, and Steve Barsotti) performed on Weekday, and talked with radio host Steve Scher, on Seattle’s KUOW to discuss the Sounds of Summer.
Among the work of over 150 artists my early efforts in the field of radio, art, and radio art were cited in a new book, Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves (PAJ Publications, 2011) by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki.
On Saturday, July 23 free103point9.org Transmission Arts and WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) will hold a book launch with radio art performances. If you are in or near The Spotty Dog in Hudson, New York (I won’t be there myself, but feel free to drop in and tune in).
On Friday, July 15 I perform with my partner in “sound crime” Anna Friz and her radiophonic installation, Respire during the opening this evening at Audible Gallery at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS).
I hope you will join me at 7PM this Friday evening, Feb. 18 for a special presentation by sound and media artist Jay Needham, at The (New) Corpse, 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622.
Jay will present selections from recent works in a lecture titled Ars Memoria: Several Alternate Histories of Place. Jay will be finishing a chapter on the sounds of Mashinima and planning an evening of radio art and surround sound works for the April 2011 Out of the Box Contemporary Music Festival in Carbondale, Illinois. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Communications Department at Southern Illinois University, and a member of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).
My audio submission (the metallic contraction sounds of a gas furnace as it cools) and other collected sounds can be hear here on my Audioboo profile: audioboo.fm/boos/240858-cooling-furnace
In addition to being a co-founder of the Seattle Phonographers’ Union with Steve Barsotti, Chris DeLaurenti is a writer, composer and teacher. He recently founded the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology, andon the show Chris mentioned that he is now writing a book on field recording and phonography.
On Sunday, December 19 Chicago’s longest running radio show for experimental, avant-garde music, phonography, and other genres of audio art will make its final broadcast. In less than two weeks Philip von Zweck, the host and producer of Something Else who started the show in 1995, will move on. As he told me, “It’s been 15 years.”
Writing in the past tense now…
Something Else was a non-commercial, volunteer effort that aired weekly on WLUW 88.7 FM. Aside from a 9-month haitus in 2004 (during which time Philip wrangled a string of volunteers to substitute for him while teaching at Brooklyn College), for four hours every Sunday night Philip played recordings and hosted live performances by a countless number of local, national, and international sound-text-radio artists, avant-garde composers, and experimental, improvising musicians.
I hope Philip’s effort will be remembered and appreciated. The historical significance of Something Else lies in the simple fact that there was no other Chicago radio program focused on live performances and recordings by seldom-heard artists and musicians making non-commercial, unpopular, risk-taking, art historical, bravely exploratory, and “bleeding edge” work in the new and marginal field of sound-as-art. While many occasions to hear this type of work on Chicago’s numerous public and college radio stations existed, as a regularly scheduled, weekly show, I think only WHPK’s Radio Dada and WNUR’s Airplay would compare. When WLUW began Internet streaming Philip’s show became internationally accessible.
Listen in to “Master Faders” on Free Radio SAIC, a one-hour webcast radio art show created with field recordings, analog reel-to-reel tape loops, contact microphones, digital recording & mixing, and electronic sound synthesis.
When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm, Thursday, November 18, 2010
Produced and performed by the students of my Spring 2010 Introduction To Sound course. If you miss the live show, check in the Free Radio archives and listen later.
Julia Miller (guitar, electronics) and I perform live on “Something Else” hosted by Philip von Zweck, on WLUW 88.7 FM. This live broadcast will feature our music and interviews about our work with group member, and composer Christopher Preissing (flute, electronics), phoning in from Nebraska. Copy and load this link into your mp3 player to listen to WLUW’s live stream. Or, visit wluw.org.
Hosted by Philip von Zweck on WLUW 88.7FM since 1995, Something Else is Chicago’s longest running radio show devoted to seldom-heard and experimental, avant-garde musics, sound art, works of long duration (no excerpts!), and other less classifiable things that just don’t have an outlet.
9–10 a.m. (PST) Wednesday, August 10, 2011 the 
On Friday, July 15 I perform with my partner in “sound crime” Anna Friz and her radiophonic installation, 
