My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4,The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with printed sleeve from the February/March 2011 issue of Furthernoise.org.
This compilation on The Sound of Live Performance assembles those “sound failures, the misassigned patch, unintended playing outcomes, FX overloads, calibrations and pinnacles of performative exploration” that offer sources for eclectic new material.
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.
My audio work “Get Your Marks On” has been selected for the Erotics of Sound online showcase in conjunction with the Decadence Now! Visions of Excess exhibition at the Rudolfinum Gallerie, in Prague. The show opened September 29, 2010 and runs until January , 2011. Students will be given prompts to use the piece to create a Decadent performance / ritual response as part of their study.
Galerie Rudolfinum
Alšovo nábřeží 12
110 01 Praha 1
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.
I’m happy to announce that the American Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Listening for the Future symposium will take place from Friday, July 9 through Sunday, July 11 in Chicago. Hosted by the ASAE’s Midwest chapter and the World Listening Project this conference is the first of its kind in the United States.
My work, titled “Feedback.mono” is on Explorations in Sound, Volume 4, The Sound of Live Performance, a net label release curated by Furthernoise editor Roger Mills. The release is a 23 track compilation of noisemakers responding to the theme of the incidental and unexpected audio consequences of live performance, and is free to download with printed sleeve from the February/March 2011 issue of Furthernoise.org.
November’s 
I’m happy to announce that the