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Experimental Composers: Zero Gravity Thinkers

Dec 15, 2016: 1am - 2am
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Produced by Clocktower Radio.

A 2011 interview and in-studio performance by Zero Gravity Thinkers (ZGT), an ongoing collaboration of Peter Principle (legendary of Tuxedomoon) on prepared guitar, bass, and synthesizer; Dok Gregory (Plan 23, Psychic TV) performing with theremin, synthesizer, and sampler; and Zemi17 (aka Aaron Taylor Kuffner of the robotic Gamelatron) performing with EWI wind midi controller, sampler, and tenor saxophone. The programmed is hosted by Julie Covello aka DJ Shakey and her sidekick Banginclude who produced several dozen Warper Party programs for Clocktower Radio featuring unusual uses of technology in music. The program concludes with a bonus recording of Kuffner’s Gamelatron captured in the Clocktower Gallery.

"Experimental Composers" is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "Performances from new and established musical innovators. The unfortunate and unintended messages that come attached to a title like Experimental Composers are many. Still it is one of the few labels to come out of the world of music that has not been co-opted by promoters, corporations, journalists, or lawyers. This one just seems to have anti-market goo on it. Hooray. It's also just bad English (as if to imply that these poor souls are themselves, in their flesh and blood, some kind of experiment and, perhaps, even expendable). And then there is the spectre of defying the wisdom of the great Edgar Varèse who said something like, 'I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment."