Experimental Composers: Psychic TV: Jun 15, 2017

Between takes from the performance at Pioneer Works in October 2015, the singer, songwriter, poet, and visionary Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle) and Edley O’Dowd, her collaborator, drumme...

Experimental Composers: Conrad Schnitzler: Black + White: May 18, 2017

Gen Ken Montgomery tells the story of art and life that was sound pioneer Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011). A longtime friend and collaborator of the Berlin-based visionary, Montgomery walks us through t...

Experimental Composers: David Linton: Apr 20, 2017

David Linton's Bicameral Research Cortical Degausser. This program features an audio mix produced by the artist David Linton from the soundtrack to his Bicameral Research Cortical Degausser installati...

Experimental Composers: Oskar Sala, My Fascinating Instrument: Mar 16, 2017

Oskar Sala was a German physicist, composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the Trautonium, a predecessor to the synthesizer. In 1929 in Berlin he studied piano and c...

Experimental Composers: Matt Heckert: Feb 16, 2017

Matt Heckert's Mechanical Sound Orchestra heard here in concert with all of the attendant hums, clicks, creaks, and other nonverbal communications you might expect from an orchestra full of remote-con...

Experimental Composers: Arab Synth Styles: Jan 19, 2017

Compiled in 2012 from his studio in Beirut, host J. Namy aka Electric Kahraba surveys the history of the keyboard and electronic instruments across the Arab culture of the Middle East. An avid recor...

Experimental Composers: Zero Gravity Thinkers: Dec 15, 2016

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...

Experimental Composers: Take Your Time: Nov 17, 2016

For several years, producer Elliot Stapleton hosted a show on Clocktower Radio called Sound The Alarm in which he shared, compared, and illuminated tracks and trends in contemporary music. In this epi...

Experimental Composers: Decked Out, A History of the Turntable: Oct 20, 2016

Since Thomas Edison's first effort in 1877 through to vinyl emulation software like Serrato, the mechanical spinning disk and stylus have endured to provide an ever expanding vocabulary for artists in...

Experimental Composers: Composers Inside Electronics: Sep 15, 2016

John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, and Tom Hamilton, direct inheritors of the concepts and spirit of David Tudor, formed a group known for pioneering home-built electronics and early "Circuit Bending."...

Experimental Composers: Pauline Oliveros: Aug 18, 2016

A wide ranging and revealing interview with the composer from 2008 as she prepared to show her work as part of the exhibition WACK! Art & The Feminist Revolution on view at MoMA PS1 that year. The con...

Experimental Composers: Carl Stone: Jul 21, 2016

A master of montage and influential innovator of sampling from unusual source material, here the Stone performs pieces for laptop electronics composed in 2011 and 2012. Carl Stone is one of the pionee...

Experimental Composers: Hubble & Gat, New Guitars: May 19, 2016

Two live sets recorded Spring 2016 featuring emerging guitarists with fresh and creative approaches: Yonatan Gat has embraced a esoteric approach to rock'n'roll – melding Middle Eastern, free jazz, su...

Experimental Composers: John Oswald, Plunderphonics: Apr 21, 2016

John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist, and dancer. Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Composi...

Experimental Composers: Shaabi Chic, The Arab Synth: Mar 17, 2016

Produced in Beirut by host Joe Namy, his program dives into the electrified shape-shifting history of the synthesizer in contemporary music from the Middle East, from the mid-60s to the present. We'll...

Experimental Composers: The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch: Feb 20, 2016

Vocal explorer, improviser, raconteur, chanteuse and so much more, Brooklyn born Shelley Hirsch has been a central figure in New York's downtown music scene since the mid 1970s. This program is assemb...

Experimental Composers: Popol Vuh Cosmic Space Rock: Jan 21, 2016

A listening session and conversation with Johannes Fricke, independent curator and son of the late Florian Fricke whose band Popol Vuh was an innovating force in early electronic, ambient, psychedelic...

Experimental Composers: Charlemagne Palestine, Holy 1 & Holy 2: Nov 19, 2015

Holy 1 and Holy 2 were both created and recorded by Charlemagne Palestine in NYC in 1967 by building up a texture, oscillator by oscillator, then adding tiny increments of white noise that would "grad...