Charlemagne Palestine, Holy 1 & Holy 2: Apr 23, 2025: 9pm - 10pm

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...

Psychic TV: Jun 15, 2017: 1am - 2am

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, drumm...

Conrad Schnitzler: Black + White: May 18, 2017: 1am - 2am

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...

David Linton: Apr 20, 2017: 1am - 2am

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 installat...

Oskar Sala: Mar 16, 2017: 1am - 2am

Oskar Sala, My Fascinating Instrument 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....

Matt Heckert: Feb 16, 2017: 1am - 2am

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...

Arab Synth Styles: Jan 19, 2017: 1am - 2am

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 record...

Zero Gravity Thinkers: Dec 15, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

Take Your Time: Nov 17, 2016: 1am - 2am

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 e...

Decked Out, A History of the Turntable: Oct 20, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

Composers Inside Electronics: Sep 15, 2016: 1am - 2am

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." I...

Pauline Oliveros: Aug 18, 2016: 1am - 2am

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 co...

Carl Stone: Jul 21, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

Popul Vuh Cosmic Space Rock: Jun 16, 2016: 1am - 2am

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

Hubble & Gat, New Guitars: May 19, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

John Oswald, Plunderphonics: Apr 21, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

Shaabi Chic, The Arab Synth: Mar 17, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch: Feb 20, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

Popol Vuh Cosmic Space Rock: Jan 21, 2016: 1am - 2am

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...

Charlemagne Palestine, Holy 1 & Holy 2: Nov 21, 2015: 7am - 8am

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...

Charlemagne Palestine, Holy 1 & Holy 2: Nov 19, 2015: 1am - 2am

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...