ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER: Before our inbox becomes inundated with cries of improper translation, let us offer a riposte to Dante by way of Italo Calvino: the true inferno is not the one awaiting the sinners in the afterlife, it's with us right now--and the only way to escape it, says the latter Italian scribe, is to locate the things that are not infernal and "make them endure, give them space." No matter how hellish you may find the Whitney Biennial, the Armory Show or, hell, even the Brucennial, preservation and space is precisely what these places offer their artists, and, for this, we bow our hats to them. This week's AIR Stream is chock-full of preservers, endurers and space-deservers, from Luciano Chessa and his reconstruction of Futurist noise instruments the intonarumori to Erín Moure and her translations of Galician, French, Spanish and Portuguese poetry into English. Plus, we've got the latest episodes of the radio plays Adjusted by Addition and The February Radio Drama at the ready, in case you need further rescue from the contemporary inferno outside.
THE SPACE TO LISTEN: We've put together hours and hours of programming in our stream for you to jump into at any minute. It features programs new and old--check below for descriptions of each--along with a whole slew of music. Click LISTEN to join us mid-stream, or click a listen link below should you prefer any show in particular. And as always, the AIR Archive program pages give you more information on each show as well as providing some useful links and audio on demand.
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AIR STREAM PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK
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NEW ARTonAIR PROGRAMS STREAMING NOW
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AIR Interviews: Chris Akerlind
Tony Award-winning lighting designer Chris Akerlind knows when to listen to the director and when to take matters into his own hands. Click here for more.
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AIR Interviews: Danielle Abrams
Performance artist Danielle Abrams teaches Will what a quadroon is, and then offers him advice on how to remove beetroot strains from a tux after bathing in Borscht. Click here for more.
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The Watermill Center: The Constant Reality Theater, The February Radio Drama
Episodes of The February Radio Drama, created by Iceland's The Constant Reality Theater while in residency at The Watermill Center, are available exclusively at ARTonAIR.org, with episodes 5 and 6 currently in the AIR Stream. Click here to listen to all the episodes and find out more.
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Adjusted by Addition: Someone Broke a Spatula on My Body
In this second installment of Adjusted by Addition, the first project in AIR's Radio Theater and Installation Series, prepare yourself for electro-convulsive therapy, taboo-shattering sex and an introduction to the wonders of meth use. Click here for more.
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Beyond the Subtitles 266: Bobby Sheehan, Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy
Director Bobby Sheehan is in Berlin for the world premiere of Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy, his cinematic salute to the great performance artist Joey Arias and the extraordinarily inventive puppeteer Basil Twist. Click here for more.
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Close Listening 99: Erín Moure Reading
Erín Moure is an English and Galician poet, a translator of Galician, French, Spanish and Portuguese poetry and generally just so impressive that all other polymaths should bow their heads in shame. Here she reads from her poetry collection O Resplandor. Click here for more.
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Experimental Composers: Luciano Chessa, L'acoustique ivresse (Les bruits de la paix)
Composer Luciano Chessa rehearsed his intonarumori-based piece L’acoustique ivresse (Les bruits de la paix) in AIR’s Clocktower space in November 2009. Shocked out of our bourgeois complacency by the sonic blare of those Futurist noise instruments, we realized we had to record these astonishing sessions and put them online. Click here for more.
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Channel 192: Claire Harman, Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Critic and biographer Claire Harman, author of the recently released Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, delineates the preponderance of Austen references in contemporary society, from Barack Obama's presidential run to Zinedine Zidane's World Cup headbutt. Click here for more.
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LEGACY ARCHIVES
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Recorded Matter #12: Femmes in Audio Art
Ready for a Louise Bourgeois rap? A leap into the mosh pit with Janine Antoni? Birdcalls from Louise Lawler? Tune in to find out! Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Love Crazy #12: Love in All Three Dimensions
Joined by former Spongehead, artist David Henderson and his brother Doug Henderson, Nora York makes love to songs and plays songs to love. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Sound and Vision #38: Oliver Herring
It turns out that the positive utopian spirit of Oliver Herring's socially engaged practice is accompanied by an appetite for heartrending songs of wounded love and disappointment. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone #3: You Can Go Home
A fair harvest of nostalgia-inducing tunes from the Hudson Bay Women, Joe Fred Williams & Booker T. Williams and Duong Thi Tuyet, among others. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Sonorama: La Caldera, Edition #2
The sound of Latin American soul, as selected by composer and Buenos Aires native Laura Andel, who plays everything from traditional folk music to the latest computer music. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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PS1 Warm Up 2008: Lisa Shaw Live, Sept. 2008
Lisa Shaw brings her distinctive house to the summertime PS1 stage. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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DJ Sessions: DJ Cosmo, Free Energy Mix
DJ Cosmo returns from London, where she created her own imprint label, Bitches Brew, back to her beloved New York, home to her longstanding 1990s show on WNYU in the 90s. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 March 2010 )
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