23 February-2 March 2015

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Radio Features of the Week: The original 1974 Mabou Mines theater group performs Beckett, Infinite Kitten's sonic eroticism, Berlin entrepreneur Anna Rojahn, art and incarceration, profiles of Pioneer Works artists, an Argentine Oscar hopeful, a cool video, and some classics from our archive.

Oscar exclusives: Hear Academy Award winners Laura Poitras of Citizen Four and Pawel Pawlikowsku of Ida featured here on the homepage.

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Beckett Mabou Mines, Double Bill (1974)

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Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas

Destined to blindly roam and romp in a cylinder. Lost minds. Forgotten language. These are the worlds described by Beckett and performed by the troupe named in his honor. Listen in on two performances and an interview with the original Mabou Mines.

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Infinite Kitten

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Warper Party Radio Extravaganza

The unruly DJ stops in the studio for a spin session, exploring topics of deep space environments, eroticism, the effect of technology on sexuality, subversive thoughts, prank calls, delusions of grandeur, visions of paradise, and more...Meeeow.

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OM Episode 33: Anna Rojahn

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Orbital Mash

Host Raabenstein talks to the entrepreneur Anna Rojahn. Anna presents her favorite music (from Pink Martini to Bach) and talks about business in Berlin, how the city changed over the years and much more...

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Pete Brook, Prison Obscura

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Clocktower Radio Profiles

An in-depth discussion of Brook's Prison Obscura exhibition, a visual exploration of a world existing mostly in the shadows. The exhibition leaves behind cliché imagery and sheds light on the prison industrial complex and those it confines.

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Damián Szifrón, Wild Tales

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Beyond the Subtitles

A remarkable, and remarkably entertaining, Argentinian entry in the Academy Awards sweepstakes for Best Foreign Language Film, Wild Tales offers multiple stories to consider the inner beast liable to be unleashed in “civilized” people.

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Submitted by zoë on Fri, Feb 20, 2015 - 12:56pm

Zimoun : 250 prepared ac-motors, 325 kg roof laths, 1.8 km rope, 2015 from ZIMOUN on Vimeo.

Zimoun at Knockdown Center

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video

Swiss installation artist Zimoun's kinetic sculpture in action. Experience the 250 thin wooden boards, each tied to a rotating motor--a bitforms gallery project--assembled at Knockdown Center through 8 March 2015.

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Second Sundays: Winter in Red Hook

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Pioneer Works Radio Channel

It's winter in Red Hook, but in the Clocktower studio sparks are flying. Join us for our monthly Second Sundays interview marathon, and sweat it out alongside the current artists and residents of Pioneer Works. Sci-fi, sax, secret sculptures, oh my!

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DJ Jeannie Hopper Live at Kush (NYC)

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DJ Sessions

Our Jeannie Hopper spins a set of electric eclectic global selections in a set recorded live at Kush Bar in New York City's lower east side on May 11, 2007. For more of her mixes also visit the show In The Hopper made exclusively for ARTonAIR.org.

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Decked Out: A History of the Turntable

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Impossible Music

A glimpse at the turntable as musical instrument and its influential role sparking creative innovation in music from the streets of the Bronx to the ateliers of the avant garde. Selected and compiled by David Weinstein for Art Basel Miami Beach 2007.

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Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato: Airprints

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Sonorama

This program by Milan-based artists and musicians Sato and Piccolo includes a soundtrack made for a video by the Melbourne-based group A Constructed World plus soundwalks and audio collages produced and edited by the duo. A radio journey.

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Sparkle Jug Meteor

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Live Nude Radio Theatre

Poet host Edwin Torres produced this radio celebration of exploration in 2005 using both feet, beginning with MMMZZZ, from an Oozebap compilation, and adding tracks from aural explorers Stephen Vitiello, Nick Cave, Bjork's keyboardist and more.

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Laura Poitras, Citizenfour

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Beyond the Subtitles

The Oscar-nominated documentarian concludes her trilogy on American power post-9/11 with the extraordinary Citizenfour, which follows Edward Snowden over 8 days in a Hong Kong hotel as he exposes illegal surveillance by the NSA.

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Oscar Award: Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida

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Beyond the Subtitles

The Oxford-educated Polish writer/director marvels at the success of his black-and-white portrait of his homeland back in the communist run 1960s where an orphan about to take her final vows as a Catholic nun discovers she is actually Jewish. 

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Clocktower Exhibits & Events  Ava Luna
Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone  Country Grubbin'
Impossible Music  Robert Moog Memorial Hour

Popular this week

Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas  The Life, Death, and Works of Pablo Neruda
Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas  Jorge Luis Borges in New York
Beyond the Subtitles  52nd NY Film Festival: Mathieu Amalric, The Blue Room

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