Border Patrol Guests

Border Patrol is a New Music conversation produced and hosted by Amy Knoles, Martin Herman, and Glenn Zucman for American Public Media.

Interviews Available Now:
BP01a - Billboard
BP01b - Trummerflora members Hans Fjellestad & Ellen Weller
BP01c - James Tenney & Lucky Mosko

BP02a - Billboard
BP02b - Eric Singer / LEMUR
BP02c - Joshua Fried

BP03 - Julie Adler

Interviews to be edited... hopefully available Summer '08
BP03b - Don Davis
BP04a - Michael Gordon
BP04b - Eve Beglarian

BP04b - Eve Beglarian

LOCATION: Eve Beglarian's Studio, NYC
GUEST: Eve Beglarian
AUDIO: waiting for editing - hopefully available here by Summer '08

BP04a - Michael Gordon

LOCATION: Michael Gordon's Studio, NYC
GUEST: Michael Gordon
AUDIO: waiting for editing - hopefully available here by Summer '08

BP03b - Don Davis

LOCATION: Don Davis' Studio, Calabassas
GUEST: Don Davis
AUDIO: waiting for editing - hopefully available here by Summer '08

BP02c - Joshua Fried

LOCATION: Joshua Fried's Apartment, NYC
GUEST: Joshua Fried

23 mins, 22 mb

BP02b - Eric Singer / LEMUR

LOCATION: Beall Center, University of California, Irvine
GUEST: Eric Singer, founder of LEMUR

31 mins, 28 mb

BP02a - Border Patrol #2

Billboard for Border Patrol Episode #02.

1 min, 1 mb

BP01c - Tenney - Mosko

LOCATION: Lucky Mosko's Studio, Valencia, CA
GUESTS: James Tenney & Lucky Mosko

24 mins, 23 mb

BP01b - Trummerflora

LOCATION: Hans Fjellestad's Studio, Downtown San Diego
GUESTS: Hans Fjellestad & Ellen Weller of Trummerflora

30 mins, 29 mb

BP01a - Border Patrol #1

Billboard for Border Patrol Episode #01.

1 min, 1 mb

SA115 - Strange Angels LIVE!

Conversations with, and live performances by:

*** univac
*** Madeline Puckette
*** Marc Nimoy

Recorded live @ The CSULB Newsroom & The Daniel Recital Hall on 13 October 07
Broadcast on Strange Angels on 25 October 07

85 mins, 78 mb

Interview & Concert Images:
flickr.com/photos/artboyusa/sets

SA011a - CSULB President Maxson

A 2003 conversation with then CSULB President (1994-2006) Dr. Robert C. Maxson.

Making time for everything; remembering 35,000 names; The Arts @ Long Beach; Green Spots; Budget Cuts; Presidential Scholars; Master's Degrees; Student Morale; The Evolution of CSULB; the Value of a Diploma; Growing up in The South; Cotton Farms in Arkansas; What does Go Beach mean?

20 mins, 9 mb

2007 Guests - September - December

SA117: 15 Nov 07 - Liberator of the Internet Edition

Richard Stallman

SA116: 8 Nov 07 - Fuckup Author Edition

Deb Olin Unferth

SA115: 25 Oct 07 - Strange Angels LIVE!

univac
Madeline Puckette
Marc Nimoy

SA114: 18 Oct 07 - Minority Report

Multitouch innovator Jeff Han

SA113: 11 Oct 07 - Robot Opera Day!

Composer Tod Machover

SA112: 27 Sep 07 - Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Author: Todd James Pierce, 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner
Author: Suzanne Greenberg, 2003 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner

SA111: 20 Sep 07 - College of the Arts edition

Theater Arts Day on College of the Arts Day!
Donald Para, Dean, College of the Arts
Joanne Gordon, Chair, Theater Arts Department
Anne Schilling, Director, Voice & Speech Program

SA110: 6 Sep 07 - Fall Season Premiere!

CSULB Provost Dr. Karen Gould
Composer Ciaran Hope

SA109 - Perry Cook

A trip to Siggraph 2004 Art Gallery at the Los Angeles Convention Center and a conversation with Princeton University professor of computer science / music Perry Cook.

Computer Music; New Instruments; New Controllers; New Sound Radiators (Spherical Speakers) Musical Performance; Expectation & Surprise (boredom & fear) Music & NASCAR.

51 mins, 23 mb

SA108b - Jackie & Amy Morie

A trip to Siggraph 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center and a conversation with CG pioneer Jackie Morie and landscape architect Amy Morie (who's been a Guerrilla Studio regular for 10 years now)

The difference between Siggraph and Burning Man (hint: less naked hippies, but similar collaborative/innovative spirit) mayhem; taking 3 generations to the big CG party; running a boarding house for foreign travelers; redefining human consciousness through photography, immersive worlds, and graphic and interactive techniques galore; waiting for your holodeck; cow paths; stuff that won't run anymore; stuff you don't want to run anymore; experiencing the moment; culture; flow; multi-user onlline authorship; the reader is / readers are, the author, again!

28 mins, 13 mb

SA108a - Jacquelyn Martino

A trip to Siggraph 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center and a chat with the chair of next summer's Siggraph 2008 in Los Angeles, Jacquelyn Martino. The evolution of Siggraph; Apple iPhones & Microsoft Surface & graphics and interactivity taking ever more prominent places in public awareness.

8 mins, 4 mb

SA48 - Andrew Glassner

A trip to Siggraph 2004 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and a conversation with computer scientist / computer graphicist / writer-director, Dr. Andrew Glassner. The experience of actually flying; controlling your 14 tails with something more intuitive than a pop-up window; complex software that becomes massive hardware that becomes a five-dollar chip you pull off-the-shelf and do amazing things with - Holy Cow!

55 mins, 25 mb

SA39 - Siggraph '03

A trip to San Diego, California and Siggraph 2003 where we'll chat with:

Cyberfashion Show producer Isa Gordon
Michael Masucci of EZTV and DV Magazine Editor Kimberly Reed
Siggraph Art Gallery chair Michael Wright
fans & players at the Pixar vs Dreamworks PDI volleyball grudge match!
The Siggraph 2003 Job Board
Backstage @ Cyberfashion
The cacophony that is the Siggraph Exhibition Hall
Guerilla Studio volunteer Amy Morie
Guerilla Studio chair Pete Braccio
Next year's Ed. Program Chair, Tony Longson of CSLA nee the UK by way of JPL
A taste of the Cyberfashion Show.

60 mins, 28 mb

SA104d - Peter Stone 2001

In Transit...

SA104c - Tucker Balch 2001

In Transit...

SA104b - Manuela Veloso 2001

In Transit...

SA104a - Veloso & Balch 2001

In Transit...

2007 Guests - June - August

SA109: 16 Aug 07 - Fear & Boredom in Los Angeles

What with all the talk of Siggraph 07... and even 08... it seemed like long overdue time to reach into the how-did-we-manage-to-never-broadcast-this-one bag and pull out this truly inspiring Siggraph 2004 Los Angeles interview with Princeton University professor of computer science and of music, Perry Cook (who happened to be on a Guggenheim fellowship that year and working on his book about the history of technology and the expressive voice)

Computer music; new instruments; new controllers; expression; mapping; machines replacing bad musicians - machines enhancing great musicians; the famous story about his grad student who determined that he liked music that made him 60% bored and 40% afraid (boredom & fear to him... pattern & variation to you... an amazing contemplation about not only the structure of music, but also art and life to me...)

SA108: 09 Aug 07 - Siggraph 2007

Yet another trip to the San Diego Convention Center, this time for Siggraph 07 - the 34th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Graphics. I'm sure 34 years ago it may have been a "special interest group," but these days Siggraph is more like an ecology... a city... a way of life...

In San Diego Strange Angels visits with Jacquelyn Martino, the conference chair for next year's Siggraph 2008 in Los Angeles, and also with Amy & Jackie Morie - Jackie's at her 23rd straight Siggraph, and her daughter Amy who's been coming for about a dozen years has been a fixture at The Studio / Guerrilla Studio for the past 10 years.

SA107: 02 Aug 07 - Border Patrol "03"

In an archive interview originally recorded for Border Patrol, Martin Herman & Glenn Zucman interview singer, performance artist, composer, visual artist and writer Julie Adler.

SA106: 26 Jul 07 - Females on Fire

The 1st annual Los Angeles Women's Music Festival, also known as Females on Fire debuts on Saturday, August 25th. Strange Angels gets the scoop on women, music, festivals, sustainability, animal rescue and more, from event producers Gayle Day, Miria, Toni K & Gilli Moon.

SA105: 19 Jul 07 - Robocup 2007, Atlanta

SA105a - GT Aware Home - Julie Kientz, Tracy Westeyn, Shwetak Patel
SA105b - Craig McGray, NIST
SA105c - Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon
SA105d - Dan Goldman, Georgia Tech Crab Lab
SA105e - ETH Zurich Nanogram Team
SA105f - Peter Stone, UT Austin
SA105g - Tucker Balch, Georgia Tech
SA105h - Naomi Henderson & Rick Middleton, Newcastle, Australia
SA105i - Henrik Christensen, Georgia Tech
SA105j - Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

SA104: 12 Jul 07 - Robocup 2001, Seattle

On the occasion of last week's Robocup 2007 in Atlanta, the 11th annual Robocup, we look back to Robocup's only other North American appearance, Robocup 5 in Seattle in 2001.

From a couple of years before there even was a Strange Angels here are interviews that led to my MFA Thesis, Blue Shift. I recorded conversations with event organizers Manuela Veloso, Tucker Balch, and Peter Stone, as well as a conversation with Manuela & Tucker together.

SA102/3: 28 Jun 07 - Catholic Guilt?

Strange Angels explores the world of BDSM (Bondage & Discipline, Domination & Submission, Sadism & Masochism) with Mistress Georgia and Domina Irene Boss

I don't say, "Can you stand more pain?"
I say, "Would you like more stimulation?"
-- Irene Boss

SA101: 21 Jun 07 - Pixelodeon 07

Event organizers Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson
Event curator Micki Krimmel
Event keynote speaker Jon Phillips

SA100: 14 Jun 07 - Dana Gioia

A Conversation with NEA Chairman Dana Gioia

SA99: 30 May 07 - 99th Episode!

One more listen to some of our favorite live music performances on Strange Angels from the past 3 years.

SA96 - Nash Editions

A trip to Nash Editions in Manhattan Beach, CA and a conversation with the rock star and his former tour manager who've spent the last two decades at the forefront of fine art digital imaging. Lost negatives. What's an ink jet print? Magic. War crimes. Body bags. Vietnam & Iraq. Beams of energy. Synaesthesia. Playing rock; getting girls.

46 mins, 21 mb

SA95 - Lisa Sette

On the occasion of Photo LA in Santa Monica we drop into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for a conversation with Scottsdale, Arizona gallerist Lisa Sette. Crossing a continent because of a book you read. Photography in the 19th century. Photography in the 21st century. The children of art collectors. Tactileness.

32 mins, 15 mb

SA85 - Dresden Dolls

From center-stage at The Orpheum in Los Angeles, a door not many steps away leads to an alley and a small parking lot where Amanda Palmer & Brian Viglione's favorite driver somehow managed to park their endlessly long tour-bus. We set up in the kitchen / living room and recorded this interview a few hours before their LA concert.

47 mins, 43 mb

SA78a - Koch & Hofstoetter

A trip to the 9th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC9) and a conversation with neurobiologists Christof Koch and Constanze Hofstoetter. Big computers and big magnets (fMRI); materialism and dualism; the phenomenal realm and the causally closed universe; Macintosh and Windows; rock climbing and being a bum.

43 mins, 20 mb

SA77 - Camille

On the occasion of the U.S. release of her record Le Fil, and a performance at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, we visit with French vocal sensation Camille. Lines, colors, minimalism, pointillism, multitracking, love songs, drones, beatboxing, ballet, farting: these are a few of her favorite things.

55 mins, 25 mb

SA76 - Aimee Bender & David Wilson

A visit to the Museum of Jurassic Technology Tea Room and a conversation with MJT founder David Wilson and Los Angeles author Aimee Bender. The first in Strange Angels' new cross-disciplinary arts conversations. Today the curator and the author talk about wakefulness, deep investigation as a way of life, inspiration, email withdrawal, truth, their favorite centuries, how to visit a museum, and sneaking pencils out of the bathtub.

60 mins, 28 mb

SA75b - Meghan Daum

A visit to the LA Times' Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with author Meghan Daum. Barren aunts; breeders; childless by choice. Creating creative non-fiction. On-line dating not as postmodern detachment, but as a Victorian experience. Trying to be an outside insider.

23 mins, 11 mb

SA75a - Karen Finley

A visit to the LA Times' Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with performance artist Karen Finley. Having your art denounced on the floor of the United States senate; being declared the artist of the decade; the virgin Mary is pro-choice. Capitalism, Capitalism, Capitalism. Copyright and feminism in the 21st century. Flesh cell phones.

40 mins, 18 mb

SA73 - Spanking-Girl-Twins

A full house at KBCH hanging out with industrial-trance-gothic-metal-electronica band Spanking Machine, wearable art designers Kasey McMahon & Vanessa Bonet of Psycho Girlfriend, and French maids & Mexican wrestlers Fifi & Bibi Poubelle. Live performances by Spanking Machine and Bibi Poubelle of Suki Tawdry. The answer to Why black? Bathtubs, bananas, and so much more!

76 mins, 35 mb

SA72 - Christopher Miles

A visit with art critic Christopher Miles and a conversation on Altered States of artmaking. The Mind of the Artist vis-a-vis The Mind of the Audience. van Gogh, Dali, El Greco, Close, Monet, de Kooning, Pollock, and Basquiat. Maybe even a little Vision Questers of Lascaux, Oracle at Delphi, and Stephen Hawking for good measure.

39 mins, 18 mb

SA69c - Maggie Orth & Elise Co

A trip to the Emerging Technologies Lounge at Siggraph 2005 and a visit with designers Maggie Orth of International Fashion Machines and Elise Co of Minty Monkey. An exploration of computation as an artform, textile dimmers, emissive raincoats, and embedded technology. Also a whirl through the heyday of the MIT Media Lab: working with John Maeda, Tod Machover, Neil Gershenfeld, et al.

31 mins, 14 mb

SA69b - Bethany Shorb

A trip to Siggraph 2004 at the LA Convention Center and a conversation with Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptics. Bethany brings us along on one of her late-nite capers in the dark, dank, to-be-demolished-24-hours-later, underbelly of Detroit. We'll find the most amazing "fabric," elude the authorities "borrowing" it, stand on scissors to cut it, break 23 industrial needles sewing it, and finally wear it down the runway at America's premiere computer graphics cyberfashion show.

21 mins, 10 mb

SA69a - Feral Childe

Strange Angels No.69a - Xtreme Fashion - Feral Childe. Fashion in the 21st century. Brooklyn fashionistas Moria Carlson and Alice Wu of Feral Childe make bumpy dresses, costumes for pick-up basketball, and 5-lb lollypops. Oh sorry... Effigies! Not suckers! Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 1-3pm Pacific Time on Thursday afternoons.

24 mins, 11 mb

SA66 - Kat Parsons / Full Service

Strange Angels No.66 - New Music 06. A conversation with LA-based singer-songwriter Kat Parsons and Austin band Full Service. Learn the meaning of "skilletsaw" and the story behind the lyrics "I want you to taste me when you breathe." Eating at "Friendlies," losing weight at Subway and many other contemporary existential issues explored. Oh yeah, and really a lot of awesome music performed live in the studio! Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 1-3pm Pacific Time on Thursday afternoons.

86 mins, 40 mb

SA65 - Not A Cornfield

A rainy Friday trip to artist Lauren Bon's Not A Cornfield 32-acre art installation in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. A fireside visit in the yurt at the edge of the cornfield and a conversation with Lauren Bon and live music from Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Mara.

55 mins, 25 mb

SA59b - Rachel Resnick

A trip to the L.A. Times' Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with Rachel Resnick, author of Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. Jerusalem, Alabama, Yale, Los Angeles, India. Beauty pageants and being choked unconscious; bullfighting and boxing. Flannery O'Connor - George Plimpton - Nikki S. Lee. The shadow of death; triumph in despair.

63 mins, 29 mb

SA59a - Aimee Bender

A trip to the L.A. Times' Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and Willful Creatures. Beautiful gestures that harden into compulsions. Superstitions, numbers, religion, knocking. Ritualistic behavior. Contemporary fairy tales. Flannery O'Connor.

39 mins, 18 mb

SA56 - Mona Kuhn / Tracy Spuehler

A visit to Photo LA and conversations with photographer Mona Kuhn
and singer-songwriter Tracy Spuehler. We'll do some photography in French "nature" colonies and cut Hollywood deals for film & TV music. Americans and their bodies. Finding the nerve to call yourself an artist. Great curators.

70 mins, 36 mb

SA54 - Fashion LA!

A conversation on Fashion in Los Angeles in the 21st Century with designers Jose Angel and Uriel Saenz, and singer-songwriters Gayle Day and Rich Jacques. Moving to NYC on September 10th, 2001; manufacturing in Hong Kong; independent designers taking on Wal-Mart; Los Angeles taking on the world.

66 mins, 33 mb

SA53 - Koch & Crick

A conversation on Consciousness with neurobiologist Francis Crick of the Salk Institute and neurobiologist Christof Koch from Caltech. Hard parts & easy parts; my smart cats and your not so smart dogs; the fallacy of the Turing Test; complexity; integrating reductionist biology and Roman Catholicism. Things that don't "escape our notice."

71 mins, 37 mb

SA50a - Nina Hartley

A trip to Erotica L.A. and a conversation with adult film actor Nina Hartley. 20 years. 500 videos. Pornography & feminism & culture. Religious ecstasy & sexual ecstasy. Spirituality & belonging. Pair bonding & monogamy. Joy. Friction. The deep deep deep unspoken unknown shame and pain about sexuality. Jocelyn Elders was right.

40 mins, 18 mb

SA49 - Mary Woronov

A conversation with actor, artist, and author Mary Woronov. Being born in a Florida hotel with a tail! Hanging out in Warhol's Factory. Watching Salvador Dali bomb his screen test. Voyeurism. Filming Chelsea Girls, Rock 'n Roll High School and Eating Raoul. Surgeons telling you you're not gonna last. Writing books. Ending life.

79 mins, 36 mb

SA45a - Iris Chang

A trip to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a visit with Iris Chang, author of Thread of the Silkworm, The Rape of Nanking, and The Chinese in America. Money, power, corruption, war crimes, heroes, cowards, and forgiveness. What to do with that flicker of time we call life. See an Artboy portrait of Iris.

33 mins, 15 mb

SA44y - Yet Another Monica

With the distance of time, we look back at Linda Tripp's infamous recordings of her conversations with her friend Monica Lewinsky. Yes, the definition of sex is here, but so are sharing a hamburger, getting your hair done, losing weight, getting out of ruts and wrapping hot dogs. Performed by Melissa Lawson and Kara Revel.

53 mins, 12 mb

SA43 - Matmos

A conversation with Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt of Matmos. Stomping rhythmically with Bruce Nauman, polyglot producing with Britney Spears, and touring the world with Bjork. A holler in the field, the authoritarian orchestra, when punk grows old, midnight swims with the Icelandic women's choir, and screaming like Michael Jackson when you get a "Germs Burn."

80 mins, 36 mb

SA16a - David Wilson

A visit with Museum of Jurassic Technology founder and director David Wilson. Building a bridge across Iguazu Falls. Theories of forgetting and the problem of memory. The dark and curious. Wondercabinets. Polymaths. Winning the McArthur award.

33 mins, 15 mb

BP03 / SA107 - Julie Adler

A while back Amy Knoles, Martin Herman, and I produced a couple of hours of radio for American Public Media. The show was called Border Patrol and our mission was to Patrol the Borders of New Music. We recorded a bunch of amazing interviews with Michael Gordon, Eve Beglarian, and Joshua Fried in NYC; Eric Singer of NYC at the opening of his show at the UCI Beall Center; Don Davis in his amazing Topanga Canyon "home studio;" and down in San Diego we chatted with Trummerflora music collective members Hans Fjellestad, Ellen Weller, Marcos Fernandes, and Nathan Hubbard. Out in Valencia we visited with Lucky Mosko and Jim Tenney, both of whom are, sadly, no longer with us. Curtis Roads from UCSB and Tod Machover from MIT were next on our list... but we didn't get (haven't gotten) that far.

One amazing interview Martin and I recorded was in the Silverlake home of Julie Adler. I think Julie's been eclectic since before I even knew what the word meant. Here, at last, is this marvelous conversation on art, life, spirituality, and beyond.

53 mins, 24 mb

SA106 - Females on Fire

The 1st annual Los Angeles Women's Music Festival, also known as Females on Fire debuts on Saturday, August 25th. Strange Angels gets the scoop on women, music, festivals, sustainability, animal rescue and more, from event producers Gayle Day, Miria, Toni K & Gilli Moon.

Also, Gayle performs 2 songs live on the air, and Miria and Gilli play CDs of their latest tracks. Gilli also plays new tracks by two other scheduled FOF performers: Holly Light and Jamie Green.

106 mins, 49 mb

SA105j - Gerhard Kraetzschmar

In Transit...

SA105i - Henrik Christensen

In Transit...

SA105h - Henderson & Middleton

In Transit...

SA105g - Tucker Balch 2007

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SA105f - Peter Stone 2007

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SA105e - ETH Zurich

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SA105d - Dan Goldman

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SA105c - Manuela Veloso 2007

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SA105b - Craig McGray

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SA105a - Kientz, Westeyn, Patel

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SA103 - Irene Boss

Did I say you could stop listening? In Part II of Strange Angels' exploration of Catholic Guilt's Doppelganger we take a trip to Dom-Con LA at the LAX Hilton for a conversation with Domina Irene Boss.

World domination, Dick Cheney, Catholic girls, Hilary Clinton, CEOs barking, Roman culture, Japanese culture, ancient culture, civilization, Native American culture, BDSM infighting, matriarchy, labels, balance.

48 mins, 22 mb

SA102 - Georgia Payne

Are you listening to me you pathetic worm? Yes, it's a trip to Erotica LA at the LA Convention Center and a conversation with Mistress Georgia. Things I did to my teenage boyfriends; the college term paper that changed my life; the difference between submissives in New York and Los Angeles; and her new book, How to be a Dominant Diva.

25 mins, 23 mb

SA101c - Jon Phillips

Jon Phillips by creativecommoners

A trip to Pixelodeon at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and a conversation with keynote speaker Jon Phillips of Creative Commons

Copyright in ancient times; Bill Shakespeare's intellectual property; Property vs Knowledge; Copyright / Public Domain / Creative Commons / Attribution / Non-Commercial / Share-Alike / No-Derivatives / Free Software / GNU Public License / Open Source; Happenings & Open Source & Burning Man; flat hierarchies; developers who care; Negativland / U2 / Kasey Kasem / Metallica / Napster / Eminem / Paris Hilton.

33 mins, 15 mb

SA101b - Micki Krimmel

Micki Krimmel by JD Lasica

A trip to Pixelodeon at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and a conversation with event curator Micki Krimmel of Mickipedia.com

47 mins, 22 mb

SA101a - Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson

Ryanne Hodson & Jay Dedman by Lisa Padilla

A trip to Pixelodeon at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and a conversation with event organizers Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson.

Expressing yourself with video on the web; now that the technology "works," what about content? A bridge between vloggers & YouTubers; the Mona Lisa is behind bullet-proof glass; crappy video that can change your life; art beyond NY / "genius;" your resume is BS; the dream of the American republic; community; interacting; your cultural consciousness as someone else's copywritten property; Creative Commons rocks; Flickr rocks; and so do you!

14 mins, 6 mb

SA100 - Dana Gioia

A trip to the LA Times' Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with National Endowment for the Arts chairperson Dana Gioia. Getting past the culture wars; Opera in Billings, Montana; Shakespeare as a media executive; forbidden love of the Beach Boys; the sound of your own thoughts; pleasure, wisdom & consolation.

33 mins, 15 mb

2007 Guests - Feb - May

SA99: 30 May 07 - 99th Episode!

One more listen to some of our favorite live music performances on Strange Angels from the past 3 years.

SA98: 02 May 07 - College of the Arts Day

College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Film & Electronic Arts Faculty Brian Lane
Film & Electronic Arts Faculty Diana Wagman

SA97: 14 Mar 07 - College of the Arts Day

College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Dance Faculty Colleen Dunagan
Dance Faculty Karen Clippinger

SA96: 14 Feb 07 - Nash Editions

Founder Graham Nash
Founder Mac Holbert

SA95: 07 Feb 07 - Photo LA

Lisa Sette Gallery: Lisa Sette

2006 Guests

SA94: 13 Dec 06 - Skin + Bones

Curator Brooke Hodge

SA93: 06 Dec 06 - The Art of Voice

Voice Coach Lynne Innerst
Soprano / Singer-songwriter Becca Fuchs

SA92: 06 Dec 06 - The Art of Voice

Soprano / Choral Director Skye Angulo
Long Beach City College Viking Chorale

SA91: 29 Nov 06 - Laughing Yaks

Singer-Songwriter Emily Wells

SA90: 22 Nov 06 - College of the Arts Day

College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Dance Department Chair Cyrus Parker-Jeanette
Dance Faculty Sophie Monat
Dance Faculty Lorin Johnson

SA89: 22 Nov 06 - Sex, Drugs, & Microsound

Indie Electronica Artist Madeline Puckette

SA88: 15 Nov 06 - Feminist String Theory

The LA Art Girls

SA87: 08 Nov 06 - We are the Robots!

Artist Sam Davis

SA86: 25 Oct 06 - The Handwriting on the Wall

Singer-Songwriter Jackie Bristow
Handwritten Theatre: Joseph Dougherty

SA85: 18 Oct 06 - Yes, Virginia...

Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls

SA84: 11 Oct 06 - Whispering at the Disco

Music The Vooms
Sound Art Carrie Yury

SA83: 04 Oct 06 - Love, Lust, Loss, Dreams,

Murder & Strippers in Japan
Singer-Songwriter Angie Mattson

SA82: 27 Sep 06 - Hong Kong: an audio postcard

Artist Stanley Wong
Punk Trio Dzap Dau Dau
Polymath Graham Earnshaw
Passportless expat Harsha Harjani
Roboticist Mark Tilden
Ubiquitous Cicadas
The Voice of the Hong Kong Metro "Please Mind the Gap!"
...and much, much more!

SA81: 20 Sep 06 - It's All Your Fault

Singer-Songwriter Mandi Perkins
Singer-Songwriter Arden Kaywin

SA80: 13 Sep 06 - Faster Pieces are Masterpieces

Artist, Author & Composer Mark Kostabi
Fractal Origamicist Jeannine Mosely

SA79: 06 Sep 06 - Far From Here...

Singer-Songwriter Alissa Moreno
Artist Jocelyn Foye
Artist Jeff Foye

SA78: 02 Aug 06 - The Quest for Consciousness:
The ASSC9 Consciousness Conference @ Caltech

Neurobiologist Christof Koch
Neurobiologist Constanze Hofstoetter
Experimental Psychologist Hakwan Lau
Cognitive Scientist Pete Mandik
Philosopher Jesse Prinz
Philosopher Daniel Dennett

SA77: 05 Jul 06 - Le Fil

French vocalist Camille

SA76: 31 May 06 - Corporeal Reality

A conversation with Museum of Jurassic Technology founder David Wilson and author Aimee Bender

SA75: 03 May 06 - Festival of Books

Performance Artist / Author Karen Finley
Journalist / Author Meghan Daum
Poet Sarah Arvio
Novelist Jennifer Haigh

SA74: 19 Apr 06 - College of the Arts Day

College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Theater Arts Department Chair Joanne Gordon
Theater Arts Design & Lighting David Jacques
Theater Arts Directing Program Anne D'Zmura
Design Department Chair Tor Hovind
Design Department Faculty Khoi Vo
Design Department Faculty Dave Teubner
BET Producer/Host / AME Minister Cousin Jeff

SA73: 05 Apr 06 - Finding Your Inner Me

Industrial / Trance / Gothic band Spanking Machine
Legendary French Maids & Wrestlers The Poubelle Twins
Wearable Art designers Kasey McMahon & Vanessa Bonet of Psycho Girlfriend

SA72: 22 Mar 06 - Altered States of Art Making

Art Critic Christopher Miles

SA71: 15 Mar 06 - Big World

Singer-Songwriter Kendall Payne
International Student Christian Braren

SA70: 01 Mar 06 - The Sound

Experimental Sound Artist Glenn Bach
Experimental Sound Artist Shea Gauer

SA69: 22 Feb 06 - Extreme Fashion

Moria Carlson & Alice Wu of Feral Childe
Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix
Margaret Orth of International Fashion Machines
Elise Co of Minty Monkey

SA68: 15 Feb 06 - College of the Arts Day

College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Director of Jazz Studies Jeff Jarvis
CSULB Music Department Chair John Carnahan
University Art Museum Director Chris Scoates
Singer-Songwriter Sarah Dashew

SA67: 08 Feb 06 - Raid Projects

Raid Projects Co-Director Max Presneill
Raid Projects Co-Director Janet Owen

SA66: 01 Feb 06 - Music '06

Singer-Songwriter Kat Parsons
Austin Band Full Service

2005 Guests

SA65: 07 Dec 05 - Not A Cornfield

Artist Lauren Bon
Singer-Songwriter Mara

SA64: 16 Nov 05 - New Dance Premieres

Choreographer Shari Brookler
Choreographer Michelle Pritchard

SA63: 09 Nov 05 - College of the Arts Day

COTA Dean Donald Para
Dance Department Chair Judy Allen
Film & Electronic Arts Department Chair Craig Smith
Documentary Filmmaker Alan Jacobs

SA62: 05 Oct 05 - College Radio!

KBCH Radio Music Director Lexi Lee

SA61: 12 Sep 05 - Welcome to the 2005/2006 Academic Year

Long Beach State President: Robert Maxson
Art Critic & Sculpture Program Chair Christopher Miles

SA60: 07 Sep 05 - College of the Arts Day

COTA Dean Donald Para
Theater Department Chair Joanne Gordon
Actor Richard Holden
Actor Shaunte Carabello
Composer Carolyn Bremer

SA59: 18 Jun 05 - Festival of Books

Author Aimee Bender
Author Rachel Resnick
Bodhi Tree Bookstore: Stan Madson
Tin House Magazine: Holly MacArthur
Swink Magazine: Samantha Marlowe

SA58: 14 May 05 - New Gen Art/Net Hipsters

Model-Designer-DJ Messy Stench
Photographer-Designer-Artist Yvette Marie

SA57: 19 Mar 05 - Moving Arts: The Absence of Weather

Director Mark Seldis
Producer Lisa Marie Marschall
Producer Michael Shutt
Actor Alexander Wells
Actor Tristan Wright
Actor Jodie Schell
Singer-Songwriter Elly K

SA56: 19 Feb 05 - Photo LA

Photographer Mona Kuhn
Singer-Songwriter Tracy Spuehler

2004 Guests

SA55: 25 Dec 04 - Solstice / New Year Celebration!

Singer-Songwriter Rachael Sage
Singer-Songwriter Quincy

SA54: 04 Dec 04 - Fashion in LA!

Designer / Producer Jose Angel
Designer Uriel Saenz
Singer-Songwriter / Accessory Designer Gayle Day

SA53: 27 Nov 04 - The Quest for Consciousness

Neurobiologist Christof Koch
Neurobiologist Francis Crick

SA52: 20 Nov 04 - Interactive Storytelling

Carolyn Handler Miller author of Digital Storytelling
Mark Stephen Meadows author of Pause & Effect
Andrew Glassner author of Interactive Storytelling

SA51: 13 Nov 04 - Heaven & Hell

Vocalist Hayley Westenra
Art Provocateur Rae Anne Robinett

SA50: 06 Nov 04 - The Art of Erotica

Actor Nina Hartley
Photographer Holly Randall
Actor Justine Joli

SA49: 16 Oct 04 - Truth?

Actor, Artist & Author Mary Woronov

SA48: 09 Oct 04 - Origami Universe

Writer/Director/Computer Scientist Andrew Glassner

SA47: 31 Jul 04 - Indeterminacy

Art Historian Libby Lumpkin
Strange Angels goes to Comic-Con 2004

SA46: 12 Jun 04 - The Museum

Artist/Curator Fred Wilson
Artist/Curator David Wilson

SA45: 22 May 04 - Festival of Books

Author Iris Chang
Author Rebecca Solnit
Author Arianna Huffington
Radio Host Larry Mantle

SA44: 01 May 04 - Radio Drama: Another Monica

Starring Melissa Lawson & Kara Revel

SA43: 17 Apr 04

Drew Daniel & M.C. Schmidt of Matmos

SA42: 20 Mar 04

Photography & Photoshopping: The Glitter Guru

SA41: 28 Feb 04

Singer-Songwriter Rachael Sage

2003 Guests

SA40: 17 Dec 03

art critic Christopher Miles
intermedia artist Tommy Freeman

SA39: 15 Dec 03

Strange Angels goes to Siggraph 2003

SA38: 10 Dec 03

Video / Installation Artist Gregory Kucera
Plastics Painter Linda Besemer

SA37: 08 Dec 03

LBSU College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Carpenter Center Executive Director Peter Lesnik
LBSU Acting Program Director Hugh O'Gorman

SA36: 03 Dec 03

Artist / Curator Fred Wilson
Video / Installation Artist Gregory Kucera

SA35: 19 Nov 03

The Art of Spaces: Karen Kleinfelder & Victoria Bryan

SA34: 10 Nov 03

Author Suzanne Greenberg

SA33: 03 Nov 03

New Music Composer Martin Herman
New Music Composer Rychard Cooper

SA32: 29 Oct 03

New Music Ensemble The California EAR Unit

SA31: 20 Oct 03

LBSU College of the Arts Dean Donald Para
Ceramicist Tony Marsh
Film & Electronic Arts Department Chair Craig Smith

SA30: 13 Oct 03

Dance Company: Diavolo

SA29: 08 Oct 03

Haptic Art Collective: James Adams

SA28: 01 Oct 03

Dance Company: 33 Fainting Spells
Narrative Painter Tom Knechtel

SA27: 24 Sep 03

Loretta Livingston & Dancers
Ceramicist Clayton Bailey

SA26: 22 Sep 03

Intermedia Artist Tommy Freeman
Long Beach State President Robert Maxson

SA25: 10 Sep 03

Guest Host Dr. Karen L. Kleinfelder
cast of Twelve: Tim Nistler
cast of Twelve: Najarra
cast of 6000 Degrees: Vanessa Mizzone
cast of 6000 Degrees: Jodie Schell
cast of 6000 Degrees: Jamie Walsh

SA24: 08 Sep 03

The Art of Blue Shift: Karen Kleinfelder
The Art of Blue Shift: Ann Tyler Allen

SA23: 24 Jul 03

Political Artist Dread Scott
Narrative Painter Tom Knechtel
Political Artists The Guerrilla Girls

SA22: 17 Jul 03

Pointillism in the 21st Century: Circulist Maggie Toole
Pointillism in the 21st Century: Bar Code Artist Scott Blake

SA21: 10 Jul 03

Educator Erin Gruwell

SA20: 03 Jul 03

Artwalks: Brewery, Santa Fe, Venice

SA19: 26 Jun 03

Trip Dance Theatre

SA18: 19 Jun 03

The Future of Media - Curtis Stage

SA17: 12 Jun 03

Collage Dance Theatre
Author Nick Bantock
Chronicle Books CEO Nion McEvoy

SA16: 05 Jun 03

Museum of Jurassic Technology founder David Wilson
Actor Geralyn Gallagher
Author Timothy Ferris

SA15: 22 May 03

Filmmaker Sharyn Blumenthal
Filmmaker Tammy Eastepp
Film Composer Gerhard Guter
Film Composer Peter Deneff

SA14: 15 May 03

Venice Artwalk Artist Tom Wudle
Poet Lisa Dowling
Poet Brian Harman
Poet Ashlea Scaglione

SA13: 08 May 03

UAM Curator Mary-Kay Lombino
Narrative Painter Tom Knechtel

SA12: 01 May 03

Choreographer Pat Finot
Choreographer Keith Johnson
Choreographer Andrew Vaca
LBSU College of the Arts Dean Donald Para

SA11: 24 Apr 03

Long Beach State President Robert Maxson
CSULB Foundation Art Program: Lara Nguyen
Ceramic Robots: Clayton Bailey

SA10: 17 Apr 03

The Brewery Artwalk
Uncabaret founders Beth Lapides & Greg Miller

SA09: 10 Apr 03

Art Historian Ann Steinsapir
German Painter Heribert Ottersbach

SA08: 03 Apr 03

Art Dept Chair Jay Kvapil
Poet Maurya Simon
Author Steven Cooper

SA07: 27 Mar 03

Art Critic Christopher Miles
Installation Artist Jennifer Steinkamp

SA06: 20 Mar 03

Choreographer Doug Nielsen
Choreographer Jennifer Felton
Choreographer Melissa Brown
Poet's Lounge: Olukemi Are
Intermedia Artist Doug Buis
Intermedia Artist Tommy Freeman

SA05: 13 Mar 03

Poet Gerry Locklin
Poet Tricia Charin

SA04: 06 Mar 03

Vocal Music: Jonathan Talberg
Architecture: Michael Webb
Political Art: Guerrilla Girls

SA03: 27 Feb 03

Art Historian Karen Kleinfelder
Motion Pictures: Remembering Ed Brokaw

SA02: 20 Feb 03

Choreographer Rogelio Lopez
Choreographer Bill Lett
Narrative Painter Tom Knechtel
UAM Curator Mary-Kay Lombino

SA01: 13 Feb 03

Printmaker / Monster Maker Leee Hockenberry
Printmaker / Neo-Feminist Bicycle Artist Keira Dooley
Choreographer Erin Mitchell
Choreographer Amanda Lipsey
Political Artist Dread Scott

Whispering at the Disco

Killer broadcast this week: Wednesday 11 October, 9am: The Vooms and Carrie Yury. The Vooms are a new wave / indie / disco group. They'll perform live and talk about their work. Composer/Vocalist/Programmer/Mastermind Marcie Patman will be joined by Dan Epand on Drums and Ivan on guitar. Big sound. Big fun. Big drums. Boom boom.

Carrie is an amazing sound artist. She's done a couple of pieces where she hides speakers in trees and as you walk down the sidewalk you hear her whispering. In one piece she whispered names of desserts. In another she whispered her friends body parts that the friends had always secretly felt were too big or too small or too something. She's got a new music CD coming out in 2007, she's going to preview one of the tracks... and, just for us she's agreed to do a special whispered version! Start putting those speakers and blasters in your trees!

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