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

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SA104c - Tucker Balch 2001

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SA104b - Manuela Veloso 2001

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SA104a - Veloso & Balch 2001

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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