Over the Edge
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Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air from a variety of formats and equipment. There is a plan and there is no plan. The mix consists of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. OTE sometimes employs “Receptacle Programming,” which means you.
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Over the Edge – “All Art Radio” Beatniks Part II
The Beats go on with more by and about the Beat Generation. Ken Nordine plays big part in this one with some early public readings, Ginsberg is interviewed about the Beats when the Beats were new, Kerouac on the history of Bop, jazz songs and music, poetry recited by several Beat poets, and poet callers … Continued
Over the Edge – Beatniks Part I
A collaged survey of the original Beat scene on both the East and West Coast. (Did you know the term refers to “beaten down” and has nothing to do with snapping fingers?) Several extended news features on this new, emerging social and cultural phenomenon of values rejection, Kerouac and his poetry are emphasized, songs about … Continued
Over the Edge – “All Art Radio” All Lenny Bruce
After a Language Alert notice to watch out for all too many offensive words, we spread Lenny Bruce across three hours. Bruce expounds and improvises on sex, dope, comedy, insecurity, dirty words, the nature of obscenity, his legal hassles and busts, and night club hecklers. Bruce was the first to bring the most taboo street … Continued
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August 27, 2010 Solo Maybe light is the only thread through here, along with The Straphangers Art Ensemble, several interviews with several painters, especially Bridget Riley, poems and poets expound at length, David Moss on the functional purposes of art in society, and beyond irony in post-modern art. And no, I can’t understand him either. … Continued
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“All Art Radio” August 20, 2010 Solo It’s all William Burroughs and we hear a whole lot from the old and young geezer, himself. Dr. Benway operates throughout the show, and no blood is spared, including an emergency language warning from me. Along with lectures, panels, readings, and performances, we hear some of Burroughs’ very … Continued
Over the Edge – “All Art Radio”
Three more hours of art radio in which our British introduction to art continues to introduce, several painters are interviewed about their work, we keep coming back to side B of The Problemist LP, Eno has an extended conversation about arriving at ambient music and his working process when making it, and callers join in. … Continued