Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
#Radio Theater, Performance, and the Theater Arts
Blossom and Grow: A Pony's Tale
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
The story of a story and a story. Ruth Ann Warren discusses and reads her mother Sylvia Warren's children's story of love, hope, and purpose. Saved ina personla family archive since the 50s, the story is now published in a new edition from Trafford.
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Ulysses Syndrome: Recordings from the Mediterranean Sea
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Soundwalk Collective
Soundwalk Collective embarked aboard an old gaff-rigged sailboat equipped with scanners and aerial antennae for a sound odyssey, following the path of Ulysses and recording the Hertzian frequencies along the shores of the Mediterranean basin.
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Death Must Die
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Soundwalk Collective
A sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. Here, on the riverโs edges, the wrath and the grace of Shiva are expressed.
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Kill The Ego: New York
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Soundwalk Collective
A radio epic, a tone poem, composed from 10 years worth of intimate field recordings: from fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children, sewn together from the city's most obscure corners.
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Blood Pillow Presents Essential Rumi
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
A rousing adaptation of selected poems by 13th century poet, Rumi, with a diverse cast including Soft Machine, Russell Crowe, Bonnie Raitt, Tilda Swinton, Cabaret Voltaire, Randy Newman, Jozef Van Wissem, John C. Reilly, Ridley Scott, Lynne Ramsay...
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Empty Quarter Recordings from the Rub' Al Khali Desert 2009
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Soundwalk Collective
The Soundwalk Collective's anthology of sounds produced from a 45-day journey through the Rub' Al Khali Desert in the southern Arabic peninsula. The collection of audio invokes a sort of meditative state in which nomadism can be found from within.
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Blood Pillow Presents: Candy The Ferret
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
An affectionate remix of Guillermo del Toro's recorded commentary on Hayao Miyazaki's DVD commentary on a remake of Howl's Moving Castle starring a never-before-seen character from Jim Henson's Creature Shop: a puppet-ferret named Candy.
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Blood Pillow Presents: Leg Warmer on a Brain
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
Leg Warmer on a Brain: The Ashley Olsen Story is a fictional audio profile of the actress and fashion designer that investigates Olsen's portrayal as half of Michelle Tanner, the television role she shared with her dizygotic twin, Mary Kate.
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Bowwow February
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
A night of music and new poetry at the Bowery Poetry Club on topics ranging from sexism to a lysergic acid experience. The honorary epigram of the night comes from Bob Holman's wise words: "I'm a writer, I can do no wrong."
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Stanford White: Murder, Love & Insanity in the Gilded Age
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
The story of architect Stanford White's murder on the roof of his Madison Square Garden in 1906 as performed in the Clocktower Gallery in October 2011. The writer and producer Peter McCabe created this radio play while in residence here.
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The Mill, A Play by Walter Corwin
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
This short play by NYC playwright Walter Corwin was recorded in conjunction with a theatrical run at the Theater for the New City in March-April, 2011 and features Dan Kelley, Indigo Pavlov, and Catherine Pavlov with sound design by David Weinstein.
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Sabisha Friedberg: The Starry Garter
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
A sonic narrative for radio that combines elements of sound art, radio theater, and music to examine themes of transmutation, spirituality, and redemption. Based on the novel "Etidorhpa," the tale of a mysterious man's journey to the earth's center.
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Blog Theatre
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word
Hosted by Cousin #1 and Cousin #2 who tirelessly comb the Web for wisdoms and wonders. This emoticonical reading and rendering of real posts and other outbursts features a parallel analysis of online typography, usage, and metaphor. Hilarious, scary.