We are delighted to announce the selected artists for our 2022 BMC Radio Art program! This second cohort of BMC Radio Artists will create new works to be broadcast on the radio. We are proud to present these projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Stay tuned for broadcast dates and an upcoming listening party!
Casey Edwards is an interdisciplinary academic who has achieved graduate degrees in both library science and music. As a librarian, he specializes in archives and special collections; as a performer, he concentrates on the vocal tenor repertoire and participates regularly in various music endeavors in the Greater Asheville area.
In Archival Amalgamation I: All Our Holocausts, Edwards creates and combines recordings of himself interpreting items from the archival collections at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. The selected items include one art song for tenor and piano and two letters, written and composed by Merrill Gillespie in the 1990s. Edwards attempts to build on Gillespie’s comparison with recent news broadcasts to consider the repetitive nature of human history as observed in current events.
Erika Funke is Senior Arts Producer at WVIA Public Radio/TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. She received a fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts to create an audio theater piece that was performed with professional actors and live sound effects before an audience and later broadcast. Erika has produced a number of radio documentaries on the anthracite coal region.
One of the most important themes in M.C. Richards’s writing and living is the fundamental importance of listening – at the deepest level – to each other and to the world. She actually uses radio as an image in one poem to express our human “ear-ness”. Marienleben: The Life of Mary… Mary Caroline explores that metaphor through one of her favorite works of music, Paul Hindemith’s Das Marienleben – that she listened to on the radio.
Kamikaze Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work often explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. His recent practice has been focused on cultivating both sonic and sculptural sanctuary for the ghosts of public sex. His work across mediums has been featured by Anthology Film Archives, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and WUSSY Magazine.
Directly evoking the work of William Basinksi, The Degeneration Loops are a series of dronescapes using found audio and sonic ephemera from queer pornography. Each loop is recorded to tape and subsequently eroded through a deliberate misuse of digitization technology. In Degeneration Loop 1, a loop from the 1980 French gay pornographic film “Equation to an Unknown” has been subjected to multiple scalpels until the tape can no longer function.
Brett William Naucke (b. 1985) is an American experimental composer and visual artist from Chicago, IL who recently relocated to Asheville, NC.
FM for FM is an experimental composition utilizing the expansive sound palette of FM synthesis designed for the FM broadcast format. This work explores the use of FM synthesis under an experimental guise, rather than exploiting its noteworthy familiarities and exploiting its idiosyncrasies and unique sonic characteristics.
Joo Won Park makes music with electronics, toys, and other sources that he can record or synthesize. He is the recipient of Knight Arts Challenge Detroit (2019)and the Kresge Arts Fellowship (2020). His music and writings are available on MIT Press, PARMA, SEAMUS, and No Remixes labels.
In Nested Duets, each performer in an ensemble is improvising with music and score generated by an original computer program with their instrument. Since the electronic part changes every time it is generated, performers create different sounds by reacting to what they hear in the electronic part.
Jonah Rosenberg is a composer, musician, sound and multimedia designer based in Brooklyn. charles theonia is a poet, enthusiast, and transsexual without direction.
Everybody’s finally throwing a party for Beverly Glenn-Copeland. We offer these sounds as part of the growing celebration of his work. In this recording, Rosenberg covenes sonic elements of Glenn-Copeland’s songs with a reading of theonia’s poem, which incorporates words and phrases from his lyrics and interview material. If You Squint with Your Ears is a sonic poem collaboration wading in the liquid computer sounds of Beverly Glenn-Copeland.
We are delighted to announce the selected artists for our 2022 BMC Radio Art program! This second cohort of BMC Radio Artists will create new works to be broadcast on the radio. We are proud to present these projects that reflect the experimental and innovative spirit of Black Mountain College. Stay tuned for broadcast dates and an upcoming listening party!
Casey Edwards is an interdisciplinary academic who has achieved graduate degrees in both library science and music. As a librarian, he specializes in archives and special collections; as a performer, he concentrates on the vocal tenor repertoire and participates regularly in various music endeavors in the Greater Asheville area.
In Archival Amalgamation I: All Our Holocausts, Edwards creates and combines recordings of himself interpreting items from the archival collections at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. The selected items include one art song for tenor and piano and two letters, written and composed by Merrill Gillespie in the 1990s. Edwards attempts to build on Gillespie’s comparison with recent news broadcasts to consider the repetitive nature of human history as observed in current events.
Erika Funke is Senior Arts Producer at WVIA Public Radio/TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. She received a fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts to create an audio theater piece that was performed with professional actors and live sound effects before an audience and later broadcast. Erika has produced a number of radio documentaries on the anthracite coal region.
One of the most important themes in M.C. Richards’s writing and living is the fundamental importance of listening – at the deepest level – to each other and to the world. She actually uses radio as an image in one poem to express our human “ear-ness”. Marienleben: The Life of Mary… Mary Caroline explores that metaphor through one of her favorite works of music, Paul Hindemith’s Das Marienleben – that she listened to on the radio.
Kamikaze Jones is an interdisciplinary artist whose work often explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. His recent practice has been focused on cultivating both sonic and sculptural sanctuary for the ghosts of public sex. His work across mediums has been featured by Anthology Film Archives, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and WUSSY Magazine.
Directly evoking the work of William Basinksi, The Degeneration Loops are a series of dronescapes using found audio and sonic ephemera from queer pornography. Each loop is recorded to tape and subsequently eroded through a deliberate misuse of digitization technology. Over this initial degeneration, Jones has implemented vocalizations using deconstructed lyrics from songs pertaining to the lives and experiences of sex workers.
Brett William Naucke (b. 1985) is an American experimental composer and visual artist from Chicago, IL who recently relocated to Asheville, NC.
FM for FM is an experimental composition utilizing the expansive sound palette of FM synthesis designed for the FM broadcast format. This work explores the use of FM synthesis under an experimental guise, rather than exploiting its noteworthy familiarities and exploiting its idiosyncrasies and unique sonic characteristics.
Joo Won Park makes music with electronics, toys, and other sources that he can record or synthesize. He is the recipient of Knight Arts Challenge Detroit (2019)and the Kresge Arts Fellowship (2020). His music and writings are available on MIT Press, PARMA, SEAMUS, and No Remixes labels.
In Nested Duets, each performer in an ensemble is improvising with music and score generated by an original computer program with their instrument. Since the electronic part changes every time it is generated, performers create different sounds by reacting to what they hear in the electronic part.
Jonah Rosenberg is a composer, musician, sound and multimedia designer based in Brooklyn. charles theonia is a poet, enthusiast, and transsexual without direction.
Everybody’s finally throwing a party for Beverly Glenn-Copeland. We offer these sounds as part of the growing celebration of his work. In this recording, Rosenberg covenes sonic elements of Glenn-Copeland’s songs with a reading of theonia’s poem, which incorporates words and phrases from his lyrics and interview material. If You Squint with Your Ears is a sonic poem collaboration wading in the liquid computer sounds of Beverly Glenn-Copeland.