Thursday, October 6 2022 at 11 AM
“Sweet Tea” hosted by KP Whaley
103.3 Asheville FM
The 2022 Black Mountain College Radio Artists have been selected by BMCM+AC, AshevilleFM, and Make Noise for a series of innovative works for the radio inspired by the experimental spirit of BMC artists. This year’s open call for artists expanded beyond Western NC and was open to all.
BMC Radio Artists’ work will be featured in various programs on Asheville FM with an exclusive interview kicking off their featured month. At the completion of the broadcasts, a culminating listening session will be held at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center to celebrate the work of the six radio artists: Casey Edwards, Erika Funke, Kamikaze Jones, Brett Naucke, Joo Won Park, Jonah Rosenburg, and charles theonia.
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.