Welcome to the only official site for People Like Us and Vicki Bennett
Vicki from People Like Us will be doing a fill-in show for Ken Freedman:
🗓 24 December 2025
📻 Live on WFMU
DO or DIY with People Like Us
🕘 9am–12 noon (NY time)
Live playlist + comments during the show already here: Wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159286
Warning and possible reassurance: NO Xmas music here!
We made a tribute mix on Mona’s show on WFMU to Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid who passed away on 22 October 2025.
Listen here and read the comments. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157508
Friends of and friends at WFMU! I’m cohosting with Hearty White this Thursday 13 March as part of our wonderful fundraising marathon – pledge here!
Update – Hearty had covid!
So Pseu Braun stood in for the Q&A, and Ken cohosted as Hearty!
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150057
https://pledge.wfmu.org/donate
Then straight after the show we will rush downstairs and are delighted to present The Library of Babel, followed by a conversation with Hearty White.
Get your tickets here.
WFMU Radio’s Monty Hall, located at 43 Montgomery Street in downtown Jersey City (mere steps from the Exchange Place PATH station).
Thursday, March 13 · 8pm EDT. Doors at 7:30pm
First there is experience.
Then we attach a story to it.
The Library of Babel is a vast library of words. Some combine to make stories of consequence, others are nonsensical.
The library is complete.
Yet searching it is futile.
“The Library of Babel” is a new musical movie by People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett), a journey through cinema and sound where the actors are set adrift from their story, left with pure experience.
All proceeds from this event benefit WFMU
We’re pleased to let you know that we’ll be back on the air on Xmasss Day broadcasting a 3-hour radio fill-in for Ken on WFMU
Listen in live and join us on the live comments board here:
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147296
Taste the Moment!
On Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White on WFMU: Featuring People Like Us, Gwilly Edmondez and more! Listen here (the show is one hour long) https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/146346
https://cas.illinois.edu/node/2915
Introduction by special guest Hearty White
Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. In the story, the librarians are isolated, focused on an almost religious or existential quest, struggling to find meaningful texts amidst an overwhelming number of nonsensical or irrelevant books. The library itself has no goals or intentions; a canvas onto which searchers project their quests for meaning. The narrative delves into the angst and crises of those that explore its depths, raising questions about our ability to manage, navigate, and find meaning from vast amounts of information. In her film inspired by the story, artist Vicki Bennett relies on an amalgamation of audio-visual collage and intricate editing techniques to reconfigure, decompose, redirect, and recombine images with sounds that are often already ingrained in audience’s collective consciousness. Rather than adhering to a linear progression of events, her thematic narrative unfolds in layered complexities, offering a fragmented but coherent tale achieved through a blend of various sources and an ‘exquisite corpse’ approach.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Bennett and White on their independent and collaborative creative journeys in seeking meaning, social connection, and joy through the mediums of radio, video, and performance.
Hosted by: College of Fine & Applied Arts. Thanks to Kevin Hamilton.
In conjunction with: Department of Media & Cinema Studies, Department of Musicology, Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Illinois Public Media, School of Art + Design, Spurlock Museum, University Library
Join us on Wednesday, 26th June 2024 from 9-Noon (NY time), artist and WFMU DJ Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, appears live on Ken’s show on WFMU. She’ll discuss her new album, COPIA, being a WFMU DJ, and presenting her latest audiovisual performance, The Library of Babel. You can watch the performance on Ken’s playlist page and through the WFMU front page.
Listen and watch at WFMU.org
For your diary: Wed. Feb 14th, 9am-Noon NY Time:
DO or DIY with People Like Us fill in for Ken on WFMU
https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl
People Like Us fill in for Station Manager Ken not once but twice in December on WFMU!
Here’s where you’ll find the show, both live with a playlist and comments, and then as an archive afterwards. https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl
PEOPLE LIKE US Cafe OTO ARTIST RESIDENCY
27 / 28 / 29 OCTOBER 2023
PEOPLE LIKE US | MAGGIE NICOLS | ERGO PHIZMIZ | GWILLY EDMONDEZ | POREST | IRENE MOON | ERIK BUNGER | HEARTY WHITE
Cafe OTO is proud to announce a new artist residency, featuring multimedia artist Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us. Vicki has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians; some are joining us for this 3-Day residency, both solo and in collaboration. The residency includes a preview of the new People Like Us audiovisual performance The Library of Babel.
1st September 2023, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction at 11pm UK
We were talking about our contribution to killing the music industry, in the first of a series of specials that commemorate 60 years of the cassette.
Program info and 30-day archive: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv3x
Vicki’s segment:
Happy to announce that we will return to our weekly radio show DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU for the Summer Schedule 2023 :). Mark your calendar for weekly shows through the season starting Wednesday 7 June, 7-8pm NY Time (that’s midnight-1am Wednesday night in the UK). Shows are, and have been archived in perpetuity for over 20 years now, which is exactly how long DO or DIY has been on WFMU, and is returning to its original slot after Seven Second Delay.
Follow the Listen link at the time: wfmu.org and then listen to the archive(s) here.
