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Brian Joseph Davis on DO or DIY

Brian Joseph Davis on DO or DIY with People Like Us
Wednesday 6th July 2011

http://www.wfmu.org

On this edition of DO or DIY Brian does a guest mix “30 Shortest Tracks in my iTunes” and gives some exclusive tracks to play.

Davis worked at Blocks Recording Club for several years, then lived in the Mojave desert in 2010 where he experienced perfect, terrifying silence. Mornings included the grilling of hotdogs and deadpan announcements of “und meine Ohren sind Wunden.” Since that time he’s settled in Brooklyn and concentrated on text and writing. Recent works include adapting 300 pages of The Pentagon Papers into Star Wars fan fiction, publishing a short story collection, and running the literary magazine Joyland.

www.brianjosephdavis.com
Playlists and archives for DO or DIY with People Like Us

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DO or DIY returns to WFMU

DO or DIY will return to WFMU’s airwaves and ether on Wednesday 15th June.
The show will be on each week at 8pm NY time throughout the WFMU Summer Schedule, 2011, and each show will be archived online for further listening. As ever, it will also be available as a podcast.

The new WFMU Summer 2011 Schedule is here http://www.wfmu.org/table?period=28
Listen live on WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/
Subscribe to the podcast here http://wfmu.org/podcast
Listen to archived shows and view playlists here http://wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
The show will run through to the beginning of October 2011.

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Kenny G at The White House Today

Our friend and collaborator Kenny G, aka Kenneth Goldsmith read his amazing poetry at The White House today, 11 May 2011. As well as being beautiful and engaging in its own right, Kenny’s work has been a gateway to understanding of so called “higher” forms of writing and reading to People Like Us and many other allies.

Watch and download the video archives here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/11/president-obama-poets-white-house
and
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/11/poetry-student-workshop-white-house
More inspiration:
Kenneth Goldsmith
And from the larger umbrella:
UbuWeb
A People Like Us & Kenny G collaboration:
Nothing Special (CD)

Induction Is A Draft Is A Gust Of Air (2009) on Vimeo.

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Watch and Listen to People Like Us Live on WFMU

Genre Collage – live on the internet and radio
Wednesday 4th May 2011 on WFMU at 11am, NY time
(broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, US)
and on WFMU.org

People Like Us will be performing a live video/audio feed of their current concert “Genre Collage” on Ken’s show on WFMU on the above date.

Ken’s show runs from 9am-noon NY time (that’s 2pm-5pm UK time) – and you can check Ken’s playlists and archives at www.wfmu.org/playlists/KF
Vicki co-hosted with Ken recently for the WFMU 2011 Marathon.

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Please Support WFMU

WFMU will be taking pledges to send Station Manager Ken aloft with helium balloons on Wednesday, December 8th, 11am-noon (pre-game show starts at 9am)! For every $1000 we raise, we’ll fill up a balloon and tie it to Ken’s lawn chair. If we’re successful, Ken will lift off! We’ll host a live video feed of the whole debacle, so you won’t want to miss out.

Help keep WFMU and Ken aloft by using the brochure that will be hitting your mailbox soon, pledging online, or over the phone on December 8th. We’ve got a brand new t-shirt and a baseball cap up for grabs, too!

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A Double Bill of Specials on DO or DIY – Dave Soldier and Irene Moon

Two Specials in one edition DO or DIY with People Like Us
Wednesday, September 22nd, 7pm – 8pm
DO or DIY with People Like Us

Dave Soldier
An old musician’s joke is on the order of “it takes him half an hour to play the Minute Waltz”. Today, WFMU’s favorite local classical music composer Dave Soldier visits for a live performance of his newest collaboration, with the late Frederic Chopin and living electronic musician Sean Hagerty. Soldier performs the Minute Waltz on the grand piano at Le Poisson Rouge very very slowly, lasting a half hour, while Hagerty stretches each piano note out over time. Chopin may make a surprise appearance.
http://davesoldier.com/

Irene Moon
Irene Moon and a cast of characters from the Auk Theater perform a musical mystery theater about insects. Each character has an insect of choice that is suspect in a recently discovered serial murder. Information about insects is introduced as they try to unravel the “who done it.” Not all of the content is logical, but it is absolutely factual. Irene is an entomologist and musician at North Carolina State University whose present research involves the dissection of wasp heads and the representation of the muscles found within the head. She was quoted recently to say, “social bees and wasps are commonly found and easily organized. It’s the non-social beasts that fascinate and truly demonstrate how many creative methods there really are to dispose of an unfriendly caterpillar.”
http://begoniasociety.org/auktheatre.php

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Ergo Phizmiz Special on DO or DIY

DO or DIY with People Like Us – Ergo Phizmiz Special
Wednesday 15th September
http://www.wfmu.org/peoplelikeus

Join Ergo Phizmiz in the studio for this week’s DO or DIY featuring the premiere broadcast of the entirety of Ergo Phizmiz’s score for “La Puce de Neige” (“The Snow Flea”), a mime puppet-opera for Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes, which premiered in Marseille, November 2009.

The show, created for children, tells the story of Kerugug, a snow flea who in the Arctic who is displaced to Antartica through a hole in the world, and his journey back – with an evil ice-cream in hot pursuit, sneaking snow fleas to use as anti-freeze in his produce. The piece combines field-recordings of Inuit folk songs with a memetic score that references Mussorgsky, Moondog, French folk songs, Augustus Pablo, Prokofiev, Strauss, and Raymond Scott.

http://www.ergophizmiz.net

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Gwilly Edmondez on DO or DIY

Gwilly Edmondez on DO or DIY with People Like Us
Wednesday 8th September
On WFMU at 7pm NY time

Improvising vocalist and sampler-spitter Gwilly Edmondez joins People Like Us to talk about paperweights, bog-standard footwear and 50 Pence, while dashing off a handful of 21st century pop songs that are already ahead of their time. In a revealing discussion, Gwilly helps unravel some of the mysteries of modern awareness while promoting the complete decomposition of all music.

http://www.kakutopia.com
http://www.ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gwilly_Edmondez

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Borful Tang session on DO or DIY

Wednesday 4th August on WFMUat 7pm NY time

A beacon of light transmitted from his hermetic dwelling in Oakland, California, Borful Tang is proud to bring a gaggle of exclusive new material to the DO Or DIY show. With the help of producer/engineer Dominic Cramp (Evangelista, Vulcanus 68, Qulfus) Mr. Tang has crafted a handful of short narrative pieces compromised of nuggets from his vast vault of found sounds: a news report on the Commodore 64; a warped skipping Jesus record for children; an Austrian synth demonstration DVD; the Sapphire and Steele box set! It is all source material for this fiendish cut-up specialist. And all of it set to a musical interplay that puts him in a class all his own. These pieces are also in support and celebration of Borful Tang’s latest, release, Herd and Unherd, out now on Gigante Sound.
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Osymyso session on DO or DIY with People Like Us

Osymyso session on DO or DIY with People Like Us
Wednesday, July 21st, 7pm – 8pm

“I have to say, I’m not very good at writing about myself or my stuff. Am I supposed to do it in the 3rd person? Who knows. Here’s a paragraph for you. Feel free to change it, reduce it, expand on it or ask me to come up with something else entirely. There’s no theory or deep thought gone into this mix, to be honest I was just happy to be doing my own thing for once so it’s just unadulterated nonsense really.” – Osymyso

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RIAA session on DO or DIY with People Like Us

Wednesday, June 30th, 7pm – 8pm: RIAA

RIAA, the mashup/sound collage project of Los Angeles DJ/musician Mr. Fab, returns to DO or DIY for another exclusive mix. “The Kitchen of Tomorrow,” an excerpt from the forthcoming epic “USA,” will be featured, drawing on such sources as old industrial films, easy-listening records, and instructional records to humorously depict the changing role of women in American society.
http://www.m-1.us/