WFMU Marathon 2016

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Thanks!  We made it!!! – 24 March

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The annual WFMU fundraising marathon is now on!  This is the time when you can pledge money to the radio station and get swag and prizes in return.  Everyone works very hard at the station to bring you interesting eclectic audio that it is hard to hear elsewhere, and the shows are archived 24/7 too, there are 13 years of People Like Us radio shows so far!

Click here to make a pledge or call 800-989-9368 if you’re in the US.

Radio V&A at Victoria & Albert Museum and Resonance FM

V&A presents Friday Late : Radio V&A
Friday 26th February, 6.30-10pm FREE
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/
Radio V&A broadcast live on Resonance – on 104.4FM and on DAB in central London. 

Update: listen here:

The Sound of Silence by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
Transmitting from speakers within the bookshelves of the National Art Library
The library encourages silence, yet it is full of words.  The broadcast medium is similar – it is all around us yet we have to tune in to actually hear it.
The radio show fishes from the wide spectrum picked up when using a radio receiver, from outer space to our inner world.
There really is no such thing as silence.  Only when we begin to be quiet do we really start to hear what is going on.

Radio V&A program (pdf)

Reading at The Other Room, Manchester

Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt, Mark Leahy, Will Montgomery
Wednesday 17th February 2016, 7 pm | Free entry
The Other Room 59 The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD.
www.otherroom.org

Update: and here is the video!

The Fundamental Questions is a collaborative work by Bennett and Weichbrodt and will be performed on the night by members of the audience.
https://peoplelikeus.org/2014/new-book-by-gregor-weichbrodt-vicki-bennett-available-now/
(please note: this is a reading by other people, the artists will not be present)

The Other Room
Pages from “The Fundamental Questions” by Vicki Bennett & Gregor Weichbrodt will be read simultaneously by the entire audience
Continue reading “Reading at The Other Room, Manchester”

People Like Us Guest On BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction

Tuesday 5 January 2016
Now that the archive has expired we’re making it available here so you can still hear it

As part of Radio 3’s New Year New Music, Max Reinhardt is joined in the studio by the experimental musician and multimedia artist Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us whose audio collage work involves the manipulation and reworking of sampled material. Presented by Max Reinhardt – Vicki will be on around 11.30pm. Late Junction – BBC Radio 3plu on late junction 5 jan

PLU & WFMU docs double bill at Brighton Cinecity

On 18 November 2015 there will be a double bill of the WFMU doc “Sex and Broadcasting” and the People Like Us doc “Nothing Can Turn Into A Void” at Brighton Cinecity, at Sallis Benney Theatre.  http://www.cine-city.co.uk/cinecity-13th-brighton-film-festival-2015/calendar-2015/#21

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Respective links:
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/nothing-can-turn-into-a-void/
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/sex-and-broadcasting/

Also at the same festival on 21 November 2015, People Like Us will perform Citation City at the same venue.  http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/citation-city-people-like-us/

Citation City at Brighton Cinecity Festival

People Like Us will perform Citation City at Brighton Cinecity (say that fast!) on 21 November 2015 at Sallis Benney Theatre on Grand Parade, Brighton at 7.15pm.  http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/citation-city-people-like-us/

Also on at the same festival and venue on 18 November 2015 will be a double bill of the WFMU doc “Sex and Broadcasting” with the People Like Us doc “Nothing Can Turn Into A Void”.  http://www.cine-city.co.uk/cinecity-13th-brighton-film-festival-2015/calendar-2015/#21

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Citation City in NY and Baltimore!

People Like Us will present Citation City in two cities this week –
WFMU’s Monty Hall on Saturday 24 October at 8pm:
Event info here
PEOPLE LIKE US present Citation City
and
EAR, NOSE AND THROAT : M.C.SCHMIDT (Matmos), JASON WILLETT, MAX EILBACHER
M.C. Schmidt is one half of the acclaimed electronic duo Matmos. As half of Matmos, Schmidt has worked with Terry Riley, Bjork, The Kronos Quartet, Peter Rehberg, the INA/GRM, Rrose, Marshall Allen, Horse Lords, People Like Us, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antony Hegarty, William Basinski and many more.
Jason Willett is an American musician, known largely for his work with experimental rock groups including Half Japanese, Can Openers, Pleasant Livers, X-Ray Eyes, The Dramatics, The Jaunties, The Attitude Robots, Leprechaun Catering, and many more. He has also made records with Ruins, Jac Berrocal, James Chance, Jon Rose, Michael Evans, Ron Anderson, Benb Gallaher, Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler, Little Howlin Wolf, Yamatsuka Eye & his various pet ducks.
Max Eilbacher is a sound and video artist working with a wide variety of electronics, both sampled and synthetic. Deemed “American Midi Primitivism” by the New Yorker and “An algorithm most likely to fail” by the Village Voice.
—then—
The Red Room
, Baltimore on Wednesday 28 October at 9pm:
Event info here
PEOPLE LIKE US present Citation City
and
MATT WESTON Electro-acoustic percussionist Matt Weston performs a solo improvisation as only he can.

Support WFMU (and get some nice swag!)

Hello, It’s that time of the year when WFMU is running out of funds.  WFMU is the home of freeform radio – which has the word “free” in it, which indeed it is to listen to and enjoy.  However WFMU pays for a lot for things in order for it to be free for you and I, and if you’ve ever listened to People Like Us (which you may well have done if you are reading this) or to WFMU in general you know how important and unique this community and platform for sharing music and communications is, and it should not be taken for granted.  So… well… do what you can, eh?