Special Broadcasts
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Every year in February we celebrate the achievements and contributions of African Canadians. CiTR is proud present special programming to focus on the past and present contributions that African Canadians make to the life of Vancouver, Canada and the world.
Each week in February will feature special blocked programming dedicated to explore and celebrate the heritage and traditions – in areas such as music, education, health, politics, rights, and struggles – of African Canadians. Throughout the day, you will also hear one-minute long clips about individuals and milestones in our country and beyond.
Weekly schedule (details and contributors to be updated weekly):
Friday, February 3 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
1. Cheikh Anta Diop
Introducing and examining his work by Dr. Mario Beatty, Chair, Associate Professor of African-American Studies of Chicago State University, followed by excerpt of an interview with Cheikh Anta Diop.
2. Dr. Chancellor Williams.
Chancellor Williams, the youngest of five children, was born in Bennetsville, South Carolina December 22, 1898. His father had been a slave; his mother a cook, nurse, and evangelist. A stirring writer, Chancellor Williams achieved wide acclaim as the author of the 1971 publication, The Destruction of Black Civilization–Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D
3. The Maroon Revolts: 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion, Stony Gut, Jamaica. (Paul Bogle & George William Gordon) – History Uncovered.
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. Adichie has been called “the most prominent” of “[a] procession of critically acclaimed young authors [which] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature.
4. Ashly Kissman – The Stories We Tell – Hair Stories: Women share personal stories about their hair at Afro Diva, in Victoria, BC.
5. Andy Longhurst and Ariel Fournier - Remembering Hogan’s Alley.
CiTR producers Ariel Fournier and Andy Longhurst bring you stories, memories, and the history of Vancouver’s original black community — Hogan’s Alley. This original black neighbourhood was located where the today’s Dunsmuir and Georgia Viaducts are located. This period in Vancouver’s history can be characterized by racist, top-down paternalistic urban planning, which brought displacement for Hogan’s Alley residents.
Wednesday, February 8 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
2-3 p.m. The Extraenvironmentalist presents audio from an incredible speech by Martin Luther King Jr. about challenging capitalism
3-4 p.m. Sonic Abyss Black History Month special: Take a sonic journey into Nubia, a region of northeast Africa, situated along the Nile. The show presents music of the Water Wheel…
“To the rural peoples living along the banks of the Nile where temperatures can rise as high as 140°, no life is possible without water. The narrow fields along the banks of the river are irrigated by large wooden water wheels, turned by oxen. In order to keep the oxen moving, someone must sit behind them on the wheel and periodically urge on the animals in the heat, a task that most often falls to young boys or old men. Water Wheel is a complete description of the experience of the boy who keeps the water wheel going. He rises early, before dawn, and begins, sleepily, to hitch up the oxen, adjusting the tension so that both animals are pulling equal weight. As the wheel slowly begins to move, the huge wooden gears of the wheel creak and groan. Gradually, lulled by the warmth of the morning sun, the movement and the sound of the wheel, the boy tending the oxen begins to hum to himself. ”
Hosts Ilya and Nix will lead the listeners through Nubia and down the Nile! Listen to these beautiful and traditonal sounds here.
4-5 p.m. Garnett Silk sings us into the next hour with his track “Mama Africa“. The journey brings us in tune with words from author Noviolet Bulawayo at the “Open a Book, Read Africa” discussion as part of the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative Conference. From here, we listen to Dr. Afua Cooper as seen on TVO as she provides insight into her novels “My Name is Phillis Wheatley” and “My Name is Henry Bibb” and the importance of literacy. The hour wraps up with civil rights activist and scholar, Dr. Angela Davis, as she speaks at Eastern Kentucky University about the complexities of race, justice and equality and reflects on the notion of Black History Month.
5-6 p.m. The Arts Report looks at Black History Month with a feature on Skins and Steel, a unique event featuring music, dance and archival documentary footage at the Vancity Theatre. Host Adam Janusz speaks to Venessa Richards, who came up with the event examining Afro-Caribbean culture spanning from the 1950′s to the present day in Vancouver. Books correspondent Maegan Thomas reviews A Credit To Your Race, a novel about race in suburban Vancouver in the 60′s by Truman Green. Plus a conversation about the value of Black History Month. Listen to the Podcast.
Thursday, February 16 from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
12-1 p.m. Ducans Donuts Special Edition. Duncan will be speaking to local musician Hasan Li and his band Bleating Hearts on the eve of the release party for their debut album, Bleating Hearts. Listen to the podcast.
1-3 p.m. Special Edition of the weekly program “We All Fall Down” in support of Black History Month on CiTR. Host Tim B brings you a special 2 hour episode of We All Fall Down. Part 1 – Punk. Tim brings you up to speed on the first all-black punk bands, and then gets into the present scene of punk bands with black members, while touching on the Afropunk movement. Part 2 – Jamaican music from 60-70s, with focus on 4 key elements: ska, rocksteady, reggae and dub. Tune in on Thursday from 1-3 pm for special edition of We All Fall Down in support of Black History Month. Listen to the podcast.
4-5 p.m. Mantra Special Edition. From Africa to Jamaica, Brazil to the US. Voices united in harmony, songs of love, devotion and transformation. What connects all these different tribes?. A special edition of Mantra explores various black communities from around the world and their individual yet inherently linked traditions.
Monday, February 20 from 1-4 p.m.
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Art’s 24 Hour Birthday Broadcast on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Story
Every year, for some time now, CiTR radio in Vancouver , and a few independent and college radio stations around the globe, have worked to give modern art a transmitter. The concept of giving art a birthday was introduced by French born artist / peacenik Robert Filliou (associate of John Cage, by the way) In 1963 asserted that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born …when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou had lofty ideas floating around inside his skull about “relative permanent creation”, an exercise in inner peace to be directed outward and into world peace. A continuing playful anarchy as a way of rejecting “the fascism of the square world”; the world which refuses to break free of conventional wisdom and the inevitable war it falls into again and again. Interestingly, through plan or coincidence, war and the horrors of fascism tend to be recurrent themes in many of the 24 Hours of Radio Art’s sound collages.
These audio-art projects bring to mind other vividly surrealist elements, namely the inter-active game known as “Exquisite Corpse.” This was an activity that usually involves three or more artists (generally visual types) that would start a drawing or montage on a piece of paper. When that artist was finished the paper was folded back or covered so that the next participant could not see what image came before. When the entire piece is finished, an amazingly bizarre picture is presented for the enjoyment of the group. When several stations (or even multiple people in the radio studio) are involved in radio-art and sharing audio over the internet, we have in essence, an audio version of an Exquisite Corpse. Combined with the surrealist’s interest in random or spontaneous creations well, I’m sure the tie-in is all too obvious. Not to say that 24 Hours of Radio Art is all about noise. No. The day is about art and other arts have been known to broadcast. Poets and live musicians have graced the studio with their original contributions. The familial links of the creative arts are concrete and incontrovertible.
CITR’s involvement in 24 Hours of Radio Art has its roots primarily in the sound experimentations of Peter Courtemanche. Peter hosted the Weekly program “The Absolute Value of Noise” from 1988 to 1992. This program featured a wide variety of radio-art and experimental audio – often generated live on the air. This radio show developed into the annual 24 Hours of Radio/ART program (1992-96) – a collaborative event that explored the concept of a “radio-art” station; an event that posed the question: What would happen if your local FM pop-rock station suddenly decided to go to an all audio-art format? The answer may be available on January 17th again. Then again, 24 Hours of Radio Art may also be the answer to the question of what do space aliens listen to at home.
In more recent years 24 Hours of radio Art has been made possible by sound-artists at CiTR such as past program director Anna Friz, followed by experimental program enthusiasts Luke Meat, Bleek, and PD Bryce Dunn and a cast of other wonderful volunteer programers and submissions from everywhere. This year we will continue the tradition in the name of Art’s Birthday.
24 Hours of Radio Art will broadcast Midnight to Midnight, January 17th on CiTR 101.9 Vancouver. Online at www.citr.ca
Midnight-2 a.m.
Host: Sarah Cordingley
Two hours of weird experimental sound art co-curated and performed by a team of local musicians and artists. Noise, drone, sound collage, minimalist synths, vocal experiments, episodes of instrument destruction, punk poets and more.
2-4 a.m.
Host: Noble & Boyce
The killer apps are a group of artists who do spontaneous ambient creation using music apps developed for apple’s iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone mobile devices. Killer apps shape the aural environment, which shapes human mood and consciousness, and which therefor, thereby, shapes the physical environment, making it difficult to tell the difference between a psychological and a physical environment. Killer apps are a phenomenological convergence of the possible environments. They are a becoming, never repeatable. Killer apps are the atmosphere, the envelop of presence, of being, they are the heavens unfolding in spontaneous creation. Killer apps are the dada joke zenslap that helps mice understand the laughing nirvana. For Arts Birthday, the killer apps are merging emergent aural and visual presence-scapes to make a harmonious scene celebrating freedom, the poetic, the ridiculous and the sublime. For this joyous occasion they will be manifesting everywhere at once: on radio (an experimental film for your ears) and online (an experimental concerto for your eyes). See the sound, hear the image.
4-5 a.m.
Host: Blake Fisher
Blake Fisher is a former Journalist turned Marketer, Graphic, and Web Designer who holds a passion for the fringe side of the music industry. He is a big collector of the avant-garde, art-rock, experimental, and noise genres of music and art and shares his library and insight in his show the Da, Da, Da! Radio Show which airs every 2nd Thursday afternoon on CJSF Radio.
The Da, Da, Da! Radio Show highlights Blake’s focus on presenting some background to the lesser known music styles as he goes into a Discomentary-style program to explain about the artists, their motivations, and the history of where conservatory based music split off into the obscure. Dadaism and Sound Collage are a major focus on his show.
You can check out playlists and back episodes of his show at: http://dadadaradio.wordpress.com.
5-6:30 a.m.
Host: Richard Trimble
Richard (aka Ritch / Haitchc / Raghunath) originally came into contact with radio art in 1992 during an instalment of the Limp Sink show when he inadvertently ended up in the CiTR studios with mutual friends of the show hosts. Seeing 100 foot tape loops suspended with pens along the corridors of the station his interest was eternally perked. Further investigation revealed a whole world of audio adventure ready to be tapped, mangled, and reconstructed – on-air.
Somewhat of a veteran to the electronic / experimental scene in various parts of the world (since 1983) he has several solo music releases as well as collaborative ones under various guises. He was the co-host of SoH and Plutonian Nights on CiTR in the 90′s and 00′s and currently hosts the show Mantra – an exploration into sacred sound.
This is the third year that Richard has participated in 24 hours of Radio Art. This year he will be pulling sounds of all kinds from all corners of the ether and allowing them to weave themselves into a big spicy soup. This cheery broth may or may not be particularly palatable but it will certainly keep you going if you can get it down. Some old classics will be thrown in for good measure and to bring up popularity ratings. Expect a digital hoedown. Viva la revolucion!
6:30-7:30 a.m.
Host: Mark Richardson
I’ll be playing pieces from William Burroughs’s discography for my hour!
7:30-10 a.m.
Host: Randophonic
Randophonic was there for CiTR’s first NoiseDay (24 Hours of Audio Art) in spring 1992. It wasn’t called Art’s Birthday yet but the intention was the same. Let’s re-imagine what radio can be for 24 solid hours, maybe save the world. For this year’s observances, we’ve reached into the deep archives and put together a 50+ minute non-stop mix featuring various pieces from various NoiseDays, Birthdays and other related occurrences (some even preceding the first NoiseDay). What they all have in common is their common shared goal, which was no fixed goal. Nothing was ever written, rehearsed, practiced, planned in anyway. It just seemed to happen.
“Special thanks to Anthony Roberts, Matt Richards, Rob Kozinuk, Michelle LaFlamme, Tim Keenlyside, Graeme Bennett, Campbell Burnett, Kevin Robb, Peter Courtemanche, Adam Sloan, Sean Hollowaychuk, Paul Wilkinson, Rolf Wilkinson, Paul Clarke, Steve Wegelin and various others – all of whom contributed to the cacophony, intentionally or otherwise – all ghosts of Noise Day’s past.
10-11 a.m.
Host: Robyn Jacob
Dekumpozers Uhv are a local group that rip apart preconceived notions of music and improvisation. With some musical training mixed with no musical training mixed with playing instruments they’ve never played before, listen to them detune a story and take you on a musical journey.
11-Noon
Host: Ilya and Nicole
Ilya Krivosheiko was born is Belarus. Lived in Israel and Toronto. Vancouver is now his home. Played trumpet in middle school. Started playing guitar in high school. Graduated from the Pacific Audio and Visual Institute with a certificate in Audio Engineering. Recording music at home, and writing poetry. Working random labour gigs.
Noon-3 p.m.
Host: Oswaldo Perez
Oswaldo Perez Cabrera is a Mexican journalist living in Vancouver. He currently hosts and produces The Morning After Show on CITR 101.9 FM, every Tuesday at 11:30 www.citr.ca . He also organizes many local music events including The Indie Pop Vancouver Series, an open mic, Yucafest among other events. Oswaldo Perez Cabrera is a driving force within both Vancouver’s cultural scene and Vancouver’s independent music scene. He is also director of Public Relations at vanmusic.ca
Being a writer, you can expect corrosive poetry mixed with Noize music, experimental bands from all over the world. He will take us on a journey of Radio Art from all over the world. Expect music from Canada, Mexico, USA, Spain, Japan, Russia, France, and all South America and beyond.
3-4 p.m.
Host: UBC School of Music
Alyssa Aska, Ava Grayson, Dan Marshall, and Ryan Noakes study composition at the school of music at UBC. During this hour, we will each present one of our recent compositions, discuss our music and the many exciting things that are happening within the music composition faculty at UBC. We are each involved with the Composers’ Collective, a Vancouver based organization for composers to promote and perform contemporary music, striving to nurture a community of creative musicians, create opportunities where people interested in the arts can converge and learn from each other, raise the profile of members’ artistic voices through public concerts and media exposure, build connections to the wider artistic community by collaborating with other arts organizations in Vancouver, and foster mentorship between established and emerging artists.
Alyssa Aska:
Alyssa is a diverse composer who writes works for various combinations of acoustic and electronic instruments, although she primarily focuses on works that combine live instruments with real-time electronic processing. She has also programmed, composed for, and performed on electronic gestural controllers. Alyssa is from Eugene, Oregon, where she studied music composition with Robert Kyr and David Crumb and interactive media performance with Jeffrey Stolet. She has had numerous works programmed in both the US and Canada, and is currently pursuing an M.Mus in composition at the University of British Columbia.
Ava Grayson:
Ava Grayson is third-year undergraduate in the Composition department at UBC interested in developing her fascination with multi-media from the perspective of sensory fusion. She spends a lot of her time thinking about things other than music and the rest of her time finding ways to translate it into music. The concept of space, theatre and Jungian archetype are all large influences and areas of interest in her works.
Daniel Marshall:
Daniel Marshall is a composer originating from Calgary, Alberta. He completed undergraduate studies in composition at the University of Calgary studying under Allan Bell, David Eagle and Laurie Radford. He has composed for a variety of ensembles as well as the electroacoustic medium, including a collaborative installation project in Calgary.
Ryan Noakes:
Ryan Noakes was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, where he grew up thinking life was a musical with his parents constantly playing and singing along with records. An accomplished singer, he has been a member of numerous choirs and vocal ensembles, and has performed in several musical theatre productions. Ryan received his Bachelor of Music with Distinction from the University of Victoria in 2008, majoring in composition with Christopher Butterfield. While at UVic he was a two-time recipient of the Muray Adaskin Prize in Music Composition, and helped to establish two new vocal ensembles. After graduating he was instrumental in the creation of the Vancouver Island Chamber Choir as a founding member, manager, and composer-in-residence. He currently resides in Vancouver where he has begun working towards his Masters of Music at UBC, studying composition with Keith Hamel, and sits on the board of directors of the Composers’ Collective and Vancouver Pro Musica.
4-7 p.m.
Host: Pyra
Pyra Draculea has hosted the Vampire’s Ball on CiTR since 2002, focussing on industrial, noise and experimental sounds. She also makes her own industrial/synth rock under the name maQLu, and has put out three EPs [Blood, Black, and Haze] that have hit college radio charts across Canada over the last year and a half. Fans have described her music as “a beautiful abomination” while reviewers have said maQLu’s music is “a breath of fresh air in the electro scene” [James Wright of Soundsphere Magazine] and “an orchestration of foreign, unsettling industrial rock” [Tom Harrison of The Province].
maQLu also has a hand in experimental and improvisational work such as 2011′s The Maqlu Tarot, and she also likes to compose good old-fashioned WEAM – Western European Art Music. (Well, not so much old-fashioned as new-mangled…)
This is her third year appearing on 24 Hours of Radio Art and programming will feature a progressively warped and twisted symphonic sonata and a collages of loops, spoken word, noise, and synthesized orchestral instruments. She is currently working on a new album, a new experimental/improvisational series to be called Hexagrams and putting out regular installments in her Monday Nite Noise series.
7-9 p.m.
Host: gak
gak has hosted Exploding Head Movies for the past two years and been on CITR Monday evenings since 2008 with music that’s loosely pegged as cinematic, atmospheric and otherwise esoteric. gak spent most of his formative years in Northwestern Ontario and Eastern Finland, where the cold winter air bent far-off radio signals into strange sounds that blanketed the night. Combined with decades of musical training, misguided wanderlust and a seemingly unrelenting voracious appetite for new sounds, gak’s appreciation of art can be both playful and perplexing.
In honour of the Fluxist’s movements 50th anniversary, gak’s set will profile some of the reknowned artists who helped found the idea of 24 Hours of Radio Art. Otherwise, there will be vintage musique concrete, experimental radio pieces from Europe and some glorious noise. Art’s still looking good after these million plus fifty years, so put on a loud tie and tune into CITR 101.9 FM all day January 17.
9 p.m.-Midnight
Host: Bepi Crespan
WEIRDOMUSIC
Plunderphonics. Musique Concrete. Ambient. Cut-Up and Collage. Difficult Music. Spoken Word. Noise.
Featuring selected works by Alva Noto, ANBB, Jaap Blonk, John M Bennett, Cabaret Voltaire, Anne-James Chaton, Vladislav Delay, Einsturzende Neubauten, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier / Noizefer CWU, Myths, Recoil, Severed Heads, Steinski, Tape-Beatles.
Email: bepi.crespan@shaw.ca
Twitter: CITRWEIRDOMUSIC
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