"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." - Kurt Cobain

Interview by Jon Savage
July 22, 1993
Cassette tape

Profile appeared in The Observer
Hear the full interview at http://RocksBackpages.com

Watch this episode as part of our animation series with PBS -->>
http://blankonblank.org/interviews/kurt-cobain-on-identity/

Kurt Cobain. The lost interview

"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal." - Robin Williams, as told to Lawrence Grobel in a previously unheard interview from 1991.  Watch the animated version in our PBS series:
http://blankonblank.org/interviews/robin-williams-masks-comedy-sex/

Robin Williams on Masks

"My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I’ve accomplished all the things I wanted to accomplish." ~Kelly Slater

Kelly Slater is a world champion surfer. He's arguably the best of all time. The Michael Jordan of surfing. He has it all. Or does he? During an interview with Josh Baron of Relix magazine, Slater let down his guard and told the real story. He talked about his failings out of the water in his personal life. You'll enjoy the personal conversation. One note: all the music you're about to hear is Kelly Slater playing the guitar and singing songs he wrote. It's not something you always hear during an interview. 

Interview by Josh Baron, editor-in-chief of Relix magazine
Nov. 17, 2008 // The Bowery Hotel, New York // Digital recorder

Produced by David Gerlach
Music by Kelly Slater

http://blankonblank.org/interviews/kelly-slater-on-his-not-so-perfect-life/

Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in his Perfect Life

"We played 12 concerts in Poland. Underground meetings and underground concerts...we didn’t understand how we could be that important. We had no clue that we were helping people break away from Communism." ~ jazz legend Dave Brubeck 

Today we have an interview Brubeck gave on stage during the Litchfield Jazz Festival. He’s speaking with John Dankosky, the host of Where We Live, a show that airs on WNPR in Connecticut. It’s a remarkable story: Brubeck fighting communism with jazz. So here it is. Dave Brubeck remixed. This is Blank on Blank.

Interviewed by: John Dankosky, host of WNPR's "Where We Live"
Fall 2008 // Live at the Litchfield Jazz Festival
For more of John Dankosky’s interview with Dave Brubeck and other "Where We Live" broadcasts, visit WNPR.org.

Host & Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Producer:  Amy Drozdowska
Music Credit:  Dave Brubeck live at the 2008 Litchfield Jazz Festival
Photo Credit: "The Great Dave Brubeck" by CJ Peters via Flickr

See photos of Brubeck's early days, read the transcript, and discover more unheard interviews at http://blankonblank.org/interviews/dave-brubeck-on-fighting-communism-with-jazz/.

Dave Brubeck on Jazz Diplomacy Behind the Iron Curtain

"It’s what Abby Hoffman said years ago: we have a right to shout “theater" at a crowded fire." ~ Beat poet Allen Ginsberg

We’re listening to a rare recording from the summer of 1984. Only a few people have ever gotten to hear it. It was actually found in a box in New York City just a few years ago. The tape is an intimate audio glimpse inside a decades old friendship that cancer will soon cut short. The friendship between poet Allen Ginsberg and theater founder Julian Beck.

Host & Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Producers: Amy Drozdowska and Libby Walker
Photo Credit: The Allen Ginsberg Project
Music Credits: Radicalfashion “Shousetsu” // Hans Otte “Das Buch Der Klange (Part 1)” // Phil Ochs “When I’m Gone”



Special thanks to The Living Theatre for sharing this tape with Blank on Blank. Visit livingtheatre.org for more about its history and productions. And visit http://blankonblank.org/interviews/allen-ginsberg-and-julian-beck-on-reagan-recordings-resilience/ to read the transcript of this interview and discover other lost tapes.

Allen Ginsberg & Julian Beck on Reagan, Recordings & Resilience

"I design so many scenes, driving on the freeways, listening to music." ~ Martin Scorsese.

Interviewed by James Sullivan, author and Boston Globe Contributor
October 8, 1999 //  Microcassette recording of telephone call 

Host & Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Producer: Dave McGuire
Photo Credit: aspen rock // Shutterstock.com
Music Credit: Lonnie Donegan “Lost John” // Przemyslaw Haluszczak “Tangos Rompeserones”

Read the transcript and discover more lost interviews at http://blankonblank.org/interviews/martin-scorsese-on-soundtracks-in-movies-and-his-life/ .

Martin Scorsese on Soundtracks in Movies and His Life

"You don’t have to swing just on the bandstand...The way you pick up your child and bounce him, I think everything can swing."

Interviewed by: Ben Sidran, author and musician
NYC recording studio // 1980s
Hear the full interview and listen to Sidran's conversations with more than 60 other jazz legends at bensidran.com.

Host & Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Producer: Amy Drozdowska
Photo Credit:
Music Credits: Lambert, Hendricks, Bavan “Cousin Mary” // Jon Hendricks and the Horace Silver Quintent “The Preacher” // Jon Hendricks “Gimme That Wine” // Jon Hendricks and friends (including his daughters) “Shiny Stockings” // Lambert, Hendricks, Ross “Untitled” // Dizzy Gillepsie & Jon Hendricks “Untitled”

Read the transcript and discover more lost interviews at http://blankonblank.org/interviews/jon-hendricks-on-learning-how-to-communicate/.

Jon Hendricks on Learning to Communicate

At a series of “must-see” spots in Detroit, visitors will be able to engage in an audio tour using their mobile phones. Tour info may include vox of local residents, archival or newly recorded actualities from pertinent people, and possibly historical quotes read by an actor (unless these end up being too cheesy). The tone will strive to be conversational and fresh (hopefully without coming off as trying too hard) instead of sounding more traditional and, well, fit for a museum.  There will be a contest where Detroiters can apply to narrate one or more pieces and receive a modest payment for doing so.  People will be also able to interact with the Detroit Mobile Audio Tour by submitting content.  They will be able to upload new audio by using the SoundCloud App, leaving a voicemail, or sending a written comment. Participants will be encouraged to answer such questions as, “What else is interesting about this site?” “What’s happening right now?” “And what did we get wrong?” This additional content may be used to create feature audio stories or sound installations down the line. It will also serve as a written and audio record of how some of these sites may develop over time.  Follow me <a href="https://twitter.com/hericebergradio">@HerIcebergRadio</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/detroitlaura">@DetroitLaura.</a> Listen to the stories I’ve produced for <a href="http://www.wdetfm.org/categories/tags/laura-herberg/">Detroit Public Radio.</a>  Also check out <a href="http://lauraherberg.wordpress.com/home/">my  website</a> and <a href="http://lauraherberg.wordpress.com/home/">my  bio</a>.






The Detroit Mobile Audio Tour: A SoundCloud Fellowship 2012 Submission

"He dropped right by my feet. And what do you do in this situation? You make sure this person doesn’t get up. ... So I just started booting him in the head." - Mark Barry

Interview by Suhrith Parthasarathy // Mark Barry’s apartment in Queens
// Digital recorder 

Host & Executive Producer: David Gerlach // Producer: Amy Drozdowska

Read Suhrith’s profile of Mark Barry “Glory, Glory for a Man for United” @ The Classical sports website.

Read the transcript and discover more lost interviews @ http://blankonblank.org/interviews/mark-barry-on-fighting-for-manchester-united/

The Hooligan on Fighting for Manchester United

Read Drowned in Sound's exclusive track by track breakdown penned by William Ryan Fritch here: smarturl.it/drowninsoundsc2dis

Purchase a copy of Leave Me in physical or digital format: smarturl.it/leavemebc

Join the 9 Album Subscription Series here: smarturl.it/leavemesessionsbc

or for subscription installments visit here: smarturl.it/leavemesessionslts

Lost Tribe Sound is very proud to announce their third release of 2014, Leave Me Like You Found Me, a new full length album from composer/multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch.

Known primarily for his critically acclaimed work as a film composer (Independent Spirit Award winning documentary The Waiting Room, Myth of The American Sleepover etc.) and for his contemporary classical/experimental recordings as Vieo Abiungo, Fritch has furthered the focused, singular sound of his latest EP Emptied Animal and produced a remarkably cohesive LP of lucid melodies and commandingly blunt rhythms.

The inspiration and namesake for the album was Adele Romanski’s unflinching character study of former lovers unable to free themselves from the burden of their shared history. These songs, dressed in the loaded and nostalgic warmth of magnetic tape, cull sounds from the canon of classic rock, deconstructing and repurposing them into anthems of euphoric selective memory. Where the emotional residue outlasts it's derivatives.

Leave Me delivers rapturous melodic outbursts, expressive arrangements, Fritch's magnificent arsenal of acoustic instrumentation, and the familiar, comforting sounds of vintage rock music refracted through the prism of modern classical sensibilities. It is lyrical yet wordless; lush, but never soft. Deliberate, yet unbound.

Those lucky enough to get a physical copy will be treated to deluxe packaging featuring the work of renowned visual artist João Ruas, a 14 song mini-album on a download card with half an hour of brand new original music unavailable anywhere else, and a double-sided card print of original artwork from William Ryan Fritch and Jamie Mills.

William Ryan Fritch: http://williamryanfritch.com
João Ruas: http://feral-kid.com
Jamie Mills: http://jamie-mills.co.uk

Download Press Kit: 
smarturl.it/leavemepresskit

Packaging:
- CD housed in a panoramic 7” x 5” heavy stock, reverse printed case.
- Artwork throughout by world renowned Brazilian artist/illustrator João Ruas.
- 14 Song Mini-Album on a download card, 28 minutes of original music (For CD Purchases Only) 
- Two-sided Art Card featuring artwork from WR. Fritch and Jamie Mills.
- Limited to 450 copies for the world.
- Mastered by Carl Saff

Track list:
1. A Still Point in this Turning World
2. Sun on Cold Skin
3. With the Winds Against Us
4. Coursing Through Veins
5. Half Awake in Slow Motion
6. Weightless
7. Tangled Together
8. Empty Upon Impact
9. Bind and Unbind
10. Leave Me Like You Found Me

Bonus Album (CD Purchases Only)
1.A Sad Whispering Wind
2. In The Same Breath
3. Deliberate
4. Her Warmth
5. Take Pause
6. In Contempt, In Silence
7. Our Wilderness
8. Saccharin
9. Siri Song
10. Reacquaint
11. What Stays In Motion
12. A Slow Burn
13. Reluctant To Change
14. A Sad Whispering Wind II

Purchase Album

William Ryan Fritch - Coursing Through Veins (from Leave Me Like You Found Me)

Famous names. Lost interviews. Journalists' tapes comes back to life via podcast & radio with PRX, and an animated series with PBS Digital Studios. Blank on Blank is a production of Quoted Studios, a non-profit 501(c)(3). 

Robin Williams on Masks

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